Corporate media see one thing above all that anyone needs to know about the Houthis: They are simply proxies of Iran, the West’s current favorite enemy.

"It’s old-fashioned, it's knocking on doors, it's talking to our neighbors, it's going to meetings...making connections, reaching out to other human beings."

Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died in a car bombing in Washington, DC, on September 21, 1976, that illuminated the results of US actions and inactions.

The New York Times—which played a critical role in dampening skepticism of the "Global War on Terror"—rationalized the violence the US unleashed after 9/11.

"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests."

If reporters want to convince the world that they are necessary to combat the rise of authoritarianism, now is the time to abandon business as usual.

Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which faced legal action over concern that it consolidated too much media power, is now going forward.

"We sat around as a message to the future: not to close your eyes, to keep your eyes open, and if you see something, say something and take action."

US media have covered the anniversary of US troop withdrawal by muddying the US role in the country’s hardships--as though Afghan history began in August 2021.

The state attorneys general suing to block Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, have reached a settlement, clearing the way for the companies to complete the merger...

Unable to change the realities on the ground, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking the next-best approach by trying to change the way the war is reported.

Interrogating the role of profit-driven corporations in today’s journalism is crucial, but it’s part of questioning corporate power over our lives in general.

How can speech restrictions by Harvard be hailed by the Boston Globe as "efforts to improve the climate for speech"? It comes from how it frames the problem.

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal openly opposes socialists. The New York Times also opposes socialism, but prefers a more insidious approach.

Friedman’s classification of Al Qaeda as “enemies of civilization” enables him to defend the selective curtailment of civil liberties in the United States.

"With every passing administration, it just grows and grows. And that's because, with this undefined threat, you can expand it however you want."

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal openly opposes socialists. The New York Times also opposes socialism, but prefers a more insidious approach.

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani tries to keep current Mayor Zohran Mamdani away from the 9/11 ceremony, it's worth recalling how Giuliani made 9/11 worse.

The New York Times failed to mount a functional degree of skepticism toward city and federal government pronouncements about the safety of the air and dust around Ground Zero.

Even media that aren't insisting that Chinese mind control is the reason for data center opposition are attacking citizens for their ecological concerns.

The New York Post's claims about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tax policies causing the wealthy to flee New York City fall apart upon even cursory examination.

At a time where we’re being told that speaking out in criticism of those in power is a crime, we need news media that do more than just narrate that nightmare.

"Complexity is lack of freedom, is lack of choice, and it's increased costs; that all translates to worse health outcomes."

Political cartoons on Michigan's 2026 US Senate race have been dominated by Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism directed at Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

Some corporate media conjured up a mass of working- and middle-class New Yorkers who would have to pay a surcharge on multi-milllion-dollar second homes.

Recent articles argue that abolishing ICE will result in worse outcomes for immigrants, and even debating the idea makes Democrats more vulnerable to attacks.

Corporate media talking about universal care don’t speak for the most of us, who just want to see a doctor, in a regular way, please. But they can speak OVER us.

The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller: "You can say 'Mr. Bush’s statement was not factually accurate.' You can’t say the president is lying."

"What makes the tragedy...even more tragic is so much of this war, so much of this violence and suffering, it’s got almost nothing to do with the Afghans themselves."

"Cameras off the president now": The command was an astonishing call for press censorship on behalf of Trump and a direct violation of the First Amendment.

The tropes that deny, twist and mislead are being repeated in the New York Times’ rigid framing of its coverage about the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

"It’s about antitrust, and how much power, how many media outlets, can one person or one entity control?"

CounterSpin has hosted numerous reporters, researchers and activists over the course of the decades of devastating US intervention in Afghanistan.

Writing about dinner parties, get-togethers and lived experiences in the planet's most diverse city is a problem for the right—if it’s about Arabs or Persians.

We have known for decades what it looks like when the gringos send heaps of money to right-wing governments and atrocity-prone security forces in Colombia.

Trump’s Justice Department greenlit the merger of Paramount with Warner Bros Discovery--but the merger, presented as a done deal, is actually on the ropes.

Come kick back, mingle and celebrate 40 years of FAIR’s fearless media activism!

If voters in Democratic primaries succeed in changing the party’s platform to better represent their views, that’s not a hostile takeover—that’s democracy.