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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
According to the Israeli narrative, Israel is forever only acting in retaliation to Palestinian transgressions. Because Israel is consistently allowed to present its own carefully curated timeline for the conflict, we have now ended up with a “retaliatory” genocide. fair.org/home/genocid...
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Genocide Treated as Afterthought by Media on Third Anniversary of October 7 Attacks
For corporate media, the third anniversary of the commencement of mass slaughter in Gaza is an afterthought to the anniversary of the Hamas attacks.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The post-9/11 wars waged by the Bush administration directly killed (conservatively) nearly a million people. They were largely left out of US corporate media remembrances. fair.org/home/remembe...
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Remembering 9/11—But Not the Victims of the US Response
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, leading US papers largely ignored the vast numbers of people killed in the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Corporate news media’s insistence that there must always be two sides to everything has us debating whether the most profitable corporations in the world should pay their workers enough that they aren’t so poor they qualify for government support. fair.org/home/terri-g...
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Terri Gerstein on Gig Workers’ Rights
Corporate media lionize corporations that make vast profits by exploiting their employees—such that those workers need government assistance to stay alive.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As signs that Trump's "relatively strong economy" is "roaring ahead," Axios offers as bright spots GDP growth (which is 1.5 percentage points slower than under Biden) and the labor market (averaging 35,000 new jobs a month, vs. 329,000 a month under Biden). fair.org/home/axios-l...
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Axios Looks for Silver Lining in Trump’s Tinfoil Economy
"Voters don't care." Axios writes, that "the economy's not that bad." Axios doesn't seem to care about giving voters an accurate picture of Trump's economy.
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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AP could have used an accurate word like “restrict” or “limit”, but instead describes this $70,000 fee ($70,000!!) as a “crack down”, as if these students are doing something illegal. 😡 @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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Norman Solomon @normansolomon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@fairmediawatch.bsky.social -- FAIR -- entering its fifth decade, continues to be a uniquely fantastic source of media criticism and activism! @columjournreview.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @knightfoundation.org @knightcolumbia.org
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Reflections on 40 Years of FAIR
"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The idea that if a government holds stock in a media company, it has the right to litigate the editorial decisions of the company’s news outlets, is an attempt to do an end-run around the First Amendment. fair.org/home/florida...
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The big bombshell related to Pinochet came in 1998, when he was in London and was arrested.... It struck fear in the hearts of dictators around the world. Even Henry Kissinger reportedly canceled a trip to Brazil because he was afraid of being Pinocheted." fair.org/home/pinoche...
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‘Pinochet Carried Out Terrorism Less Than Two Miles From the White House’: CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on Letelier/Moffitt murders
"Unfortunately our history is always going to be a few steps forward and a couple steps back, and people just need to keep pushing through that."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Who Are the Houthis?": Establishment media keep asking the same question, but they aren't giving many answers. fair.org/home/corpora...
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Corporate Media Don’t Understand the Houthis—and Don’t Want You to, Either
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"If you're shutting down enthusiastic young people, people who've never participated before...and you're saying, 'No, we can't have that kind of energy,' I think you're working against the interests of the party and the country." fair.org/home/the-ene...
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‘The Energy in the Party Is With the Rising Socialist Tide’: CounterSpin interview with Raina Lipsitz on DSA politics
"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."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On September 21, 1976, former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his IPS colleague Ronni Moffitt were killed in a DC car bombing, later tied directly to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. 50 years later, the atrocity and its impacts are very present-day concerns. fair.org/home/sarah-a...
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Sarah Anderson on the Letelier/Moffitt Murders
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Looking back on September 11, the New York Times maintains its preference for a military response—expressed as a pretense that the US had no other choice—despite ample evidence that the US's violent retaliation has been a global disaster. fair.org/slider/25-ye...
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25 Years After 9/11, NYT Continues to Rationalize Catastrophic Wars
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Supporters of FAIR--including Jim Hightower, Tom Morello and Mumia Abu-Jamal--send greetings for FAIR's 40th anniversary. Plus photos from FAIR's anniversary party! fair.org/home/reflect...
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Reflections on 40 Years of FAIR
"FAIR’s groundbreaking work launched an explosion of media monitoring and awareness of the corporate media’s collusion with corporate interests."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Major television networks suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump”--a rare moment of courage for corporate outlets that fear nothing more than being perceived as taking a side. fair.org/home/media-r...
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Media Responded to Trump’s Press Ban by Withholding the Attention He Craves
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The guarantee of "editorial independence" that appeared to mollify the state attorneys general seems to be based on the theory that the participation of the party that believes journalists are the enemies of the people is necessary to ensure "balance." fair.org/home/cnn-cle...
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CNN Cleared to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which faced legal action over concern that it consolidated too much media power, is now going forward.
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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Urging everyone to support FAIR, an indispensable resource.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Where Robert Kraft said, 'You can’t play in our stadium.' I think that’s the message the Press Club was sending. It was like, 'If you’re going to challenge genocide, don’t do it at the Press Club. Do it someplace else.'" fair.org/home/theres-...
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‘There’s a History of Resistance to Corporate Crime’: Russell Mokhiber on covering corporate crime
"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."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The United States has a deliberate policy of strangling Afghanistan's economy and stealing assets from its government--factors that are entirely absent from discussions of Afghanistan's misery five years after the US withdrew troops. fair.org/home/five-ye...
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Five Years Later, Media Blame Afghans for US-Engineered Disaster
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.
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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
State attorney generals are dropping their lawsuit against Paramount's takeover of Warner, in exchange for "a news editorial independence board to support CBS News’ and CNN’s continued editorial independence.” So CNN will have the same "independence" as CBS? www.cnn.com/2026/09/21/m...
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State attorneys general agree to settle Paramount merger lawsuit | CNN Business
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...
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pete Hegseth, having failed his way up to defense secretary, has his sights set on the Oval Office. To paper over his rocky tenure in office, he is trying to replace an independent Pentagon press corps with right-wing propagandists and paid influencers. fair.org/home/hegseth...
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Hegseth Hoping His Media Minions Can Smooth His Way to the White House
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.
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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a single sentence, WaPo goes from noting that Houthi “rebels” (who govern 85% of the country’s population!) are “Iran-backed” (“allied with Iran” would be more accurate) to just “Iran” itself. No, WaPo, “Iran” does not control the Bab al-Mandab, the Houthis do. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In some ways, modern media criticism is corporate crime reporting. Major news media are fundamentally corporations, and some of the things they do, in mis- and disinforming us about the world and our political possibilities, constitute, minimally, moral crimes. fair.org/home/russell...
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Russell Mokhiber on Covering Corporate Crime
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
FAIR has been a reliable voice in independent media for over 40 years, but we’re facing a critical time. Our work is made possible by—and created for—you! Donate today: www.cambeywest.com/EXT/?f=appeal Thank you!
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Among Harvard's "free speech" policies: telling "professors to keep their personal politics out of the classroom," requiring participants in campus discussions "not to disclose...who said what," and discouraging "taking public positions on contentious issues." fair.org/home/boston-...
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Boston Globe Praised Harvard for Suppressing Free Speech to Save It
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.
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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AP claims Trump “gave” $17M to support the Kennedy Center, whereas what Trump actually said was that he had “raised” $17M, probably a donation from one of the fraudsters he pardoned. I’d bet my shirt not a single dollar of that $17M (if it exists at all!) came from Trump. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A month ago the WaPo documented how associating Trump with the Kennedy Center caused its finances to deteriorate. Today, they’re quoting unnamed “officials” claiming that adding Trump’s name is the solution. 🙄 @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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Ken Parker @kenissuaq.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@fairmediawatch.bsky.social: "[B]ecause the Times is perceived as left-leaning, and attributes its most unfair and inaccurate criticisms of socialism to the anti-socialist sources it favors, its war on socialism is arguably more effective." fair.org/home/the-wal...
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The Wall Street Journal’s Socialism Reporting Is Better Than the New York Times’
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal openly opposes socialists. The New York Times also opposes socialism, but prefers a more insidious approach.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, FAIR shares an excerpt from Belén Fernández’s 2011 book The Imperial Messenger, a critical look at Thomas Friedman, one of the most influential media voices using 9/11 to justify the US government’s ongoing “War on Terror.” fair.org/home/9-11-vi...
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9/11 Violated Thomas Friedman’s ‘Cocoon’—and Made Him a Cheerleader for the ‘War on Terror’
Friedman’s classification of Al Qaeda as “enemies of civilization” enables him to defend the selective curtailment of civil liberties in the United States.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Trump himself, in the forward to the counterterrorism strategy document, closes it by saying 'We will find you and we will kill you,' referring to people that the Trump administration considers to be in their words, 'anti-American, radically pro-transgender or anarchist.'" fair.org/home/this-co...
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‘This Counter-Terrorism Framework Situates People Outside of Rights’ CounterSpin interview with Samer Araabi on dissent as 'terrorism'
"With every passing administration, it just grows and grows. And that's because, with this undefined threat, you can expand it however you want."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Despite the Wall Street Journal's rabid anti-socialism, the paper is not too worried about socialism swaying its business readers. By contrast, the New York Times has long been concerned with keeping its audience from leaning too far left. fair.org/home/the-wal...
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The Wall Street Journal’s Socialism Reporting Is Better Than the New York Times’
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal openly opposes socialists. The New York Times also opposes socialism, but prefers a more insidious approach.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Known as the first reporter to take Donald Trump seriously, describing him in 1979 as “a user of other users,” Wayne Barrett died the day before Trump’s 2017 inauguration. CounterSpin spoke with him in 2006 about media misremembering Giuliani’s role on September 11, 2001. fair.org/home/wayne-b...
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Wayne Barrett (2007) on Giuliani and 9/11, Maha Hilal (2023) on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
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.
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Julie Hollar @jhollar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After 9/11, the NYT parroted false gov't reassurances to local residents, workers and students and dismissed or ignored contradictory evidence. It’s an important history you can read at FAIR.org but won’t hear about from the Times, which has never acknowledged or apologized for its reporting.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
With Mamdani finally releasing thousands of documents revealing what NYC knew about toxic pollution at Ground Zero, it's worth rereading FAIR's 2006 expose of how @nytimes.com passed along false reassurances of the safety of the air for 1st responders and city residents. fair.org/extra/gullib...
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Gullibility Begins at Home
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you follow conservative media, you could be convinced that opposition to AI data centers is not due to their sprawling footprint, greed for electricity or insatiable need for cooling water. Rather, it’s the result of a Chinese Communist plot. fair.org/home/repeat-...
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Repeat After Media: Data Centers Are Wonderful and Good
Even media that aren't insisting that Chinese mind control is the reason for data center opposition are attacking citizens for their ecological concerns.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Although the New York Post is happy to platform billionaires and their luxury real estate agents and brokers, it’s the people those billionaires exploit who are more likely to move states. fair.org/home/ny-post...
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NY Post Makes Up Horror Stories About Wealthy Fleeing Mamdani
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It was clear from the beginning that the “War on Terror” would morph into an all-encompassing explanation and excuse, that (as Lyndon Johnson said approvingly of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) it was like “Grandma’s nightshirt,” because “it covered everything.” fair.org/home/samer-a...
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Samer Araabi on Dissent as ‘Terrorism’
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Taking all of those cost savings that would be had with Medicare for All offsets any potential costs that people are raising as a barrier, which we don't raise when we are passing tax cuts, for instance, or when we are expanding defense budgets." fair.org/home/medicar...
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‘Medicare for All Is a System That Can Absolutely Be Built in the US’: CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All
"Complexity is lack of freedom, is lack of choice, and it's increased costs; that all translates to worse health outcomes."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When not delving into anti-Arab and anti-Muslim tropes, some cartoonists tie Abdul El-Sayed, a self-described capitalist, to socialism, Marxism and Communism. Others attempt to depict El-Sayed as both an Muslim fanatic *and* a Communist. fair.org/home/is-he-a...
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Is He a Jihadist? A Commie? Cartoonists Can’t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Corporate outlets expect readers to empathize with “middle-class and working homeowners” who somehow own multimillion-dollar buildings and have suddenly misplaced every form of ID that verifies that their luxury home is their primary residence. fair.org/home/corpora...
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Corporate Media Worried Second Homes of ‘Blue-Collar’ Millionaires Might Be Taxed
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Making it as difficult as possible for the agency to operate in their communities” is a mistake on the part of anti-ICE activists, the Atlantic argues. fair.org/home/abolish...
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Abolish ICE? Perish the Thought, Says Press
Recent articles argue that abolishing ICE will result in worse outcomes for immigrants, and even debating the idea makes Democrats more vulnerable to attacks.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Headlines are telling us a range of stories about the proposal called Medicare for All. Much of it is familiar capitalist scaremongering, and some is a similarly familiar brand of shushing: “Let’s ask for less, because if we say what we want, they’ll come for us.” fair.org/home/abdulla...
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Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All
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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When the press has an explicit ideology that "you can't say the president is lying," it's only a matter of time before a president figures out that there's no downside to lying all the time. fair.org/home/quotyou...
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‘You Can’t Just Say the President Is Lying’
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."
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"It’s not like we freed Afghan women from some barbarism, and gave them a taste of freedom that they never knew.... They had some level and measure of freedom, but that was all set back because of war and foreign interference." fair.org/home/they-on...
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‘They Only Care About Women’s Rights When It Becomes Important to Justify the War’: CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis (2021), Matthew Hoh (2021) and Sonali Kolhatkar (2010) on Afghanistan
"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."
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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
WaPo provides no attribution to its claim that “upward of 150,000 spectators” watched Trump’s latest circus. And many of their pictures show sparse crowds. Who are they quoting? A Trump Administration claim? @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Cameras off the president right now”: Authorities forced the press pool to look away as the president had an altercation with his wife--and none of the major outlets have acknowledged this blatant assault on the freedom of the press. fair.org/home/network...
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Networks Were Ordered to Stop Filming Trump—and They Didn’t Protest the Illegal Censorship
"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.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For @nytimes.com, the key takeaway from Rep. Ro Khanna's detention was not about Israeli impunity, but that “where past US leaders toured the region to show support for Israel, today’s Democratic presidential aspirants are going to bolster their credentials as critics.” fair.org/home/nyt-red...
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NYT Reduces Israel’s Arrest of Ro Khanna to a Politician’s Publicity Stunt
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.
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