"When we went from executing people at noon to executing people at midnight, I think that's quite symbolic of all the ways that we've tried to make it look like it's really just a medical procedure."

https://fair.org/home/when-youre-experimenting-on-people-on-the-night-of-their-execution-that-cant-be-right/

"We are so silent, so shamed by what is happening in homes, that we cannot construct the language or the public policy to make sense of it, and to then prevent it."

https://fair.org/home/we-have-to-step-back-and-look-at-how-tolerant-we-are-of-violence-in-homes/

If there is anything core to the work of media critics, it’s to counteract the idea that “might makes right” when it comes to knowledge. That our understanding of the world and other people and political possibilities should be utterly shaped by the people with the megaphone, just because they have the megaphone – that’s what we wake up every day and contest.

https://fair.org/home/adam-johnson-on-how-to-sell-a-genocide/

If corporate media detailed the history of the US "drug war," it would soundly obliterate the official narrative and expose it for what it is: a façade for imperial domination that really has nothing to do with stopping the flow of drugs at all.

https://fair.org/home/dont-pretend-the-war-on-drugs-has-anything-to-do-with-fighting-drugs/

Elections in 2004, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 all found the Republicans winning substantially more House seats than their share of the national vote would predict.

https://fair.org/home/why-we-should-be-skeptical-of-generic-ballot-predictions/

Christa Pike didn’t die. But her execution wasn’t the first indication of the messy horrors of this “clinical” state action.

https://fair.org/home/death-penalty-coverage-domestic-violence-justice/

"The company takes the position, as a lot of gig companies do, that their workers are independent contractors, each running their own very, very small business, as opposed to employees who have rights.

"And this distinction matters, because basically all of our workplace laws, whether it's minimum wage or unemployment insurance or safety and health, all of these laws protect employees, but they don't protect independent contractors."

https://fair.org/home/gig-companies-take-the-position-their-workers-arent-employees-who-have-rights/

It’s convenient for the genocidaires that the corporate media so willingly transmit the Israeli narrative, according to which Israel is always and forever only acting in retaliation to one Palestinian transgression or another. Because Israel is consistently allowed to present its own carefully curated timeline for any given conflict, we have now ended up with a “retaliatory” genocide.

https://fair.org/home/genocide-treated-as-afterthought-by-media-on-third-anniversary-of-october-7-attacks/

On Sept. 11, 2001, 2,977 people were killed by airplane hijackers, mostly Saudi Arabian citizens. The post-9/11 wars waged by the Bush administration directly killed (conservatively) nearly a million people in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

And yet in remembering 9/11 on its 25th anniversary, US corporate media opinion sections overwhelmingly focused on the victims who died on 9/11, largely ignoring the post-9/11 victims who outnumbered them more than 300 to 1.

https://fair.org/home/remembering-9-11-but-not-the-victims-of-the-us-response/

Corporate news media’s insistence that there must always be two sides to everything--and one of them must be corporate capital--has us at the point where we’re 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.

https://fair.org/home/terri-gerstein-on-gig-workers-rights/

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).

https://fair.org/home/axios-looks-for-silver-lining-in-trumps-tinfoil-economy/

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.

https://fair.org/home/floridas-lawsuit-against-nyts-gaza-coverage-is-pure-desperation/

"The big bombshell related to Pinochet came in 1998, when he was in London and was arrested on an order from a Spanish judge. And this just shook things up so much. 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. That was the verb that came up."

https://fair.org/home/pinochet-carried-out-terrorism-less-than-two-miles-from-the-white-house/

"Who Are the Houthis?": Establishment media keep asking the same question, but they aren't giving many answers.

https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-dont-understand-the-houthis-and-dont-want-you-to-either/

"If you're shutting down enthusiastic young people, people who've never participated before, people who were drawn to this or that campaign because it gave them hope, 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."

https://fair.org/home/the-energy-in-the-party-is-with-the-rising-socialist-tide/

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.

The 50th anniversary is reawakening memories of the attack for some people; some are no doubt hearing about it for the first time. And some don’t need reminding – because the atrocity, its meaning and its impacts, the work it’s taken to unearth it – are very present-day concerns.

https://fair.org/home/sarah-anderson-on-the-letelier-moffitt-murders/

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.

https://fair.org/slider/25-years-after-9-11-nyt-continues-to-rationalize-catastrophic-wars/

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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!

https://fair.org/home/reflections-on-40-years-of-fair/

“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.

https://fair.org/home/media-responded-to-trumps-press-ban-by-withholding-the-attention-he-craves/