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Has the Right Really Shifted on Police Militarization and Abuse?
Leading right-wing websites—like Breitbart—didn’t seem very “torn” about how to cover Ferguson. It would be a great thing if politicians were more critical of the obvious trend towards militarization...
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FAIR TV September 14, 2014
After Barack Obama announces his plan to strike ISIS, we take a look at how media are marching to war. Plus Henry Kissinger faces an all-too-rare critical interviewer, while Fox News issues a...
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Reluctant Warrior Bombs Yet Another Country
The trope of Obama as “reluctant warrior” has crossed the Atlantic–where it is greeted with a little more cynicism (Peter Brookes, London Times) If there’s one thing elite media seem to know for sure,...
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Fox Pundit: Civilians Die–Get Over It!
Ralph Peters talks to Sean Hannity: “This is war, dude!” A familiar critique of corporate media is that journalists too often avoid discussing one grim reality of US wars: the innocent civilians who...
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FAIR TV: Media in War Mode, Calling for Civilian Deaths and PBS Hits Harper’s
On this week’s show: The ways corporate media cover war, a Fox News pundit wants to see more civilian deaths in Syria, and PBS uses its ad dollars to punish a magazine. All of that on this week’s show:
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Bill O’Reilly, Bill Maher and Islamophobia
There was a pretty heated discussion of Islam on comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show over the weekend. And on Monday night (10/6/14), Fox host Bill O’Reilly decided to weigh in. His first point was that...
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‘Clipboard Man’ Shows Media Figures Didn’t Get the Memo About Ebola Transmission
Because TV personalities are experienced in containing epidemics, they they immediately noticed that Clipboard Man was doing it wrong. (Reuters/NBC5-KXAS) The story of “Clipboard Man” created a...
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Young People Going Republican? Not So Fast
A new poll out of Harvard’s Institute of Politics is getting a lot of attention, probably because it appears to send a surprising message: Young voters are moving towards the GOP. But some caution is...
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Covering Climate Crisis, Fox News Style
“Critics” say this is nothing to be alarmed about. (IPCC) The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounds the usual alarms, but that doesn’t mean it got much attention...
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For Fox News, ‘Bad Guy’ Michael Brown Makes Obama a ‘Three-Time Loser’
It wouldn’t surprise anyone to find out that the Fox News Channel‘s coverage of Michael Brown killing was awful. But the night of the announcement of the grand jury decision (11/25/14), it was...
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FAIR TV: Fox News & Ferguson, Cop Euphemisms and Disney ‘News’
This week on the show: Fox News Channel showed its viewers that the real “bad guy” in Ferguson was the victim Michael Brown. Plus we’ll look at how elite outlets like the New York Times soften...
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And Now, to Discuss Police Killings: Rush Limbaugh?
I don’t make a habit of watching Fox News Sunday, but I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the description of this week’s show (12/7/14): “Rush Limbaugh talks race relations.” As in, you know, that...
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Fox’s O’Reilly: ‘All the Wolves Have Been Muslims’
These wolves do not appreciate being associated with terrorism or being used to make spurious Islamophobic points. (cc photo: Tambako the Jaguar) On his show last night, Fox host Bill O’Reilly...
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How Did TV News Talk About Torture in Coverage of the Torture Report?
A new FAIR study (Media Advisory, 1/7/15) finds that torture supporters outnumbered critics of torture nearly 2-to-1 in TV news coverage of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture....
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For Fox News’ Steve Emerson, Factchecking Seems to Be a No-Go Zone
On Fox News, Steve Emerson tells a credulous Jeanine Pirro that non-Muslims no longer enter Britain’s second-largest city. (Video clip from the Guardian: http://bit.ly/1xUsNrG) Steve Emerson appeared...
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The Only ‘No-Go Zones’ Are Found in Fox News’ Fantasyland
Life in the “no-go zone”: Roubaix, France (cc photo: Kathryn Burrington) Fox News pundit Steve Emerson drew international ridicule for claiming Birmingham, England, was a “no-go zone” for non-Muslims...
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Obama as Robin Hood? Sherwood Be Nice
Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel depicts Obama as Robin Hood at the State of the Union address (reprinted by USA Today, 1/21/15) There was one metaphor that seemed irresistible in commentary...
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Bill O’Reilly Lies–but Some Lies Matter More Than Others
Bill O’Reilly launches a furious attack against kettles. (Fox News; screen grab Daily News) The first thing to know about Fox News‘ Bill O’Reilly is that he is always talking about himself. So when...
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Politico Helps O’Reilly Get Away With Falklands Fabrications
Holding Bill O’Reilly accountable for his lies would require journalists to read more than just the headline of the charges against him–and that’s never going to happen, says Politico‘s Dylan Byers....
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Media Inflate Threat With ‘ISIS Plots’ That Don’t Actually Involve ISIS
Actually, the suspects were accused of conspiring to support ISIS–a significantly different legal charge. Last Friday, the FBI announced another harrowing, 11th-hour capture of Americans plotting to...
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