Notices by FAIR (fair@mastodon.world)

Western outlets haven’t just failed to consistently convey the full extent of the carnage in Gaza to their readers, they’ve actively downplayed it.

https://fair.org/home/counting-the-victims-of-israels-war-on-gaza-is-low-on-medias-priority-list/

CounterSpin interview with David Kass:

"Somebody like Elon Musk, who gave more than $250 million to Donald Trump in this past presidential election, you can see what that bought him, right? I mean, from his point of view, he's the world's richest man, and that's a good investment. He's buying access, because he has lots of government contracts, and this protects his interests, at the expense of everyday Americans."

https://fair.org/home/weve-seen-this-incredible-flow-of-billionaire-money-into-campaigns/

"The Democratic Party has really failed to offer any countervision to the Republicans.... In fact, Harris ran a campaign where she was positioning herself as more hardline than Trump on immigration, & that opened up space for us to be in this place."

https://fair.org/home/because-there-was-economic-insecurity-immigrants-became-an-easy-scapegoat/

Fossil fuels play the leading role in the climate disruption that leads to extreme weather events. After those events, insurance companies often hinder folks' ability to come out from under when these predictable crises occur. Would you be surprised to hear that these powerful industries– fossil fuels and insurers – are intertwined? We talked about it last year with writer and historian Derek Seidman.

https://fair.org/home/derek-seidman-on-insurance-and-climate-2024-ariel-adelman-on-disability-civil-rights-2024/

Three vehicle-based violent attacks, one ascribed to an ISIS supporter and two with far-right suspects, got two very different modes of coverage.

https://fair.org/home/three-holiday-car-attacks-with-two-different-frames/

Corporate media have a longstanding reluctance to acknowledge that political violence can have right-wing motivations.

https://fair.org/home/more-terror-less-coverage/

Editorial cartoonists offer their own takes on media moguls' toadying to Donald Trump, in solidarity with Ann Telnaes, who resigned from the Washington Post after her satirizing of Jeff Bezos was spiked.

https://stevebrodner.substack.com/p/we-stand-with-ann

It’s not that Big Media always get the facts wrong, but that what facts they point us toward day after day, whose interpretation of those facts they suggest we credit, what responses we’re told are worth pursuing—all of that serves media’s corporate owners and sponsors, at the expense of the rest of our lives and our futures.

https://fair.org/home/media-institutions-have-played-a-direct-role-in-undermining-democracy/

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Yanni Chen on the TikTok ruling:

"You have lawmakers on the record making statements about the type of content that not only TikTok is pushing, but US users are creating, that they take issue with. So you have to ignore all of the statements of the people who wrote the law themselves to get to that position. It’s hard to really swallow."

https://fair.org/home/theres-no-public-evidence-of-the-kind-of-manipulation-tiktok-is-accused-of/

The Washington Post demands “new research of maximum possible rigor” for gender-affirming care, “overseen by scientists who are not gender medicine practitioners”—much like demanding research about cancer treatment conducted by doctors who aren’t cancer specialists.

https://fair.org/home/press-downplays-danger-of-supreme-court-case-that-threatens-trans-rights-among-others/

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Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Nicole Foy on immigration and labor:

"Immigrant workers....[have] become very essential to the fabric of our entire economy.... And that’s something that I don’t think a lot of our current rhetoric accounts for, is how many different jobs and how many different types of jobs around the country that these workers are fulfilling, that we’d miss them quite a lot if they weren’t there."

https://fair.org/home/you-see-just-how-many-immigrants-are-dying-on-the-job/

The way the New York Times presented the data “is basically the story of rising returns to education, turned into a story of race/gender grievance.” That fits in with the Times‘ long history of trying to explain to liberals why they should learn to love white resentment.

https://fair.org/slider/white-men-get-short-end-of-stick-in-nyt-chart-if-not-in-reality/

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Chip Gibbons on #Gaza First Amendment Alert:

"The student protestors need our solidarity, even if we don't always agree with the choice of words, or always the choice of tactics....

"They're out there trying to stop a genocide, in a society where 9/10ths of our Congress, 9/10ths of our local politicians and like 9.9/10ths of our media are all on board and fueling the flames."

https://fair.org/study/were-witnessing-this-global-tidal-wave-of-repression/

Our latest post, on the #NYTimes' distorted coverage of sexual violence allegations in Israel/Palestine got an immediate takedown from Facebook--as "spam."

Speaking of Israel’s remote detonation of thousands of pagers of suspected Hezbollah members in Lebanon, former CIA director Leon Panetta told CBS, “I don’t think there is any question that it’s a form of terrorism.” Just before Panetta, CBS viewers heard from a former FBI analyst, who said of the explosions in stores, cars and homes that killed some 39 people and injured some 3,000, including children: “Tactically, what Israel has done has been brilliant."

https://fair.org/home/mohamad-bazzi-on-israeli-terror-attacks/

“Seventy-six percent of Americans say that they still trust their local news stations,” the New Yorker reported. By hijacking this trusting relationship, Sinclair is able to sneak its propaganda into millions of American homes, including in presidential swing states where Sinclair owns more stations than any other network.

https://fair.org/home/how-sinclair-sneaks-right-wing-spin-into-millions-of-households/

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Ari Berman on minority rule:

"In many ways, the Constitution was a remarkable document for its time, but the founders had their own self-interests at heart in many cases. And remember, these were white male property holders, many of them slave holders, and they designed the Constitution, in many ways, not to expand democracy, but to check democracy, and make sure that their own interests were protected."

https://fair.org/slider/our-most-important-democratic-document-was-intended-to-make-the-country-less-democratic/

"We've switched presidential candidates, and it's all about 'how's Kamala Harris going to do in these six battleground states?' without thinking, 'Why do we only have six battleground states? Why do six states decide the elections, instead of 50?' This is a crazy system, if you try to explain to someone that's not already familiar with how American politics work."

--Ari Berman on CounterSpin

Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Phyllis Bennis:

"There's this claim that the occupation of Gaza ended in 2005, when the settlers and the soldiers were pulled out. That's not true, because the definition of occupation in international law is not the presence of settler colonies, physically, or the presence of soldiers on the territory. It's about control."

https://fair.org/home/we-have-more-people-supporting-the-rights-of-palestinians-to-life-its-huge/