Notices by FAIR (fair@mastodon.world), page 2

“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/

One might be forgiven for assuming that US news media editors would pounce on the fact that the most powerful institution in the US promulgated anti-vax material on social media over the course of a year.

https://fair.org/home/us-media-coverage-of-anti-vax-disinformation-quietly-stops-at-the-pentagon/

Prominent institutions that are meant to be pillars of openness and discourse in a free society are perverting themselves in order not to offend donors, government officials and sycophantic newspaper columnists. The victims of this kind of censorship are Jews and non-Jews alike.

https://fair.org/home/censorship-at-a-jewish-school-part-of-a-crisis-for-free-expression/

US news media reported the tent massacre, some more truthfully than others. But most establishment media repeated Israel’s false claims that it was an accident, weaving disinformation messaging into toned-down descriptions of the scene. With confused syntax, they omitted words like “genocide,” “massacre” and “starvation.”

https://fair.org/home/when-israel-burned-refugees-alive-establishment-media-called-it-a-tragic-accident/

The mob attacks at UCLA, along with police use of force at that campus and elsewhere, clearly represent the most "destruction, violence and hate" at the encampments, which have been overwhelmingly peaceful. But CNN's description of the UCLA violence rewrote the narrative to fit an agenda.

https://fair.org/home/as-peace-protests-are-violently-suppressed-cnn-paints-them-as-hate-rallies/

Private health insurance is a 90-year-old failed social experiment. Media coverage of it has been failing for nearly as long.

https://fair.org/home/skip-the-last-two-paragraphs-and-other-time-saving-tips-for-healthcare-news-consumers/

We cannot have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption within a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.

https://fair.org/home/the-only-way-to-have-meaningful-climate-policy-is-to-beat-the-oil-guys/

There is a special irony in a prize in the name of German Jewish philosopher and journalist Hannah Arendt, whose work on the rise of German fascism is essential, being withheld from another Jewish journalist for writing about the rise of authoritarianism.

https://fair.org/home/gessens-cancellation-cant-go-unchallenged/

Media debates about education rarely include kids--the ones going to school and dealing with the daily fallout of arguments had about them but without them.
What children are, mainly, is fodder -- proof of this or that argument. No one wants reporters to shove microphones in a 10-year-old’s face. But if you’re doing a story about children, shouldn’t you be at least a little bit interested in ...children?

https://fair.org/home/alfie-kohn-diane-ravitch-and-kevin-kumashiro-on-education/

How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths 

Norman Solomon's book attempts to show how our media institutions came to be so casual about burying the costs of US wars.

https://fair.org/home/how-to-ignore-4-5-million-deaths/

#Books #WarMilitary

#Facebook helped send a woman to prison for two years for helping her daughter get an #abortion.

https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217

Best of CounterSpin 2022

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpinBestOf2022.mp3

All year long CounterSpin brings you a look, as we say, behind the headlines of the mainstream news. We hope both to shine some light on aspects of news events—perspectives of tho

https://fair.org/counterspin/best-of-counterspin-2022/

#AffirmativeAction #anti-asianhate #Bestof #CNN #FreePress #Harvard #independentmedia #JohnMiller #racism #Supplychain #Ukraine