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Anonymous NATO: We Don't Know Who Bombed That Tent

From the L.A. Times (6/9/11): A tattered tent, shreds of carpet and other scorched debris were all that were left of a favored retreat of Moammar Gadhafi just outside the Libyan capital, the aftermath...

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Tea Party: Anti-Corporate Corruption Fighters?

Some in the press still seem to have trouble defining whatever it is that motivates the Tea Party movement. I noticed this in an L.A. Times piece last week (6/5/11): Americans possess a long-standing...

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Debt Ceilings and the 'Balance' Bias

There's been plenty written about how reporters skew reality by treating "both sides" as equally intransigent or inflexible when it comes to the budget deficit battle. Another example, from the L.A....

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We Can't Talk About Class Because We Can't Talk About Why We Can't Talk About...

In the L.A. Times today (9/21/11), media reporter James Rainey asks a very important question: In a week that saw the number of people in poverty hit a half-century high and President Obama propose a...

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LAT: Where's the Drone Deaths Coverage?

A Los Angeles Times editorial (2/7/12) begins: When the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism released a report Sunday claiming that U.S. drone strikes have killed dozens of civilian rescuers...

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Do You Change the Weather When You Change the Climate? Yes

FAIR has noted the tendency of corporate media to play down the connection of extreme weather to climate change. (See Neil deMause's piece in Extra!, 8/11.) This summer, as the country is beset by...

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Missing From LAT Report on Romney's Energy Plan: Journalism

"Mitt Romney Sees Path to Energy Independence," an L.A. Times piece by Seema Mehta (8/22/12), doesn't mention climate change at all. It also doesn't mention tar sands, the Canadian oil deposits whose...

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FCC Wants to End Persecution of Media Moguls

The L.A. Times (11/6/12) reports that following the election, the Federal Communications Commission appears likely to ease cross-ownership rules–because supposedly nobody cares about that stuff...

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Think We Live in a Colorblind Era? Welcome to Wet Seal

When pundits wax rhapsodic about the "colorblind" era we live in--or fulminate against affirmative action policies as interfering with that "post-racial" state--some of us think of cases like Wet Seal.

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L.A. Times' Distorted Report on USAID

"USAID Develops a Bad Reputation Among Some Foreign Leaders," read a May 7 Los Angeles Times headline, followed by the subhead: The U.S. Agency for International Development doesn't just offer aid to...

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What Did Samantha Power Say About Iraq Invasion?

The New York Times says that UN Ambassador-nominee Samantha Power "criticized the American invasion of Iraq because it lacked the council's stamp, among other reasons." But what did Power actually say...

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Libya's Lousy PR

One theme of the coverage of the NATO bombing of Libya is that the Libyan government is lousy at propaganda. It was somewhat jarring, though, to see all of these headlines in the space of two days this...

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Whose Obamacare Stories Are Worth Telling?

Stories about individuals losing their insurance policies are making the national news. But how often do those gaining insurance through the Affordable Care Act make the news?

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'Straight Shooter' Chris Christie and the Occupied Territories

What happened when Republican 'straight shooter" Chris Christie accurately called the West Bank occupied territory? He apologized.

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Kristol's Funny Obamacare Numbers

Since he left Fox News Channel in 2013, conservative pundit Bill Kristol now gets to play TV expert on a range of outlets. On April 6, he showed up on ABC's This Week to misinform viewers about...

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Will NYT's New Editor Stand Up for Investigative Journalism?

The New York Times announced that Jill Abramson, who has the top editorial job there of executive editor, is being replaced by current managing editor Dean Baquet. Whether Baquet will be good for...

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Ferguson Case Poses Test for Corporate Media

The surprise has been the extent to which some media seem to be taking the outcry seriously, talking about the militarization of police--brought home by the rough treatment given to reporters--and the...

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LAPD, Media Rush to Judge Skid Row Victim While Insisting Public ‘Not Rush to...

A phone video of a homeless man who goes by the name Africa being shot and killed by the LAPD went viral Sunday night. The video was raw, the outrage on display from those watching the killing unfold...

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What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu’s Speech

The Washington Post‘s coverage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress included “Top 10 Applause Lines From Netanyahu’s Speech.” Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime...

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Getting Media to Take Climate Threats Seriously? There’s a Snowball’s Chance

Senator Jim Inhofe attempting to debunk climate change with a snowball was described as a “fun moment” by Meet the Press‘s Chuck Todd. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Ok.), who chairs the Environment and Public...

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