While it seems hard not to take away something disheartening from Chiles v Salazar – the New York Times calls it a “major win for conservatives” – CounterSpin's guest this week encourages a focus on ways forward and what is still possible. fair.org/home/shannon...

Pam Bondi is gone! Unfortunately Brendan Carr isn’t! My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social looks at Carr’s reign as FCC chair, and his unusual approval of the now-paused $6.2B Nexstar-Tegna merger fair.org/home/trouble...

Bezos openly using WaPo to try to inflate his personal investments, reports @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

FCC chair Brendan Carr's gloating over how the Trump administration has reshaped the media may have helped put a merger that would create “the largest broadcast conglomerate in US history” in legal jeopardy. fair.org/home/trouble...

FAIR is launching into our spring fund drive with a goal of raising $30,000 by May 1. Help us reach out goal! Support independent media! www.cambeywest.com/EXT/?f=donat...

The Trump administration secretly overhauled nuclear safety rules, proposed to cut inspections & radiation standards, & exempted new reactors from environmental reviews. For the Washington Post, however, “the government still holds back America’s nuclear industry too much.” fair.org/home/washing...

"You have to know the name of the company getting the incentive to figure out what they’re doing with the money, what the community gets in return, and to hold them accountable for when they fall short." fair.org/home/it-all-...

If the New York Times is unable (or unwilling) to send its own reporters to Iran, it can hire local Iranian reporters. Instead, it is choosing not to report on the ground in Iran, and then coming up with unpersuasive excuses to cover its tracks. fair.org/home/nyt-cov...

Right now, this is the top story on the #NYTimes online home page. Why is this a news story -- instead of an opinion piece by a disgruntled rightist? @froomkin.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

Polls that ignore how unengaged the public is on any given issue, & instead report that 95% to 100% of the public has a meaningful opinion on that issue, are really performative polls. That such polls produce contradictory results should not be blamed on the public itself. fair.org/home/contrad...

If people want to be able to change anything about our society & the ways we are governed, transparency about what the powerful are doing is necessary, if not sufficient. Talking about transparency – what it can mean & where it’s thwarted – is the point of Sunshine Week. fair.org/home/arlene-...

As Republicans push a bill that would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting, the New York Times makes sure to point out that “Republicans say no reasonable lawmaker should oppose taking basic steps to ensure that only citizens can vote.” fair.org/home/who-wil...

Listening to Hegseth right now it’s once again hard to tell who he’s more hellbent on waging war on, the Iran or the media — as I wrote for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/pete-he...

The FTC has launched wide-ranging probes into groups it alleges are part of “a conspiracy to boycott conservative and independent media.” fair.org/home/trumps-...

"The power lies with people and communities and forms of solidarity. I think the real model here isn't necessarily this litigation, it's Minneapolis, and the demand that we organize, organize, organize and stand together." fair.org/home/this-is...

"Because these corporations have no real interest in the First Amendment, in journalism, in an informed public...they are not going to stand up if the price to be paid is some kind of reduction in their quarterly earnings." fair.org/home/a-media...

"It would be hard to describe the US as having a free press..... an openly authoritarian president picking and choosing which billionaires are going to have the stranglehold over information.” --FAIR's Jim @naureckas.bsky.social in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that “an actual patriotic press” wouldn’t write headlines stating the war is expanding, even as the war has sprawled from an initial three countries to over a dozen. fair.org/home/pete-he...

Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions--a deliberate strategy to stymie journalistic inquiry. fair.org/home/how-wil...

Why is this bullshit the lead story in my paper this morning? No one believes a word Trump says, even if we didn’t have independent evidence that what he’s saying is a lie (which we do in this case). Report the facts, not the spin! @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

The president is handing control of media outlets to MAGA billionaires. Trump's FCC chair says that TV stations that don’t toe the Trump line could lose their licenses. And the so-called elite, traditional, legacy media aren’t ringing alarm bells. fair.org/home/jim-nau...

CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisited some of those conversations in a special archival show. fair.org/home/the-mat...

“Cuba welcomes transnational terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas,” reads a Trump executive order. The administration provided no evidence, but that hasn’t stopped legacy media from repeating the claim uncritically, with nothing more than an “alleged” attached. fair.org/home/as-wash...

CBS’s Margaret Brennan sounded aghast and unbelieving when Iran’s FM told her what Trump had said: ARAGHCHI: …there are, you know, people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun. This is what he has said-- BRENNAN: --have fun? www.cbsnews.com/news/iranian...

“The biggest mistake President Trump could make now would be to end the war too soon,” said the WSJ. WaPo warned of “the danger of lobbing some bombs without seeing this through.” The NYT declared "military action, for all its awful costs, can have positive consequences." fair.org/home/leading...

Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Tobacco firms were the original merchants of doubt, & that has been the approach to every major anti citizen activity by corporations & hard right ideologues for decades You see it in anti-science misinformation on climate, on govt regulation, & taxing the rich Sowing doubt is now easier than ever

CounterSpin this week presents a few of the many interviews we've done over the years debunking media alarmism on Iran. fair.org/study/a-hist...

I feel like there’s an important word being ignored here.

"For war propaganda 2 be effective, it doesn't necessarily have to result in the population being enthusiastic... The main thing it needs 2 accomplish is 2 plant enough doubt, sow enough confusion, that people aren't organizing in large enough numbers 2 bring it to a halt." fair.org/home/even-wi...

Join us THIS THURSDAY at 6PM ET | 3PM PT for the LIVE launch of NEW report. We'll expose the Tech Oligarchs’ agenda with experts: 💥 Janine Jackson at @fairmediawatch.bsky.social 💥 Alicia Bell at @borealisphil.bsky.social 💥 Joe Torres at @freepress.bsky.social bit.ly/mediacapturelaunch

“Trump doesn’t like bad [poll] numbers. He still has a lawsuit against an Iowa pollster whose pre-election numbers he didn’t like. And Gallup has extensive contracts w/ the federal gov't. It’s a no-brainer to infer [why it'd] re-evaluate the utility of continuing to report numbers that Trump hates”📉

The New York Times counted Israel “among the worst offenders against press freedom”--but only 6th on its list, behind China, Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia and Iran—though Israel killed 204 more journalists in the past 3 years than those countries combined. fair.org/home/us-news...

It’s a no-brainer to infer that Gallup’s polling results may have caused the Gallup organization to re-evaluate the utility of continuing to report numbers that Trump hates. fair.org/home/why-gal...

"District Judge Cynthia Rufe...ruled that the federal government does not have the power or the right to dissemble historical truths and distort true historical facts.” fair.org/home/advocat...

Omitted from this NYT article is any mention that the US had an obligation under law to rescue survivors. Also omitted — the fact that this ship was unarmed because of the nature of its presence in the Indian Ocean to begin with. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w... @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

I rarely get my news from legacy media anymore, and it breaks my heart. 💔🤍💙

Corporate media are reporting the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei as a “cool slick techno-operation,” in critic Adam Johnson’s phrase; while USA Today fearmongers with an explainer headed: “US on High Alert for Homeland Attacks by Iran. What to Know.” fair.org/home/gregory...

The Big 3 US asset management companies direct almost 7% of all of the wealth in the entire world: stocks, bonds, cash, everything, everywhere. They hold almost 1/4th of the New York Times’ shares, the same in CNN’s parent company, & nearly 30% of Murdoch's News Corp. fair.org/home/three-m...

USA Today told its American readers that they were the ones who should be worried as their government carried out continuous airstrikes against Iran, “due to Iran’s long history of plotting retaliatory attacks.” fair.org/home/coverin...

Per NBC Nightly News, the Iranian ship that was sunk today had zero people killed & zero survivors who the US failed to rescue. No, they didn’t say that. They just said the ship was sunk. #DisinformationByOmission @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

Corporate media’s framing of Trump’s war as a problem for Democrats turns public opinion on its head, creating a narrative in which opposition to an unpopular war is a political problem. fair.org/home/what-do...

Among the first casualties were at least 175 people in a girls’ school in Minab. As the corpses of young children are no use to the imperial narrative when killed by the US and Israel rather than by Iran, however, the requisite moral condemnation has been in short supply. fair.org/home/us-medi...

When Trump seized Venezuelan oil at gunpoint, the only mild concern expressed in US corporate media was whether he would use it to enrich himself. fair.org/home/western...

Rather than face up to the ugliness and violence of white supremacy in this country’s past and present, rather than see it as a scourge we can work together to overcome, the Trump White House insists we pretend racism didn’t and doesn’t exist. fair.org/home/naomi-b...

By embracing a broader political platform designed to address inequity beyond just schooling, the Chicago Teachers Union has become a target of conservative groups--and a subject of media misrepresentation. fair.org/home/corpora...

With some exceptions, elite media outlets have shown far more interest in the fates of the high-profile men who surrounded Epstein than in the women and girls who were abused. fair.org/home/media-f...

ICE has expanded social-media surveillance, buying tools to build online dossiers on anyone with a public profile—part of a plan for a 24/7 monitoring team. @ruddock.bsky.social explains on @fairmediawatch.bsky.social's CounterSpin: fair.org/home/the-sta...

"There is a feedback loop, between election deniers in Georgia and election deniers in Washington, to try to not just relitigate the 2020 election, but to gain more control over how elections are run in 2026 and 2028." fair.org/home/the-ris...