Horrible what happened to her, but incredibly revealing about the state of media in 2026 that, with everything happening in America right now, NBC Nightly News is dedicated its first ***8 minutes*** to the apparent kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mom And then went to the Olympics

The same pundit who told us not to judge people who overlook child rape also told us that working-class communities were "destroyed by a plague of nonjudgmentalism." fair.org/home/for-nyt...

Insight from @fairmediawatch.bsky.social:

The Department of Homeland Security has shown itself again and again to be an unreliable source. Why do corporate media continue to take its claims about DHS violence at face value? fair.org/home/why-tre...

Donald Trump declared that “the war in Gaza is over” on October 3 of last year. Trump says weird and untrue things every day, but corporate news media seemed to take this one as fact. fair.org/home/rayan-e...

“Sought Leverage With” — the NYT’s new phrase to replace “blackmail”. 😡 @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

The answer can’t be that Israel’s actions against Palestinians and its decaying political system are turning people off. No, the problem is that young people are led astray by social media and distance from real education. fair.org/home/looking...

AP still going with “fragile ceasefire” on a day Israel killed 24 more Palestinians, including at least five children, seven women & an on-duty paramedic (& by the way, just because the other 11 were men, doesn’t mean their deaths were somehow ok). @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

"Federal officials have maintained that the agent acted in self-defense, while state and local officials have disputed that account." The @nytimes.com reporter is unable to tell you whether Renee Good needed to be killed or not. fair.org/home/at-nyt-...

CounterSpin talks to Jenna Ruddock about DHS domestic surveillance: "People should really feel empowered to say, this is not inevitable. A lot of this is profit driven. We have constitutional rights, and we can organize against this." fair.org/home/the-sta...

The pervasive presence of billionaires and the entrance of private equity firms in @fairmediawatch.bsky.social’s Top 7 suggest even further shifts away from democratic, truth-telling media.

Over a 12-month span, from December 2024 to November 2025, there were 45.6 billion US visits to major news sites. More than half of those visits, nearly 25.5 billion, went to news sites controlled by just seven families or corporate entities. fair.org/home/the-dig...

Why is the Washington Post, based in, let’s see, Washington, quoting Trump as to the condition of the Kennedy Center? Don’t they employ “reporters” who could actually report on the facts? Also, does it really take 2 years to fix broken elevators or cracked concrete? @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

"According to a recent study by the media watch group FAIR, US media coverage of Gaza has fallen to its lowest three-month average since the genocide began two-and-a-half years ago. The message is clear: There’s nothing to see here." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

As horrible as Trump is when it comes to attacking press freedom, the Lemon case is the latest escalation in a long history of government attacks on the press who cover protests. fair.org/home/lemon-a...

"To act like the administration is saying we should not talk about racial discrimination, is not true. They just don't want to talk about racial discrimination about anyone other than white people." fair.org/home/theres-...

There have been creditable Big Media reports on Minneapolis, but just as events have shown us the need for a disruptive new way forward in politics, they’ve shown the value of citizen journalism that doesn’t pretend to come from nowhere. fair.org/home/beyond-...

There is tremendous pressure by the government to keep immigration enforcement, and all the expanded policing around mass deportations, in the shadows by keeping agents’ identities anonymous. fair.org/home/social-...

Don't miss the brilliant @ruddock.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social on this week's CounterSpin!

As the powers that be find it harder to forcefeed their narrative over your lying eyes and questioning minds, the game shifts--to their seeking to use their power to silence anyone who might say anything different than what they say. fair.org/home/jenna-r...

The Wall Street Journal was perhaps the only major US media outlet to publish US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent comments that sanctions on Iran had "worked because in December, their economy collapsed…. This is why the people took to the street." fair.org/home/us-medi...

The Washington Post endorses Trump's call for a 50% increase in the military budget, to $1.5 trillion. And it has to happen now, before Democrats get back into power, because they'll want more social spending as well--"which the nation cannot afford." fair.org/home/wapo-so...

The media don't seem very interested in what happened after Donald Trump's "new dawn in the Middle East.

This is beyond the passive tense, I’m not even sure what to call it. The “lying active tense”? Alex Pretti didn’t break his rib. ICE agents broke his rib by kneeling on him! @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

As FAIR and many others have pointed out, Israel did not cease firing after signing the ceasefire agreement. But Gaza is receiving less than two-thirds the level of coverage it received prior to the agreement. fair.org/home/after-t...

The core of the outlook from New York Times ownership, as this illuminating @fairmediawatch.bsky.social article shows:

An ABC News piece failed to mention any possible cause of growing anti-vaccine sentiment, despite the fact that the Trump administration has placed Robert Kennedy, one of the anti-vax movement’s most prominent voices, in the most powerful federal health position. fair.org/home/with-us...

The NY Times says China’s “rising hostility to neighbors and especially its accelerating military buildup show the urgent need for credible deterrence.” It’s not China, though, that declares it has the right to replace any leader in its hemisphere it disapproves of. fair.org/home/as-trum...

@fairmediawatch.bsky.social explaining the difference between euphemism and journalism:

"At the Post-Gazette, we have a situation where the company announced their closure after losing a years-long legal battle with us, the union that represents the largest number of journalists in North America." fair.org/home/were-lo...

Holding the vision of racial equity in this country has always been hard – because powerful people have always been set to roadblock the effort, and even to reverse its course. fair.org/home/dedrick...

CounterSpin's interview with Setareh Ghandehari on ICE's record of violence: "Advocates have worked for decades to try to improve this agency, and it just continues to get worse and worse. There's no way to reform ICE." fair.org/home/were-se...

For years, the @nytimes.com has baffled journalism watchdogs with its anti-trans coverage--markedly different from typical centrist media coverage of trans people. A former Times editor traces an ideological change in coverage to the 2022 changing of the guard at the paper. fair.org/home/an-insi...

My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social It's been a week since the FBI raided a Post reporter's home and Jeff Bezos still hasn't said anything fair.org/home/all-bez...

Media present Trump’s childish imperial fantasies—he may have been impressed by the distorted size of the island on a Mercator map—as grave matters of global strategy. fair.org/home/recente...

It’s “nauseating and irresponsible to have our owner remain silent given this unprecedented event,” a Washington Post reporter said after a colleague's electronic devices were seized by the FBI. fair.org/home/all-bez...

By using words like “arrest” and “capture” to describe the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, media evoke a framing where the “good guys” and “bad guys” are preordained. fair.org/home/labelin...

@fairmediawatch.bsky.social @normansolomon.bsky.social Given today's significance, this article is eternally relevant - especially considering the belligerence that's being exerted by the POTUS at home and abroad. #MLK is no doubt being framed by the U.S. media today as solely a civil rights icon.

In 2010, FAIR's Jim @naureckas.bsky.social wrote that any attempt to expel 11 million unauthorized immigrants "would involve massive internment camps and forced transport reminiscent of Balkan ethnic cleansing, if not even grimmer historical precedents." fair.org/home/i-wish-...

"Venezuela is a testing ground. And if Trump is successful in removing the person in power right now...then the next country will be Cuba & the next country will be Mexico, & Colombia, & then us, because they're already treating opposition in the US as domestic terrorism." fair.org/home/people-...

My latest -- A Year Since Trying to Question Blinken Assaulted with a concussion... blocked out... threatened with "security"... JFK... Impeachment... State Department has stopped having briefings. husseini.substack.com/p/a-year-sin...

It’s the “democracy” in “democratic socialism” that corporatists most object to, not the socialism—my latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social! fair.org/home/what-sc...

Despite flagrant lies and racist hate-mongering from the White House, more people every day are coming to see and acknowledge that--with armed, masked men kidnapping people off the street & assaulting witnesses--ICE is not “flawed,” because it is not fixable. fair.org/home/setareh...

We call it the “best of” but, as always, we are deeply thankful to all of the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show. 2025 was a rough one. We appreciate everyone who helps us stay informed, forward-looking, and in communication. fair.org/home/a-tribe...

Establishment media missed the real story of Zohran Mamdani’s win: the unprecedented army of volunteers, young people and first-time voters who propelled him to victory. fair.org/home/what-sc...

When the Trump administration invaded Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, the New York Times and Washington Post framed it as a surprise. But word quickly got out that it was not a surprise to either paper. fair.org/home/action-...

The media spent the holiday season picking on disabled people, question if we really need wheelchairs and accommodations Wrote about it for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social https://fair.org/home/media-baffled-by-wheelchair-miracles-because-they-dont-understand-disability/

"Once you have normalized discourse that affirms race and gender hierarchies, once you've said that the very idea of race being socially constructed rather than biological is an improper ideology, once you've actually broken the dam, all of these actions come swiftly." fair.org/home/you-can...