“'Sportswashing' is when political leaders use sports to deflect attention from chronic social problems and human rights woes at home...while also setting up opportunities for political and economic gain." fair.org/home/this-is...

In 1965 the top Pentagon PR guy went to Vietnam and told a bunch of reporters there: "If you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Do you hear that? — stupid." Fortunately, the US media immediately forgot this. theintercept.com/2016/05/20/p...

My only opinion on the Musk-Altman suit is “a pox on both their houses”, but this headline is ridiculous. The court did 𝑛𝑜𝑡 “reject Musk’s allegations”, rather, as the subhead says, they simply ruled the suit was filed too late. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

The UN defines “buffer zone” as “neutral space created by the withdrawal of hostile parties or a demilitarized zone.” Corporate media use the term to mean land taken over by a belligerent foreign army that intends to remain for the long term. fair.org/home/buffer-...

You can tell the people who own & run our media think the climate crisis won’t hurt them by the photos they choose for record heat No outdoor workers suffering, kids with asthma struggling, or seniors who can’t afford a/c sweltering Always just people frolicking without a care in the world

Weaponization was not a Biden thing. It's a Trump thing. presswatchers.org/2026/05/news...

Sports has always been a big part of news media, but typically segregated into its own section on stats and personalities, ignoring the economic, social and environmental impacts sports have always had. #FIFA #WorldCup @julesboykoff.bsky.social fair.org/home/jules-b...

The proposed “savings” of $1.6 billion is equivalent to the cost of 1.3 days of the war on Iran. fair.org/uncategorize...

Transcript of CounterSpin interview with Angelo Carusone on Media Matters v. FTC fair.org/home/it-was-...

Fact check: there are, in fact, 16 candidates for Lieutenant Governor in California, including a representative of the Peace & Freedom Party who are running a unity ticket with the Green Party. But don’t expect the corporate media to mention that. 😡 @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

I wonder what would happen if journalists, elected officials, and other trusted officials explicitly linked extreme weather to fossil-fuel polluters

Apocalyptic narratives about AI may be largely if not entirely designed to justify more investment in a technology that has already sucked up so much money that analysts wonder if it will ever show a profit. fair.org/home/the-ai-...

The New York Times' fashion critic says that people “whining” about the Met Gala is just silly, because “even people who criticize the Met Gala end up looking at the pictures.” fair.org/home/nyt-on-...

Goddammit, media (WaPo here, but they all do it)! Just stop this shit! The “ceasefire” is plainly NOT intact. When you can’t tell the truth about something as obvious as the nose on your face, how can we trust anything else you report? @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

The FTC launched a legal attack on the group Media Matters over a report that rattled Elon Musk. Three years later, the FTC is throwing in the towel on that bullying with a legally binding settlement. fair.org/home/angelo-...

There's a word missing from this awful story of hundreds of thousands of trees destroyed due to DelMonte's bankruptcy: tariffs, which greatly increased the cost of canning. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...?

Few have matched Alex Jones’ ability to turn rancid delusions into mainstream talking points, influencing a xenophobic, racist and transphobic political movement that has taken power in the United States. fair.org/home/you-don...

Media be warned: If your organization's workforce becomes less disproportionately white, the Trump administration will take that as evidence of illegal discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

I’m not saying this did or did not happen. But the entire article is a CentCom press release; no other sources. It either needs an “allegedly” in the headline or at the very least, an “according to CentCom”, to be proper journalism. @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

"These systems, this tech, and especially things that involve large language models or AI--yes, they are incredibly sophisticated. They are incredibly complex, but the end result is not." fair.org/home/five-pr...

Since birth rate is not a significant problem for the US in the foreseeable future unless you prevent immigration, the idea repeated in media that “civilization” will collapse from a falling birth rate actually means--“white civilization.” fair.org/home/the-reg...

After the WHCD shooting, CNN's Dana Bash asked Rep. Jamie Raskin about Democrats' "heated rhetoric": "Do you think twice about that when something like this happens?" Asked what rhetoric she had in mind, Bash replied: “That he is terrible for this country and so on.” fair.org/home/the-hea...

As corporations move to implement "dynamic pricing," we need a public interest press interrogating this latest extractive mechanism, not just owner-focused outlets talking about how to most profitably exploit it. fair.org/home/derek-k...

FAIR is proud to be recognized as a finalist in the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism for our work chronicling anti-trans bias in corporate media. bellisario.psu.edu/.../bart.../... Thank you! Read more at fair.org. #transrights #LGBTQ #mediabias #mediacriticism

The FCC explains that it is trying to take ABC's licenses away not because Jimmy Kimmel joked about Trump, but because Disney isn't hiring enough white people. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...?

"The MORE Act...would resentence marijuana convictions. It would provide expungements. It would reinvest marijuana tax revenue into communities that have been most harmed by the war on drugs." fair.org/home/crimina...

"In the past two years, over 300 cities have passed laws that make it a crime to be homeless. Many of them include things like a thousand dollars in fines. If folks had a thousand dollars, they wouldn’t be sleeping outside." fair.org/home/the-tar...

The Supreme Court says that the white people of a state can rig elections to keep Black people from being elected so long as the white people don't call themselves the White People Party.

We have two days left of our spring fundraiser! Help us reach our $30,000 goal by May 1. www.cambeywest.com/EXT/?f=donat... Thank you!

I was doing research for a different post about the WHCD incident when I came across a claim so bizarre from the @nytimes.com that I had to write it up. fair.org/home/action-...

Numerous attempted presidential assassinations since 1981 have gone down the @nytimes.com's memory hole. fair.org/home/action-...

Former FAIR intern Felipe Rendall speaks against the Gaza genocide at a talk by an Israeli soldier at Rutgers. www.facebook.com/share/r/18gi...

Murderous fantasies about the US imposing total domination over Iran are perhaps a symptom of the US being unable to do so in reality. fair.org/home/for-us-...

A bill moving through the Louisiana legislature does more than make it a crime to sleep outside; it creates a Dickensian alternate legal system to ensnare homeless people that evokes “debtor’s prisons, convict leasing and the ugliest days of Jim Crow.” fair.org/home/jesse-r...

In so many ways, big media failed to provide accurate information about Israel’s bombing attacks and their consequences on the people in Gaza. They improvised a language of confusion, denial and justification. fair.org/home/genocid...

"Frequently, the Wayback Machine is used for accountability at publications like the @nytimes.com. They will change the content of articles, or take things down, just like any corporation that is archived on the Wayback Machine." fair.org/home/the-way...

Good Lord.

Recalling the remarkable life of Terry Allen, Extra!'s longtime layout artist and a good friend to FAIR. www.sevendaysvt.com/life-lines/o...

Coverage of climate change in U.S. news declined nearly 46% from 2021 to 2025, at a time when the climate crisis is worsening. Our "free press" blows with the wind of whoever is in the White House. fair.org/home/climate... H/T @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

Hilarious headline in the #NYTimes. In what alternate universe is taxing a second home the "apex" of an "anti-rich current?" @froomkin.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

Our co-editor @sarahanderson.bsky.social in conversation with the great Janine Jackson at FAIR.

"It’s not that these companies don’t have the resources to be paying something other than poverty wages; it’s that they’re choosing to use their resources to enrich those at the top." fair.org/home/its-all...

Paramount Skydance‘s winning bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) marks a major milestone in media monopolization that, if successful, will further expand Trump-allied tech moguls Larry and David Ellison’s burgeoning power over US news and entertainment media. fair.org/home/paramou...

The New York Times ran a detailed account of how Trump and Netanyahu launched the war on Iran. But it left out the paper's own role in paving the way for war--with what it wrote and when it kept silent. fair.org/home/nyts-in...

The same media outlets that herald companies like Walmart for supposedly building a better mousetrap--and getting their rightful riches--also complain about government spending on public assistance programs like SNAP. A new report punctures this media mythology. fair.org/home/sarah-a...

The Wall Street Journal, one of the few major US outlets to cover the Israeli attack on the Tehran synagogue, referred in a headline to Israel's "Damage to Iran Synagogue"--which resembles the "damage" Al Qaeda did to the World Trade Center towers. fair.org/home/israel-...

"Ending the war is the first step, but it isn't enough to end it. We have to actually hold someone accountable.... If we do not see Trump and Netanyahu imprisoned or impeached, I don't know what we're doing." fair.org/home/the-wor...

"There’s this huge gap in trust, where Iran had been negotiating with the Trump administration heading into this war, was negotiating with them heading into the war last summer. Both times they came under surprise attack." fair.org/home/its-bee...

See our grades & analysis of 75 + front pages for #NoKings 3.0 coverage. The influential @nytimes.com @wsj.com continue trivialize the pro-democracy movement & #NoKings mass demonstrations. Good news: editors of local outlets continue to shine. 🧵 w/many front pages and link to blog post 1/n

FAIR found almost 32% online news coverage of climate change in 2025 than 2024. In 2021, 2.4% of US online news pieces contained the phrase “climate change.” In 2025, that percentage was 1.3%, a nearly 46% decrease. fair.org/home/climate...