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"This will incentivize the news to prioritize that which solicits the most gambling, & not that which has the most political or social relevance, not that which challenges power, not that which exposes injustice or highlights misdeeds, but which generates people wagering."
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Judd Legum and Adam Johnson on Gambling on the News
Weâre learning about the deal just struck by ânewsâ outlets CNN and CNBC with the âprediction market operatorâ Kalshi Inc.
https://fair.org/home/judd-legum-and-adam-johnson-on-gambling-on-the-news/
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Trumpâs FCC is seeking to further loosen ownership limits and allow powerful media conglomerates to usurp more of the airwaves.
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FCC Fights First Amendment and âDemocracy Itselfâ
Allowing allegedly local broadcast firms to acquire even more stations will put control over news in still fewer, more corporate hands.
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One has to wonder if nonprofits really think scrubbing their website of language about diversity and inclusion is going to spare them from the Trump administrationâs budget knives.
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Nonprofits Purge Websites of Diversity Language in Futile Attempt to Appease MAGA Inquisitors
Threats of funding cuts donât just endanger nonprofits, they warp themâwhich is why putting political strings on funding violates the First Amendment.
https://fair.org/home/nonprofits-purge-websites-of-diversity-language-in-futile-attempt-to-appease-maga-inquisitors/
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Where power is, who has it, how itâs used: Thatâs the intentional emptiness at the center of corporate mediaâs storytellingâand itâs where independent reporters start.
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Derek Seidman on Starbucks Strike, Mitch Jones on AI vs. Environment
Even Forbes has to acknowledge that even as the Starbucks strike âdragsâ into a second month, âglobal support grows.â
https://fair.org/home/derek-seidman-on-starbucks-strike-mitch-jones-on-ai-vs-environment/
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Trumpâs fantasy of triumphing over 3,000 years of history helped news outlets put into the rearview mirror the two brutal years Israel spent annihilating Gaza.
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The Gaza Genocide Continues, Rebranded as a âCeasefireâ
Despite Trumpâs pronouncement, a "peace" has not held, though the fantasy narrative has.
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6 days ago
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There is no actual evidence cited that the killers were in any way inspired by recent protests about Israelâs war against Gaza. To say the least, itâs unlikely that followers of ISIS are looking to US campus protesters or mayoral candidates for strategic guidance.
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Pundits Blame Sydney Slaughter on Protest Slogan
The rush to blame the shooting on a pro-Palestinian slogan reflects the extent to which media serve as an echo chamber for Israeli talking points.
https://fair.org/home/pundits-blame-sydney-slaughter-on-protest-slogan/
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âSome critics say weâre mouthpieces for Hamas,â said a top NYT editor. Wait, what? Was he gaslighting readers, or about to come clean about his bossâ familial tie to a group known for pro-Israel zealotry? My latest for
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NYT Editors Gaslight Readers Over Paperâs Gaza Bias
Even as NYT chief Joe Kahn was clamping down on the newsroom, he offered praise to then-President Joe Biden for backing Israelâs genocide.
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To NYT chief Joe Kahn, raising the fact that he was mentored in journalism by his father, who served on the board of a group that compares the NYT to Hamas, is just a way of saying "his father was Jewish."
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NYT Editors Gaslight Readers Over Paperâs Gaza Bias
Even as NYT chief Joe Kahn was clamping down on the newsroom, he offered praise to then-President Joe Biden for backing Israelâs genocide.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-editors-gaslight-readers-over-papers-gaza-bias/
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Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with Alex Main on US interference in Honduras' election: "Every little thing that the US does and says regarding Honduras really has huge effects in the country, effects that are very rarely noted here."
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âHonduras Is a Country Still Recovering From a Coup the US Helped Enableâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Alex Main on Honduran election
"If you are a right-wing Latin American government that's aligned with the US, you get a free pass in the media."
https://fair.org/home/honduras-is-a-country-still-recovering-from-a-coup-the-us-helped-enable/
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"It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets."
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CNN and CNBC have announced they will now integrate Kalshiâs "predictive information" -- that is, news gambling -- into their journalism. We could joke: "What could go wrong?" But, seriously, what could go right?
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Judd Legum and Adam Johnson on Gambling on the News
Weâre learning about the deal just struck by ânewsâ outlets CNN and CNBC with the âprediction market operatorâ Kalshi Inc.
https://fair.org/home/judd-legum-and-adam-johnson-on-gambling-on-the-news/
11 days ago
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Some pundits rushed to blame immigration in the wake of the DC National Guard shooting. Few looked at the impact of US violence abroad.
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Media Opinion on DC Shooter Avoided Reality That Violence Abroad Can Come Home
Six of eight opinion pieces on the DC National Guard shooting ignored extensive evidence that the suspect's US military experience impacted his mental state.
https://fair.org/home/media-opinion-on-dc-shooter-avoided-reality-that-violence-abroad-can-come-home/
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Do you have âextreme views in favor of mass migrationâ? âAnti-Americanism,â âanti-capitalismâ or âanti-Christianityâ? âHostility towards traditional views on family, religion and moralityâ? Congratulations, you may be headed for the FBI's brand new enemies list.
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FBI Is Making an Enemies Listâand Most Corporate Media Didnât Even Check It Once
The Trump FBI's enemies list could encompass over half the US public, and virtually no corporate media outlets covered this catastrophic decree.
https://fair.org/home/fbi-is-making-an-enemies-list-and-most-corporate-media-didnt-even-check-it-once/
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13 days ago
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Before and after his mayoral victory, right-wing cartoonists depicted Zohran Mamdani as a Stalinist, an Islamic extremist or, improbably enough, both.
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With Turban or Hammer and Sickle, Cartoonists Tried to Make You Fear Mamdani
Right-wing cartoonists waged a relentless campaign to tar Mamdani as a dangerous political extremist and religious radical.
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The
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apparently didnât have space to cover Czechâs murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on âDid Women Ruin the Workplace,â and for David French to muse on âHow Women Destroyed the West.â
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Media Reaction to a Woman Murdered at Work Is âNothing to See Hereâ
A male coworker allegedly bludgeoning Amber Czech to death has nothing to tell us, evidently, about broader trends or influences.
https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/
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21 days ago
@fairmediawatch.bsky.social
: The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
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Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa MassacreâBut Not Pressâs Role in Massacre
The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
https://fair.org/home/press-remembers-oldest-survivor-of-tulsa-massacre-but-not-presss-role-in-massacre/
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Readers are treated to a photo of a thoughtful-looking Hendrix, wearing a navy suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, with a caption saying âhe was stunned by the intensity of the uproar and the fallout on his life.â
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NYT Covers Racism From the Point of View of the Racist
The New York Times' problem isn't that it hasn't probed deeply enough into the far-right psyche; it's that it refuses to stop normalizing it.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-covers-racism-from-the-point-of-view-of-the-racist/
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At least the WaPo & NYT did run news articles quoting Trumpâs racist âgarbageâ remarks. AP totally bowdlerizes what he said; the word âgarbageâ doesnât even appear even though itâs a direct quote.
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The BBCâs December 3 headline drops us in: âAs Lead Changes in Knife-Edge Honduran Election, Will Trump Fail to Get His Way?â What do we lose when media report other countriesâ elections through the lens of US power?
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Alex Main on Honduran Election
As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the USâs long history of violently intervening in Honduras.
https://fair.org/home/alex-main-on-honduran-election/
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"With the US not there, they can no longer obstruct. And that means that nation states can treat the US as the pariah that it is, and get down some binding frameworks that will, in the end, when the US comes back, bind the US to...phasing out fossil fuels."
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âCOPs Are About the Public vs. Politicians and Their Corporate Interestsâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Jean Su on COP30 narratives
"It's the people, it's the citizenry of the world who are going toe to toe with the handful of politicians who are driving disastrous decisions for us."
https://fair.org/home/cops-are-about-the-public-vs-politicians-and-their-corporate-interests/
19 days ago
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21 days ago
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Jim Naureckas
22 days ago
It drives me nuts how establishment media think ignorance is strength when it comes to transgender care.
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On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents âMore Neutralâ Center
The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."
https://fair.org/home/on-trans-care-wapo-rejects-experts-and-invents-more-neutral-center/
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Itâs not even gone yet and they miss it alteady! My latest for
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NYT Mourns Lost Glamour of Jeffrey Epsteinâs New York
In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.
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âTrump saysâ are two words that should be banned from serious media, just like âIsrael saysâ. There is literally no point in reading further if youâre interested in the truth.
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For the Washington Post, lacking expertise on transgender care makes you more credible, because you're "more neutral."
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On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents âMore Neutralâ Center
The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."
https://fair.org/home/on-trans-care-wapo-rejects-experts-and-invents-more-neutral-center/
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News outlets have continued to push the idea that the WNBA is not profitable, exclusively relying on anonymous sources, without ever referencing any corroborating financial documents.
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Sports Press Covers WNBA Negotiations From Ownersâ Point of View
Too many news reports have catered to owners' interests when reporting on the negotiations between the players' union and the league.
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Whatâs the difference between acknowledging conflicts that are driving predictable and predicted death and destruction, and using the power of information to challenge and change them?
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Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives
Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with whatâs being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
https://fair.org/home/jean-su-on-challenging-cop30-narratives/
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After 300 overwhelmingly Black women, men and children were murdered in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa World ran the headline "Two Whites Dead in Race Riot"--and an editorial asserting that "any persons who seek to put half the blame on the white people are wrong."
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Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa MassacreâBut Not Pressâs Role in Massacre
The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
https://fair.org/home/press-remembers-oldest-survivor-of-tulsa-massacre-but-not-presss-role-in-massacre/
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In the New York Timesâ telling, itâs not the girls on Epsteinâs island but rather President Donald Trumpâan Epstein associate many suspect of having participated in the alleged abuseâwho is being âheld captiveâ by a ânews cycle he canât avoid or defeat.â
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NYT Mourns Lost Glamour of Jeffrey Epsteinâs New York
In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-mourns-lost-glamor-of-jeffrey-epsteins-new-york/
27 days ago
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27 days ago
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"It was once widely accepted and understood that segregation was not an accident, but it was a purposeful creation of state, federal and local government... When we think it happened by accident, we then think there is nothing we can do about it."
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âHousing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealthâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Gene Slater, Richard Rothstein and George Lipsitz on housing and media
"Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies."
https://fair.org/home/housing-discrimination-harms-health-and-steals-wealth/
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Pete Tucker
about 1 month ago
DC area residents are getting bilked out of billions to pay for AI data centers benefitting trillion dollar companies. Meanwhile the Post -- owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos -- has been largely MIA My latest for
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WaPo Defends Data CentersâWith Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Postâowned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
https://fair.org/home/wapo-defends-data-centers-with-few-disclosures-that-amazon-depends-on-them/
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Weâre hearing that SNAP and food benefits are being reinstated, now that the government is âopenâ again. But that doesnât convey the situation properly.
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Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding
What if SNAP werenât a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
https://fair.org/home/crystal-fitzsimons-on-snap-and-public-understanding/
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The
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WaPo Defends Data CentersâWith Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them
The data center controversy was downplayed by the Washington Postâowned by the founder of Amazon, a company at the forefront of the data center buildout,
https://fair.org/home/wapo-defends-data-centers-with-few-disclosures-that-amazon-depends-on-them/
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James North
about 1 month ago
This report on the alleged complicity of
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in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking does not go far enough. Why does senior official Mary
#Erdoes
, whose alleged involvement has been cited, still have a job at the bank?
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/jeffrey-epstein-jpmorgan-chase-ron-wyden.html
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The New York Times gave Katie Wilsonâs win tepid coverage, offering an unexciting news piece that failed to address the significance of ousting a powerful incumbent. It also, bizarrely, quoted that defeated incumbentâand never quoted the actual winner of the race.
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A Seattle Socialistâs Victory Gives Elite Media the Jitters
New York City isnât the only city to have elected a democratic socialist as mayor. Seattle voters ousted incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell for community organizer Katie Wilson, who had the endorsements of...
https://fair.org/home/a-seattle-socialists-victory-gives-elite-media-the-jitters/
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about 1 month ago
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Corporate media are repeating the problems of the run-up to the Iraq War by uncritically amplifying spurious justifications for military assault against Venezuela.
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Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela
With a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers.
https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-parrot-dubious-drug-claims-that-justify-war-on-venezuela/
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âTrump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal,â the New York Times reported-- with a lackadaisical attitude toward the president using the federal government that he administers as a channel for his familyâs businesses.
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For NYT, Trumpâs Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal
It is a hallmark of corrupt societies that institutions like media simply accept that the personal business interests of politicians supersede public service.
https://fair.org/home/for-nyt-trumps-gulf-corruption-is-the-new-normal/
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There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justiceâs Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?
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Emails Reveal Epsteinâs Ties to MossadâBut Corporate Media Looked Away
Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.
https://fair.org/home/emails-reveal-epsteins-ties-to-mossad-but-corporate-media-looked-away/
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Itâs societally important, historically important, who is encouraged and enabled and facilitated in their ability to buy a home, and who is shut out.
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Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media
Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.
https://fair.org/home/gene-slater-2022-richard-rothstein-2015-and-george-lipsitz-2024-on-housing-and-media/
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"We are seeing the judiciary, specifically the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, most egregiously, really change the rules of the game, allow legislators to go for it, to live out their racial discrimination dreams and craft new districts accordingly."
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âThey Are Creating the Opportunity to Shrink Democracy Moreâ:Â CounterSpin interview with Madiba Dennie on Supreme Court vs. voting rights
"They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism."
https://fair.org/home/they-are-creating-the-opportunity-to-shrink-democracy-more/
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Happy birthday to Jeff Cohen, FAIR's founder, who showed us the way. Here's a piece he wrote a few years back recalling our origin story.
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35 Years Later, Looking Back at the Founding of FAIR
It was 35 years ago this month that I left my beloved Venice, California, to move to New York City to launch FAIR.
https://fair.org/home/35-years-later-looking-back-at-the-founding-of-fair/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
about 2 months ago
Had a great conversation with
@fairmediawatch.bsky.social
about the Supreme Court's attacks on the Voting Rights Act, and the importance of cutting through the obfuscation about what the Court is doing
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Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
https://fair.org/home/madiba-dennie-on-voting-rights-act-in-danger/
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As the obituaries proliferate in the establishment press, itâs hard to find a single one that isnât complicit in sanitizingâto the extent possibleâCheneyâs trajectory of mass destruction.
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Remembering Dick Cheney, âPolarizingâ War Criminal
Terms like âpolarizingâ and âcontroversialâ are the outer limits of acceptable critique for mass murderers who happened to be US statesmen.
https://fair.org/home/remembering-dick-cheney-polarizing-war-criminal/
about 2 months ago
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Pushing non-white people out of the electoral process has been the glimmer in the eye of many a politician. The conservative majority of todayâs Supreme Court sees that goal in their sights with Louisiana v. Callais.
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Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
https://fair.org/home/madiba-dennie-on-voting-rights-act-in-danger/
about 2 months ago
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