Jim Naureckas
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Editor at FAIR since 1990.
â'We donât make them like this anymore,' Meacham said, implying this is a bad thing."
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Dick Cheney Doesnât Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies
Former Vice President Dick Cheney died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-death-iraq-war/
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Mamdani can't recognize a nearly 50-year-old pop song. But then, Newsday caption writers can't spell "Mamdani."
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John Dickerson pays the price for questioning CBS's capitulation to MAGA: âCan you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks youâve traded away that trust?â
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âCBS Evening Newsâ Co-Anchor John Dickerson to Exit Network
Dickerson, formerly the moderator of 'Face the Nation,' is the first high-profile exit at CBS following the hire of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-dickerson-out-cbs-news-1236410756/
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The New York Daily News gave 13 of the first 14 paragraphs of its story to a Cuomo rally attacking Mamdani--before moving on to a Mamdani rally that drew 40 times as many participants.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/26/c...
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Cuomo, Mamdani rally forces in Queens as mayoral race enters final days
With the cityâs mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Sunday held rallies in Queens to make pitches to votâŚ
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/26/cuomo-mamdani-rally-forces-in-queens-as-mayoral-race-enters-final-days/
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Fun fact: Tammy Baldwin, one of the four Democratic senators who the
#NYTimes
claims won because they were "moderates," has the 6th leftmost voting record in the Senate.
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The Washington Post is deceptively pushing policies that make it more likely that we will get fascism in Europe. More importantly for Jeff Bezos, they will make it less likely that the rich will have to pay more taxes.
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WaPo Says âHard Mathâ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
https://fair.org/home/wapo-says-hard-math-means-europe-must-lower-its-quality-of-life/
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A glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now that itâs controlled by MAGA billionaire Larry Ellisonâs nepo baby and anti-âwokeâ ideologue Bari Weiss From FAIR's Jim
@naureckas.bsky.social
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CBSâs Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.
https://fair.org/home/cbss-suck-up-to-barrett-may-be-a-taste-of-propaganda-to-come/
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Saying that âthis administration always winsâ when it makes emergency appeals to the Supreme Court was âobviously false,â CBS's Jan Crawford offered "one high-profile example"--there's only 2 to choose from--and she gets that one wrong.
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CBSâs Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.
https://fair.org/home/cbss-suck-up-to-barrett-may-be-a-taste-of-propaganda-to-come/
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This is not a drill: Trump says that people who criticize him and his administration are responsible for "terrorism," and he's outlined a plan to prosecute this "conspiracy."
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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal
After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.
https://fair.org/home/under-trump-criticism-is-now-criminal/
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"These three companies alone have collectively paid Trump and his associates $59.5 million for the sin of enforcing the rules of their own privately held companies."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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YouTube Bends the Knee
Welcome to the era of Big-Tech capitulation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/youtube-trump-settlement/684431/
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The "trans shooter" meme illustrates a flaw in the way our minds work: We pay attention to things because they're unusual, then think they're common because we're paying attention to them.
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When a Shooter Is Transâand Not a Cis MaleâSuddenly Identity Matters
Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooterâwho was transgenderâtreating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.
https://fair.org/home/when-a-shooter-is-trans-and-not-a-cis-male-suddenly-identity-matters/
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@nytimes.com
: "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actionsâas well as their promises since Charlie Kirkâs killingâto guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism." When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/18/us/trump-news
about 2 months ago
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Thomas Zimmer
about 2 months ago
These performances of debate-unity only reach the NYT audience. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Right are signaling to their supporters that the time for a comprehensive crackdown on the âenemy withinâ has come. Klein isnât doing anything to defuse the situation - heâs obscuring the problem.
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I suspect the supposed text messages released by the FBI are a reconstruction of how the roommate remembers the exchange, created with the help of FBI interrogators. Thus the stilted language and the way it serves prosecutorial needs--without being something the roommate will disavow in court.
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Boston Review
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âSelf-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.â
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The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review
Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitchâs âThe Right to Be Hostile.â
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-right-to-be-hostile/nicole-hemmer-responds/
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The leading voices of MAGA are ready to declare a police state over the killing of Charlie Kirk -- carried out, as it appears, by someone even further right than Kirk.
about 2 months ago
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During the Holocaust, the
@nytimes.com
shamefully buried news of the mass murder of Jews in its back pages, sometimes tucked in at the end of unrelated articles. With genocide scholars saying a new genocide is happening in
#Gaza
, the Times is behaving the same way.
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NYT Buries News That Experts on Genocide Say Israel Is Committing It
A declaration by genocide scholars that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza was widely seen as significant news--but not by the New York Times.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-buries-news-that-experts-on-genocide-say-israel-is-committing-it/
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
2 months ago
The corporate media template: Go ahead and admit that the US government is consciously and intentionally setting refuge seekers up to âend up in brutal conditions,â but donât bother dwelling on where that slippery slope might lead us all.
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Media Dance Around Illegality of Trumpâs Third-Country Deportation Scheme
US corporate media have not shied away from reporting on third-country deportations, but tend to dance around the illegality of the whole matter.
https://fair.org/home/media-dance-around-illegality-of-trumps-third-country-deportation-scheme/
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I'm proud to learn that the paper I wrote for in college is suing Marco Rubio on behalf of the First Amendment.
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The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations
The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and RĂźmeysa ĂztĂźrk.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/26/stanford-daily-lawsuit-international-student-deportations-visa/
2 months ago
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I miss the First Amendment.
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The most popular active US politician is Bernie Sanders, with a +12 net favorability. Compare that to Chuck Schumer, with a -31 net. Yet Sanders is considered fringe, whereas Schumer is mainstream, pragmatic, a natural leader of the Democratic Party.
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What Americans think of 120 political leaders | YouGov
Barack Obama is by far the most well-liked political figure among the 120 asked about, with a net favorability among Americans of +22.
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52037-what-americans-think-of-120-political-leaders
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Pete Tucker
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I hear there may be a few other things going on in DC... but I discussed the cityâs sweetheart stadium deal with Janine Jackson on
@fairmediawatch.bsky.social
âs radio show Counterspin
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Corporate journalists see pretending not to know what's going on as a central part of their job.
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Starvation in Gaza divides many Jewish Americans
Images of starving children have caused what some call a âruptureâ between supporters of Israelâs offensive and opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuâs government.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/starvation-gaza-divides-jewish-americans-israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-rcna223143
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A public figure that's been the subject of cover stories and feature spreads risks his life to bring food to starving children: Here's why that's not a newsworthy story.
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For Media, Trying to Help Gazans Survive Turns Heroes Into Zeroes
It would be hard to make up a story with more dramatic potential. Yet corporate media somehow knew this was a story to steer clear of.
https://fair.org/home/for-media-trying-to-help-gazans-survive-turns-heroes-into-zeroes/
3 months ago
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"We agree that's a problem, and we're going to do less to solve it" is never going to be a winning political message.
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Chris Smalls, Amazon organizer, is one of the most prominent labor activists in the country. Yet when he was beaten by the IDF while trying to bring life-saving aid to Gaza, it got virtually no US corporate media coverage.
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Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores It
On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala.
https://paydayreport.com/amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-detained-beaten-by-idf-but-us-media-ignores-it/
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3 months ago
NEW: Trump effectively confessed he knew what Epstein was doing, and the mainstream media whiffed:
presswatchers.org/2025/07/trum...
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Trump effectively confessed he knew what Epstein was doing, and the mainstream media whiffed | Press Watch
Stenography isnât enough when Trump unleashes something wildly self-incriminating
https://presswatchers.org/2025/07/trump-effectively-confesses-he-knew-what-epstein-was-doing-and-the-mainstream-media-whiffs/
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An 18-month-old was born in January 2024. This kid has no problems that pre-existed the Israeli genocide.
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Watching ABC and CBS, Columbia and Harvard crumble at the first authoritarian push makes you realize what a rotten structure our society is built on.
3 months ago
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Superman works best as an allegory if you think of Jor-El as representing the Democratic Party and Superman as being Zorhan Mamdani.
4 months ago
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Ernesto CastaĂąeda
4 months ago
Live at The Santita Jackson Show
@santitajackson.bsky.social
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The Everglades concentration camp is violating human rights & dehumanizing people. Wasteful & abusive. Years of anti-immigrant discourse & DeSantis's opportunism led us here.
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If you don't think most people belong on the left, you are not on the left.
4 months ago
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Trumpism depends on "us" hating "them" as much as vice versa. Refuse to be manipulated.
4 months ago
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When Trump is using Islamophobia to put people in concentration camps, the center has to stop using tactical Islamophobia. h/t @
[email protected]
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | I know exactly what the vicious racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani are meant to do
In the hands of right-wing nationalists, attacks on multiculturalism are a pretext for an attack on citizenship.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/zohran-mamdani-trump-arrest-racist-attacks-denaturalize-rcna216460
4 months ago
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More people will make it easier to solve environmental problems, they say, because "every time we've made progress against an environmental challenge before, it's been while the population was growing." Note the world's population has been growing since the 14th century.
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Why the World Needs More People, According to These Experts
A warning against population shrinkage
https://time.com/7299524/birth-rate-after-the-spike-depopulation-interview/
4 months ago
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Murat Cem Mengßç
4 months ago
Yuck 𤢠𤎠âIn fact, New Yorkers should be worried that he would lead Gotham back to the bad old days of civic dysfunction, and Democrats should fear that he will discredit their next generation of party leaders, almost all of whom are better than this democratic socialist.â
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One of the ugliest aspects of human nature is hating people just because we have permission to hate them. And that's the only way I can explain the animosity towards people whose greatest crime is helping to grow our food, build our houses and take care of our children.
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The Washington Post can never admit that what it hates about Zohran Mamdani is exactly what people love about him: that he doesn't think a billionaire is a billion times more important than someone who is broke.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Zohran Mamdaniâs victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party
New York cannot take its greatness for granted. Mismanagement can ruin it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/mamdani-new-york-mayor-socialism/
4 months ago
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Laura Flanders
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Andrew Sullivan has been writing the same drivel for 30 years. Rad-shaming his way to the top. Now, predictably, heâs fueling the anti-Trans hate machine at the boring, boring
@nytimes.com
. Shame on him.
#trans
@translash.org
#lgbtqia
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Opinion | How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/gay-lesbian-trans-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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I'm grateful to the
@nytimes.com
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@mashagessen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...
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Opinion | The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opinion/antisemitism-new-york-city-mayor.html
5 months ago
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What are the odds Trump doesn't drop a bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator?
5 months ago
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"Some Far-Left Groups Have Encouraged Peaceful Protests to Turn Violent, Experts Say," is NBC's headline. Here's one example they offer:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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5 months ago
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The
@washingtonpost.com
appears to blame a US senator for being assaulted by DHS goons at a news conference. h/t
@normansolomon.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
How do you describe someone who ânarrowly wonâ an election as âperforming stronglyâ, WaPo?
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I think we can all recognize looking back that Weather Underground violence was not the important moral issue of the Vietnam War.
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Just when you think the Trump administration has reached peak bonkerism.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Bring Back Racist Mascots or New Yorkâs Education Funding Gets It
In yet another instance of mafia politics, the Trump administration is threatening to destroy the stateâs public schools unless its reactionary social agenda is obeyed.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/linda-mcmahon-trump-massapequa-chiefs/
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One of the most important thing to realize about media is that outrage does not emerge naturally from the events of the world; it is evoked or suppressed in keeping with the government's foreign policy needs.
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