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June 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM

NYT Undermines Fight Against Antisemitism by Using It as Shield for Zionism

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Undermines Fight Against Antisemitism by Using It as Shield for Zionism Ari Paul   Pro-Israel zealots commonly attempt to discredit criticism of the Israeli government by equating such criticism with antisemitism, because Israe…
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June 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM

How NYT Magazine Threw Away Journalistic Ethics on Suicide

All posts View article on FAIR's website How NYT Magazine Threw Away Journalistic Ethics on Suicide Justine Barron   Trigger warning: discussion of suicide and its depictions. The New York Times Magazine (6/1/25) ignored ethical guidelines designed to keep reporting fro…
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June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM

Keep FAIR Free & Fearless!

Keep FAIR Free & Fearless! View this email in your browser   Keep FAIR Free & Fearless! Dear FAIR Family,  We’re in the third week of our summer fundraising appeal, and about halfway toward…
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June 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM

LA Repression... Zohran Mamdani... Mahmoud Khalil....

LA Repression... Zohran Mamdani... Mahmoud Khalil.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: June 13, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on fo…
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June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM

For Media, Unruly Protesters Are Bigger Problem Than Trump's Police State

All posts View article on FAIR's website For Media, Unruly Protesters Are Bigger Problem Than Trump's Police State Shirlynn Chan   The protests emerged as resistance to militarized law enforcement (Al Jazeera, 6/7/25), a dynamic that was often obscured by coverage that …
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June 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM

How to Subtly Undermine a Promising Left-Wing Candidate

All posts View article on FAIR's website How to Subtly Undermine a Promising Left-Wing Candidate Raina Lipsitz     Sure, you may like the idea of a "socialist New York," but New York magazine (5/20/25) is here with a bunch of anonymous sources to tell you it's "more com…
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June 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM

Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness

All posts View article on FAIR's website Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250613.mp3 Right-click here to down…
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June 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM

When Media Tell Us Who ‘Won’ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions

All posts View article on FAIR's website When Media Tell Us Who ‘Won’ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions John Perry   AP (4/13/25) attributes Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa's re-election to "voters weary of crime"—even though murders rose sharply under…
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June 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM

Help us stay defiant!

Help us stay defiant! View this email in your browser   Help us stay defiant! ✊ Dear FAIR Friend,  Militarized, illegal and inhumane attacks on migrants, protesters and those who fight for humanit…
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June 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM

'The Families Wanted Boeing to Face Real Accountability':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Families Wanted Boeing to Face Real Accountability': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed independent journalist Katya Schwenk about Boeing's non-prosecution deal for the June 6, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a …
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June 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM

Thunberg & Gaza... DOGE After Musk... Syrian Massacres....

Thunberg & Gaza... DOGE After Musk... Syrian Massacres.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: June 6, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been worki…
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June 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM

The Hidden Story: Israeli 'Aid' Is Part of Genocide Plan

All posts View article on FAIR's website The Hidden Story: Israeli 'Aid' Is Part of Genocide Plan Belén Fernández   Israeli tanks opened fire last Sunday on a crowd of thousands of starving Palestinians at an aid distribution center in the city of Rafah in the southern Ga…
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June 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250606.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Sav…
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June 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM

NYT Goes Silent on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Voyage

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Goes Silent on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Voyage Ari Paul   The New York Times (12/2/19) apparently doesn't think Greta Thunberg is an icon Gaza desperately needs. When Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was fighting for climate jus…
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June 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Activists Await NYT Podcast on Trans Care With Justifiable Dread

All posts View article on FAIR's website Activists Await NYT Podcast on Trans Care With Justifiable Dread Julie Hollar   New York Times promo for an upcoming podcast on how "medical treatment for transgender young people, and how the care got pulled into a political fig…
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June 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM

'Dangerous Times Demand Dangerous Music':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Dangerous Times Demand Dangerous Music': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed guitarist Tom Morello about music as protest for the May 30, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.bl…
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June 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM

Syrian Bloodbaths: From Nefarious to Benign

All posts View article on FAIR's website Syrian Bloodbaths: From Nefarious to Benign Gregory Shupak   In The Political Economy of Human Rights (South End Press, 1979), Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman argued that the American ruling class and corporate media regard blood…
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June 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM

Support Fiercely Independent Media

Support Fiercely Independent Media View this email in your browser   Support Fiercely Independent Media! Dear FAIR Friend,  As the Trump administration’s attacks on the First Amendment intensify, …
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May 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM

Embassy Shooting... Trans Athletes... Tom Morello....

Embassy Shooting... Trans Athletes... Tom Morello.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: May 30, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for…
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May 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM

Once Again, NYT Coverage of Anti-Trans Attacks Leaves Out Trans Voices  

All posts View article on FAIR's website Once Again, NYT Coverage of Anti-Trans Attacks Leaves Out Trans Voices   Olivia Riggio   The New York Times (5/28/25) gave the last word to a Trump official who framed trans participation in high school sports as "violating women…
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May 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM

'Work Requirements Have Produced the Same Results Over and Over Again':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Work Requirements Have Produced the Same Results Over and Over Again': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed independent journalist Bryce Covert about Medicaid work requirements for the May 23, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. …
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May 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM

Tom Morello on Music as Protest

All posts View article on FAIR's website Tom Morello on Music as Protest CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250530.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   Tom Morel…
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May 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM

'The HHS Report Was Put Out to Give Cover to Oppose Transgender Healthcare':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The HHS Report Was Put Out to Give Cover to Oppose Transgender Healthcare': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Erin in the Morning's Erin Reed about transgender care "questions" for the May 23, 2025, episode of CounterSpi…
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May 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM

NYT Assumed Antisemitism in DC Embassy Attack

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Assumed Antisemitism in DC Embassy Attack Ari Paul   Ken Klippenstein (Substack, 5/22/25) published a statement, ostensibly from embassy shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez, "citing the war in Gaza as its central grievance and f…
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May 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM

Israel vs. Journalism... Democracy Warnings... Trans Care 'Questions'....

Israel vs. Journalism... Democracy Warnings... Trans Care 'Questions'.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: May 23, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has…
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May 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM

An 'Objective' Press Won't Alert You to Threats to Democracy

All posts View article on FAIR's website An 'Objective' Press Won't Alert You to Threats to Democracy Jim Naureckas   Natasha Lennard (Intercept (5/20/25): "News organizations should...have long ago stopped affording the Trump administration such credulous coverage." A…
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May 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM

'I'm Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'I'm Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed UNRWA USA's Mara Kronenfeld about Israel's aid blockade for the May 16, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited tr…
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May 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care 'Questions'

All posts View article on FAIR's website Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care 'Questions' CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250523.mp3 Right-click here to download this epi…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM

NYT Publisher Decries Assault on Press, But Ignores Journalism's Worst Enemy

All posts View article on FAIR's website NYT Publisher Decries Assault on Press, But Ignores Journalism's Worst Enemy Ari Paul   New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger (5/13/25) says the press should ask itself, "Were we open-minded enough to unexpected facts?" It's a…
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May 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM

Weaponized Famine... Human Shields... Crypto Corruption....

Weaponized Famine... Human Shields... Crypto Corruption.... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: May 16, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been working …
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May 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM

How NYT Reports on Weaponized Famine So You Don't Have to Give a Damn

All posts View article on FAIR's website How NYT Reports on Weaponized Famine So You Don't Have to Give a Damn Janine Jackson   The World Health Organization (5/12/25) "calls for the protection of health care and for an immediate end to the aid blockade, which is starvi…
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May 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM

'This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Biological Diversity's Ashley Nunes about the selloff of public lands for the May 9, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This i…
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May 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM

With Friends in Media, Brazil's Coffee Workers Don't Need Enemies

All posts View article on FAIR's website With Friends in Media, Brazil's Coffee Workers Don't Need Enemies Brian Mier   It seems like an odd moment for the US media to do a hit job on Brazil's coffee industry. Protective tariffs have been used since the 1800s in the US to…
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May 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Mara Kronenfeld on Israel's Aid Blockade

All posts View article on FAIR's website Mara Kronenfeld on Israel's Aid Blockade CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250516.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode ("Save link as...").   …
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May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM

'Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump'

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump' Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen's Bartlett Naylor about Trump's crypto grift for the May 9, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited trans…
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May 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM

One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That's Usually Blamed

All posts View article on FAIR's website One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That's Usually Blamed Gregory Shupak   Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses P…
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May 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Spanish Blackout... Taibbi vs. FAIR... Trump Crypto Grift...

Spanish Blackout... Taibbi vs. FAIR... Trump Crypto Grift... Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: May 9, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been working …
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May 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM

'Black History Is American History':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Black History Is American History': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed the African American Policy Forum's Tanya Clay House about erasing history for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited trans…
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May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff

All posts View article on FAIR's website Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509.mp3 Right-click here to download this ep…
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May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM

'Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https:/…
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May 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Jumping to Blame Renewables for Iberian Outage

All posts View article on FAIR's website Jumping to Blame Renewables for Iberian Outage Ari Paul   The world doesn’t know yet what caused the dramatic power outage on the Iberian Peninsula (BBC, 4/28/25). Nevertheless, the right-wing press both in the US and Britain quick…
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May 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Taibbi Cites Government Attacks on Media to Defend Government Attacks on Media

All posts View article on FAIR's website Taibbi Cites Government Attacks on Media to Defend Government Attacks on Media Ari Paul   Ari Paul (FAIR.org, 4/25/25): "Going after public broadcasters is...part of the neo-fascist playbook authoritarian leaders around the world…
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May 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Free Speech...Healthcare Price Battles...Freedom to Learn

Free Speech...Healthcare Price Battles...Freedom to Learn Here are the stories FAIR has been working on for the past week. View this email in your browser Weekly Alert: May 2, 2025 Here are the stories FAIR has been working on …
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May 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe

All posts View article on FAIR's website Hey NPR, Free Speech Isn’t Just a Vibe Julie Hollar   Green Card–holding students are being abducted from the streets by agents of the state for attending protests and writing op-eds. News outlets are being investigated by the FCC …
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May 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Do Mob Wars Help Crime Victims?:

All posts View article on FAIR's website Do Mob Wars Help Crime Victims?: John Canham-Clyne   The Summit (Colo.) Daily (5/2/24) amplified the anxiety health consumers felt in the face of providers' and insurers' threats. This time last year, tens of thousands of people…
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May 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists

All posts View article on FAIR's website Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists CounterSpin   Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250502.mp3 Right-click here to download t…
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April 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM

'The Fact That She Had That Miscarriage Was Enough to Justify Arresting Her':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'The Fact That She Had That Miscarriage Was Enough to Justify Arresting Her': Janine Jackson   Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice's Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpi…
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April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM

'There's Never Been a More Blatant Corporate Incursion Into the Public Sector Than DOGE':

All posts View article on FAIR's website 'There's Never Been a More Blatant Corporate Incursion Into the Public Sector Than DOGE': Janine Jackson         Janine Jackson interviewed the Revolving Door Project's Jeff Hauser about DOGE's infiltration for the April 25, 2025, …
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April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM

One More Day!

One More Day! View this email in your browser   One More Day! Dear FAIR Friend, It's the last day of our April fund drive, and we need your help to push us toward our $30,000 goal. Can you help u…
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April 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar

All posts View article on FAIR's website Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar Ari Paul   Wikipedia editor Molly White told the Washington Post (4/25/25) that the Trump administration was “weaponizing laws to try to silence high-quality independent infor…