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Media Rally Around ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan
U.S. negotiations with the Taliban have been gaining steam. Media and the foreign policy establishment are very worried about this. For FAIR, I argue that they shouldn’t be.
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‘Shock and Awe’ Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right
I reviewed Shock and Awe, Rob Reiner’s new film about the journalists who challenged the Bush administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Read my piece in FAIR.
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For WaPo, ‘What Next in Africa?’ Doesn’t Include US Getting Out
Read this piece in Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR).
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At RNC, Media Put a Happy Face on Suppression of Speech
Originally published at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. News media could either be our ally or our enemy—we wanted them as an ally,” Laurie Pritchett said in a 1985 interview about his strategy as police chief in Albany, Georgia, during Martin Luther King, Jr.’s desegregation efforts in 1962. Pritchett famously ordered his officers to enforce…
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What Gets Asked at Debates–and Who Gets Asked It?: A FAIR study of presidential primary debate questions
Originally published at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. Reposted at Common Dreams. It’s not 2016 yet, but the 2016 presidential election cycle has already seen two Democratic primary debates, four Republican primary debates and four Republican “undercard” debates (for the GOP candidates who weren’t considered ready for primetime). A fifth pair of Republican debates will…
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Pundits Thought Clinton Beat Sanders – But Did Viewers?
Originally published at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Reposted at Common Dreams. A New York Times article (10/14/15) by Alan Rappeport about who won last night’s Democratic presidential debate reported today that “Hillary Rodham Clinton was the clear victor, according to the opinion shapers in the political world (even conservative commentators).” The Times quoted National…
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Marginalizing the Momentum of the BDS Movement
Originally published at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Reposted by In These Times. Despite increasingly frequent victories for the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement confronting the state of Israel, and the heightened panic expressed by its critics, the New York Times virtually ignores the movement’s momentum. When attention is paid to BDS, coverage doesn’t focus on…
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Iran’s ‘Nuclear Ambitions’ Go Unquestioned in Coverage of Iran Deal Momentum
Originally published at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Reposted at Common Dreams. As Democratic senators declared their support for the deal struck between Iran and six world powers–an agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action–corporate media coverage of this momentum is leaving out at least one crucial detail: the lack of evidence that…
Gunar Olsen 