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FAIR TV September 14, 2014
After Barack Obama announces his plan to strike ISIS, we take a look at how media are marching to war. Plus Henry Kissinger faces an all-too-rare critical interviewer, while Fox News issues a...
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CBS: ‘We Have No Choice’ but to Attack ISIS ‘Before We All Get Killed’
If there’s one thing that animates the discussion of Obama’s war plan against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), it is the idea that the group could attack the United States. There is no evidence of such...
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ABC: ISIS Possibly Scarier Than Al-Qaeda–Due to Social Media
There’s no doubt that US public opinion has shifted towards favoring military strikes against Islamic State fighters. A key element is the idea that the country could be attacked by the group. Where...
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The PBS Left: ‘Airstrikes Are Wonderful’
Every week, the PBS NewsHour gives viewers its version of a left/right debate segment. On the right is well-known conservative pundit David Brooks. On the left is Mark Shields, who is not especially...
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FAIR TV: ISIS & the ‘Homeland,’ Pro-War Pundits and ‘Don’t Blame Fracking’
This week: Watch ABC drum up fears about a terror attack on the United States. Plus we’ll take a look at the state of the debate over war, and how big papers spun a study of how fracking leads to...
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What Chuck Todd Talks About Instead of Talking About Climate
Chuck Todd explains his theory about Chick-fil-A and Starbucks instead of talking about climate change. Not talking about the largest climate march in history (Action Alert, 9/22/14) left Chuck Todd...
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Reluctant Warrior Bombs Yet Another Country
The trope of Obama as “reluctant warrior” has crossed the Atlantic–where it is greeted with a little more cynicism (Peter Brookes, London Times) If there’s one thing elite media seem to know for sure,...
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FAIR TV: Climate Blackout, Bombing Syria & Human Rights Rhetoric
This week on FAIR TV: The People’s Climate March wasn’t fit for TV news, Obama is a “reluctant warrior,” and the US has a “longtime concern” for human rights in Egypt.
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TV Generals and Precision Bombs: Corporate Media Go to War
Want to know what corporate media look like when they’re reporting for duty? On the most recent CBS‘s Face the Nation (9/28/14), host Bob Schieffer previewed the guests who would be appearing on the...
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Fox Pundit: Civilians Die–Get Over It!
Ralph Peters talks to Sean Hannity: “This is war, dude!” A familiar critique of corporate media is that journalists too often avoid discussing one grim reality of US wars: the innocent civilians who...
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FAIR TV: Media in War Mode, Calling for Civilian Deaths and PBS Hits Harper’s
On this week’s show: The ways corporate media cover war, a Fox News pundit wants to see more civilian deaths in Syria, and PBS uses its ad dollars to punish a magazine. All of that on this week’s show:
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Today I was pleased to visit Democracy Now! to talk about FAIR’s new study documenting the lack of debate over the wars in Iraq and Syria. Watch the interview here:
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War Works–So Why Isn’t It Working?
Why doesn’t blowing things up solve more problems? (photo: USMC/James J. Vooris) On November 16, ABC World News anchor CeciliaVega asked this question: Martha, these numbers they are absolutely...
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PBS to Treasury Official: ‘Why Can’t You Just Bomb Them?’
PBS NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner (11/18/14) had on the US Treasury official, David Cohen, who’s in charge of trying to counter ISIS by cutting off its finances. But it seems like it’s hard...
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Attack on Israeli Soldiers ‘Most Serious Flare-Up in Years’–if Arab Deaths...
The New York Times caption referred to the strike against Israeli soldiers as occurring “on the Israeli border with Lebanon.” The soldiers were actually in Israeli-occupied Syrian territory when they...
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Chris Matthews Calls for ‘Rambo Kind of Stuff’ as Response to Real-World...
Chris Matthews thinks this fictional character might be the key to dealing with the ISIS movement. MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews doesn’t know how to solve the ISIS problem. But he knows who does–and he’s a...
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Top 10 Bogus ISIS Stories
ISIS’s violent bona fides are not in doubt to anyone paying attention. They’ve targeted religious minorities, beheaded aid workers, sold women into sex slavery and have been all-around devastating for...
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US Backing for ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels: Long Reported, Continually Forgotten
New York Times map (3/24/13) of arms flowing to Syrian rebels “with help from the CIA.” (graphic: Sergio Pecanha/NYT) That the US is arming and training Syrian rebels has been well-documented for over...
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Forgiving Al-Qaeda in Pursuit of a New Enemy
Osama bin Laden with current Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri, back in 2001: Foreign Policy suggests it’s time to forgive and forget. The New York Times had a story (3/14/15) about CIA money ending up...
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Media Inflate Threat With ‘ISIS Plots’ That Don’t Actually Involve ISIS
Actually, the suspects were accused of conspiring to support ISIS–a significantly different legal charge. Last Friday, the FBI announced another harrowing, 11th-hour capture of Americans plotting to...
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