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# FAIR

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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

BY Jim Naureckas

Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

October 3, 2025

Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power

BY CounterSpin

Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power

October 3, 2025

NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin

BY Wilson Korik

NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin

October 2, 2025

‘Media Need to Report on the Real Cost of Data Centers’: CounterSpin interview with Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on data center opposition

BY Janine Jackson

‘Media Need to Report on the Real Cost of Data Centers’:
CounterSpin interview with Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on data center opposition

October 2, 2025

When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

BY Shirlynn Chan

When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

October 1, 2025

#### Posts

October 3, 2025

## Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal

Jim Naureckas

After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.

October 3, 2025

## Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power

CounterSpin

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 conviction exposed flagrant flaws in corporate media’s storytelling around crime and punishment and race and power.

October 2, 2025

## NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin

Wilson Korik

Summer School sidelines critical perspectives to teach its audience that privatization, austerity and deregulation are pivotal to freedom and prosperity.

October 2, 2025

## ‘Media Need to Report on the Real Cost of Data Centers’: CounterSpin interview with Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on data center opposition

Janine Jackson

“This is because of community pushback, communities that are saying, this is not worth the environmental threat that these data centers pose.”

October 1, 2025

## When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

Shirlynn Chan

Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

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FAIR’s 4-page, ad-free, newsletter publishes ten times a year bringing you the media analysis and activism that you won’t find anywhere else. Choose a print subscription, a digital PDF edition, or both together.

Read all about it!

CounterSpin, the weekly radio show of FAIR, provides a critical exposé of the corporate news. Produced and hosted by Janine Jackson it is heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations. The current show, back archives and transcripts are available online.

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#### FAIR Studies

October 1, 2025

## When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters

Shirlynn Chan

Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

August 22, 2025

## Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists

Emma Lucia Llano

Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.

July 29, 2025

## Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation

Julie Hollar

Gaza’s conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.

July 25, 2025

## America’s Opinion Pages Overwhelmingly Supported Trump’s Attack on Iran

Bryce Greene and Emma Lucia Llano

56% of Americans opposed Trump’s bombing. Why wasn’t this reflected in the range of opinions presented by America’s top press outlets?

July 14, 2025

## NYT Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues

Wilson Korik

Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.

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#### From the Archive

January 1, 2005

## The Fairness Doctrine

Steve Rendall

May 1, 2010

## Journalists ♥ Tea Party

Peter Hart

April 1, 2014

## The War on Poor Women of Color

Rania Khalek

August 1, 2013

## The Snowden Psychiatric Smear

Emily Masters

July 1, 1992

## For Media Decision-Makers, Urban Problems are Old News

Barbara Reynolds

#### What’s FAIR

FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.

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