Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
GRITtv: Janine Jackson and Zach Carter: Monitoring Money Media
When you hear about a $5 billion election year, you probably wonder where that money is going. A good chunk of it, of course, goes into advertising--lots of money for the money media. But is that shaping coverage? And what about the supposedly non-money-media: NPR and PBS? A new study out from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Taking the Public Out of Public TV, found that PBS's guests and hosts differ very little from those in the corporate media.Janine Jackson of FAIR and Zach Carter of the Media Consortium join Laura to discuss the media in the countdown to Election 2010: the good, the bad, and Juan Williams.
Email this pageGRITtv: Oct. 26, 2010
“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. ; Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.Papantonio checks in with Laura via Skype to discuss the elections, Florida's generation gap and its effect on Tea Party support, and of course, BP, the Gulf, and claims that the oil is gone.Kate Clinton's trying to figure out just why LGBT Americans might be a little depressed this election season. Could it be Sharron Angle? Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Marriage equality? She tracks our country's up-and-down movement on her "It Gets Better" index, and reminds everyone to get out and vote on November 2nd.When you hear about a $5 billion election year, you probably wonder where that money is going.
GRITtv: June 3 2010
Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again. Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil that is coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico. For a look at this week's media mistakes, we turn to Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
While the world focused on the Freedom Flotilla and the BP oil still pouring into the Gulf, activists from around the U.S. converged in Arizona to protest the state's recent anti-immigrant legislation this past weekend. Recent GRITtv guest Marco Amador was there and sent us this report.
Health care reform made it through Congress and was signed by the President, and promptly disappeared from headlines aside from occasional Republican attempts or vows to repeal it. But the system is far from fixed, and hospital closings, budget cuts and understaffings contribute just as much to our nation's health care crisis. What can we do about it? To discuss the ongoing crunch on the medical profession, the problem with funding and the falling tax base, we asked Arthur Cheliotes of the Communications Workers of America union and Dr. Greg Dodell of the Committee of Interns and Residents and a resident physician at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
A picture's worth a thousand words, but what those words are depends a whole lot in America.
GRITtv: Jim Naureckas: Trusting the Wrong Sources
Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again. Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil, coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico. For a look at this week's media mistakes, we turn to Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: The Media as Establishment
Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean's defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination and a bill passing the house to audit the Federal Reserve. Is the Establishment closing ranks around its own? John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation and co-author of the upcoming The Death and Life of American Journalism, thinks so. Karen Fragala Smith of Newsweek and Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting also join us to discuss this week in news.
GRITtv: Dec. 17, 2009
Today in the news: Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones magazine reports from Copenhagen Thursday on the state of the climate talks; Rory O'Connor's documentary on the Durban II conference; Mark Danner on his new book; Mohammed Rezwan on his organization, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, the F Word and more.
Democracy Now!: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009
In the news today: Hondurans divided after coup backer wins presidential election boycotted by Zelaya supporters; from the Canary Islands, in the third week of hunger strike, ailing deported Western Saharan human-rights activist Animatou Haidar demands Moroccan authorities allow her to return to occupied homeland; a new study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting reveals pro-Afghan war voices outnumbered anti-war ones by a huge margin in the OpEd pages of the nation’s two leading newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
