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Climate Coverage Plunges, Though Crisis More Dire Than Ever

April 15, 2026 Olivia Riggio, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
The UN just released its 2025 Global Climate Report, and, predictably, the outlook for our earth is incredibly dire. The past 11 years were the 11 warmest on record, and Earth’s energy imbalance—the amount of solar energy absorbed versus the amount Earth radiates back into space—is also the highest on record. Greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase through 2025, despite the world crossing the 1.5°C threshold marked in the Paris Agreement above which the worst effects of global heating will take place. There is no shortage of urgent climate news right now.

Senior BBC Iran Reporter Exposed As Opposition Activist

April 10, 2026 Wyatt Reed, The Grayzone. , , , ,
On April 6, 2026, horrified social media users began drawing attention to an extraordinary statement allegedly provided to the BBC by a twenty-something Iranian: “About them hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or leveling Iran – my honest reaction is that I’m okay with all of these.” Three hours later, as the uproar grew, the quote suddenly vanished from the BBC’s article. It had been replaced by a far less controversial criticism of the Iranian government. The episode raises serious questions about the BBC’s editorial process, as well as the background and motivations of the author responsible for the article.

Trouble For Nexstar Merger That Would Create Mega-Network For MAGA

April 4, 2026 Pete Tucker, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
It’s not exactly breaking news that President Donald Trump endlessly attacks the media, or that his administration lapdogs quickly echo his gripes. But there’s one official who has stood apart, and he’s done so by not only mimicking Trump, but by remaking the US media in his boss’s image, most recently by rushing through local TV broadcast giant Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna. “Unlike his predecessors, Carr isn’t just another corporate lawyer,” Rolling Stone’s Matt Bai (3/17/26) wrote about Brendan Carr, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chair: He is a cultural claims adjuster, a pasty-faced, soft-spoken agent of Trump’s retribution. If you were going to single out the most dangerous functionary in Trump’s little circle of Hell, you’d have plenty of candidates…. But don’t sleep on Brendan Carr. His legacy of awfulness may yet prove more durable.

Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee

March 23, 2026 Andrew P. Napolitano, Consortium News. , , ,
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission has threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the same reasons. This followed by one day a verbal attack on CNN by the secretary of defense who made known his bitter unhappiness with CNN’s coverage of the Iran war. Yet, CNN is not regulated by the FCC, which only regulates broadcast media — not cable or streaming; and newspapers, thanks be to God, are totally unregulated.

How Will Corporate Lobbyists Fix Healthcare?

March 22, 2026 John Canham-Clyne, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
Corporate media political reporting has always been a clubby endeavor, but a recent reporting experience suggests that the insider culture in Washington, DC, is more insular than ever. It’s often a challenge for independent media to get responses from Washington insider sources—especially on stories critical of powerful actors—but it’s become increasingly difficult even to pose the questions to those sources. Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions, as if the source is handing the truth down from on high.

Leading US Papers Defend The Indefensible In Iran Aggression

March 20, 2026 Gregory Shupak, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
The United States and Israel are, for the second time in less than a year, committing “the supreme international crime” against Iran (FAIR.org, 7/3/25). Editorials in three of the United States’ most prominent newspapers, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, offered varying degrees of support for the aggression. The Times waffled about bombing Iran, the Journal enthusiastically supported it, and the Post had fewer concerns about the war than the Times but more than the Journal. Crucially, however, all three papers rationalized the US/Israeli assault.

Another War We’re Not Supposed To See

March 11, 2026 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. , , , , ,
I know for a fact that The New York Times has a multitude of correspondents on the ground in West Asia — the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, etc. It goes without saying the Times is thick on the ground in Israel: Between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem I count more than a dozen correspondents and reporters who have been hired locally.    This is a lot of expensive people to field. What in hell are they all doing now that a world-altering war rages around them? My short answer: assiduously not covering it. And the Times is emblematic, as it so often is, of the rest of mainstream media.

Iran Beyond The War Narrative: What Foreign Correspondents Actually See

March 10, 2026 Dr. Hana Saada, People's World. , , ,
In times of war, reality is often the first casualty—not only on the battlefield but in the narratives that travel across the global information system. As tensions surrounding Iran escalate, much of the international coverage has portrayed the country as teetering on the edge of internal panic and social breakdown. Yet recent reporting from foreign correspondents on the ground tells a far more complex story—one that challenges the dramatic narratives dominating headlines and raises uncomfortable questions about how wartime realities are framed for global audiences.

Corporate Media Go All Out To Support The US-Israeli War On Iran

March 7, 2026 Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. , , ,
Corporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to manufacture consent for regime change. On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, bombing cities across the country, assassinating its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and openly stating their goal was overthrowing the government. Despite this, media have gone out of their way to present the actions as the U.S. protecting itself, describing them as “defensive strikes,” and to frame Iran as the aggressor.

Three Massive Funds Control A Chunk Of Most Media

March 7, 2026 Saurav Sarkar, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
Recently, FAIR (2/3/26) took a look at the owners of the biggest online media outlets. It focused on the controlling owners of those outlets, which are mostly publicly traded corporations. But a lot of the money—about $2 trillion dollars—invested in the top 50 online media outlets in the US is not the controlling owners’. Rather, it is possessed by minority institutional investors that manage assets for others. Take BlackRock, Inc., for instance. Innovation & Tech Today (7/8/22) called it “the biggest company you’ve probably never heard of.”

The US Media Goes To War On Iran

March 3, 2026 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , ,
Since the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began, the mainstream media has featured an barrage of voices openly cheering on the war. Chief among them is Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American pundit who has spent years calling for the Iranian government to be toppled. She’s been all over cable news, celebrating the attacks. On CBS, she called on Trump to “finish the job” in Iran and attacked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for opposing the strikes “This is a Berlin Wall moment. Let’s tear this wall down,” Alinejad told CNN’s Dana Bash.

To Whom Are Our Liars Lying; What Is The Point Of Their Lies?

February 25, 2026 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. , , , , ,
To make the case that those who purport to lead the Western post-democracies lie routinely about what they are doing and why they are doing it will not help you win friends and influence people. That they are incessantly deceitful has been too obvious to too many people for too long. Never forget your Dale Carnegie and the imperative always to say something interesting. Lately something interesting in this line has occurred to me. It came to me last autumn — on Oct. 25 to be precise. I was reading The New York Post, as one must to keep one’s head clear in our complicated world, and came upon an opinion piece headlined “Vlad’s war of words.”

A Worker-Led Alternative To Billionaire-Owned News In DC

February 25, 2026 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. , , ,
The Washington Post’s decision — at the behest of billionaire Jeff Bezos — to fire, according to some estimates, over 40 percent of the newsroom is devastating for journalism and the DC area. Despite its storied history and name recognition, the Post had been struggling when the billionaire Amazon founder purchased the outlet for $250 million in 2013. It might be laughable in hindsight, but it’s not surprising that pundits and even workers in the newsroom viewed Bezos as a “savior” at the time.  And for some years the situation worked well — during the first Trump administration, the Post recorded record revenues.

Media Focus On Epstein’s Powerful Friends Erases Their Victims

February 25, 2026 Raina Lipsitz, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
Much has been written about sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, whose numerous social and business ties to members of the global elite are still being untangled. Epstein appears to have died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges; his longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted on five counts of helping Epstein abuse girls below the age of consent. According to the US Justice Department, Epstein sexually abused more than 1,200 women and girls. According to court and police records and reports, he lured minor girls to his Palm Beach mansion for nude massages, oral sex and intercourse.

The Propaganda Assault: A Tale Of Two Venezuela(n)s

February 21, 2026 Yader Lanuza, Popular Resistance. , , , , ,
After the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3rd, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of their birth country. On the other hand, inside Venezuela, for weeks after the illegal abduction, citizens engaged in (almost) daily and massive demonstrations to condemn the attack that killed and wounded over 100 people.
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