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It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on. The post Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon appeared first on FAIR.

It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating, The post Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall appeared first on FAIR.

There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines. The post Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid appeared first on FAIR.

While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there. The post Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign behind him declaring “life is […] The post Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Pat Elder on Junior ROTC appeared first on FAIR.

The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people. The post Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’ appeared first on FAIR.

Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather as a partisan football. The post Julie Hollar on Roe Reversal, Tesnim Zekeria on Baby Formula Shortage appeared first on FAIR.

A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it. The post Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News appeared first on FAIR.

"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time. The post Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing appeared first on FAIR.

Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on this week's show. The post Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy appeared first on FAIR.

The Philadelphia Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" project is aimed at examining racism in US institutions, including media institutions. The post Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’ appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. He hated the violence, and was furious Nancy Pelosi wasn’t putting a stop to it. He doesn’t remember getting many phone calls, and he didn’t destroy any […] The post Marjorie Cohn on Prosecuting Trump, Mike Liszewski on Marijuana Justice appeared first on FAIR.

Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election an "obvious fraud"? The post Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism appeared first on FAIR.

It's a good time to recall that we had a war in this country in which many people declared that they cared more about white supremacy. The post Carol Anderson on History, Race and Democracy appeared first on FAIR.

Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It's a country of human beings in crisis. The post Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, David Arkush on Fed Climate Veto appeared first on FAIR.

Economic pressure is presented as a way of avoiding violence. But there's a problem with seeing sanctions as an alternative to war. The post Khury Petersen-Smith on Economic Sanctions, Greg LeRoy on Amazon Subsidies appeared first on FAIR.

Is what we call "higher" education an individual investment or a public good? The way news media talk about it could be decisive. The post Braxton Brewington on Student Loan Debt, Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights appeared first on FAIR.

  This week on CounterSpin: Black History Month has always been something of a double-edged sword: It implies that Black history is somehow not “history,” that it has to be shoehorned in, “artificially,” to garner any value, with the corollary implication that if you choose to ignore it, you aren’t missing anything crucial. The idea […] The post Joseph Torres on Tulsa Massacre appeared first on FAIR.

Understanding the Ukraine crisis involves letting go of the storyline in which the US equals benevolent democracy and Russia equals craven imperialism. The post Bryce Greene on Ukraine appeared first on FAIR.

Why has the system broken down? You could say media's reluctance to critically break down systems is itself a system problem. The post Rakeen Mabud on Supply Chain Breakdown appeared first on FAIR.