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About Ari Paul

Ari Paul has reported for the Nation, the Guardian, the Forward, the Brooklyn Rail, Vice News, In These Times, Jacobin and many other outlets.
  • A collage of headlines on trans issues from the New York Times.

    NYT trans letter a fight for media democracy

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 17, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    In a letter to New York Times leadership (2/15/23), more than 180 of the paper’s contributors (later swelling to more than 1,000) raised “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non⁠-⁠binary and gender nonconforming people.”

  • Spoiler alert: The New Yorker (12/28/22) thinks people who are still trying not to get Covid are stupid.

    New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 10, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.

  • NBC News (12/30/22), citing GLAAD, reported that some anti-drag protests “had been organized by white nationalist groups, including the Proud Boys, who, in some cases, have shown up to Drag Story Hour events armed.”

    The right turns anti-LGBTQ hate up to 11

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 6, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    In the past few years, the right-wing media have become laser-focused on transgender issues, not always attacking trans people individually, but instead claiming that children are being “groomed” to adopt “radical gender ideology,” and that rights for the trans community are infringing on the rights of children, women and Christians.

  • Detail from an NPR graphic (5/3/22) of Supreme Court justices who supported a draft opinion that would overturn Roe.

    ‘Liberal’ newspapers liked the Justices who will kill Roe

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 16, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could destroy Roe v. Wade (Politico, 5/2/22) reportedly has the support of three justices appointed by Donald Trump. That’s important for a number of reasons.

  • Politico (2/1/22) framed its article around attacks on Amnesty International, quoting charges that it was “just another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination,” and “likely motivated by antisemitism.”

    The news is not that Israel has apartheid, but that Amnesty dares say so

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 3, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture?

  • New York Post (12/16/21): George Soros ” funnels cash through a complicated web.”

    Reformist DAs spark Murdoch empire freakout

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 14, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who took office January 1, wasted no time getting in the headlines, telling his prosecutors (New York Times, 1/6/22) that they should seek “jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses—including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money.”

  • David Brooks (New York Times, 5/13/21) on “woke” language: “Performing the discourse by canceling and shaming becomes a way of establishing your status and power as an enlightened person.”

    Media’s anti-‘woke’ mania moves social justice to the fringe

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    “Woke” is the label the aggrieved conservative suburbanite puts on the indignity of having to call their Starbucks barista “they” and finding Ibram X. Kendi on their child’s school reading list.

  • Jerusalem Post depiction (6/30/21) of Axel Springer CEO Matthias Döpfner.

    Politico’s Staff must toe new owner’s line—including endorsing Israel

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 5, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    It’s been a rough time for German media giant Axel Springer. The company ousted the top editor at Bild, one of its most influential right-wing newspapers, over sexual harassment charges (New York Times, 10/18/21).

  • ProPublica‘s report (6/8/21)

    Outrage at ProPublica tax leaks underscores their importance

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The report doesn’t show illegal activity; that’s what makes it so damning.

  • WSJ Rage at ‘Woke’ China Foreshadows New Redbaiting of Social Justice Activists

    WSJ rage at ‘woke’ China foreshadows new redbaiting of social justice activists

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Wall Street Journal editorial board has accused a major Chinese newspaper, and by extension the People’s Republic of China, of exploiting progressive rhetoric around racial justice to create division in the United States.

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