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About Jim Naureckas

Jim Naureckas is the editor of FAIR.org, the website of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Since 1990, he has edited Extra!, FAIR’s print publication, now a monthly newsletter. He is the co-author of Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error, and co-editor of The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s. Naureckas was born in Libertyville, Illinois, in 1964, and graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He has worked as an investigative reporter for the newspaper In These Times, where he covered the Iran/Contra scandal, and was managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere, a newsletter on Latin America. Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR’s program director. You can follow him on Twitter at @JNaureckas.
  • ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in Denial on Japanese Persecution in World War II

    ACTION ALERT: NYT Book Review in denial on Japanese persecution in World War II

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 16, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Times should issue an immediate correction and apology.

  • NYT Scolds China for Not ‘Learning to Live’—or Die—With Covid

    NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid

    Originally published: NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid on September 9, 2022 (more by NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid)

    Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.

  • Wuhan Exhibit

    NYT’s China syndrome

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 29, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Imagine a parallel world where the U.S. brought Covid under control in two months, while China still struggled with it, a year and hundreds of thousands of deaths later.

  • Chart: 91-DIVOC (5/1/20)

    It’s crucial to distinguish between can’t and won’t—with a million lives at stake

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 1, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CNN should note that accepting a 60–70% infection rate means accepting a million deaths or more, assuming a fatality rate of 0.5%—which may be a conservative estimate.

  • The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation

    The big loser in the Iowa debate? CNN’s reputation

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 15, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The biggest loser from last night’s Democratic debate (1/14/20) was CNN’s journalistic credibility.

  • New York Times depiction (7/24/19) of Bernie Sanders at a student debt rally with indebted former student Pamela Hunt. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

    The NYT’s six percent solution for student debt

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 25, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Why are Democratic candidates going on about student loan debt? Why, the problem is practically solved already!

  • Maffick’s Anissa Naouai and Rania Khalek respond to Facebook censorship (Soapbox, 2/27/19)

    Facebook wants you to know if you’re getting your news from the wrong government

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 1, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    NPR’s Facebook page seems to go out of its way to conceal the fact that it’s U.S. government–supported, calling itself “a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization.” Maybe the P stands for “Private”?

  • William Blum (cc photo- Debra Sweet)

    William Blum, U.S. Policy critic derided by NYT, dies at 85

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 13, 2018 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    You know you’ve lived well—well enough to rattle the establishment—when the New York Times smears you in the obituary it runs about you (FAIR.org, 6/20/13).

  • Climate change made Florence a monster—but media failed to tell that story

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 20, 2018 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    That Hurricane Florence broke rainfall records for tropical storms in both North and South Carolina shouldn’t be surprising, as global climate change has increased extreme precipitation in all areas of the continental United States.

  • NYT Sees ‘Dystopia’ in Chinese Surveillance—Which Looks a Lot Like US Surveillance

    NYT sees ‘dystopia’ in Chinese surveillance—which looks a lot like U.S. surveillance

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 10, 2018 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    There’s a category of story we call “Them Not Us”—U.S. media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.

  • The surprising popularity of ‘far Left’ policies

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 18. 2018 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    “The Far Left Is Winning the Democratic Civil War” was the headline over a Washington Post report (5/16/18) on the results of recent primary elections.

  • Mural Post Office Benton Arkansas

    What’s a non-racist way to appeal to working-class whites? NYT‘s Edsall can’t think of any

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 30, 2018 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The 2016 presidential exit polls “substantially underestimated the number of Democratic white working-class voters…and overestimated the white college-educated Democratic electorate,” New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall (3/29/18) writes.

  • NYT’s obit for Ed Herman requires a correction

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 25, 2017 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The New York Times‘ obituary (11/21/17) for pioneering media critic Edward Herman was not entirely unsympathetic; it ended, after all, with a quote from FAIR founder Jeff Cohen’s remembrance of Ed (FAIR.org, 11/14/17).

  • No, U.S. didn’t ‘stand by’ Indonesian genocide – it actively participated

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 18, 2017 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    “Standing by,” however, is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times.

  • When you reject class-based politics

    When you reject class-based politics

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 23, 2017 by Jim Naureckas (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    If you reject from the outset the idea of uniting a majority based on shared economic interests, then pretty much all you’ve got left is the “thoughtful and humane co-optation” of racism and xenophobia.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

Lost & Found

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    The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social problems by militaristic interventions, on any scale, are obvious enough. If, however, we look more closely at the historical trend of militaristic adventures, it becomes frighteningly clear that they show an ever greater intensification and an ever-increasing scale, from local confrontations to […]

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