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About Julie Hollar

Julie Hollar is senior analyst for FAIR's Election Focus 2020 project. She was Extra!'s managing editor from 2008 to 2014.
  • 60 Minutes’ Weight-Loss Tip

    60 Minutes’ weight-loss tip: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

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

    People in the United States have grown accustomed to endless pharmaceutical ads when watching TV. The industry is the fourth-biggest spender on TV advertising in the country—one of only two in the world (along with New Zealand) that allows such direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.

  • Collage of mass shooters compiled by JSTOR Daily (10/21/15).

    Mass shooters’ most common trait—their gender—gets little press attention

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 30, 2022 by Olivia Riggio (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    There were a few things the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shooters who killed a combined 31 people had in common: Both used AR-15-style rifles bought legally. Both were just 18 years old. But perhaps most overlooked in the corporate press as a shared characteristic worthy of commentary: They were both male.

  • During the invasions of their countries, US TV news was much more likely to talk to civilians from Ukraine (left, ABC, 2/26/22) than from Iraq (right, CBS, 3/19/13).

    How much less newsworthy are civilians in other conflicts?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 18, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    A lot less, particularly when they’re victims of the U.S.

  • Austin Ahlman (Intercept, 2/11/22): “The decision puts Biden on track to cause more death and destruction in Afghanistan than was caused by the 20 years of war that he ended.”

    Biden’s multi-Billion Afghan theft gets scant mention on TV News

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 15, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Two months ago (FAIR.org, 12/21/21), I noted the striking contrast between vocal media outrage—ostensibly grounded in concern for Afghan people—over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and the relative silence over the growing humanitarian crisis in that country, which threatens millions with life-threatening levels of famine.

  • The Wall Street Journal (7/7/21) takes aim at critical race theory, which it describes as “a neo-Marxist ideology that…teaches that a person is defined above all else by race, gender and sexual orientation.”

    The two big lies of WSJ’s attack on critical race theory

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 23, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Wall Street Journal editorial board (7/7/21) recently condemned teachers’ support for anti-racist curricula and professional development.

  • Photo of Black Lives Matter protesters that accompanied a New York Times op-ed (5/22/21) on support for the movement in polls.

    Why do White Republicans oppose Black Lives Matter?

    Julie Hollar

    Look what they’re watching.

  • In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights

    In media framing, trans kids are problems to be solved—not people with rights

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 6, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    As states continue to pass laws that dehumanize and endanger transgender kids, the country’s most influential newspapers have not met the challenge of covering the issue.

  • When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left

    When Centrists lose, corporate media blame the left

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 10, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist.

  • New York State Tries to Suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo Shrug

    New York State tries to suspend Democracy; NYT and WaPo shrug

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 8, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Blaming health risks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York State Board of Elections announced last week that the state would simply cancel its Democratic presidential primary, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden to be proclaimed the victor without a vote. The response from the country’s two most prominent newspapers? Meh.

  • Pro-Biden super PAC American Bridge presents China lying about the coronavirus as something that “everyone knows.”

    Media fail to identify xenophobia as Biden says Trump ‘rolled over for Chinese’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 21, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Rather than respond by focusing blame for the crisis squarely where it belongs—on Trump’s incompetent, reckless and self-centered management—and working to beat back the dangerously rising anti-Asian sentiment in this country, Biden and some of his supporting super PACs are choosing to adopt rather than challenge the anti-China premise of the attacks.

  • Coronavirus-Ballots

    Can the U.S. pull off a November Election? Journalists play a critical role

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 23, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    It might be easy to forget, given the crisis enveloping the world at the moment, that the United States is scheduled to hold a very important election in November.

  • Visual comparisons of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump from ABC News, Fortune, ABC News, CNN, Deadline, New York Times, The Wrap, CNN and Washington Post (left to right, top to bottom)

    Corporate media equate Sanders to Trump—because for them, Sanders is the bigger threat

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 24, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    As Bernie Sanders emerged as a threat to Hillary Clinton’s presidential nomination in 2016, media began liberally tossing around articles equating Sanders and Donald Trump (FAIR.org, 4/15/16, 12/9/16).

  • 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.

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

  • Militarism and the Coming Wars
    István Mészáros What Did You Learn from Iraq?

    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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