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    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 10, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

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    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 31, 2025 by Julianne Tveten (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 03, 2025)

    In a move that threatens to constrain online communication, congressional Democrats are partnering with their Republican counterparts to repeal a niche but crucial internet law.

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    The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24.

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    ‘A small group of people wanted to do away with Social Security from the beginning’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 25, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks.

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    In return to ‘war on terror’ propaganda, Murdoch cheers suppression of protest

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 19, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

  •  | Illustration of cultural Marxism from a neo Nazi website | MR Online

    ‘Cultural Marxism’: The mainstreaming of a Nazi trope

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 4, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked “cultural Marxism” as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer—the fringe.

  •  | Owned Hachette 2025 | MR Online

    Did Left journalists buy into Right-wing ideology–or were they bought?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 13, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.

  •  | No Other Land | MR Online

    Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 15, 2025)

    When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.

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    U.S. media’s sorry history of abetting immigration panics

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 12, 2025 by Wilson Korik (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 14, 2025)

    Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.

  •  | Demonstration in London in support of a free Palestine Creative Commons photo Kyle Taylor | MR Online

    Trump’s protest threat reflects belief that free speech belongs to some

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 4, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    You have to understand this notion of freedom—that to be free, you have to make someone else less free—to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of “free speech.”

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    To cozy up to Trump, Bezos banishes dissent from WaPo

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 28, 2025 by Pete Tucker (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 04, 2025)

    “When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”

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    NYT advises Trump to kill more Venezuelans

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 12, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Donald Trump is back in the White House, and faux opposition is once again the order of the day for the Western media and the Democratic Party.

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    With zero evidence, NPR suggests Trump may ‘work for working class’ in second term

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 1, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    “Can Trump’s Second Act Work for the Working Class While Giving Back to His Super Donors?” asks NPR.com

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    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 22, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    As the Washington Post faces a staff rebellion and plummeting subscription rates, billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has introduced a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

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    Game-changing fires destroyed Paradise, California, in 2023, and Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2024—clear warnings, if any were still needed, that the climate catastrophe had arrived.

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    Twenty years ago this month, on December 10, 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stretch of depression.

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    The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

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