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    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 13, 2025 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted May 16, 2025)

    Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields.

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    ‘Black history is American history’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 9, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Tanya Clay House on erasing history.

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    ‘Our position on Palestine is not fringe’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 8, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK’s Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

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    Do Mob wars help crime victims?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 2, 2025 by John Canham-Clyne (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted May 06, 2025)

    Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles.

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    ‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 30, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

  •  | Feds Threaten Wikipedia | MR Online

    Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 29, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

  •  | Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon Media Still Hesitate to Blame | MR Online

    As Israel openly declares starvation as a weapon, media still hesitate to blame it for famine

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 25, 2025 by Belén Fernández (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 29, 2025)

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

  •  | Jessica González | MR Online

    ‘This is an all-out war on the First Amendment’

    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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    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 26, 2025 by Belén Fernández (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Mar 28, 2025)

    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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    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.

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    ‘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.

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

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    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.

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    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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    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

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

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