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Janine Jackson
Janine Jackson is FAIR's program director and and producer/co-host of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR's magazine, Extra! and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press).
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Views Saturday, June 17, 2017 Every Person You See on Air, Someone Chose to Put Them There Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is best known to some for her harassment claims against her former boss, Roger Ailes . But NBC hired her to host a primetime news program, presumably based on her journalistic record at Fox —which included questioning whether education, marriage and employment are... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 28, 2017 Five Years Later, US Admits Lies About Deadly Honduran Shooting A Justice and State Department review reveals that top Drug Enforcement Administration officials lied repeatedly to Justice and to Congress about deadly shootings in Honduras in May 2012—including an incident off the Mosquito Coast in which a boat was fired on, killing four passengers, among them a... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 26, 2017 Elite Media Need to Recognize Assaults on Reporters as a Pattern–and a Threat It is heartening at least that Montana newspapers withdrew their endorsements of Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte—who won a special election in the state on Thursday—after he grabbed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by the neck for trying to ask him a question, slammed him to the floor... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 20, 2017 Chelsea Manning Is Free–but Whistleblowers Still Face Prison Human Rights Watch is glad that Chelsea Manning is free. A statement from the group’s General Counsel’s office notes that Manning’s “absurdly disproportionate” 35-year sentence for passing classified documents to Wikileaks in 2010, commuted by Barack Obama on his last day in office, was prosecuted... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 12, 2017 Big Media Need to Fight for the Right to Protest West Virginia state police arrested Dan Heyman, a veteran reporter with Public News Service , for repeatedly asking Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price whether being a target of domestic violence would be considered a “pre-existing condition,” allowing health insurance to be denied, under... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 11, 2017 In Women’s Strike, Media Miss a Moment to Look in Mirror March 8 was International Women’s Day, this year marked by a Women’s Strike—a coordinated day of action, not limited to work stoppage, that organizers said was intended to highlight how women’s work, contributions, and humanity continue to be undervalued. With an avowed misogynist in the White... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 18, 2017 Scrutiny for Supreme Court Pick Fails to Focus on Rights of Disabled Since Donald Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court, media have coalesced around a few themes: One is about whether any Trump appointment should be blocked as payback to Republicans, as expressed in a New York Times headline ( 2/13/17 ): “Democrats’ Quandary on Gorsuch:... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 07, 2017 Signs Look Grim for Media Picking the Side of Liberty and Dissent This is a kind of “which side are you on?” moment for journalists. Will they defend the rights and liberties of the many communities under threat—Muslims, women, those reliant on government assistance? Will they keep alive a space for dissent and critical questioning in the face of a White House... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 16, 2016 Hypocrisy of Russia-Did-It Stories Is Hard to Stomach It is, of course, worth knowing what involvement any other country might have had in the US election, but elite media’s consumption with the Russia-did-it storyline so far is discouraging to say the least. The Intercept ‘s Sam Biddle ( 12/14/16 ) has a breakdown of what public evidence there is... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 11, 2016 If We Were ‘Staggered’ by Police Brutality, Wouldn’t Walter Scott Mistrial Have Knocked Us Over? Corporate media reported the mistrial in the case of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, whom video showed shooting unarmed African-American Walter Scott eight times in the back in April 2015, handcuffing him on the ground, and then dropping a taser alongside his body—this after Slager... Read more |