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 15, 2019 Big Media Get Big Things Wrong on Venezuela Big media have got some big things wrong on Venezuela. Who can forget CNN's May 5 claim that "pressure is mounting on Maduro to step down, following elections in January in which voters chose opposition leader Juan Guaidó over him for president"? As Dave Lindorff noted for FAIR.org, six reporters... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 31, 2019 A Million Extinctions Eclipsed By One Royal Grandbaby As many as 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to the scientists and researchers behind a new UN report . The assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 19, 2019 Corporate Media Setting Up Iran as New 'Threat' That Must Be Confronted The Washington Post editorial’s headline had the U.S. “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency over its own imperialism.” Read more |
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Views Monday, April 01, 2019 Chelsea Manning Again Takes Fall for Defending Public’s Right to Know Chelsea Manning was a US Army soldier who released to WikiLeaks Iraq and Afghan war logs, with information on torture and civilian killings, including an airstrike that killed two Reuters correspondents; and diplomatic cables revealing, among other things, a secret deal between the US and Yemen in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 17, 2019 Colleagues Defend Tucker Carlson’s ‘Ideas'—That Iraqis Are ‘Monkeys,’ Child Rape Is ‘Commitment to Love’ A tweet ( 3/12/19 ) from New York Times columnist Bret Stephens approvingly quoted—calling it “astute as usual”—a statement from the National Review' s David French ( 3/11/19 ): “Our nation cannot maintain its culture of free speech if we continue to reward those who seek to destroy careers rather... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 23, 2018 WaPo Can’t Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It A few things about Virginia Republican Senate candidate Corey Stewart: He described as “one of my personal heroes” Wisconsin congressional candidate and self-described “pro-White Christian” Paul Nehlen, who suggests deporting all Muslims, and whose overt and various hatreds have led Breitbart to... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 27, 2018 The Lucky 1 Percent Get Trump's Speech, CNBC's Devotion—and Nearly All Global Growth “The World Economic Forum is lucky to have [Donald Trump] addressing them,” says CNBC host Becky Quick. Quick told industry journal TVNewser ( 1/22/18 ) that Trump’s appearance in Davos, Switzerland, will make it “the perfect venue for us to get to the heart of what is powering the engine behind... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 08, 2017 We Need Thoughtful Coverage of Gun Violence, Not Slow Pans Over Arsenals I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 02, 2017 Before Trump Pardoned Him, Arpaio Was Promoted by Media There’s a great deal to be said about Donald Trump’s pardon for criminal racist Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, found guilty of criminal contempt for refusing to comply with a court’s order that he stop unconstitutionally profiling Latinx people. As ColorLines ‘... Read more |
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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 |