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, August 29, 2020 Press Normalizes Trump's Lawlessness as Use of 'Tools of Presidency' to 'Broaden Appeal' After the spectacle of a Democratic National Convention featuring more Republicans than Latinos , Americans got a Republican Convention featuring—to pick just one thing— gleeful violations of the Hatch Act. That’s the law that prohibits federal employees from taking part in partisan political... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 03, 2020 Democracy Dies in Blah Blah Blah In a live appearance on the Fox News network ( 3/30/20 ), Donald Trump said it was good that Democratic proposals for increased voting protections and ballot access—including vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting, as well equipment and staffing to make voting safe during the pandemic... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 18, 2019 Missed Opportunity to Recall a Day to ‘Perpetuate Peace’ Media consumers were greeted on November 11 with stories like, “Veterans Served to Protect Our Country. Here’s Where They Can Get Served With Deals and Freebies Today,” on CNN ( 11/11/19 ). Newsweek ( 11/11/19 ) counseled readers that unlike on Memorial Day, when it may be more appropriate to tell... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 24, 2019 GateHouse’s Takeover of Gannett: Bad News for Journalism and the Planet USA Today ran a piece ( 8/20/19 ) on the Amazon fires in which “anthropogenic climate change” were almost literally the last three words. Media watchers are wondering if that’s more likely to reflect the outlet’s priorities now that its owner, Gannett —the largest newspaper publisher in the country... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 23, 2019 When Reporting on Global Crises Like the Amazon Fires, the Media Needs to Focus on Who’s Fighting Them More and more media are reporting on fires tearing through the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. There has been a marked increase in fires in Brazil concurrent with an increase in illegal—and climate-disrupting—deforestation, concurrent with President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to open the Amazon to... Read more |
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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 |