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Pointless 2016 Election Journalism, 2014 Edition
A lot of what passes for election journalism is just idle horse race speculation that probably won’t hold up over time. Just ask the journalists who produce it. In the Sunday edition of the...
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ABC’s ‘Middle Ground’ on Climate Change: Who Knows?
Yesterday ABC‘s This Week (10/26/14) profiled George P. Bush, a Texas land commissioner candidate who is a grandson and nephew of the more famous George Bushes. It was part of This Week‘s “Closer...
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NYT Tried to Sell ‘Pro-Growth’ Candidate, but Brazilians Weren’t Buying
The New York Times wanted you to know that Aecio Neves was Brazil’s “pro-growth” candidate. (photo: Felipe Dana/AP) The New York Times‘ James Stewart (10/24/14) made clear which side we should be...
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Nonvoters Are People Too
There’s plenty of chatter about the upcoming midterm elections out there–though, as the right-wing Media Research Center (10/22/14) recently reported, not very much on the high-profile network evening...
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Media Cry Foul When Democrats Talk About Race
Some examples the New York Times offers of ads that “play on fears” with “racially charged messages.” The New York Times (10/29/14) writes about the role of race in the 2014 midterm elections: In the...
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FAIR TV: #TimeFail, Dodgy Climate Change Rhetoric and the Non-Voting Public
This week: Time slams public school teachers; what did their “bad apples” cover story get wrong? Plus we look at how ABC is framing the climate change debate among Republican politicians, and we note...
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Young People Going Republican? Not So Fast
A new poll out of Harvard’s Institute of Politics is getting a lot of attention, probably because it appears to send a surprising message: Young voters are moving towards the GOP. But some caution is...
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ABC Campaign Coverage–or GOP Campaign Commercial?
The right-wing Media Research Center released a study (10/22/14) slamming the evening newscasts for not giving the midterm election much airtime. It has a partisan interest here; the group wants more...
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FAIR TV: Joni Ernst, Midterm Money and CNN’s Climate Change ‘Debate’
This week on the show: ABC World News hardly covered the midterm elections–but when they did, it looked more like an ad for a Republican candidate. Plus we’ll look at one example of campaign coverage...
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Fareed Zakaria Wants a Better Public
When he’s not busy dealing with well-documented evidence of chronic plagiarism (Our Bad Media, 9/24/14, 9/16/14, 11/10/14), Fareed Zakaria hosts a talk show on CNN. And this weekend (11/9/14), Zakaria...
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Chris Christie, Keystone and Canada
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie still might be considering a run at the White House, so the New York Times is covering him accordingly. Today’s installment: Christie’s trip to Canada to promote the...
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‘Disruptive, Demanding’ Elizabeth Warren vs. ‘Can-Do’ Pragmatists
Elizabeth Warren: Her “wing” is “disruptive and demanding,” the Washington Post reports. (cc photo: New America Foundation) The default setting of corporate media’s political compass is that Democrats...
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Dana Milbank and the Bias of Centrism
Jim DeMint and Elizabeth Warren: mirror images? (cc photos: Gage Skidmore, New America Foundation) FAIR has always argued that reporters and pundits who present a kind of right-in-the-middle,...
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More Pointless Campaign 2016 Journalism
Jeb Bush says he’s seriously thinking about deciding whether or not he wants to try to become president. (cc photo: World Affairs Council of Philadelphia) Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced that...
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Sad Columnist Forced to Cover Sweaters and Torture
Dana Milbank doesn’t want to have to cover trivial issues like Rick Santorum’s sweaters or the Iraq War. (cc photo: Gage Skidmore) Poor Dana Milbank. Here it is just the beginning of 2015, and the...
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Progressive Policies Are Popular–So Why Should Democrats Be Afraid of Them?
CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper (photo: ContactMedia.com) CNN‘s post-speech discussion of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address included anchor Wolf Blitzer’s reaction to colleague Jake...
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Improbable as It May Seem to WaPo, Greek Voters Doubt Austerity Is Required
The Washington Post illustrated the victory of Greece’s Syriza with a photo of marchers carrying the flag of an Italian neo-Communist party. Caption: “Leftist victory could put Athens at odds with the...
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Centrist Anxiety at the New York Times
The New York Times finds alarming evidence that political identity is seen as an important indication of character. The New York Times‘ Thomas Edsall (1/28/15) has some bad news: Republicans and...
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Voting Rights Shall Not Overcome NYT Reporting Like This
New York Times image of Obama at Selma (from AP video). The New York Times‘ report (3/8/15) on Barack Obama’s speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma march noted that the president...
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Rebranding McCain and Romney as Moderates to Facilitate a Sharp Right Turn
USA Today depicts Ted Cruz announcing his bid for the presidency. In corporate media, Democrats tend to run as centrists and lose as leftists. As I noted way back in the first Bush administration...
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