Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Media Holocaust Revisionism After Canada’s Standing Ovation for an SS Vet - FAIR
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#révisionnisme

In Hours of Israel/#Gaza Crisis Coverage, a Word You’ll Seldom Hear: ’Ceasefire’ - FAIR
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[…] the Biden administration has actively tried to suppress discussion of de-escalation. HuffPost reported on October 13 that an internal State Department memo instructed staff not to use the words “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm” in press materials on the Middle East.

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While ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and PBS NewsHour aired a total of 105 segments primarily about Israel/Gaza and broader repercussions of the conflict, only eight segments included the word “ceasefire” or some form of the word “de-escalate.” (The word “de-escalate” never appeared without the word “ceasefire.”)

NBC and PBS aired three segments each with ceasefire mentions; CBS aired two, and ABC aired none.

#MSM #garde_à_vous

Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage - FAIR
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“I asked @OpenAI whether Palestinians deserve to be free,” he said. The natural-language processing tool responded to Abusaada’s query ambivalently:

As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions, feelings or beliefs. The question of whether Palestinians deserve to be free is a complex and controversial issue with many different perspectives and opinions….

But then he posed the same question about Israelis. This time, the chat box did not equivocate:

Yes, like all people, Israelis deserve to be free. Freedom is a fundamental human right that should be protected and guaranteed for all individuals, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity or religion. It is essential that Israelis, like all people, are able to live their lives free from violence, oppression and discrimination….

“Explanation?” demanded Abusaada.

The explanation lies in the overarching attitudes of the 570 GB of #data that ChatGPT scrapes from the #internet. And, with news media being one of the primary sources of information that the bot is trained on, Abusaada’s experience is hardly surprising.

#données #IA #AI #biais #MSM

Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine - FAIR
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Quincy’s analysis found that the media were seven times more likely to cite think tanks with war industry ties than they were to cite think tanks without war industry ties.

With 157 mentions each, the top two think tanks were the Atlantic Council and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Both of these think tanks receive millions from the war industry. The Atlantic Council has long been the brain trust of NATO, the military organization whose expansion towards Russia’s borders was a critical factor in Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine. (See FAIR.org, 3/4/22.) Both think tanks receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, companies which have already been awarded billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts as a result of the war in Ukraine.

CSIS was revealed in a New York Times expose (8/7/16) to produce content that reflected the weapons industry priorities of its funders. It also “initiated meetings with Defense Department officials and congressional staff to push for the recommendations” of military funders.

#propagande #états-unis

Chinese Diplomacy Seen as Threat to US ’Peace,’ ’Stability’ - FAIR
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Walter Russell Mead of the Wall Street Journal (3/27/23) claimed that while “American power” results in “peace and prosperity,” “challengers like China, Russia and Iran undermine the stability of the American order.” “Peace” and “stability” must seem like odd ways of characterizing that order to, say, Libyans, who had their country flattened by a US-led intervention (Jacobin, 9/12/13), and endured years of a brutal war, and even slavery.

David Ignatius of the Washington Post (3/16/23) asserted that

if Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to take on the role of restraining Iran and reassuring Saudi Arabia, good luck to him. The United States has been trying since 1979 to bend the arc of the Iranian revolution toward stability.

Washington supported Iraq’s invasion of Iran, to the point of helping Iraq use chemical weapons against the country. The US has also levied sanctions that have immiserated the country, undercutting Iranians’ access to food and medicine. Describing such aggression as attempts to engender “stability” inverts reality—to say nothing of Ignatius’ strange desire to “reassur[e]” Washington’s execution-happy longtime client in Riyadh.

#sans_vergogne #états-unis

US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack - FAIR
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With few exceptions, speculation on US involvement has seemingly been deemed an intellectual no-fly-zone.

Shoplifting Is Big News; Stealing Millions From Workers Is Not - FAIR
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the shoplifting video is supposed to represent multiple examples of retail theft, to boost awareness about shoplifting as a larger issue. But the wage theft settlement is also one example of a widespread issue: Employers stealing from their workers is a $15 billion a year problem that gets little attention.

San Francisco is a city that falls far short in caring for the homeless population, with pervasive poverty, particularly among people of color. In that context, to treat an individual stealing a few hundred dollars from a corporation worth $150 billion as infinitely more newsworthy than that same company stealing millions from its employees is to enlist the media on the well-funded side of the class war.

A ‘#Regime’ Is a Government at Odds With the US Empire - FAIR
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Interestingly, the US itself meets many of the criteria for being a “regime”: It can be seen as an oligarchy rather than a democracy, imprisons people at a higher rate than any other country, has grotesque levels of inequality and bombs another country every 12 minutes. Yet there’s no widespread tendency for the corporate media to describe the US state as a “regime.”

#états-unis #MSM

‘Calibrated’ Dishonesty : Western Media Coverage of #Venezuela #Sanctions - FAIR
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Traduction ici :

Malhonnêteté « calibrée  : pourquoi les médias occidentaux continuent à occulter les sanctions contre le Venezuela (Fair.org) | « Venezuela Infos
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Les sanctions décrétées par les #États-Unis d’Obama à Biden en passant par Trump ont tué, même selon des estimations déjà dépassées, des dizaines de milliers de Vénézuéliens. Ces politiques unilatérales ont été largement condamnées par les organismes multilatéraux et les experts en droits humains de l’ONU Alfred de Zayas ou Alena Douhan pour leur impact meurtrier, ainsi que pour leur violation du droit international (Venezuelanalysis, 18/09/21, 15/09/21, 25/03/21, 31/01/19).
Mais les lecteurs/téléspectateurs des médias privés du monde occidental ne sont absolument pas conscients de cette réalité, car les médias de l’establishment ont fait tout leur possible pour valider les sanctions en occultant complètement leurs effets humains et sociaux (FAIR.org, 6/4/21, 12/19/20) – en écrivant par exemple que Washington a « sanctionné le gouvernement » (AP, 5/21/22) plutôt que le peuple du Venezuela.

Saab Case Shows Western Media’s Casual Acceptance of US Atrocities - FAIR
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US financial hegemony cannot end too soon, nor can the Western media’s casual acceptance of US brutality and criminality.

#crimes #états-unis #finance

La #CIA a envisagé l’assassinat de Julian #Assange en 2017
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Selon une enquête publiée dimanche 26 septembre par Yahoo News, ces discussions remontent à 2017, alors que l’activiste australien entamait sa cinquième année de réclusion dans l’ambassade d’Équateur à Londres. “Le directeur de la CIA de l’époque, Mike Pompeo, et de hauts responsables de l’agence étaient furieux de la publication par WikiLeaks de Vault 7, un ensemble de logiciels de piratage de la CIA, une brèche dont l’agence juge qu’elle constitue la plus grande perte de données de son histoire”, relate le quotidien britannique

Deathly #Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him - FAIR
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Indeed, the Grayzone (5/14/20) was the first outlet to provide evidence of a CIA-linked proposal to “kidnap or poison Assange” in May 2020. The story, however, was almost universally ignored, suggesting that, as Joe Lauria wrote in Consortium News (10/2/21), “until something appears in the mainstream media, it didn’t happen.”

One thing the corporate media cannot be accused of with regards to Assange, however, is inconsistency. After a key witness in the Department of Justice’s case against the publisher admitted to providing the US prosecution with false testimony, a detail that should ordinarily turn a case to dust, the corporate media responded by ignoring the story almost entirely. As Alan MacLeod wrote for FAIR.org (7/2/21):

#MSM

J’essaye de trouver des sources sur le programme de #Alexei_Navalny, unanimement désigné principal opposant à Poutine sur le thème de la lute anti-corruption.
Je ne parle pas russe, donc la page web de l’organisation ▻https://partyprogress.org ne m’est pas d’une grande aide.
La page wikipedia ▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_of_the_Future semble plus concerner l’histoire de ce parti que son programme.
J’ai trouvé What does Russian “opposition leader” Alexei Navalny represent ? ▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/09/nava-j09.html

There is good reason for this hostility. Navalny is not a democrat or a liberal, but a disgruntled entrepreneur and stockholder with distinct fascist leanings. On many levels, he represents the accumulated political filth that has burst to the surface in Russia after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

qui date de 2018.

Friedman at 50 Friedman Units: What Did We Do to Deserve This? | FAIR
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Unlike Susie Smith, Friedman’s livelihood has never been in jeopardy, despite his myriad professional defects. These range from rhetorical incoherence and continuous self-contradiction (e.g., Iraq was “the most radical-liberal revolutionary war the US has ever launched,” even as Friedman self-defined as “a liberal on every issue other than this war”) to his tendency to imbue utterly frivolous jet-setting experiences with global political significance (e.g., that time on an Emirates Air flight from Dubai when the Pakistani passenger sporting a jacket imprinted with the word “Titanic” spontaneously evolved into a sign that Pakistan was the Titanic, or possibly the iceberg). (In the same article, Friedman cautioned that an American victory in Afghanistan was possible only if the US recognized that “Dorothy, this ain’t Kansas.”)

Getting Away With Murder: ‘#Clash’ as #Media Euphemism for ‘Massacre’ | FAIR
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“Clash” is an oft-used and highly convenient word for corporate media when they have to report on #violence, but, for whatever reason, do not want to assign responsibility to any party for initiating it. This could sometimes be because they are treading carefully, unsure of the full context, but, as FAIR has noted before (e.g., Extra!, 1/17; FAIR.org, 4/2/18), the term is chronically employed to obscure who instigated the violence, launder power asymmetry, and give the impression of two equally culpable sides. As Adam Johnson wrote (FAIR.org, 4/9/18), “‘Clash’ is a reporter’s best friend when they want to describe violence without offending anyone in power.”

With People in the Streets Worldwide, Media Focus Uniquely on Hong Kong | FAIR
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FAIR conducted a study of New York Times and CNN coverage of four important protest movements around the world: Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti and Chile. Those outlets were chosen for their influence and their reputation as the most important, agenda-setting outlets in the print and television media. Full documentation, including links to all articles in the sample, can be found here. All relevant results to “country+protests” on those outlets’ websites were counted, except purely rehosted content, since each protest began. This was March 15 for Hong Kong, October 3 for Ecuador, October 14 for Chile and July 7, 2018, for Haiti. The end date for the study was November 22, 2019.

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genre #acrimed #médias

WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom | FAIR
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The Times’ report (6/17/14) on “the shale revolution going global,” as “the world’s largest energy companies are on the hunt for new sources of what they call unconventional oil and natural gas,” described how these “multi-billion dollar investments” could “change the face of global energy markets.” The Times’ Mark Scott emphasized the size and profitability of the potential shale energy resources—rather than the dangers in extracting them:

#etats-unis #liberal #climat #business

‘Black Communities Are Already Living in a Tech Dystopia’ | FAIR
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... there’s a real hunger for many people, especially those who benefit from the design of our current systems, to want to bypass and jump over the difficult work of actually wrestling with these histories and ongoing forms of deeply embedded #discrimination, bias, racism, white supremacy, that infect all of our institutions.

#biais #technologies #suprémacisme_blanc #dystopie

Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela
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A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period (1/15/19–4/15/19), zero opinion pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post took an anti–regime change or pro-Maduro/Chavista position. Not a single commentator on the big three Sunday morning talkshows or PBS NewsHour came out against President Nicolás Maduro stepping down from the Venezuelan government.

Of the 76 total articles, opinion videos or TV commentator segments that centered on or gave more than passing attention to Venezuela, 54 (72 percent) expressed explicit support for the Maduro administration’s ouster. Eleven (14 percent) were ambiguous, but were only classified as such for lack of explicit language. Reading between the lines, most of these were clearly also pro–regime change. Another 11 (14 percent) took no position, but many similarly offered ideological ammo for those in support.

The Times published 22 pro–regime change commentaries, three ambiguous and five without a position. The Post also spared no space for the pro-Chavista camp: 22 of its articles expressed support for the end to Maduro’s administration, eight were ambiguous and four took no position. Of the 12 TV opinions surveyed, 10 were pro-regime change and two took no position.

US Media Lament Internet Censorship—in China, Not US | FAIR
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#censure #critique #sélectivité #MSM #Chine #Etats-Unis

When They Don’t Ignore, US Media Often Disparage Palestinians’ Right of Return | FAIR
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When news outlets ignore or deny the Palestinian right of return, they are saying that Palestinians matter less than a supposed right to dispossess and oppress them. This leaves Palestinians with no right to live in their homeland as anything other than second-class citizens or, most often, disenfranchised subjects of military occupation in a Middle Eastern bantustan.