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At NBC News, the Anchor Has to Remind You You’re Not Watching an Ad
Last night on the NBC Nightly News (7/9/13), anchor Brian Williams broke some important news: There is consumer product news tonight. The folks at Hamburger Helper say they’d like to be thought of...
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NBC’s News on Iran and Nukes Is Old News
On last night’s NBC Nightly News (9/18/13), correspondent Ann Curry had a big exclusive: a sit-down interview with new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The newscast kicked off with anchor Brian...
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Shutdown: Media SHOULD Play the Blame Game
(cc photo: Rich Renomeron) The government shutdown is, in some ways, a really easy story to understand–if the press wants to report it that way. The Republican House passes a spending bill that would...
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FAIR TV: Shutdown Blame Game, CBS Misleads on Climate, and Brian Williams on...
This week on FAIR TV: Media should take a side on who’s causing the government shutdown. CBS Evening News wonders what happened to global warming. And Brian Williams can’t believe the stunning shift...
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Brian Williams vs. Brian Williams on Iran
Brian Williams We noted in a recent action alert that NBC anchor Brian Williams was misleading viewers about Iran. He called Iranian president Mahmoud Rouhani’s comments about not pursuing a nuclear...
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The Media’s ‘New American Center’ Is Well to the Left of the Media
Journalists have a special affection for The Center, a political zone free of ideology and dogma where sensible public policy can emerge. But the centrism celebrated by corporate media isn’t actually...
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Doubling Down: Healthcare Site Isn’t Obama’s Katrina–It’s His Iraq War
So it was the New York Times that introduced–by way of a former adviser to George W. Bush (FAIR Blog, 11/15/13)–the notion that the bungled rollout of the Affordable Care Act website was somehow like...
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A Wedding Was Bombed–Don’t Worry, It Was by the US, Not in the US
Last Friday, it was reported that what seemed to be a US drone strike hit a wedding convoy in Yemen, killing over a dozen people. It got attention from outlets like the New York Times (FAIR Blog,...
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Intelligence Sources Play an Early April Fool’s Joke on NBC News
Brian Williams: On the brink…or over the edge? As Peter Hart (FAIR Blog, 3/31/14) writes, US intelligence claims about a Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border are just that–claims–and should...
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Will NBC Retract Story NYT Has Walked Back?
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan‘s critique (4/24/14) of her paper’s handling of their Russia/Ukraine photo scoop closed with this: The Times‘ influence demands that it be cautious,...
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Weather From Another Planet: Wildfires and Climate Change
You may have heard that major wildfires broke out in Southern California. The state is in a deep drought, its fire season is starting earlier than normal and the fires that have burned so far have...
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American TV to Chinese Spies: Do as US Says, Not as US Does
Early this week, the FBI announced that five Chinese hackers had been indicted for spying on American companies. That’s right, economic espionage. To anyone who a passing familiarity with the Edward...
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Brian Williams Frantically Tries to Prove He’s No Glenn Greenwald
You may have heard that NBC News was able to snag an exclusive interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. They turned it into a one-hour primetime special on May 28. But before that aired, that...
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Iraq Is a Place Where Americans Suffered
The invasion of the major Iraqi city of Mosul by the Sunni militant group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has US reporters recalling the Iraq War–and showing once again how they see that deadly...
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On US TV, Israel is ‘Striking Back’
When Israel attacked Palestinian targets following the discovery that three kidnapped Israeli teenagers had been murdered, the way TV outlets characterized the Israel actions on their July 1 newscasts...
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NYT Rewrites Gaza Headline: Was It Too Accurate?
Yesterday (7/16/14) the New York Times posted its first account of the Israeli strike that killed four young Palestinians on a beach in Gaza. The headline looked like this: That headline...
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USA Today Changes Its Mind About Ferguson Police
The news out of Ferguson, Missouri, has been grim and outrageous. After the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, US television viewers have watched a heavily armed and militarized local police...
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Breaking News: Ben Affleck Is a Famous Movie Star
I don’t think anyone would disagree with the argument that there’s simply not enough time in a national newscast to tell all of the important stories journalists want to tell. And the “half hour”...
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Disney Newscast Finds Trailer for Upcoming Disney Film Especially Newsworthy
A trailer teasing the newest Star Wars film has fans of the franchise very excited. But they’re not the only ones; the Disney-owned nightly newscast ABC World News has also found the upcoming Disney...
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Some Other Tall Tales Brian Williams Might Want to Apologize For
Not getting shot down in Iraq is just the beginning of things Brian Williams needs to correct. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has apologized for falsely claiming (NBC, 1/30/15) that “during...
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