mastodon 4.7.3Editor at FAIR since 1990. Curator of the New York Songlines.
Media writers who pretend they don't know who is lying are not journalists but propagandists.
Media be warned: If your organization's workforce becomes less disproportionately white, the Trump administration will take that as evidence of illegal discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/economy/eeoc-nyt-investigation.html
My take on why elite media feared the Rev. Jesse Jackson: "He changed the rules of politics by offering an alternative to the top-down, big money-driven hegemony of the Democratic establishment: grassroots-funded, solidaric, genuinely populist."
https://fair.org/home/why-corporate-media-needed-to-misrepresent-jesse-jackson/
The Supreme Court says that the white people of a state can rig elections to keep Black people from being elected so long as the white people don't call themselves the White People Party.
I was doing research for a different post about the WHCD incident when I came across a claim so bizarre from the New York Times that I had to write it up.
https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyt-falsely-reports-that-attempts-on-presidents-lives-are-rare/
If a creation is so powerful it could destroy the internet, maybe it's worth giving its creators $1 trillion for a piece of that power.
A great conversation between Janine Jackson and Kimberle Crenshaw about how anti-racism is inseparable from pro-democracy.
https://fair.org/home/you-cannot-change-a-reality-that-you-cannot-name/
Minnesota, Hennepin County and Minneapolis need to start issuing arrest warrants--for John Does if need be. The murders will continue until local authorities stand up to the thugs.
I miss the First Amendment.
If there was one person who embodied establishment media's anxiety about race, class and democracy, it was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The FCC explains that it is trying to take ABC's licenses away not because Jimmy Kimmel joked about Trump, but because Disney isn't hiring enough white people.
Bari Weiss named Nick Bilton, former New York Times tech writer, to be 60 Minutes' new executive producer. I wrote about him once, back in 2014.
https://fair.org/home/trust-the-new-york-times-to-tell-you-not-to-trust-twitter/
There's a word missing from this awful story of hundreds of thousands of trees destroyed due to DelMonte's bankruptcy: tariffs, which greatly increased the cost of canning.
Jeff Bezos hopes building more data centers will put you and him on more of an even keel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/24/ai-data-center-inequality-cost-unaffordable/
