Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

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Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting ( FAIR ) is an American press association that is committed to combating and documenting one-sided and false reporting as well as self-censorship in the mass media . The organization is based in New York, New York .

founding

FAIR was founded in 1986 by media critic Jeff Cohen . Cohen left the organization in May 2002 to work as a producer on Phil Donahue's talk show on MSNBC .

Goals / program

In the opinion of FAIR, informed citizens in a democracy need independent, aggressive and critical media. Today's mass media are organized in a few highly concentrated media groups that are privately owned. The amalgamation and economic dependence on the economy has resulted in little criticism from economic and political forces and only a limited spectrum of opinions being reproduced. FAIR believes that structural reforms are necessary to break the dominant position of the media conglomerates and to create independent, public, non-profit media. FAIR describes itself as a media monitoring group that criticizes the one-sided and biased reporting in the US media and advocates a wider variety of opinions expressed in the media.

activities

FAIR is committed to working with activists and journalists. Since 1987 the award-winning media-critical magazine Extra! published every 2 months. Since Extra! Independent reporting is guaranteed instead of being financed exclusively from the income of the subscriptions from advertising income. FAIR continues to produce the weekly half-hour radio program CounterSpin (brings you the news behind the headlines), edited by Janine Jackson , Steve Rendall and Peter Hart, which is broadcast over 130 radio stations and is also available on the Internet as MP3 or RealAudio . The FAIR newsletter, with over 55,000 subscribers, is used to disseminate "Action Alerts".

Known members

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