Media & Communication: Research Guide

The journalistic response to “Why Would Trump Want Greenland?" is: It’s simple, and not at all weird.

Right-wing political violence remains a threat that requires attention. Coverage of recent vehicle attacks illustrates that corporate media's instinct is to look away.

How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

Despite the overwhelming number of Israeli attacks in the post-ceasefire period, news audiences have heard that a “tense ceasefire holds.”

Coding Luigi Mangione as an Ivy Leaguer paints him as an out-of-touch rich kid rather than an anti-establishment renegade.

"Journalism is absolutely critical for democracy, and we have to remember that moving forward."

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”

"Young people in Baltimore...are 5% of arrests..and yet almost 30% of the stories that identified the age of the offenders focused on young people."

Ben Smith's stake in BuzzFeed may have exceeded $7 million—a strikingly large material interest in a company whose competitors Smith regularly covered.

"It singles out a single app without really providing any justification why, and then they just say, 'Congress picked this one.'"

Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

Twenty years ago this month, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide after his career was systematically destroyed.

"They're trying to do everything in their ability to try to legitimize these killings, and dehumanize Palestinians."

Here's the ten posts from 2024 that got the most views on FAIR.org.

This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.

Missing from the coverage of Pakistan protests in leading US papers was the ongoing support the government has received from the Biden administration.

Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”

Instead of holding those in power accountable for their attacks on minority groups, many in the press corps will happily join in on the attacks.

Since the overthrow of the Syrian government, corporate media analysts consistently opted not to call on the US and Israel to end their occupations of and violence toward Syria.

The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.

ABC's $16 million settlement is a dangerous omen for press freedom, given Trump’s threats to use his power to go after his media critics.

The narrow focus on whether a Big Mac costs 15 cents more, and if it does, shouldn’t you yell at the people behind the counter, is a distortion, and a tired one,

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.

Corporate media outlets continue to dance around the word “genocide” while the Israeli military carries out the systematic mass killing of Palestinians.

Many news outlets’ pontificators were incensed that anyone would voice frustration with health insurance when an industry CEO has fallen.

"So many of the issues with Amazon...are because we've lacked a lot of the regulatory mechanisms to contain it from ever becoming this big."

A US District Court of Appeals, with two Republican-appointed judges and one picked by a Democrat, has upheld a law forcing the sale of TikTok.

The New York Times has embraced a toxic narrative pushed by former President Jair Bolsonaro and allies like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson to discredit Brazil's court system.

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.

Many commentators have worked hard to downplay the danger Robert Kennedy Jr. would pose to the US public as health and human services secretary.