Here’s FAIR’s excellent report on pro-war bias in the corporate media, and here’s Peter Hart describing it well on Democracy Now:
I’d love to see a complete report of all the corporate media coverage for the whole lead-up to Iraq War III: This Time as Farce. Here I am getting a few minutes to oppose war on MSNBC two days after the period FAIR covered, on a program other than the ones FAIR covered:
I suspect there were lots of other exceptions. Did they come late? Were they evenly scattered across the programs so that each program could claim to have been “balanced,” or did any actually devote more than a few minutes to peace? Which ones never ever admitted peace into the discussion?
I don’t want to lose FAIR’s focus on the central point that pro-war pseudo-debate voices were so dominant and repetitive as to drill into people’s brains the idea that a mad idea was inevitable common sense. But I think the whole picture could be shown without doing that.
Whether the brighter spots, if any, could or should be encouraged, I don’t know. And I have no interest in singling out the worst of the worst in a way that implies the other media outlets are doing all right. But I’d like to see the whole picture and then decide what it means.
Therefore: Send FAIR money to use on longer reports!