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	FAIR in the News
		According to a June report by Julie Hollar of the national media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), wrapping Africa stories in celebrity news is par for the course.
		FAIR was established to combat and identify inaccuracies and biases in media outlets.
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the liberal media watch group, has a devastating piece out on the anniversary with all the pundits who not only, you know, were cheerleaders, but attacked the patriotism of anybody who opposed this.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=104 (2361 words)

	Fair Credit Reporting Act
		A consumer reporting agency may not prohibit a user of a consumer report furnished by the agency on a consumer from disclosing the contents of the report to the consumer, if adverse action against the consumer has been taken by the user based in whole or in part on the report.
		The consumer reporting agency shall promptly provide to the person who provided the information in dispute all relevant information regarding the dispute that is received by the agency from the consumer after the period referred to in subparagraph (A) and before the end of the period referred to in paragraph (1)(A).
		A consumer reporting agency shall provide written notice to a consumer of the results of a reinvestigation under this subsection not later than 5 business days after the completion of the reinvestigation, by mail or, if authorized by the consumer for that purpose, by other means available to the agency.
	www.ftc.gov /os/statutes/fcra.htm (9189 words)

	Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
		FAIR noted that in coverage of the recent U.S.-led assault on the city, the Times characterized civilian deaths from the April siege of Fallujah as "unconfirmed" on three separate occasions ("mostly unconfirmed reports of large civilian casualties"--11/8/04; "unconfirmed reports of heavy civilian casualties"--11/9/04; "unconfirmed reports of large civilian casualties"--11/15/04).
		Times reporters (as well as those from other news organizations, of course) are risking their lives when venturing into Fallujah and other battle zones, and I don't think anyone can expect them to publish, without qualification, purported facts they cannot verify or attribute with confidence.
		FAIR thanks Okrent for responding to the activists who wrote to the paper; we certainly agree that the problem is "both valid and vexing." FAIR also seconds Okrent's hope that we will "see closer attention paid to civilian casualties in future dispatches."
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2004/1207-22.htm (1057 words)

	Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), founded in 1986, is an American organization that works against and documents what it perceives as bias in the media, censorship, and erroneous reporting.
		FAIR describes itself on its website as "the national media watch group" and defines its mission as working to "invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints." FAIR refers to itself as a "progressive group"
		FAIR claims that in the range of opinion discussed in the mass media, the right edge of discussion is usually represented by a committed supporter of right-wing causes, while the left edge, by contrast, is often represented by a centrist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting (356 words)

	Change.org - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
		Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)is the foremost national media watch group, offering well-documented analyses of media bias on the whole spectrum of public interest issues affecting youth, minorities, women, labor, the elderly and the environment.
		Through its efforts, FAIR facilitates the airing of diverse and dissenting voices in the media, voices that too often go unheard in public debate.
		FAIR has been working on media reform issues including concentration of ownership for over 20 years.
	change.org /nonprofit_page/nonprofit_home/53082 (161 words)

	Figuring out feminism - cont'd - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting executive director Jeff Cohen's excerpted letter ...
		The study found that police reports of beatings and hospital admissions in northern Virginia rose 40 per cent after games won by the Washington Redskins during the 1988-89 season, she said." Sommers is inaccurate in writing that Kuehl used the Old Dominion study to make a prediction about Super Bowl Sunday.
		There they were, an organization dedicated to "Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting," and they not only failed to quash the baseless, malebashing canard that battery rises 40 per cent on Super Bowl Sunday but were found complicit in helping to promote it.
		FAIR sent a similar rant to the Washington Post soon after reporter Ken Ringle ran the original story exposing the Super Bowl hoax.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v46/ai_15779200 (815 words)

	SavageStupidity.com - Fairness Doctrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Fairness Doctrine was enforced from 1949 through 1987, and compliance with it was a condition that broadcast licensees were required to comply with to receive and to renew their license.
		We believe that the interest of the public in viewpoint diversity is fully served by the multiplicity of voices in the marketplace today and that the intrusion by government into the content of programming occasioned by the enforcement of the doctrine unnecessarily restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters.
		Research demonstrates "that there was not a mass effort by broadcasters to begin or cease editorializing after the Fairness Doctrine was set aside by the FCC in 1987".
	www.savagestupidity.com /fairness-doctrine.html (1329 words)

	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: Najaf Checkpoint Massacre : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: Najaf Checkpoint Massacre : SF Indymedia
		Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: Najaf Checkpoint Massacre
		NPR's Nick Spicer reported on the April 1 All Things Considered-- which aired at least 18 hours after the Post story broke-- that "what we're hearing here at CENTCOM is that troops fired a warning shot as a vehicle approached a checkpoint.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1595305 (671 words)

	Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - SourceWatch
		Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) is a group that criticizes the fairness and accuracy of the news media from a left-leaning standpoint.
		It produces press releases and reports that document and criticize conservative media bias and censorship.
		In some respects, it provides a counterbalance to Accuracy in Media, an older, right-leaning media watch group.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting (169 words)

	Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to an April 28 report in the New York Times, the MET Bravo team "has tentatively concluded that there are no chemical weapons at a site where American troops said they had found chemical agents and mobile labs." As a member of the team told the Times, "the earlier reports were wrong."
		Reporters should be cautious when preliminary tests seem to confirm the existence of banned weapons in Iraq, particularly since so many of these initial findings have not been borne out (see FAIR Action Alert, 3/25/03).
		Remind ABC that retractions of false stories should be featured as prominently as the original reports, and ask that more caution be shown in reporting government claims.
	www.whoseflorida.com /fair.htm (530 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: White House Whining on Iraq Coverage
		The fact that reporters are kept away from hospitals suggests that it's risky to assume that more coverage of Iraqi reconstruction would yield "good" news.
		But some reporters are still grappling with the criticism that their coverage has been too "negative." ABC's Baghdad correspondent Neal Karlinsky told Nightline that "there's a lot of good news stories here that we are trying to get out.
		Whether they are based in Baghdad or in Washington, journalists are obliged to report the news on the ground, not as "good" or "bad" but as news, regardless of how it fits with the vision the administration would like Americans to see.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/17074 (1171 words)

	watchdogs and advocacy groups
		F.A.I.R. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting is a national media watch group that "scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints."
		FAIR argues that advertiser pressure, corporate ownership of the media, and right-leaning news programs are diminishing the quality of objective reporting.
		Accuracy in Media aims to expose the liberal slant in media coverage of political issues, claiming that much of it is anti-business, pro-big government, anti-family and anti-religion.
	library.thinkquest.org /17067/protect/watchdog.html (342 words)

	Fairness
		Those who are charged with administering fairness left a pretty solid roadmap to lead us out of the darkness...
		Many students are sure that their teachers set tests with vengeful thoughts: when most of them are really trying to help students learn.
		Is Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting as unbiased as it purports to be?
	www.suite101.com /reference/fairness (443 words)

	Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) [Free Republic]
		Once the massacre story was reported in heart-wrenching detail by media across the globe, pressure for war intensified and previously reluctant European allies took a major step toward authorizing airstrikes.
		The Berliner Zeitung also reports that these findings were completed as early as June 2000, but that their publication had been blocked by the UN and the EU.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a7a6dc25438.htm (1410 words)

	Public Radio, by the Numbers - Center for Media and Democracy
		The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) looked at on-air sources for four National Public Radio news shows in June 2003, and think tanks and regular commentators on NPR from May to August 2003.
		FAIR found: "government officials, professional experts and corporate representatives" represented the majority of sources; Republican sources outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 2; centrist think tanks predominated; and regular commentators were more diverse than in 1993.
		FAIR's response to the response clarified: "The tilt toward Republicans...
	www.prwatch.org /node/2671 (242 words)

	The Rush Limbaugh/FAIR Debate
		And so, a group who called themselves FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) decided to listen to several of Rush's radio and television shows, to make the charge that as he was an inaccurate commentator, no one should pay attention to him.
		FAIR claims to be an impartial, non-partisan analyzer of "Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting".
		After reading their reports on Rush, it is my contention that they are not impartial observers, but fiercely partisan Liberal Democrats.
	members.tripod.com /Ogami_Xena/debate.htm (375 words)

	FAIR-L - ResearchBuzz - The Open Road - e-mail e-zine reviews by Todd Kuipers
		FAIR seeks to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press.
		Ultimately, FAIR believes that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong, non-profit, alternative sources of information.
		FAIR covers and makes note of reporting concepts, language, inaccuracies, mis-judgements, stupidities and the subsequent influence in the community at large.
	www.sideroad.com /openroad/column23.html (819 words)

	Media Monitor - False Charges of Media Bias - June 26, 2000
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Institute for Public Accuracy, have issued a report claiming that conservative think tanks and the "centrist" Brookings Institution have dominated much of the national media coverage of important issues.
		Two of them, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Institute for Public Accuracy, have issued a report claiming that conservative think tanks and the "centrist" Brookings Institution have dominated much of the national media coverage of important issues.
		Reed Irvine is the former Chairman of Accuracy In Media and Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report.
	www.aim.org /media_monitor/A3034_0_2_0_C/sendpage/index.php (623 words)

	Media Criticized For Biased Hometown Sports Reporting
		FAIR surveyed the sports reporting of more than 400 newspapers, as well as nearly 200 television and radio stations across the country.Wilborough said that, in an average article about a sports event, 87 percent of column space was devoted to coverage of the local team.
		The FAIR report, which characterized the bias as "irresponsible and pervasive," stated that "the blatant slanting of local sports coverage goes against the ethics of balanced journalism and contributes to a public perception that the local team in a particular area is the absolute best.
		According to the report, the bias can be found everywhere from New York and Chicago to smaller media markets like Green Bay, WI and South Bend, IN.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/30050/print (730 words)

	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Extra! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		FAIR describes itself as "the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism in an effort to correct bias and imbalance.
		FAIR focuses public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media's allegiance to official agendas and their insensitivity to women, labor, minorities and other public interest constituencies.
		FAIR seeks to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater media pluralism and the inclusion of public interest voices in national debates."
	www.namebase.org /sources/JU.html (231 words)

	Spinsanity - Foul cry: When media watchdogs like FAIR and MRC complain about bias, they often only reveal their own.
		And FAIR is certainly correct that media outlets are being consolidated into large corporations that usually support conservative positions on issues such as taxes, regulation and trade.
		FAIR fails to make the obvious point, though, that the NPR piece it criticizes was focused on two recent books criticizing the media for being too liberal, one of which, Bernard Goldberg's Bias, was a bestseller.
		One is forced to conclude that FAIR and MRC are falling well short of their self-professed goals to, respectively, "invigorate the First Amendment" and "bring balance and responsibility to the news media." The American press, so desperately in need of less ideology and more objectivity, is worse off for their failure.
	www.spinsanity.org /columns/20020701.html (1313 words)

	Defining Bush's "Mandate" :: PNNOnline :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting questions the widespread media use of the word "mandate" when referring to President Bush’s reelection.
		Winning 51 percent of the popular vote in Tuesday's election, Bush administration officials were quick to declare that the results constitute a "mandate" for Bush's second term.
		For more information on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, please visit their Web site.
	www.pnnonline.org /article.php?sid=5586 (521 words)

	Media Giraffe Database Records
		FAIR media watchdog group offers 20 stories over 20 years which it says made a difference Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) (PROFILE), the progressive media watchdog group, is marking its 20th anniversary with a series of special articles on its website.
		The group wrote: "FAIR was founded on the belief that journalism matters -- that getting out the truth can improve the world, while news that distorts or denies reality can have terrible consequences.
		Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer and media critic who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986.
	www.mediagiraffe.org /profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=219 (291 words)

	Media Coverage of Intercountry Adoprion from Guatemala Petition
		As individuals concerned about intercountry adoption (ICA) from Guatemala, we call upon the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (F.A.I.R.), the Institute for Public Accuracy and members of the press to address the inaccurate and disparate portrayals of ICA from Guatemala in the media.
		It is also troubling that when press reports relay the number of adoptions occurring annually, no mention is made of the socio-economic conditions and inadequacy of government support programs in the country that demonstrate the need for ICA in Guatemala.
		2.) Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (F.A.I.R) and the Institute for Public Accuracy to investigate the coverage of ICA from Guatemala by the press and take appropriate actions to ensure that future coverage is both objective and accurate.
	www.petitiononline.com /41203gm/petition.html (1185 words)

	The Journalist from Mars (a talk given at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's fifteenth anniversary celebration in New ...
		There is a proper course for a serious Martian reporter to follow to find the answer to that: Look at the people who declared the war on terrorism and see what they say terrorism is; that's fair enough.
		He'd be puzzled because the worst cases by far of international terrorism in the region just are down the memory hole, like international terrorism in Central America.
		The Martian would surely report on page one that the United States right now is once again using the pretext of the war on terror to protect and probably escalate terrorism by its leading client state.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Chomsky/Journalist_Mars.html (5348 words)

	Consumer Action :: FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
		FAIR is a national media watch group that has offered criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
		Its mission includes invigoration of the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
		As an anti-censorship organization, FAIR works to expose neglected news stories and defend muzzled journalists.
	www.consumer-action.org /links/articles/fair_fairness_and_accuracy_in_reporting (80 words)

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