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Topic: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting FAIR

	FAIR Misrepresents the Racak Massacre
		FAIR's article alleges that there is “new evidence casting doubt on claims that the bodies were civilian victims of a massacre” and attributes the first-hand source for that information to a recently-published report by a Finnish team of forensic pathologists hired by the European Union to investigate the deaths.
		In an interview reported in two articles in the March 10, 2001 issue of the respected Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, she characterizes the Berliner Zeitung article and similar articles as “nonsense.” She completely rules out the Serbian scenario, that the Albanians were KLA soldiers.
		FAIR reported on the opinion of the Berliner Zeitung reporters, and if FAIR's writers had read their source and been familiar with other available information on Racak, including the Human Rights Watch report, FAIR would have recognized the inaccuracy of their report.
	www.glypx.com /BalkanWitness/fair.htm (2336 words)

	ipedia.com: Media bias Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Social bias: Social and class divisions, within the context of a report, or the overall bias of reporting to favor the status class.
		The fledgling BBC Radio News attempted to sabotage this strike by broadcasting reports of the workers breaking the strike in many areas, reports which were largely fictitious.
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has done a study claiming that journalists actually are not particularly liberal on most issues [1].
	www.ipedia.com /media_bias.html (1513 words)

	FAIR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		FAIR desires more variety and diversity in the press, and it frowns upon media practices that "marginalize public interest." The public is full of people from many different backgrounds, but the media tends to relate stories to only a small portion of the audience.
		FAIR concludes that since people are affected and influenced by the media, it is important to have fair and accurate reporting.
		Forty-four percent of the respondents reported that advertisers had "actually withdrawn advertising because of content of a news report." Comments made on the questionnaires suggest that automobile dealers are a major source of censorial pressure.
	www.utexas.edu /coc/journalism/SOURCE/j363/fair.html (2457 words)

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		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a tax-exempt leftwing "media watchdog" organization founded in 1986 by radical activist Jeff Cohen.
		FAIR's position, reiterated and expanded most recently in a 2004 article co-authored by its senior analyst Steve Rendall and staffer Anna Kosseff, is that, contrary to conservative perceptions, the mainstream media in America is biased to the right, not to the left.
		FAIR received grants totaling $811,374 in fiscal year 1998 (which covered the period from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998); $313,688 in fiscal year 1999; $497,210 in fiscal year 2000; $470,059 in fical year 2001; $442,699 in fiscal year 2002; and $161,189 in fiscal year 2003.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=7092 (1577 words)

	essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		FAIR asked Dateline why they felt it was appropriate to repeatedly run exploitative images of women being stripped and groped against their will, and why the show framed its investigation with the question of "what responsibility" victims bear for such assaults (Author unknown, ACTION ALERT: Dateline NBC Exploits Central Park Victims).
		As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information (Author unknown, FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting).
		FAIR concludes that since people are affected and influenced by the media, it is important to have fair and accurate reporting (White, FAIR-FAIRNESS and ACCURACY in REPORTING).
	home.utm.utoronto.ca /~numairak/essay.htm (2578 words)

	Limbaugh Responds to FAIR +quot;Reign of Error: From aids to ozone, from Whitewater to the
		Limbaugh Responds to FAIR "Reign of Error: From aids to ozone, from Whitewater to the Bible, Limbaugh seems to be able to dissemble and disinform on virtually any subject." _ report from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (fair), listing "dozens of [Limbaugh's] statements and writings it says are inaccurate," Associated Press, June 28, 1994.
		"fair" was launched in the summer of 1987 with the financial assistance of The New World Foundation (nwf) which gave fair a $2,500 grant that year, according to nwf's 1987-1988 annual report.
		It reported that "if their case was made tougher by that added `intent' requirement, U.S. prosecutors had the significant strategic edge of having seen a run-through.
	www.skepticfiles.org /skeptic/limbrebt.htm (6707 words)

	SavageStupidity.com - Fairness Doctrine
		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)

	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)

	Fun_People Archive - 22 Sep - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		FAIR focusses 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.
		FAIR is in the WWW as http://www.igc.org/fair To subscribe to FAIR's mailing list, send mail to majordomo@fair.org with the first and only line: subscribe fair-l You can get a sample of FAIR's work (the Rush Limbaugh criticism) by mailing to fair-report@fair.org.
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/1995/1995BHD.html (176 words)

	How To Detect Bias In News Media Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
		FAIR's 40-month survey of Nightline found its U.S. guests to be 92 percent white and 89 percent male.
		For instance, in coverage of women on welfare, the age at which a woman had her first child will often be reported-the implication being that the woman's sexual "promiscuity," rather than institutional economic factors, are responsible for her plight.
		Most reporters, for example, will not say directly that a woman deserved to be raped because of what she was wearing.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Media_Reform/HowDetect_BiasNewsMedia.html (1055 words)

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		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a tax-exempt "media watchdog" organization founded in 1986 by radical activist Jeff Cohen, who regards the Democratic Party as "right wing." FAIR's position, as summarized in a 2004
		As evidence for their claim that the establishment media were conservative, Cohen and FAIR cited as evidence the relatively scant coverage and few interviews the media gave to radicals.
		As FAIR became more widely known in media circles, Cohen rose from being an irregular guest to a regular pundit on television.
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=7092 (586 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)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Limbaugh Responds to FAIR "Reign of Error: From aids to ozone, from Whitewater to the Bible, Limbaugh seems to be able to dissemble and disinform on virtually any subject." - report from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), listing "dozens of [Limbaugh's] statements and writings it says are inaccurate," Associated Press, June 28, 1994.
		"FAIR" was launched in the summer of 1987 with the financial assistance of The New World Foundation (nwf) which gave FAIR a $2,500 grant that year, according to nwf's 1987-1988 annual report.
		It reported that "if their case was made tougher by that added intent' requirement, U.S. prosecutors had the significant strategic edge of having seen a run-through.
	www.isc.tamu.edu /~mann/MISC/MANN/rushrespond (6801 words)

	Hermes Article
		A FAIR survey found that only 10% of media sources during this debate represented "recipients of welfare and social services." While these people were crucial to the discussion, this small percentage were never allowed to make their case.
		More disturbing is the limited degree of research reporters put into the story-only 9% of sources consulted had done any sort of study into the effects of welfare at all.
		Most reporters take their facts from other reporters without checking for validity, choosing to put their efforts into getting sound-bites from politicians (who make up the vast majority of quoted media sources).
	www.wesleyan.edu /hermes/prev/mar97/2A3_97.htm (1749 words)

	Fair_it_is_not
		FAIR will frequently make the claim that the media is only as liberal as their conservative owners (despite the all-too-common portrayal of businessmen as evil and greedy), a fallacy that relies on the intentional (or ignorant) confusion of the two meanings of capitalist.
		Whether by ignorance or by dishonesty, we cannot tell whether FAIR misses Stossel's demonstration that while "poor" workers and their "selfless" advocates claim to desire equality and oppose greed, they are in fact as self-interested and greedy as anyone else.
		FAIR fails to report the details of the Ludlow massacre, or whether or not this is an event that was unique only to Rockefeller's company.
	www.zianet.com /ehusman/Fair_it_is_not.htm (4224 words)

	Fair Credit Reporting
		A credit report is used by a creditor to decide whether or not to extend a credit to you.
		The purpose of the act is to ensure “accuracy and fairness of credit reporting.” A lot of things, including the banking system, a debtor’s credit worthiness and capacity, consumer privacy, and creditor decisions on general consumer reputations are dependent on this Act.
		The primary purpose of the Fair Credit Reporting Act is to ensure fairness and accuracy of credit reporting, and that the procedures followed are reasonable.
	www.bankruptcyhome.com /whatisfaircreditact.htm (471 words)

	Media Play Was Light for Rally's Heavy Turnout
		According to a survey of media coverage released this week of the April 25 March for Womenâs Lives by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), a progressive group in New York, the two-mile march was given less airtime and ink than a previous national demonstration that attracted a crowd of comparable size.
		FAIR did not conduct a similar analysis for the Million Man March, but observers agreed the massive assembly of African American men on the national mall grabbed headlines and attracted television cameras to the point that no one missed it.
		While only a minute fraction of those on the scene--the largest anti-choice group present reported that it had recruited about 1,000 activists --they were given disproportionate coverage and generous opportunity to express their views.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1822 (1371 words)

	FAIR in the News
		“Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog group, did a study analyzing the major nightly newscasts for the two weeks surrounding then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech for war before the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003.
		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 (1724 words)

	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Extra! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		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.
		This leveling is difficult to resist within the philanthropy-dependent Left, despite the presumed orientations of executive director Jeff Cohen and publisher Martin Lee.
	www.namebase.org /sources/JU.html (231 words)

	Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record
		Despite regular reporting of such crimes in the Honduran press, the human rights reports of Negroponte's embassy consistently failed to raise these issues.
		In general, right-wing pundits and commentators were much more likely than mainstream news reporters to cite Negroponte's shady past--as proof that he is the right man for the job.
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a New York-based media watchdog organization.
	baltimorechronicle.com /022305FAIR.html (689 words)

	New York Daily News - TV and Radio - Radio: A FAIR study of NPR's coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A new study by the progressive media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) challenges the frequent assertion that National Public Radio (NPR) is a hotbed of liberalism.
		FAIR also said right-wing think tanks were cited 62 times to 56 times for centrists and 15 times for progressives.
		FAIR did credit NPR with improving diversity since a similar study in 1993.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/ent_radio/story/198404p-171333c.html (395 words)

	Notes on the Atrocities
		In 1995, as we were revolutionizing not just attack media, but language itself, we clearly perverted the meaning of the words 'fair' and 'balanced.' Taken out of their original context, they became a cynical tagline for our product.
		Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog, and Comedy Central, host of "The Daily Show," were also targeted by Fox's wrath.
		Said Darkheart, "The words fair and balanced are each referenced in their obsolete, confusing context in the dictionary.
	notesontheatrocities.blogspot.com /2003/08/all-right-its-predictable-but-how.html (597 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)

	Search Results for accuracy - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The medieval pottery of France is difficult to date and classify with accuracy, but lead glaze was in common use by the 13th century at the latest.
		The depth of focus is shown in the table as the accuracy with which the focal...
		Project for studying the reasons for and improving the interpretation of mesoscale and microscale shifts in climate models, and thus to raise the accuracy of weather predictions.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=accuracy&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (408 words)

	Balance Is Bias When Reporting on Global Warming, Study Claims -- 12/22/2004
		The report -- "Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias; Creating Controversy Where Science Finds Consensus" -- was authored by university teachers Jules Boykoff and Maxwell Boykoff, and it is being promoted by the liberal media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR).
		According to the report, mainstream newspapers -- in their effort to present balanced reporting -- are giving global warming skeptics more credence than they deserve.
		Through "balanced" reporting, the authors of the study claim, the mass media have misrepresented the scientific consensus of humans' contribution to global warming as highly divisive.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200412\NAT20041222a.html (926 words)

	Sentient Times Aug/Sept 2004
		Fox News claims to be fair and balanced, but a recent 25-week study by the nonpartisan Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) found a serious conservative bias in Brit Hume’s Special Report program on Fox.
		The BBC reported that “Murdoch’s die-hard loyalty to tax loopholes has drawn wide criticism” after a report found that in the four years prior to June 30, 1998, “Murdoch’s News Corporation and its subsidiaries paid only $325 million in corporate taxes worldwide.
		Fox reported on the report’s implicit contradictions of administration claims as if they were an invention of the media.
	www.sentienttimes.com /04/aug_sept_04/fox_news.html (2597 words)

	Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) [Free Republic]
		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)

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