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By Janine Jackson Extra! Contents Volume 27, Number 11 December 2014 the Magazine of FAIR—The Media Watch Group Media Muddle Midterms—page 5 $4.95 December 2014 Vol. 27, No. 11 Forgetting Ferguson US’s Non-Recovery Katha Pollitt on Abortion Still Smearing Gary Webb ExtrThe Magazine of FAIR—The Media Watch Groupa! Ebola: The Big Scare by Janine Jackson Extra! Contents Volume 27, Number 11 December 2014 The Magazine of FAIR—The Media Watch Group EDITOR Jim Naureckas PUBLISHER Deborah Thomas 3 SoundBites PROGRAM DIRECTOR Janine Jackson SENIOR ANALYST Steve Rendall ACTIVISM DIRECTOR Peter Hart RACE LENS 4 Forgetting Ferguson Columnists Rania Khalek, Josmar Trujillo Mainstream media move on from a movement Contributing Writer by Josmar Trujillo Neil deMause 5 The ‘Center’ Always Holds Interns/Volunteers Aldo Guerrero After midterm losses, media—of course—advise Dems to move right by Peter Hart and Jim Naureckas Associates Hollie Ainbinder, Robin Andersen, Kim Deterline, Laura Flanders, Carolyn Francis, Karl Grossman, COUNTERSPIN Edward Herman, Jim Horwitz, William Hoynes, 6 ‘There Really Is No Recovery’ Sam Husseini, Norman Solomon Richard Wolff on the state of the economy Advisory Board James Abourezk, Edward Asner, Ben Bagdikian, Jackson Browne, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, COVER STORY Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi, 8 Ebola Story Puts Old Fears in New Virus Phillip Frazer, Herbert Chao Gunther, Doug Henwood, Dolores Huerta, Nicholas Johnson, Paula Kamen, Behind media obsession, a sad old story of poverty and priorities Frances Moore Lappé, Katha Pollitt, Tim Robbins, by Janine Jackson Susan Sarandon, Stacey Sher, Bob Siegel, Eleanor Smeal, Steven Van Zandt, Helen Zia BOOK EXCERPT FAIR FOUNDER 10 Pro-Remorse Pundits Jeff Cohen Supporting abortion—as long as women feel bad about it COUNTERSPIN ENGINEERS by Katha Pollitt Alex Noyes, Kelly Spivey 12 Having Their Hate and Defeating Dems Too LEGAL COUNSEL William Schaap, Joel Kupferman At Fox News Latino, immigrants go from target to target audience by Aldo Guerrero FAIR/Extra! Editorial Office 124 West 30th Street, Suite 201 14 Still Killing the Messenger New York, NY 10001 Tel.: 212-633-6700 A feature film prompts a new round of attacks on Gary Webb by Peter Hart [email protected] http://www.fair.org Subscription Inquiries: [email protected] Cover montage based on New York City photograph by Stefan Georgi Extra! (ISSN 0895-2310) is published 10 times a year, monthly except for July/August and January/February by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, Inc.). U.S. & Canadian subscriptions are $25 per year (foreign $48), write to Extra! Sub scription Service, P.O. Box 170, Congers, NY 10920-9930, FAIR call 800-847-3993, or email [email protected]. Period- , the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of icals postage paid at NY, NY 10001 and additional mailing media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Extra! Sub - by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices scription Service, P.O. Box 170, Congers, NY 10920-9930. © FAIR 2014. All rights reserved. that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-cen- sorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information. u Extra! 2 December 2014 S o u n d B i t e s At NewsHour, Teaching Harper’s ‘This Is War, Dude! Civilians Die!’ Insulating Facts with Fog Not to Mess With PBS Another thing we got to get over, this nonsense about there can’t be any PBS NewsHour (10/1/14) brought Harper’s Magazine (10/14) took a civilian casualties! War is ugly, sloppy and messy, and sometimes there are on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) to tough look at PBS and how far the civilian casualties, especially when your enemy uses human shields. If explain how deep spending cuts on system has strayed from its intended you’re going to go after ISIS, you got to suck it up and do what’s right! social programs combined with tax mission. What was supposed to be a ....My contacts within the breaks for the wealthy can be an forum for the underrepresented has chain of command, people “anti-poverty” program. It helps, of become just another outlet for elite, involved in this operation, course, when his proposals are establishment-oriented views, wrote are furious that Obama’s described in vague, euphemistic The Baffler’s Eugenia Williamson: put incredible targeting language that obscures rather than “Today, the only special-interest group restrictions on them, reveals, as when a NewsHour seg- the network clearly favors is the aging doesn’t want any civilian ment (8/13/12) described Ryan’s idea upper class: their tastes, their pet casualties! This is war, dude! of slashing Medicare benefits as a agendas, their centrist politics.” Civilians die! They’re going to die! You minimize the casualties, but people plan to “impose changes for future PBS reportedly distributed talking are going to die. —Fox News analyst (and retired US Army officer) Medicare recipients to hold down points to station managers that, rather Ralph Peters (Hannity, 9/23/14; 9/30/14) costs.” than refuting Williamson’s claims, touted awards and ratings data to head of Homeland Security, but bal- “a huge advantage among white show that it is actually doing a great anced that with Hunter’s assertion working-class voters.” A paragraph job. But that wasn’t PBS’s only reac- that Homeland Security hasn’t known later, Chozick described this as a tion. As the New York Post (9/25/14) what it was doing “for a long time.” sign of Obama’s “trouble in attracting reported, PBS pulled ads for one of its Then Raddatz sat down with for- traditional Democratic voters.” shows from the next two issues of mer Bush administration flack So is a “traditional Democratic Harper’s—so an outlet established Matthew Dowd, who offered this voter” really a white voter? In the on the principle that advertising exerts head-scratcher: “I think everybody general election in 2008, exit polls Judy Woodruff carefully avoids offending undue pressure on media outlets used has the right to say what they want to showed Obama getting only 36 per- Paul Ryan with reality. advertising pressure to retaliate say, but they have the responsibility to cent of the Kentucky white vote— against an outlet that dared to suggest say what maybe they believe to be just like John Kerry got 35 percent of The NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff it had lost touch with its principles. factually correct. The congressman that vote in 2004. epitomized this obfuscatory approach says he believes it to be factually The piece included a Kentuckian to journalism in her question to Ryan: ISIS in Mexico? correct.” who said he’s “just nostalgic for when Hard to Say Democrats were different than You talk about the Republican “I know that at least ten ISIS fighters Obama.” You know—”traditional” Party, how it needs to open up. have been caught coming across the Democrats. But I guess one of the questions Mexican border in Texas,” declared to you is, how hard is that to do, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), adding Best, Smartest, when many–certainly Democrats, that “dozens more” had evaded Whitest, Malest some independents–see the capture. There was no evidence at all Asked by the group Media Matters Republican Party as a party that to back up Hunter’s claims—when (10/22/14) why 62 percent of the has at least in the past been asked for proof, Hunter’s office Matthew Dowd to Martha Raddatz: “Every- guests on Meet the Press were white body has the right to say what they want perceived as against doing pro- asserted that future press coverage men, host Chuck Todd suggested it to say...” grams for the poor, against ex- might one day prove him correct was out of his hands: panding Medicaid health benefits? (Politifact, 10/10/14). This should It’s not wrong if someone “says he have made it a slam-dunk factcheck believes it was factually correct”—if I can’t control, sometimes, the fact Let’s see: “Many” people, espe- —but ABC News (This Week, that’s ABC’s standard for factcheck- that 90 percent of the generals cially partisan opponents, “see” the 10/13/14) had trouble simply saying ing, it really ought to give up on the and the military experts out there– GOP as having “been perceived,” “at it wasn’t true. practice. you know what I mean? Some of least in the past,” as opposing pro- ABC’s Martha Raddatz teased the this stuff is out of your control. At grams for the poor like Medicaid ex- story: “Up next, were ISIS terrorists The Race for the the end of the day, you want to put pansion. But these aren’t some caught sneaking across our southern Traditional House the best people on. You want to people’s perceptions about the past; border? Why one congressman’s Under the headline “In South, Clinton put the best, smartest people on. these are facts about the Republican claims are raising alarms.” Yes, why? Tries to Pull Democrats Back Into the Party of today. As USA Today Because they were true, or because Fold,” New York Times reporter Amy Todd did not offer an explanation (12/5/13) reported, “All 20 of the an elected official was spouting non- Chozick (10/16/14) recalled that as to why the show finds 62 percent states choosing not to expand Medi- sense? Raddatz seemed to find it hard Hillary Clinton won the 2008 Demo- of the “best, smartest people” to be caid have Republican governors.” to clarify.
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