Jim Naureckas
@naureckas.bsky.social
Editor at FAIR since 1990.
“'We don’t make them like this anymore,' Meacham said, implying this is a bad thing."
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Dick Cheney Doesn’t Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies
Former Vice President Dick Cheney died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“'We don’t make them like this anymore,' Meacham said, implying this is a bad thing."
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Mamdani can't recognize a nearly 50-year-old pop song. But then, Newsday caption writers can't spell "Mamdani."
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Mamdani can't recognize a nearly 50-year-old pop song. But then, Newsday caption writers can't spell "Mamdani."
John Dickerson pays the price for questioning CBS's capitulation to MAGA:
“Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?”
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“Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?”
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‘CBS Evening News’ Co-Anchor John Dickerson to Exit Network
Dickerson, formerly the moderator of 'Face the Nation,' is the first high-profile exit at CBS following the hire of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
John Dickerson pays the price for questioning CBS's capitulation to MAGA:
“Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?”
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“Can you hold power to account after paying it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you’ve traded away that trust?”
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The New York Daily News gave 13 of the first 14 paragraphs of its story to a Cuomo rally attacking Mamdani--before moving on to a Mamdani rally that drew 40 times as many participants.
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Cuomo, Mamdani rally forces in Queens as mayoral race enters final days
With the city’s mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo on Sunday held rallies in Queens to make pitches to vot…
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October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The New York Daily News gave 13 of the first 14 paragraphs of its story to a Cuomo rally attacking Mamdani--before moving on to a Mamdani rally that drew 40 times as many participants.
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Fun fact: Tammy Baldwin, one of the four Democratic senators who the #NYTimes claims won because they were "moderates," has the 6th leftmost voting record in the Senate.
The @nytimes.com sees its role as establishing the ideological boundaries of the Democratic Party, most notably by drawing the line in the sand on the left that the Democrats must not cross.
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As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its own—not against fascism, but against progressivism.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fun fact: Tammy Baldwin, one of the four Democratic senators who the #NYTimes claims won because they were "moderates," has the 6th leftmost voting record in the Senate.
The Washington Post is deceptively pushing policies that make it more likely that we will get fascism in Europe. More importantly for Jeff Bezos, they will make it less likely that the rich will have to pay more taxes.
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WaPo Says ‘Hard Math’ Means Europe Must Lower Its Quality of Life
The idea that France may not be able to afford its social spending is a fantasy Washington Post reporters are presenting to their readers as fact.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The Washington Post is deceptively pushing policies that make it more likely that we will get fascism in Europe. More importantly for Jeff Bezos, they will make it less likely that the rich will have to pay more taxes.
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A glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now that it’s controlled by MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison’s nepo baby and anti-“woke” ideologue Bari Weiss
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From FAIR's Jim @naureckas.bsky.social
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CBS’s Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now that it’s controlled by MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison’s nepo baby and anti-“woke” ideologue Bari Weiss
From FAIR's Jim @naureckas.bsky.social
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From FAIR's Jim @naureckas.bsky.social
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Saying that “this administration always wins” when it makes emergency appeals to the Supreme Court was “obviously false,” CBS's Jan Crawford offered "one high-profile example"--there's only 2 to choose from--and she gets that one wrong.
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CBS’s Suck-Up to Barrett May Be a Taste of Propaganda to Come
A softball interview with Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett provides a glimpse of the kind of journalism we can expect from CBS News now.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Saying that “this administration always wins” when it makes emergency appeals to the Supreme Court was “obviously false,” CBS's Jan Crawford offered "one high-profile example"--there's only 2 to choose from--and she gets that one wrong.
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This is not a drill: Trump says that people who criticize him and his administration are responsible for "terrorism," and he's outlined a plan to prosecute this "conspiracy."
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Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal
After the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, Trump escalated his war on free speech, calling for criminalizing criticism of himself.
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October 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This is not a drill: Trump says that people who criticize him and his administration are responsible for "terrorism," and he's outlined a plan to prosecute this "conspiracy."
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"These three companies alone have collectively paid Trump and his associates $59.5 million for the sin of enforcing the rules of their own privately held companies."
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YouTube Bends the Knee
Welcome to the era of Big-Tech capitulation.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"These three companies alone have collectively paid Trump and his associates $59.5 million for the sin of enforcing the rules of their own privately held companies."
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The "trans shooter" meme illustrates a flaw in the way our minds work: We pay attention to things because they're unusual, then think they're common because we're paying attention to them.
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When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters
Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The "trans shooter" meme illustrates a flaw in the way our minds work: We pay attention to things because they're unusual, then think they're common because we're paying attention to them.
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@nytimes.com : "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actions—as well as their promises since Charlie Kirk’s killing—to guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism."
When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?
When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him
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September 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@nytimes.com : "Mr. Trump and administration officials have long championed free speech, but their actions—as well as their promises since Charlie Kirk’s killing—to guarantee it have been replaced by efforts to quash criticism."
When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?
When did Trump administration actions guarantee free speech?
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These performances of debate-unity only reach the NYT audience. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Right are signaling to their supporters that the time for a comprehensive crackdown on the “enemy within” has come. Klein isn’t doing anything to defuse the situation - he’s obscuring the problem.
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
These performances of debate-unity only reach the NYT audience. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Right are signaling to their supporters that the time for a comprehensive crackdown on the “enemy within” has come. Klein isn’t doing anything to defuse the situation - he’s obscuring the problem.
I suspect the supposed text messages released by the FBI are a reconstruction of how the roommate remembers the exchange, created with the help of FBI interrogators. Thus the stilted language and the way it serves prosecutorial needs--without being something the roommate will disavow in court.
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I suspect the supposed text messages released by the FBI are a reconstruction of how the roommate remembers the exchange, created with the help of FBI interrogators. Thus the stilted language and the way it serves prosecutorial needs--without being something the roommate will disavow in court.
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”Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.” @pastpunditry.bsky.social
The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review
Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”
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September 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
”Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.” @pastpunditry.bsky.social
The leading voices of MAGA are ready to declare a police state over the killing of Charlie Kirk -- carried out, as it appears, by someone even further right than Kirk.
September 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The leading voices of MAGA are ready to declare a police state over the killing of Charlie Kirk -- carried out, as it appears, by someone even further right than Kirk.
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September 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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During the Holocaust, the @nytimes.com shamefully buried news of the mass murder of Jews in its back pages, sometimes tucked in at the end of unrelated articles. With genocide scholars saying a new genocide is happening in #Gaza, the Times is behaving the same way.
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NYT Buries News That Experts on Genocide Say Israel Is Committing It
A declaration by genocide scholars that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza was widely seen as significant news--but not by the New York Times.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
During the Holocaust, the @nytimes.com shamefully buried news of the mass murder of Jews in its back pages, sometimes tucked in at the end of unrelated articles. With genocide scholars saying a new genocide is happening in #Gaza, the Times is behaving the same way.
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The corporate media template: Go ahead and admit that the US government is consciously and intentionally setting refuge seekers up to “end up in brutal conditions,” but don’t bother dwelling on where that slippery slope might lead us all.
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Media Dance Around Illegality of Trump’s Third-Country Deportation Scheme
US corporate media have not shied away from reporting on third-country deportations, but tend to dance around the illegality of the whole matter.
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September 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The corporate media template: Go ahead and admit that the US government is consciously and intentionally setting refuge seekers up to “end up in brutal conditions,” but don’t bother dwelling on where that slippery slope might lead us all.
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I'm proud to learn that the paper I wrote for in college is suing Marco Rubio on behalf of the First Amendment.
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The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations
The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.
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August 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm proud to learn that the paper I wrote for in college is suing Marco Rubio on behalf of the First Amendment.
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I miss the First Amendment.
August 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I miss the First Amendment.
The most popular active US politician is Bernie Sanders, with a +12 net favorability. Compare that to Chuck Schumer, with a -31 net. Yet Sanders is considered fringe, whereas Schumer is mainstream, pragmatic, a natural leader of the Democratic Party.
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What Americans think of 120 political leaders | YouGov
Barack Obama is by far the most well-liked political figure among the 120 asked about, with a net favorability among Americans of +22.
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August 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The most popular active US politician is Bernie Sanders, with a +12 net favorability. Compare that to Chuck Schumer, with a -31 net. Yet Sanders is considered fringe, whereas Schumer is mainstream, pragmatic, a natural leader of the Democratic Party.
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I hear there may be a few other things going on in DC... but I discussed the city’s sweetheart stadium deal with Janine Jackson on @fairmediawatch.bsky.social’s radio show Counterspin
Transcript of CounterSpin's interview with @petetucker.bsky.social on the DC stadium deal:
"The progressive side, somehow, is to call this the Commanders, not the Redskins, and get this deal done."
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"The progressive side, somehow, is to call this the Commanders, not the Redskins, and get this deal done."
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‘DC’s Not Making Money Here, DC Is Paying Billions’: CounterSpin interview with Pete Tucker on DC stadium deal
"All of these dollars are going to a stadium, as opposed to after-school programs, as opposed to shoring up an already hurt safety net."
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August 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I hear there may be a few other things going on in DC... but I discussed the city’s sweetheart stadium deal with Janine Jackson on @fairmediawatch.bsky.social’s radio show Counterspin
Corporate journalists see pretending not to know what's going on as a central part of their job.
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Starvation in Gaza divides many Jewish Americans
Images of starving children have caused what some call a “rupture” between supporters of Israel’s offensive and opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Corporate journalists see pretending not to know what's going on as a central part of their job.
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