Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) is an American Press Association, dedicated to the control and documentation prescribed by the one-sided and false reporting, and self-censorship in the mass media. Headquarters of the Organization is New York, New York.
Foundation
FAIR was founded in 1986 by media critic Jeff Cohen. Cohen left the organization in May 2002 to work as a producer for Phil Donahue's talk show on MSNBC.
Objectives / program
Informed citizens in a democracy need, according to FAIR independent, aggressive and critical media. Today's mass media are organized in a small number of highly concentrated media conglomerates that are in private hands. The amalgamation and economic dependence of the economy has meant that little criticism of economic and political forces practiced and only a limited spectrum of opinion is rendered. FAIR believes that structural reforms are needed to the dominant position of the media conglomerates to break up and to create independent, public, non-profit media. FAIR describes itself as a media monitoring group which criticized the one-sided and biased coverage in the U.S. media and advocates for a greater diversity of opinions expressed in the media.
Activities
FAIR is committed to working with activists and journalists. Since 1987, the award-winning media-critical magazine Extra! issued at a rate of 2 months. Since Extra! financed instead by advertising revenue only on the revenue of subscriptions independent reporting is guaranteed. FAIR continues to produce the weekly half-hour radio program counter spin ( brings you the news behind the headlines ), edited by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart which over 130 radio stations will broadcast and the Internet is available as MP3 or RealAudio. The FAIR - newsletter with over 55,000 subscribers serves to disseminate " Action Alerts ".