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The Corporate Media’s Soft Spot For Ivanka Trump And Jared Kushner

“The degree to which Politico—along with many others in corporate media—is willfully carrying Ivanka’s water is an embarrassment and a gross ethical transgression.”

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By Reed Richardson | FAIR
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, her husband White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and their son Theodore Kushner walk on the South Lawn of the White House Washington, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, to Marine One en route to Camp David, Md. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

In June, the celebrity magazine Us Weekly (6/7/17) ran a cover story on Ivanka Trump not-so-subtly titled, “Why I Disagree With My Dad.” Relying on carefully chosen anonymous “sources” and “Ivanka insiders,” the story cast the First Daughter as a key player inside the White House who has “battled” her more conservative father over “everything from

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Media Routinely Repeats Pentagon Kill Estimates That Defy Reality

The glaring disconnects between the official estimates of ISIS fighters killed, total contingent size and civilian casualties cries out for much greater skepticism and due diligence among the corporate media.

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By Reed Richardson | FAIR

One of the hoariest methods of modern war propaganda remains the official body count. Government or military officials decisively touting large numbers of enemies killed has long been a surefire way to get credulous or friendly press coverage, despite the fact that the figures cited are routinely presented with no evidence to back them up or

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Killing The Public Editor, NYT Deals Another Blow To Public Trust

Failures in seeking truth are inherent to the job of journalism. But now the Times has rid itself of a powerful tool for learning from its previous mistakes and, maybe, preventing the next one.

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By Reed Richardson | FAIR
New York Times Public Editor

The compact a free press has with the public is based on two fundamental pillars: truth and trust. To earn the latter isn’t easy, however, because the former rarely just lies around in plain sight, waiting to be typed up and published. That’s why journalism is, in all honesty, a frustrating profession of daily failure, of falling short—a telling

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