Activism Director and and Co-producer of CounterSpin Peter Hart is the activism director at FAIR. He writes for FAIR’s magazine Extra! and is also a co-host and producer of FAIR’s syndicated radio show CounterSpin. He is the author of The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly (Seven Stories Press, 2003). Hart has been interviewed by a number of media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Associated Press. He has also appeared on Showtime and in the movie Outfoxed.
Weather From Another Planet: Wildfires and Climate Change
TV news, as we pointed out recently in a FAIR study…, is intensely interested in extreme weather. But coverage that links weather events to climate is extremely rare.
May 21, 2014
The Good Kind of Protesters–and the Bad Kind
It’s fair to say that the complex anti-government protest movements in both Venezuela and Ukraine were boiled down by US corporate media to send a clear message to their domestic audience: These are the good guys.
March 6, 2014