Recognize and Counter Mainstream Media Bias

The July 2022 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” provides fresh information and insights about a systemic problem that perpetuates war and all kinds of injustice.  This systemic problem also interferes with our efforts to solve all of the problems we care about.

This TV interview is about bias in mainstream news media.

Media bias is very pervasive – and because it is so very pervasive, it is often not even noticed.  It distorts what people know about vital issues such as war and peace, the economy, race, the criminal justice system, the climate, and all of the other important issues.  Because mainstream news media distort public knowledge about issues, media interfere with solving the problems.

Glen said he is happy to interview Janine Jackson, a great expert from an organization whose materials he has been reading for many decades.

Since 1986 Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR, www.fair.org) has been exposing various kinds of bias in mainstream, corporate-owned news media.  FAIR has been helping people to recognize the bias and learn more accurate information.

Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and the producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin.  She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!  Her articles have appeared in many publications.

 

 

Besides watching the interview video, I hope people will also read the thorough summary document I wrote because it provides links to some excellent sources of more information.

CLICK THIS LINK TO WATCH THE INTERVIEW VIDEO.

 

CLICK THE NEXT LINK TO READ THE THOROUGH SUMMARY:

2022.07 Bias in News Media — SUMMARY and MORE INFORMATION

After I produced this TV program and posted it to my blog, my e-mail address changed from glenanderson@integra.net to glen@parallaxperspectives.org.  When you watch the TV video and/or read the linked document, please use my new e-mail address (and/or phone me at 360-491-9093) if you have any questions or want more information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org