Here's the Evidence Corporate Media Say Is Missing of WaPo Bias Against Sanders

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33. The term "corporate media" may be technically correct, but given FAIR's

mission statement, the organization should know better than to employ technically accurate language that has been co-opted and distorted in order to advance an agenda that serves to undermine public trust in responsible reporting. By doing so, they are little better than those they decry.

FAIR used to advocate for independent, public broadcasting and advocate for non-profit sources of responsible unbiased reporting.

When FAIR starts warning consumers against the dangers of profit-driven special interest "framers of a different narrative" and politicians like Trump producing their own alternative "news" media funded by unknown sources people might start taking FAIR seriously again.

Are the YouYube "news" channels an example of the type of "strong non-profit sources of information" that FAIR champions? It's puzzling that FAIR doesn't focus more of its attention on privately owned internet "news" sources, like TYT whose main function has been to monetize their pseudo activism.

Similarly, where was FAIR's hard-hitting exposé on outlets like RT (either in real time or now) which largely served to advance Putin's agenda during 2015-2016 election season? Odd that a group that styles itself as a media watchdog is so stunningly silent about that particular purveyor of propaganda.

Here's what the intrepid guardian of first amendment principles had to say about Russian manipulation in 2016:

Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace

On Saturday’s episode of AM Joy with Joy Ann Reid, guest Malcolm Nance, a former Naval intelligence officer, summed up MSNBC’s Russia panic with this quote:

Joy Ann Reid: Because from what I’ve seen, the only people not with Hillary Clinton at this point…are people in the Jill Stein camp. Jill Stein was sitting at Putin’s table right with General Flynn.

Malcolm Nance: Jill Stein has a show on Russia Today.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein doesn’t have a show at all, let alone on RT. She once attended a function hosted by RT, which, by our current standards of liberal discourse, makes her a Kremlin agent, but the fact that such a demonstrably false statement could be made on cable news to thousands of people without anyone bothering to correct it shows how easy Russia panic is to stoke.

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Earlier in the segment, Nance made the claim that “someone” in Trump’s campaign “may” be an “agent of Russia,” citing a recent report in the Financial Times (8/19/16) alleging that Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s former translator “may” have “links” to Russian intelligence.

The irony, of course, is that Nance himself has far more recent and better documented ties to US intelligence, but MSNBC feels no need to convince viewers he is not a CIA plant spreading disinformation.

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According to leading pro-Democratic media, the US cannot possibly work with Russia; they are fundamentally adversarial. This type of macho posturing, previously the domain of Fox News, has become increasingly commonplace as the Clinton camp drives home the talking point that Trump is a Kremlin agent.

The day before, in his segment “Does Putin Want Trump to Be President?,” Chris Matthews (8/19/16) allowed former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul to assert that, without a doubt, Russian intelligence hacked the DNC and leaked the info to get Trump elected. Despite the fact that the head of US intelligence, James Clapper, has asked the media to pump the brakes on making these claims without qualification, McFaul has his “sources,” so it becomes a matter of fact.

https://fair.org/home/stoking-russia-panic-for-partisan-gain-will-have-a-long-term-price-for-peace/

FAIR's stories on Russian manipulations on our election in 2016 election have largely served to advance the narrative that the alarm about Russian influence are largely an overblown reaction that allows corporate media to skirt any focus on its own troubling bias .

But FAIR was technically correct about Jill Stein not having a program on RT.

Caveat lector.