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Jeff Cohen
Jeff B. Cohen is an American journalist, media critic, professor, and the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog group in the US. He is a retired associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College, where he was an endowed chair and founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media.
Mainstream political pundits gain wealth and clout by speculating about elections – who’s up, who’s down, who’s raising the most campaign cash (but…
Source: Scheerpost Sometimes one decision speaks volumes. And so it was when the Congressional Progressive Caucus — with 98 members in the…
Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the “War on Terror” and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today’s war coverage are dizzying to me.
The editorial certainly reflected “longstanding values” — since the Times has recycled them for decades in its relentless attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party
This was an open-and-shut case, and it started leaking to community leaders and independent journalists that the police claim about McDonald having lunged at police was totally false.
Even after the Afghan war has finally ended, the establishment’s appetite for unbridled military spending seems insatiable
Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is appealing for support from a set of politicians he has repeatedly relied on in his career: Republicans.
If Biden won’t even heed Schumer’s urgent advice to give the country an FDR-like push forward – and instead listens to the “go-slow/go-small” warnings of giant corporations and their media – the GOP will win big in 2022
One of FAIR’s main goals was to take what had been a marginalized progressive media critique and push that critique into the faces of mainstream journalists