FAIR Blog » Action Alert http://www.fair.org/blog The national media watch group Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:42:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Action Alert: CNN Hires Erick Erickson http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/16/action-alert-cnn-hires-erick-erickson/ http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/16/action-alert-cnn-hires-erick-erickson/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:56:01 +0000 Jim Naureckas http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13977 FAIR has a new Action Alert out on CNN's newest political commentator: Red State's Erick Erickson. For some indication of why this is perhaps the creepiest move by a cable network since MSNBC hired Michael Savage--and for an email address to communicate your feelings--click here.  Please leave copies of your messages to CNN, or comments on the alert, in the comments thread here.

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/16/action-alert-cnn-hires-erick-erickson/feed/ 172 Action Alert: NYT Falls for the ACORN Hoax http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/11/action-alert-nyt-falls-for-the-acorn-hoax/ http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/11/action-alert-nyt-falls-for-the-acorn-hoax/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:35:17 +0000 Jim Naureckas http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13859 FAIR has a new Action Alert out pointing out that the New York Times has repeatedly published accounts of the right-wing anti-ACORN videos that credulously accepted assertions that have turned out to be false--for example, that one of the video-makers, James O'Keefe, went into ACORN offices dressed as a cartoon pimp. See the alert here for the real story--and feel free to post copies of your messages to the Times or to respond to the alert in the comments thread here.

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/11/action-alert-nyt-falls-for-the-acorn-hoax/feed/ 29 Action Alert: PBS Replacing Moyers, Now. . .With Jon Meacham? http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/10/action-alert-pbs-replacing-moyers-now-with-jon-meacham/ http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/10/action-alert-pbs-replacing-moyers-now-with-jon-meacham/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:42:25 +0000 Jim Naureckas http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13844 FAIR has a new Action Alert reacting to reports that PBS's replacement for the retiring Bill Moyers and the canceled Now series will be headed by Newsweek editor Jon "Center-Right Nation" Meacham. To learn more or to send a message to PBS ombud Michael Getler, click here. Feel free to leave copies of your responses in the comments thread here.

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/10/action-alert-pbs-replacing-moyers-now-with-jon-meacham/feed/ 84 Action Alert: The NYT and the 'Return' to Terrorism http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/27/action-alert-the-nyt-and-the-return-to-terrorism/ http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/05/27/action-alert-the-nyt-and-the-return-to-terrorism/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 15:56:19 +0000 Jim Naureckas http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9357 FAIR's latest Action Alert asks media activists to ask New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt about a recent Elisabeth Bumiller article that reported on former Guantanamo prisoners "returning" to terrorism--even though it was not clear there was evidence that any of the released prisoners had ever been involved in "terrorism" of any sort.

Please leave copies of your messages to Hoyt in the comment thread here.

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