Category: Media Beat column

On his way to confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the current U.N. envoy John Negroponte was busily twisting language like a pretzel at a Senate hearing the other day. The new Baghdad regime, to be installed on June 30, will have sovereignty. Well, sort of. Negroponte explained: “That is why I use the term…

Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed themselves to be returning as a vibrant creative force centered very much in the present. Not that the music of Country Joe and the Fish ever really disappeared. Since the release of the…

Column and FAIR action alert. The NewsHour now has issued a correction based on the response from the action alert.

Past columns are archived on FAIR's site. Many pieces are posted in collections curated by ColdType, here. Coldtype also has Media Beat columns from 2003, 2004, and 2005 as PDFs, and a PDF of columns from August to December 2002 collected as The Media Marches to War.