Talk:Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
From Academic Kids
I don't think it's a POV to state the political affiliation of an organization. There simply are leftist and rightist outfits. FAIR makes no secret about its political stance; in fact, it is advertised everywhere. For instance, in its What's FAIR (http://www.fair.org/whats-fair.html) page, it describes itself as a "progressive group". If it denied its political leanings, that would be an NPOV issue, but it does not. -- VV 20:20, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I find nothing backing up the claim that FAIR is "left". // Liftarn
Are you fucking kidding me? Trey Stone 05:33, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I could not find support for this assertion: "Non-leftists are often dissatisfied with FAIR, one issue being the group's stance against Christina Hoff Sommers, calling the group McCarthyite and unworthy of the label fair." --GD 09:00, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Left-wing and progressive are two very different terms. FAIR simply states itself as a progressive group its only progressive policy is about economic controls on media, not content.
"As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information."
A level playing field and a better media market are economic ideas of the right. Calling fair a leftist organization is wrong and shows a lot of POV and bias.
> "A level playing field and a better media market are economic ideas of the right."
Wrong. Check out these leftist sites: [1] (http://www.moveon.org) [2] (http://www.adbusters.org)
Both the Left and the Right have used the term 'progressive'. In fact, not too long ago in my country of residence there was a Progressive Conservative party. Since liberals would be more likely than conservatives to agree that FAIR's policy is 'progressive', I think it's FAIR to say that it is a liberal group. Vacuum 16:22, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
How come a bunch of radicals (talking U.S. "progressivism" here) got to claim they were the ones advocating progress? 's notttt fairrrrr... Trey Stone 05:31, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
> Hmm, perhaps it is because ithas been radical groups that have driven all the significant changes in US policy, at least, those for the better, such as the Abolitionist movement, the feminist movement, and civil rights movement, just to name a few. All of these were considered radical in their time, and indeed some aspects of them remain so. Zinnling 07:07, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
FAIR's Funding
Is there are source for all this information on FAIR's funding?--GD 10:01, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
