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FAIR believes that corporate sponsorship and ownership, as well as government policies and pressure, restricts journalism and therefore distorts public discourse. [7] FAIR also believes that most news media reflects the interests of business and government elites while ignoring or minimizing minority, female, public interest, and dissenting ...
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. [1]
Reporting the truth is almost never libel, [24] which makes accuracy very important. Private persons have privacy rights that must be balanced against the public interest in reporting information about them. Public figures have fewer privacy rights in U.S. law, where reporters are immune from a civil case if they have reported without malice.
It is our choice.In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initiated the Fairness Doctrine, which was a policy that required holders of broadcasting licenses to report on controversial ...
Impartiality requires fairness and balance that follows the weight of evidence: it allows the journalist to make sense of events through dispassionate analysis of all relevant facts and perspectives. Treat all facts the same, making editorial judgments and delivering analysis based only on the weight of evidence.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., is federal legislation enacted to promote the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of consumer information contained in the files of consumer reporting agencies. It was intended to shield consumers from the willful and/or negligent inclusion of erroneous data in their credit reports.
Examples of false balance in reporting on science issues include the topics of human-caused climate change versus natural climate variability, the health effects of tobacco, the alleged relation between thiomersal and autism, [6] alleged negative side effects of the HPV vaccine, [7] and evolution versus intelligent design.
Conservative is a broadly accepted term. Progressive is not. I think a reasonable opening would be, "Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) is a left wing media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986. It describes itself as a 'progressive group that believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the ...