Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

It's even spelled differently, by the way, not the real CARE.

But then that's about as deceptive of an acronym as FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

Boy, I remember even questioning them back during my college years.

with their bias, fairness, and accuracy in reporting.

And the interesting thing in this interview and the next one that we're going to show is that People have said to him, whoops, people have said to Sam, oh yeah, here we go.

Why are you running as a green? Why didn't you run as a DSA candidate? And why didn't you run in the Democratic primary instead? And what he answered here and Jeff Cohen from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting also challenged Sam is why didn't you run as a Democrat? As you said- Why should I run in the primary and get dismissed there? Scroll this one down.

I think the second part of this image also we want to show.

Why do I want to go ahead and get dismissed in the Democratic primary when I can be on the general election ballot? And what he's saying here is that, and this is from Breonna Gray's podcast, saying that the decision to run stems from a deep frustration with the American people political jam a structural statement where the two-party system neutralizes radical change and his campaign seeks to challenge the dominance of corporate uh democrats and he talks here about how going into the democrats is a sheepdogging where they talk progressive but then their policies are not so he made the um He made the decision to go in and run as a green to be on.

And That really resonated with me so deeply.

I started my career, I have a degree in journalism, and my first internship was for a media watchdog organization called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

And the idea was the media is supposed to be fair and report things accurately.

And now, as a person that works with thousands of nonprofits, I don't know how we get there without nonprofits.

I started my career working for a watchdog.

I interned.

at an organization called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

And our job was to try and hold the media accountable and say, where are you getting this information from? Is it sourced? Is it fair? Is it accurate? So those kinds of organizations in our country and in our ecosystem are not just nice to have, they are critical.

Again, his article is titled CNN Clear to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership.

You can find that at FAIR.org.

Right now, I'm very happy to welcome to our program Ari Palm.

He's a New York City-based labor and political journalist, contributor to FAIR.org, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and a lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

He's reported for many outlets, including The Nation, The Guardian, The Forward, Vice News, and Jacobin.

And we've invited Ari this evening to talk about his recent fair piece titled CNN Cleared to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership.

That's Ari Paul, a New York City-based labor and political journalist and contributor to FAIR.

Again, his article is titled CNN Clear to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership.

You can find that at FAIR.org.

This is CounterPoint.

But the conversation I want to have about Yemen and the Houthis is more about how the U.S. media report on certain foreign affairs.

And I'll be referencing a publication called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR, F-A-I-R, great acronym, And they're pretty, I like their approach.

They try to hold the mainstream media accountable to use language that accurately reflects the situation they're trying to describe.

Okay, so the Houthis have governed, they're currently governing the most popular sections of Yemen.

I do think that getting involved in World War II, I don't see any other way that we could have made a difference in defeating Hitler.

But regarding the situation in Yemen, again, I'm not in a position to say whether a violent revolution is the only way to oust the corrupt Hadi regime.

What I do know, and why I think this story by fair, again, fairness and accuracy in reporting is so important, is that our country, the U.S., has a horrific track record when it comes to picking sides politically.

in foreign conflicts.