Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

<h2 id="mission">Mission</h2>
FAIR describes itself on its website as "the national media <a href="/facts/Watchdog_journalism/8gcMnpbI">watch group</a>" and defines its mission as working to "invigorate the <a href="/facts/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution/1hNSoIvG">First Amendment</a> by advocating for greater <a href="/facts/Multiculturalism/jDbm9eo5">diversity</a> in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints." FAIR refers to itself as a "progressive group that believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant <a href="/facts/Media_conglomerates/D1JtWucb">media conglomerates</a>, establish independent <a href="/facts/Public_broadcasting/Ez3ayURb">public broadcasting</a> and promote strong <a href="/facts/Nonprofit/AmXu2c85">nonprofit</a> sources of information."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a> 
Commentators on FAIR's syndicated radio program, CounterSpin, have frequently argued that American media is biased in favor of conservatism.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> Professor of public policy Terry J. Buss has argued that FAIR combines media criticism and partisan advocacy for progressive causes, and that their criticism of conservative groups is done "more on ideological grounds than on substance".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a>
FAIR believes that corporate sponsorship and ownership, as well as government policies and pressure, restricts journalism and therefore distorts public discourse.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a> 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 points of view.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> FAIR criticizes media outlets for engaging in <a href="/facts/False_balance/HEYoPFKJ">false balance</a> in order to not be accused of taking sides on controversial topics.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a>

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Accuracy_in_Media/egJgHWe8">Accuracy in Media</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Columbia_Journalism_Review/RAuohVvQ">Columbia Journalism Review</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Institute_for_Public_Accuracy/l0Uu4Xsr">Institute for Public Accuracy</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Media_bias/jdVnj89D">Media bias</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Media_Lens/TWtXa415">Media Lens</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Media_Matters_for_America/l7UCtdtp">Media Matters for America</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Media_Research_Center/ro6WbSTV">Media Research Center</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Norman_Solomon/AS3Cw8ky">Norman Solomon</a></li></ul>

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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:2">Shepard, Alicia C. (12 April 2011). "What to Think about Think Tanks?". NPR. Retrieved 24 June 2015. <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2011/04/22/134229266/what-to-think-about-think-tanks" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2011/04/22/134229266/what-to-think-about-think-tanks</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Callahan, David (2010). Fortunes of change : the rise of the liberal rich and the remaking of America. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0470177112. <a href="978-0470177112" target="_blank">978-0470177112</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:5">Hays, Constance L. (May 19, 1996). "MAKING IT WORK;FAIR or Not?". New York Times. Retrieved 9 December 2015. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/19/nyregion/making-it-work-fair-or-not.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/19/nyregion/making-it-work-fair-or-not.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:11">Buss, Terry F.; Buss, Nathaniel J. (2006). "The Internet, Politics, and Democracy". In Redburn, F. Stevens (ed.). Modernizing Democracy: Innovations in Citizen Participation (1st ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-7656-1934-1. <a href="978-0-7656-1934-1" target="_blank">978-0-7656-1934-1</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Vance, Lucian (2017). Fake News and Media Bias. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-5345-6200-4. <a href="978-1-5345-6200-4" target="_blank">978-1-5345-6200-4</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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