{"id":389668,"date":"2018-12-19T03:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T02:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-watchdogs-slept-fair-barked\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T03:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T02:23:31","slug":"when-watchdogs-slept-fair-barked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-watchdogs-slept-fair-barked\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u2018Watchdogs\u2019 Slept, FAIR Barked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear FAIR friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FAIR was relentless in calling out corporate media\u2019s blatant disregard for the war in Yemen, where a fragile ceasefire is now in effect. More than ten articles on FAIR\u2019s website and on CounterSpin over the last year documented big media\u2019s utter lack of interest in one of the worst human rights crises of the 21st century:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s Been Over a Year Since <\/span><b>MSNBC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Has Mentioned US War in Yemen<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Media Boosts Obvious Saudi Front Group as Neutral \u2018Think Tank\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>WaPo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Editors: We Have to Help Destroy Yemen to Save It<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2018Nothing Will End if the US Continues to Support Saudi Arabia\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yemen Only Interests <\/span><b>MSNBC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When Americans Die<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FAIR is proud of how we have kept on this story, year after year, when corporate outlets were treating it as an irrelevancy. We named names\u2014Rachel Maddow, Thomas Friedman, Chris Hayes. Progressive outlets picked up on our work, then we forced corporate media to pay attention. Finally Yemen was on the national agenda\u2014where it should have been all along. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambeywest.com\/EXT\/?f=appeal\"><b>We held corporate media to account.<br \/>\n<\/b><b>And we could <\/b><b>only do that thanks to donors like you.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FAIR is in the midst of its most important fundraising of the year and we\u2019re not even halfway to our $50,000 goal. Without your support, we won&#8217;t be able to do the kind of research, analysis and activism that helps focus attention on the issues that really matter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambeywest.com\/EXT\/?f=appeal\"><strong>We think someone needs to be there, watching the watchdogs.<br \/>\nIf you agree, then support FAIR&#8217;s work today.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/muckraking-journalism-in-the-public-interest-continued\/attachment\/frontt4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8929195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8929195\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/FrontT4-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>P.S. Thanks to those who have been able to give already. And those great Nirvana T-shirts are still available for those who want to donate now&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambeywest.com\/EXT\/?f=appeal\">For donations of\u00a0$35 or more<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/muckraking-journalism-in-the-public-interest-continued\/attachment\/frontt4\/\">,<\/a>\u00a0receive this terrific T-shirt commemorating the 25th anniversary of Nirvana\u2019s concert for FAIR.<\/p>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/when-watchdogs-slept-fair-barked\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FAIR friends, FAIR was relentless in calling out corporate media\u2019s blatant disregard for the war in Yemen, where a fragile ceasefire is now in effect. More than ten articles on FAIR\u2019s website and on CounterSpin over the last year documented big media\u2019s utter lack of interest in one of the worst human rights crises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}