Talk:Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

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 page, it describes itself as a "progressive group". If it denied its political leanings, that would be an NPOV issue, but it does not. -- V V 20:20, 31 Mar 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.