Fairness & Accuracy in the Media

Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 6:00pm
Jeff Cohen

At a time when the “news” media has become entertainment, fake facts abound, investigative journalism withers and the president attacks the media as the enemy, more than ever we need a bold, independent media. Media critic Jeff Cohen opens a discussion on the media situtation today, both indy and corporate.

Cohen is a journalist, media critic, professor, and the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). He is also the author of numerous books on the media, most recently Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. Over his many productive years as a journalist Jeff Cohen has worked for MSNBC as senior producer of Phil Donahue's show (until the invasion of Iraq forced it off the air), a co-host of CNN's Crossfire, as well as a regular panelist on FNC's Fox News Watch. Currently he is associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College, where he holds an endowed chair and is founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media.

 

Upcoming Events

Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 3:00pm
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Location:
1º de Mayo #58, Colonia Aurora, San Miguel de Allende

In October 2024, we had our first artistic and cultural project to continue speaking about Palestine and to raise our voices in favor of the liberation of the Palestinian people and against the genocide being committed in Palestine.

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Monday, October 13, 2025 - 1:30pm
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Film Screening
Followed by discussion with Brad Rockwell
Location:
La Biblioteca, Teatro Santa Ana, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

2025 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary

Remarkable largely unknown footage of a dramatic turning point in world history covering events over three continents concerning a tragic coup in the Congo. Featuring: Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy... Read more

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 12:00pm
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Organized by The Reentry Resource Program

You are invited to join a discussion with filmmaker Santiago Esteinou and Cesar Fierro about the new documentaryThe Freedom of Fierro.

César Fierro has just become a free man, and he needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. César spent 40 years in prison before being released... Read more

Monday, November 3, 2025 - 1:30pm
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Joe Belden
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more