SHARE        Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Why Media's Health Care Reform Coverage Was Even Worse Than You Thought The news coverage of the health-care debate provided by the "liberal media" represented a godsend to the Republican Party and the larger conservative movement. Coverage was stacked overwhelmingly in their favor in terms of the volume of GOP talking points stressed. The net results from the skewed coverage? Less than 20 percent of Americans say they have a clear understanding of what's actually in the health-care law.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 22, 2012
From "Racist," To "Dick," To Heckling: How The Press Treats Obama The GOP Noise Machine has for years depicted Obama as a lowly, un-American dictator/criminal; as someone unworthy of respect, which is exactly how Munro treated him. The only difference was that instead of doing that in the hothouse confines of Daily Caller's website where openly hating Obama in the expected norm, Munro lashed out in a very public setting.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 2, 2012
Birthers, Billionaires and Fox: The GOP Freak Show in Full Effect With a new breed of conservative media outlets making their presence felt during the 2012 campaign season, the emerging general election is being waged by the right with an unmistakable stamp of irresponsibility and a complete lack of adult supervision. Each passing day draws new revelations and guffaws.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 18, 2012
Why Is Roger Ailes Lecturing College Students About Journalism? Fox has every right to be in the partisan attack business. But for prestigious universities to usher Roger Ailes into their lectures halls under the guise of him being a news executive and letting him spin fantastic tales about how Fox is a fair and balanced news organization is a joke.

(38 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 17, 2012
Struggling Clear Channel And Rush Limbaugh's $400 Million Payday Whether Limbaugh's show is in the midst of the death throes, only time will tell. But one thing is clear, the radio industry has never seen anything like the sponsorship controversy surrounding Limbaugh's once-untouchable program.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 10, 2012
The Self-Destruction Of Limbaugh, Murdoch and Beck Led by the likes of Limbaugh, Murdoch and Beck, the conservative press has adopted a strange brand of radicalism that embraces falsehoods, smears and even law breaking, all of which places their practice well outside the mainstream culture.

SHARE        Thursday, February 2, 2012
Gingrich Assailed by Conservative Press; Conservatives Blame "Liberal Media" Spooked by the prospect of a Gingrich nominee, key members of the so-called Republican Establishment orchestrated an attack campaign against the candidate. And where have most of those attacks being launched? In the conservative press.

(15 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 28, 2012
How Fox News Is Destroying The Republican Party Wannabe kingmaker Roger Ailes is facing an open revolt. More and more despondent conservatives are expressing alarm over the unfolding Republican primary season and what they see as the party's dwindling chances of defeating President Obama in November.

SHARE        Friday, January 6, 2012
Why Conservatives Can't Do Journalism The right-wing's online Noise Machine today is populated by people like Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch who run websites that crank out borderline incoherent bouts of "journalism" that inevitably whip up their Obama-hating readers and have zero impact on the national discussion.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Touting "Innate" GOP Advantage, Wash. Post Ignores Wash. Post There's "an innate sense" out there that Republicans are the ones to trust on key issues, such as spending and the debt? Well, that "innate sense" might extend throughout the Beltway press corps, but it doesn't reflect mainstream America. Not according to polling data.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 1, 2011
One Year After Debunking Breitbart's "Slander," CNN Welcomes Him Back As Newsmaker The usual Breitbart rhetorical recklessness was too much for CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who appeared right after Breitbart. Dismayed by Breitbart's "outrageous" insinuations about Weiner and "young girls," Toobin said it was "too bad that he got to say that stuff on CNN."

SHARE        Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Local Media Covered Monday Union Rallies; National Media Not So Much In terms of the news pages for national newspapers, USA Today and the Washington Post ignored the King-inspired rallies, according to a Nexis search. The Wall Street Journal's print edition today also contained no mention, while the New York Times devoted 400 words to the union story. But the Beltway press showered attention on last week's Tea Party event that drew "dozens" of supporters to Washington, D.C.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 18, 2011
Why Fox News Will Keep Bullying NPR The brand of radical conservative who has NPR in their sights today is not the same type of conservative critic who tweaked the network's supposedly liberal bias in the past. This new brand of bully is borderline delusional about NPR and sees it as a genuine force of evil; a hub of sinister activity.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 4, 2011
Is Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes Going to Jail? The crime of Roger Ailes, powerful chairman of Fox News is technically the same crime committed by Bill Clinton, for which he was impeached in 1997. It's "subordoning perjury", i.e., urging someone to lie under oath. No one is above the law, said Fox News at the time. And now?

SHARE        Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Did Glenn Beck Turn A Profit At Wilmington Charity Event? There seems to be an enormous gap between the $300,000 ticket revenues Beck generated and the $44,000 he donated to charity. Beck's Wilmington costs accounted for nearly 85% of ticket sales? If true, that's one poorly run charity event. Keep in mind the Fox News host pocketed $32 million in 2009. Did he not pick up any of the Wilmington expenses himself, or did he deduct every last penny before making his $44,000 donation?

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 11, 2011
FOX NEWS INSIDER: "Stuff Is Just Made Up" A former Fox News employee confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch's cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up Republicans and knock down Democrats, and staffers at Fox News routinely operate without the slightest regard for fairness or fact checking.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 3, 2011
Ten Reasons Fox News Doesn't Really Care About The Egypt Story Egypt is killing Fox News' mojo.Why? Fox News is a political organization. Under Obama, Fox News exists in order to attack Democrats and to try to destroy the Obama presidency, while at the same time boosting Republicans. Period.

SHARE        Thursday, November 11, 2010
Memo to media: There is no right-wing "smell test" There is no right-wing smell test. It no longer exists. In fact, there appears to be no sense of smell at all, which is closely related to the right-wing media's lack of common sense and decency. Day in and day out the right-wing noise machine traffics in utter nonsense pretending they're connected with reality and breaking "news."

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 4, 2010
Andrew Breitbart's mainstream demise The so-called "journalism" Breitbart and his bloggers produce is sloppy, unprofessional and unreliable, not to mention weirdly paranoid and more times than not just completely unhinged. And as ABC News discovered, Breitbart himself simply cannot be trusted.

SHARE        Thursday, October 21, 2010
Memo to the media: The Tea Party is coming for you detaining Hopfinger was a political statement. Just like Miller's announcement a week earlier that he would no longer answer questions from Alaska reporters was also a political statement: "We've drawn a line in the sand. The Alaska "arrest" sent an even more disturbing message from the Tea Party to the press: We're coming for you.