Media Matters
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Media Matters for America is a progressive non-profit organization founded by former journalist David Brock. Media Matters scrutinizes news reporting and political commentary that it perceives to have a conservative bias. Conservative commentators such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, as well as self-described independent Bill O'Reilly are often targets, but reporting from mainstream news outlets and objective news analysts that Media Matters believes to show conservative bias is also scrutinized. Through the group's web site, launched in May 2004, Media Matters describes itself as "a ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Washington, DC, US
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Kaizar Campwala
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Nov 16, 2006 - 3:30 PM PST
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Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask
(Blog Post) As these "AstroTurf" organizations sprouted up, progressive operatives and bloggers scrambled to link them to big business and political players in Washington. Well, the ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Communications arm? Fox & Friends recites misleading GOP press release on stimulus
Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlton parroted a House Republican press release and repeated its claim that the stimulus impact is "6 million ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Attack on White House criticism of Fox follows years of GOP assaults on media
Following White House communications director Anita Dunn's entirely justified criticisms of Fox News as an "arm" of the Republican Party, conservative media figures have ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Right again makes an anti-American ass of itself following Obama's Nobel win
But sadly, Obama's words failed to touch the hearts of some of the world's most esteemed and principled critics and commentators, all of whom have proven their love for ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Hannity cites rationing in U.K. to attack public option -- but U.S. insurance companies already ration care
On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity attacked the public option by stating that "[e]verywhere socialized medicine has been tried it's failed. It ends up in rationing," and ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing Medicare
On August 14, the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham featured a recording of Ronald Reagan speaking in 1961 against "socialized ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Stamp of approval: Media tout Obama polling falsehood
Several media figures and outlets have falsely claimed that President Obama's approval rating is lower than that of most or all recent presidents, according to Gallup. In ...Posted by Julian Friedland -
Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media
Beck's sure "[d]epression and revolution" are what await America under Obama, and fears moving "towards a totalitarian state." The country today sometimes reminds Beck of "the ...Posted by Peter L. Combs -
Echo chamber: Bloomberg "commentary" health IT falsehood goes from Limbaugh to WSJ's Moore and Fox, back to Limbaugh
Summary: The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore and Fox News anchors Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly promoted the falsehood -- which first appeared in a Bloomberg "commentary" by ...Posted by Dale Penn -
Detroit's $70-an-hour autoworker
Question: Is the press just being sloppy on this issue of supposedly pampered autoworkers, or are there other elements in play? Because honestly, I've had trouble escaping the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Fox News' declaration that election results mean "Obamacare" is dead is undermined by facts | Media Matters for America
(Multimedia) ". . .Dick Morris' words, that the results were a "deathblow to Obamacare" and have argued that the election should send a message to moderate Democrats. But exit polls do not ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
The myth of Fox News' ratings spike
(Blog Post) No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, it's just not true that Fox News ratings went "through the roof" after the White House called out the cable channel.Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Rise Of The Conservative Media
(Video) A 6 minute advocacy video showing how the conservative movement uses mass-media to promote their agenda, according to Media Matters. This dramatic trailer presents a rapid ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Beck-led Fox News "czar" witch hunt moves to ridiculous smear of Anita Dunn
(Blog Post) Beck falsely claimed Dunn "worships" Mao Zedong, "her hero." Throughout most of his October 15 Fox News program, Beck falsely claimed that Dunn "worships" and "idolizes" "her ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
CNN's Castellanos' firm is ad buyer for AHIP's anti-health care ad blitz
(Blog Post) Media Matters for America has obtained evidence that CNN contributor Alex Castellanos' political consulting firm, National Media, is the ad buyer for the insurance industry ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party
(Blog Post) Fox News has changed the rules. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News.Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Obama Vs. Rupert Murdoch: Fox News' Blatant Transition into GOP TV |
Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented for a media company in modern-day America. That partisan ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
A President Was Killed the Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This
Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a fourth-grade class burst into applause.Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Beck's Witch Hunt: The New McCarthyism
"Have you no sense of decency?"Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Myths and falsehoods about health care reform
Media Matters for America identifies and debunks 14 myths and falsehoods surrounding the health care reform debate.via Publish2
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