Stories by Eric Boehlert
The right-wing media are trying to play "king-maker." But they are incapable of picking winners and stand poised to rip the Republican Party apart.
Posted on Nov 11, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Fox News routinely, and blatantly, breaks the code to which ethical journalists are supposed to aspire.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Fox News is now explicitly a pro-Republican channel. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News.
Posted on Oct 13, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
Posted on Sep 30, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Meanwhile, the media has always lashed out at liberal protesters.
Posted on Aug 25, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Mini-mob members being treated as deeply important newsmakers is reminiscent of August 2004.
Posted on Aug 21, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Why are so many corporate news outlets silent about Limbaugh's offensive Hitler comparisons?
Posted on Aug 12, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
A recent puff piece in the New Yorker legitimizes Savage's hate crusade.
Posted on Aug 3, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The media backlash that Dobbs set off made sure that nobody will ever take the birthers seriously again.
Posted on Jul 31, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The movement is a sinister attempt to paint Obama as illegitimate, foreign, and suspect. Why are pundits like Lou Dobbs taking it seriously?
Posted on Jul 24, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The split among conservatives over who's to blame for Palin’s early exit from the national stage is breaking out into the airwaves.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The hate-filled rhetoric spewed by Fox pundits like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly is even alarming some of the people who work there.
Posted on Jun 17, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Agitators like O'Reilly and Beck traffic in incendiary rhetoric and it's pretty obvious where it's leading to.
Posted on Jun 10, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Coverage of Sotomayor's nomination has been gruesome in so many ways, as reporters fail to reflect even the most basic tenets of journalism.
Posted on Jun 5, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Every time Gingrich opens his mouth, the media clings on his every word. There's no reason this man should be listened to.
Posted on May 20, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
What does Limbaugh think when he reads about the collapse of his radio employer while lounging in his 24,000-square-foot Florida estate?
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Paranoid anti-government radicals used to have to rely on crude, inefficient methods of communication. Now they have Fox News.
Posted on Apr 22, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Fox News is playing an increasingly erratic and dangerous game by embracing paranoid insurrection rhetoric and conspiracy theorists.
Posted on Apr 8, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Goldberg's idea of critiquing the media goes something like this: 1) concoct some news 2) slam reporters for things they didn't write.
Posted on Feb 12, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The central, undisputed facts of Palin's actions remain hidden in plain sight for all to see. It's time for the press to take a closer look.
Posted on Oct 9, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
From the primaries to the convention, the media have become experts at inventing a storyline and skewing facts to support it.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
Four years of bulking up the progressive media's infrastructure to fight media-driven attacks from the right are starting to pay dividends.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
The Beltway press has become dysfunctional, failing to see news when it happens and hyping non-stories that require no real reporting.
Posted on Jul 17, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
The
Times assumes Limbaugh controls the GOP, yet he backed Mitt Romney to the hilt.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
The press is too busy employing -- and praising -- Rove to notice his mounting legal jeopardy.
Posted on May 22, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
There literally would be no McCain brand if the press hadn't methodically built it and then enthusiastically promoted it.
Posted on May 14, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
Hardball host Matthews' is the media's quintessential purveyor of primitive sexism -- and has three Mercedes in his driveway to prove it.
Posted on Apr 17, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
Clear signs suggest that Obama's press treatment is going to get rough, as the media begins to adopt GOP spin.
Posted on Feb 29, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
Hey, GOP, that's quite a Noise Machine you've constructed. Now good luck trying to dismantle it.
Posted on Feb 15, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
From losing the election ratings race to CNN, to watching its favored son Rudy Giuliani fizzle in the primaries, Fox News is in for a bad year.
Posted on Jan 30, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
Apparently reporters now think it's OK to mobilize themselves and actively oppose a presidential campaign.
Posted on Jan 16, 2008, Source: Media Matters for America
The media have hit a new low in superficial reporting.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007, Source: Media Matters for America
Americans are hungry for news out of Iraq. News directors prefer covering Paris Hilton.
Posted on Sep 5, 2007, Source: Media Matters for America
Concocted claims about Barack Obama and Bill Richardson, along with several high profile mistakes, are raising suspicions over the new online insider magazine.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: Media Matters for America
The network may have paid ample tribute when the newsman recently passed away, but that doesn’t make up for shelving his hard-hitting report in 2004 about how the country was misled into war.
Posted on Nov 22, 2006, Source: Media Matters for America
Even though Karl Rove's fingerprints are all over the Republicans' huge losses this November, the media still treats him like Washington's biggest genius.
Posted on Nov 17, 2006, Source: Media Matters for America
All of Washington's political reporters read ABC's news brief, The Note. That's why they keep missing the story.
Posted on Jul 24, 2006, Source: Washington Monthly
The sorry state of the radio industry today is sabotaging FCC chairman Michael Powell's plans to let media conglomerates run wild.
Posted on Feb 28, 2003, Source: Salon
David Broder attacked reporters for ignoring Helms' racist career in covering his retirement last week. So why was Broder mum on the topic when Helms was riding high?
Posted on Jan 15, 2003, Source: Salon
Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
Posted on Oct 17, 2002, Source: Salon
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