Stories by Eric Boehlert
Eric Boehlert is is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America. He's the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Free Press, 2006) and Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press (Free Press, 2009). He worked for five years as a senior writer for Salon.com, where he wrote extensively about media and politics.
Posted on Mar 7, 2012, Source: Media Matters for America
For a Republican Party already suffering from a yawning gender gap, Limbaugh's hijacking of the news cycle last week must have been unwelcome news.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012, Source: Media Matters for America
It's becoming increasingly clear that Fox's programming and the radical, fear-based agenda it's setting for Republicans is now doing lasting damage to the Grand Old Party.
Posted on Nov 25, 2011, Source: Media Matters for America
What's stunning is how many different areas of the news and public policy Fox viewers are misinformed about.
Posted on Feb 28, 2011, Source: Media Matters for America
Ailes, who runs Fox News as his personal fiefdom, has been thrust into the spotlight for potentially breaking the law, allegedly telling an employee to lie to feds.
Posted on Feb 10, 2011, Source: Media Matters for America
"They’re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news," says a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch.
Posted on Jan 30, 2011, Source: Media Matters for America
Just one year ago, Fox News' Glenn Beck had a nightly audience of 3 million -- now his ratings are off by a third, and his radio show dropped in New York and Philadelphia.
Posted on Jan 25, 2011, Source: Media Matters for America
"It's a big county and there's all kinds of people.," said progressive writer Frances Fox Piven in response to the violent rhetoric launched her way after being targeted by Beck.
Posted on Jan 10, 2011, Source: Media Matters for America
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appears be the latest victim of anti-government violence that has taken hold in America since 2009.
Posted on Aug 25, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
Fox's hatemongering against Muslims and African-Americans continues to mostly get a free pass in the media.
Posted on Jul 27, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
Right-wing media, led by Beck, continue to stoke dangerous fires with relentlessly incendiary rhetoric. We will see more tries at vigilante violence.
Posted on Jul 14, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
Irrational Obama Derangement Syndrome has spread across the airwaves, frothing into pure racist paranoia and hate talk.
Posted on Jun 24, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
"I'm wondering if Fox News isn't pressing up very closely to its tipping point; to the moment where Fox News reveals how certifiably insane it is by rushing to BP's defense."
Posted on Jun 11, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
Why does one of the largest newspapers in the country allow its political writer to routinely disrespect the president in a casually insulting way?
Posted on Apr 7, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
Glenn Beck has done more than any other person to amplify and mainstream the movement's hateful and foreboding anti-government message.
Posted on Mar 31, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
Fox News talkers did their best to trivialize the illegal, terrorist threats made against elected officials, and implied they were deserved.
Posted on Mar 26, 2010, Source: Media Matters for America
How did health care go so terribly wrong for the Tea Party's true believers? They made the mistake of believing their own hype -- and Fox News.
Posted on Dec 17, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
For the sake of NPR's long-term health and reputation, it needs to resolve two of its hosts' long-standing ties to Fox News
Posted on Nov 11, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
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 Oct 28, 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 13, 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 Sep 30, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
Posted on Aug 25, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Meanwhile, the media has always lashed out at liberal protesters.
Posted on Aug 21, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Mini-mob members being treated as deeply important newsmakers is reminiscent of August 2004.
Posted on Aug 12, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
Why are so many corporate news outlets silent about Limbaugh's offensive Hitler comparisons?
Posted on Aug 3, 2009, Source: Media Matters for America
A recent puff piece in the New Yorker legitimizes Savage's hate crusade.
Posted on Jul 31, 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 24, 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 8, 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 Jun 17, 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 10, 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 5, 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 May 20, 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 7, 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 Apr 22, 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 8, 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 Feb 12, 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 Oct 9, 2008, 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 Aug 29, 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 25, 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 Jul 17, 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.
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