Stories by Eric Boehlert
The
Times assumes Limbaugh controls the GOP, yet he backed Mitt Romney to the hilt.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008
The press is too busy employing -- and praising -- Rove to notice his mounting legal jeopardy.
Posted on May 22, 2008
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
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
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
Hey, GOP, that's quite a Noise Machine you've constructed. Now good luck trying to dismantle it.
Posted on Feb 15, 2008
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
Apparently reporters now think it's OK to mobilize themselves and actively oppose a presidential campaign.
Posted on Jan 16, 2008
The media have hit a new low in superficial reporting.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007
Americans are hungry for news out of Iraq. News directors prefer covering Paris Hilton.
Posted on Sep 5, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The New York Fire Department suffered a communications breakdown on Sept. 11, and hundreds of firefighters died. Why are so many journalists ignoring the story?
Posted on Aug 26, 2002
The talk show pioneer's new MSNBC show brings a little decency and tolerance into the rabidly right-wing jungle of cable TV.
Posted on Jul 19, 2002
Television's favorite "terrorism expert" Steven Emerson paints a terrifying picture of lethal Muslim fundamentalists among us in "American Jihad." But he doesn't know the difference between bin Laden and Arafat.
Posted on Mar 8, 2002
Two new books discuss Wen Ho Lee's ordeal at the hands of the FBI and a witch-hunting press. To many Arab men today, his story will sound all too familiar.
Posted on Jan 28, 2002
Record sales are down, no one's seeing concerts, no one's advertising on radio and the stars are revolting!
Posted on Dec 19, 2001
The Telecommunications Reform Act paved the way for just two companies, Clear Channel and Infinity, to dominate the nation's commercial radio stations. Will TV be next?
Posted on Jul 10, 2001
Thanks to the likes of Limp Bizkit, Pearl Jam and Britney Spears, concert prices are coming down. So why are those damn ticket fees still going through the roof?
Posted on Jul 3, 2000
NPR says it supports low-power FM, but it's joining with industry lobbyists to drive a stake through the heart of grass-roots broadcasting.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000
