On AlterNet: mainstream media
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "mainstream media"
Bill Berkowitz, Religion Dispatches. October 12, 2009.
It was a hot summer full of sex scandals for GOP members of "The Family," the exclusive conservative Christian group with designs on DC power.
Ira Chernus, Tomdispatch.com. June 26, 2009.
The old narrative of Israel as the innocent victim is losing its grip on Americans. This is necessary if we are to be even-handed brokers.
Austin Heap, New America Media. June 17, 2009.
Cyber activist Austin Heap: "My website has been attacked by Iran. My servers are melting. But protesters are still using technology to mobilize."
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. May 13, 2009.
In their mad dash to ensure that no one in the Bush administration is held accountable for torture, the media are putting the blame on all Americans.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. October 1, 2008.
"It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney."
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. September 30, 2008.
Brokaw's numbers weren't made up out of whole cloth, but they were certainly out of date.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. September 23, 2008.
"Relations between John McCain and the press corps that was once described as his 'base' have fully deteriorated."
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 2, 2008.
The mainstream media is now wondering about McCain's pick.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. August 8, 2008.
"I realize that everybody gets excited about sex scandals. It's human nature. "
Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. August 4, 2008.
"Of course McCain is trying to pander to so many constituencies now that he sounds alternately appallingly craven and utterly pathetic."
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. July 30, 2008.
The press actually believed McCain wouldn't go negative. And now, shockingly, he's gone negative! The press loses its innocence!
Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. July 29, 2008.
Most Americans reside on the left side of the political spectrum. But the mainstream media stubbornly refuse to acknowledge this.
Jurassicpork, Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 28, 2008.
So how have we beaten or won over the insurgency that we'd created by disbanding the Iraqi Army?
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. May 14, 2008.
The media and Democrats need to stop buying into -- and promoting -- the so-called "Limbaugh effect."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. April 29, 2008.
The Pentagon says it's halting its propaganda program, but the news media is still quite about its role in leading us to war.
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. April 10, 2008.
This quick-witted woman has shattered another glass ceiling and is taking her rightful place in the traditional boys' club of big-time politics.
Audacia Ray, Waking Vixen AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. March 13, 2008.
Sex workers are being abused and manhandled by a media that has no interest in our well being, only in the details of how we got to be so bad.
Rami Khouri, Middle East Online. March 11, 2008.
It's the "Yellow Peril" all over again.
Carol Jenkins, Women's Media Center. February 28, 2008.
As Tim Russert showed in Tuesday's debate, the mainstream media seems to think it's the third candidate in the Democratic presidential race.
Thomas Boothe, Danielle Follett, Le Monde diplomatique. January 16, 2008.
How one of the country's most fiercely independent news programs is surviving -- and thriving -- in the Republican-controlled heartland.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. August 14, 2007.
What is with Chris Matthews' preoccupation with the masculinity or lack thereof of the '08 candidates. Why is this boorish moron still on the air?
Matt Corley, AlterNet: Video. August 14, 2007.
Matt Corley: CNN, MSNBC and Fox News repeatedly call Rove a "genius" and a "mastermind", but rarely point out the damage he was wrought on America's political system.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2007.
Jane Hamsher: While the press obsesses over Lohan's latest brush with the law, the Attorney General continues to brazenly lie under oath and get away with it.
Richard Blair, AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2007.
Richard Blair: I hate sour grapes. I really do. When the purveyor of sour grapes is tied to the legacy media, the taste in my mouth is even more puckerish...
Christopher Hayes, ChrisHayes.org. May 4, 2007.
The New Republic magazine makes a play for the progressive blogosphere, but it was In These Times that earlier got the story right.