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On AlterNet: media matters

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "media matters"

CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. October 14, 2009.
Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

Meet the Man Who Is Taking On Glenn Beck

Meet the Man Who Is Taking On Glenn Beck

Staff, The Young Turks AlterNet: Video. August 25, 2009.
ColorofChange.org's James Rucker talks about the campaign that has been stripping Beck of advertisers one by one.

Glenn Beck's Hate Speech, Paid For By ...

Glenn Beck's Hate Speech, Paid For By ...

Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 17, 2009.
We need to continue pressuring advertisers to drop Beck.

Michael Savage Issues Fatwa Against Media Matters

Michael Savage Issues Fatwa Against Media Matters

Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. June 25, 2009.
Savage recently called on people "harassed by this Stalinist group, Media Matters" to publish the names and pictures of Media Matters staffers.

Fox Propaganda Site Goes to New Lengths to Distort Reality

Fox Propaganda Site Goes to New Lengths to Distort Reality

Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 8, 2009.
"Fox Nation", a website that's the newest addition to Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, deliberately misleads readers.

The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory

The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 30, 2009.
On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview.

Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

Attacking Sotomayor: Race to the Bottom

Staff, The Nation AlterNet: Media and Technology. May 29, 2009.
Media Matters has assembled a collection of the right's most unhinged, delusional reactions to her nomination.

Memo to the Media: Obama Did Not Invent 'Yes We Can'

Memo to the Media: Obama Did Not Invent 'Yes We Can'

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 30, 2009.
The corporate news claims Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "co-opting" Obama's election slogan. But it was never his to begin with.

Ugly: Limbaugh Likens Democrats to Murderers, Rapists

Ugly: Limbaugh Likens Democrats to Murderers, Rapists

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. February 20, 2009.
What is going on with all the lurid political analogies?

Top 5 Myths About Closing Guantanamo

Top 5 Myths About Closing Guantanamo

The Progress ReportJanuary 27, 2009.
Obama has promised to close Guantanamo within a year. So lets debunk some of the most ill-informed myths that might stand in the way.

Henry Rollins and Paul Waldman Spurn the Media's Love for McCain

Henry Rollins and Paul Waldman Spurn the Media's Love for McCain

Robert Greenwald, Meet the Bloggers AlterNet: Video. September 6, 2008.
From Friday's episode of Meet the Bloggers

Colbert on Why Media Matters Makes Life Hard for Limbaugh [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 10, 2007.
Stephen Colbert says, "Rush just calls this war like he sees it, from thousands of miles away in West Palm Beach."

The Religious Left is Left Out by the Commercial Media

The Religious Left is Left Out by the Commercial Media

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 30, 2007.
A new study by Media Matters for America shows that when the topic is religion, the media looks disproportionately to hard-line right-wingers for comment.