Sam Boyd, The American Prospect. October 4, 2008. For years, liberals thought they could catch up in the media by playing by conservatives' rules. Maddow proves it's better to just change the game.
Kelli Conlin, AlterNet. September 19, 2008. Kids that don't get sex ed in school don't run to the Bible for information -- they get their ideas about sex from sordid teen dramas.
Rebecca Hyman, AlterNet. September 16, 2008. Palin's VP run reveals more dimensions to sexism in America. And merely weeding out a few bad apples like Chris Matthews won't solve the problem.
Katharine Zaleski, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. September 16, 2008. Allan Chernoff was given a "loving" background while reporting on the grim demise of Lehman Brothers.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 8, 2008. A new spurned member of the media joins Time's Joe Klein, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, and the New York Times' Thomas Friedman.
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. September 5, 2008. Only in America could a man who has called the mainstream media his "base" run against that very same media.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. August 29, 2008. From the primaries to the convention, the media have become experts at inventing a storyline and skewing facts to support it.
Justin Peters, Columbia Journalism Review. August 28, 2008. Drinking, complaining and getting massages are just a few of reporters' preferred convention activities.
Jennifer Merin, The Women's Media Center. August 27, 2008. The lack of female voices in film criticism is a manifestation of an industry that favors male-oriented movies and audiences.
Eric Alterman, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. August 26, 2008. We've seen many more examples of the media's transgressions in separating the man from the narrative.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. August 25, 2008. Four years of bulking up the progressive media's infrastructure to fight media-driven attacks from the right are starting to pay dividends.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. August 22, 2008. Yet the media fixate on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, neglecting local elections and issue-based organizing.