Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Simon Maloy, Media Matters for America AlterNet: Politics. October 21, 2009. The conservative outfit NewsBusters is one big logical fallacy -- they start at the conclusion and work backwards.
Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. October 19, 2009. When Limbaugh, Beck and Fox news are treated like legitimate players, it causes the rest of the media to run to the right.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. October 13, 2009. Fox News is now explicitly a pro-Republican channel. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News.
Cherry Trifle, SeXis Magazine. October 5, 2009. Thanks to a media marketing machine bent on making money by making women feel bad, women used to pour Lysol in their vaginas. Some still douche. But why?
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. September 23, 2009. Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge. September 21, 2009. It looks like the battle for net neutrality is finally gaining some momentum. This will be the biggest telecom fight in more than a decade.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 19, 2009. At the Values Voter Summit, Bill O'Reilly locked the media out of his appearance before the religious right. Here's what he didn't want you to hear.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 18, 2009. What did Bill O'Reilly have to say to the religious right that he didn't want the rest of us to hear?
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 9, 2009. One of the most frustrating aspects of public discourse is the extent to which the media allows political operators to hide their connections and agenda.
Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. September 4, 2009. It has come to this. Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America AlterNet: Media and Technology. September 3, 2009. Question for the historians: Has a U.S. television network ever refused to carry a presidential address to Congress?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. September 1, 2009. Nothing new, but worth noting how this whole effort might look with more accurate reporting.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009. There's widespread confusion, to be sure, but there's also a large group who deliberately embrace the lies they've been told.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. August 21, 2009. Mini-mob members being treated as deeply important newsmakers is reminiscent of August 2004.