Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Video. December 2, 2008. Cherrypicking information, ignoring facts, generating fake outrage -- the media did their best to create a caricature of Obama.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 26, 2008. "Understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost: it comes from me."
David Sirota, AlterNet. November 21, 2008. The media are telling Obama to ditch the agenda he won on and appease electorally humiliated Republicans. This is the last thing he should do.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. November 21, 2008. Deep-pocketed conservatives have long dominated the media landscape. If we want real change, it's time for progressives to fight fire with fire.
Susannah Breslin, The Frisky. November 14, 2008. From her hairstyle to her politics, America remains obsessed with the female politician who seemingly came out of nowhere.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 10, 2008. Outside of a few social issues, Americans are firmly in the progressive camp, but that hasn't prevented a lot of bloviating to the contrary.
Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future. October 23, 2008. It is not only possible but potentially necessary to increase public investments in spite of a large deficit.
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.