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David Gregory Says Meet the Press Makes no Mistakes, but He's Mistaken

Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. January 22, 2010.

Can Gregory get anything right?

Meet the Facts: Time to Start Fact-Checking the Sunday Talk Shows

Ari Melber, TheNation.com AlterNet: Politics. January 11, 2010.

Jay Rosen, the NYU journalism professor and new media innovator, suggests a weekly accountability segment, to check the pols and pundits who populate the weekend pulpit.

A Brilliant New Idea For Sunday Morning Political Shows: Report the Truth on Wednesday and Watch the Liars Squirm

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 5, 2010.

Right now, there are no incentives to tell the truth. One NYU professor wants to change that.

Thomas Friedman Can't Stop Comparing Afghanistan to a "Special Needs Baby"

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: World. December 7, 2009.

From Charlie Rose to Hardball, Friedman has spent months polishing his favorite new metaphor.

Obama Advisers Backpedal on Afghanistan: "There Is No Timetable;" "We're Not Talking About an Exit Strategy"

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress AlterNet: World. December 7, 2009.

Over the weekend, David Petraeus, James Jones, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden told various news outlets that 2011 is not a hard deadline for withdrawal.

Why Do Mainstream Media Suck Up to Pastor Rick Warren?

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. December 1, 2009.

On Meet the Press, David Gregory never asked about Warren's tacit support for Uganda's gay-execution law, or challenged Warren's description of abortion as a "holocaust."

Rick Warren Refuses to Condemn Death Penalty for Homosexuals

Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: World. November 30, 2009.

Warren refuses to reject the radical ideas of Martin Ssempa, a rabidly anti-choice and anti-gay Ugandan pastor who has visited to his Saddleback Church.

Backed Into A Corner, Boehner Admits That Obama Is Not A Socialist

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2009.

House Minority Leader John Boehner told David Gregory on "Meet the Press" that had had not claimed Obama has a socialist agenda. He's lying.

White House Political Honcho Goes Mealy-Mouthed on Public Option

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. September 7, 2009.

In his Meet the Press appearance, presidential adviser David Axelrod refused to say if Obama will trade away the public heath care plan.

CNBC's Erin Burnett Doesn't Believe in Unemployment Benefits (and We Have Her Email)

Adam Green, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. March 12, 2009.

It is time to write Ms. Burnett some emails.

The Headline You Never Saw in the Mainstream Press: Israel Attacked Gaza on U.S. Election Day

Jim Lobe, Ali Gharib, IPS News. January 8, 2009.

The corporate media buried a key Israeli military attack on a Hamas target that some claim sparked the current conflagration in Gaza.

NBC Stuck in the 1950s

Margot Friedman, Women's Media Center. December 9, 2008.

NBC has added another white, male moderator to Meet the Press, in spite of evidence that women and people of color can boost ratings.

McCain's Guarantee: Usual Campaign Talk or Something More?

Zuzu, Shakesville AlterNet: Election 2008. October 27, 2008.

There's something about a Republican candidate giving a "guarantee" of victory, that reminds me of voter suppression.

Sarah Palin Links Iraq to 9/11

John Nichols, The Nation. September 12, 2008.

Palin has repeated the long discredited claim that the invasion of Iraq was a necessary response to the September 11th attacks.

What Happened to Scott McClellen?

Beta Tester, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. June 3, 2008.

Former White House Press Secretary reinvents himself with interviews on "Daily Show", ""Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and "Meet the Press".

If a Conservative Lies, And There's No Progressive Around to Tell the Truth, It's Still A Lie

David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. April 9, 2007.

David Sirota: The truth once again trampled by a television panel stacked with conservatives.