In an effort to appear objective in a political climate anything but, talking heads now feel the need to utter a Democratic offense in the same breath as a Republican offense.
You can track the arc of modern American journalism from its apex at the Pentagon Papers and Watergate curving downward to Iran-Contra before the nadir of Bush’s war in Iraq.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. May 20, 2012.
Why do respected universities help perpetuate the myth that Ailes runs a news organization and that he occupies as an esteemed position within the journalism industry?
One of the most important characteristics of the Occupy movement is the expanding universe of media makers --citizen journalists, livestreamers, artists and others.
Angelo Carusone, Media Matters for America. May 9, 2012.
Cumulus Media, a radio company that carries Rush Limbaugh's show on 38 of its stations, announced millions in losses directly attributable to Limbaugh's show.
Lately Obama has been raising the ante, asking which candidate would you like to share a song with, and the GOP considers this to be some kind of dirty trick.
I can understand why words construed as product placement serve the interest of the corporation or the state, but they don’t “enhance” or “empower” people.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. April 12, 2012.
The GOP candidates, flattered nonstop for years on Fox, suddenly found themselves competing for the channel's attention and fighting for kingmaker Roger Ailes' affection.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. March 19, 2012.
How long will stations be able to sustain the ad losses on Limbaugh's show, and how does the host justify his $400 million pay in the face of the advertiser revolt?
Current TV made a rapid switch to progressive political programming--and some big-name talent with big-time personalities that might conflict with what the network wants.
For all the daily hand wringing about celebrity overdoses and DUIs, there is little real reporting on the science of addiction, or how to make progress fighting it.
Bill Moyers, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Moyers & Company. February 22, 2012.
Bill Moyers talks with media critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson about money in politics, the media's missteps and the way the GOP's jeers shape debate results.
Many of America’s most liberal mainstream pundits have narrowed the debate over inequality, perhaps out of a desire to shield Obama from pressure coming from his left.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. January 30, 2012.
It's becoming increasingly clear that Fox's programming and the radical, fear-based agenda it's setting for Republicans is now doing lasting damage to the Grand Old Party.
Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane's question on reporters' duty to challenge misleading political speech has permanently altered readers' expectations.
Team Tea Party, led by the Kochs and other wealthy right-wingers, want an America for the wealthy, dominated by conservative religion and the extremist Ayn Rand fanatics.
The loss of print journalism is impoverishing our civil discourse and leaving us less and less connected to the city, the nation and the world around us.
