Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want
A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong
A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong
nytimes.com | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
It was a media cage fight, televised every weeknight at 8 p.m. But the match was halted when the blood started to spray executives in the high-priced ...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
The dispute over a highly controversial East Jerusalem Israeli settlement project came to a head Tuesday when direct, public statements from France, R...
Diane Francis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
By landing a media gig in New York or LA, Palin would have a chance to catapult her brand beyond all other potential candidates.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Comedy
Bill O being Bill O, couldn't leave it merely to the lawyers, and chose to confront Glenn on Glenn's television show. Take a look.
Morgan Warners | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
I've been living in the Netherlands for almost a year and like most other people from the States I showed up intrigued by the legendarily liberal poli...
Kevin George | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
Our values are changing from profits and competition, to collaboration and community, focused on philanthropic giving for environmental and social responsibility.
Will Bunch | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
Beck promised a project that would be dedicated to America's "eternal principles" -- but the only eternal principle that Glenn Beck really holds is "Glenn Beck."
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.13.2009 | Comedy
We have obtained exclusive footage of Carrie talking about that very subject with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. Take a look.
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Palpable demographic shifts have sparked considerable terror among a cadre of white Americans -- a fear that whites will be politically and culturally moribund in their "own" land.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy
I live-blogged the event on Twitter, so I thought I'd post some of the "highlights" including Glenn Beck opening with a joke about Whoopi Goldberg stabbing a man.
Brad Friedman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
His reportage is still as misleading and inaccurate as ever but we're happy to see O'Reilly toning back his own rhetoric.
Karl Frisch | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
In the two months that followed the website's launch, The Fox Nation has displayed an uncanny ability to mislead readers, twist the truth, spread wild conspiracy theories, and misrepresent the reporting of legitimate journalists.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
I'm reasonably certain that historians will peg the legacy of the president's first 100 days based partly upon this contrast between the crazy and the calm.
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
Fox News has gone to tremendous lengths mainstreaming the sometimes violent, revolutionary doomsday rhetoric of the far right, which used to be confined to the extremist fringe.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
Last week, conservative factions within the RNC circulated an e-mail urging party leadership to brand as a "socialist" anyone who advocates even moderate changes to the government's role in society.
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
The conservative pot must be stirred and their anger about pretty much everything, seasoned to the taste.
Fox News | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
The attention being given the national tea party movement is nothing short of remarkable. Organized by a few people using new social media tools like...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media
As others have noted, Glenn is getting harder and harder to satirize. I mean really, is it that far off to imagine him dressing up in a tea bag?
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media
Organizers of these tea-party protests have no bigger cheerleader (or crowd-builder, for that matter) than Fox News, which has provided attendance and organizing information for the events on air and online dozens of times.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
Broadcasters like Beck ought to take responsibility for some of their more incendiary remarks -- remarks which appear to be ginning up the darker, uglier, fanatical tendencies in an already militaristic, jingoistic, reactionary audience.
John Amato | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media
We've highlighted many instances where Bill O'Reilly's producers harass and attack journalists, whistleblowers, judges, politicians, and bloggers who do not share Bill O'Reilly's political views.
Media Matters | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
During the March 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson hosted Michael Franzese, the former caporegime of...
Bob Cesca | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Without a doubt, many of the attacks from the far-right against President Obama have amounted to nothing more than the political equivalent of speaking in tongues.
Think Progress | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Today, Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell appeared on Fox News to make the case against the tax on AIG bonuses by comparing it to sexual abuse...
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics