Media Criticism

Report No Evil

Ami Horowitz | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Portfolio, Media Criticism, Blogosphere, Portfolio Magazine, Media Bias, U.N. Me, United Nations, UN Movie, UN Documentary, Media News
Ami Horowitz

Portfolio's attempt to paint my film as something it is not by using political titillation and creating divisions where none exist is certainly not the way to steal back relevancy from the blogosphere.

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A Man Did Not Get Pregnant, Stop Lying

Doon Baqi | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Pregnancy, Media Criticism, Thomas Beatie, Sex Change Man Pregnant, Health, Pregnant Man, Media News
Doon Baqi

A woman who got pregnant, gave birth, and got pregnant again is not news, at least not in the way it is presented, and not to all of us.

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Jason Linkins

Where Does Election Coverage Go After Holograms?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Tigers, Msnbc, CNN Holograms, Jem and the Holograms, Media Criticism, Media News

Hey, everyone! Remember how on Election Day, CNN made history by making its anchors talk to shimmery videos of Jessica Yellin and Will.I.Am and they ...

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More Shameful "False Equivalence" By The Traditional Media To Annoy You

Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Dave Wedge, False Equivalence, Media Coverage, Media Criticism, False Balance, Boston Herald, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Cadillac, Media News
Mark Nickolas

Case-in-point is today's Boston Herald story by Dave Wedge on the custom-made armor-laden presidential limo that is being assembled to protect America's first black president.

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Joe Biden and the Press: A Case Study in the Absurd

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Time.com, Boston Globe, Media Criticism, Politico, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Joe Biden, Slate, Newsweek, Biden Vice President, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Rather than reward Biden for being open and honest with voters --for being authentic and unscripted -- the press punished him for weeks on end.

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Right-Wing Press Critics Don't Understand How Journalism Works

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsbusters, Fox News, Media Criticism, Liberal Media Bias, Media News
Eric Boehlert

If newsrooms tilt so tragically to the left, why don't conservatives try to get jobs in newsrooms?

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Last Month: WaPo Fashion Editor Declared Palin's Wardrobe Had "Nothing To Do With Fashion" (Another Reason To Stop Listening To Critics)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Coverage, Media Criticism, Washington Post, Robin Givhan, Critics, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Fashion Trends, Sarah Palin Shopping Spree, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

If there's one thing about this presidential cycle that so excites me so much is just how much more irrelevant the traditional media has become.

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Jason Linkins

Why Is The Media Still Pretending It's A Horserace?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Polls, John McCain, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, Media News

I suppose that from the standpoint of quantum mechanics, John McCain is currently in the process of simultaneously winning and losing the presidential election -- but one can discuss probabilities fairly.

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Jason Linkins

McClatchy Bluntly Shoots Down Fannie/Freddie Myths

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Freddie Mac, Media Criticism, Fannie Mae, Mcclatchy, Media Honor Roll, Politics News

One gets so inured to the silly way of doing business in the media, where the obsessive need to "balance" the scales on any given topic has overwhelme...

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Jason Linkins

This Is What Expert Opinion Looks Like

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Ana Marie Cox, Media Criticism, John McCain Health Care Plan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Everyone wants the media to "talk about the issues." But it's rare to see a reporter provide a deep and intricate dive into a particular issue or pol...

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Jason Linkins

Reporter Complains About Obama Plane As World's Tiniest Violins Play Piteous Strains

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Media Criticism, Reporters, Obama Press, Obama Reporters, John McCain Reporters, Media News

No one's opened up a new frontier of journalistic atrabiliousness as CBS' News Dean Reynolds, who took to CBS's "From The Road" blog to throw a pity party, celebrating his own diva-ish distemper.

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Withholding Sarah Palin is Not Transparency

Josh Brusin | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media

Read More: John Mccain Debate, Media Criticism, Sarah Palin Speech, Sarah Palin Interview, McCain Palin, Palin, Campaign Transparency, Sarah Palin Media, Media News
Josh Brusin

Campaign after campaign, year after year, accountability, responsibility, transparency are recited no matter which party is speaking. This year is no ...

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Jason Linkins

Fox News: "The Facts Are Not Irrefutable"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Video, Factchecking, Media Criticism, Fox News, Fox News the Facts Are Not Irrefutable, Factcheck.org, Fox News Facts, Media News

Here's an enjoyable piece of video of Fox News' William La Jeunesse attempting to speak extemporaneously about facts and fact checking and who fact ch...

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Media Idiocy: Don't Blow VP Debate Or You Might Win

Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lloyd Bentsen, Vp Debate, George H.W. Bush, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, Media Criticism, Media Coverage, Joe Biden, Geraldine Ferraro, Vice Presidential Debate, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

Despite Bush's condescension, Reagan-Bush won in 1984, and despite being smacked-down, Bush-Quayle won in 1988. So...what exactly is the media's point?

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Jason Linkins

How The Page Turns Breaking News Into A Painful Annoyance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, The Page, Mark Halperin, Halperin the Page, Mark Halperin the Page, Halperin Page, Media News

It can be very hard to describe what it is precisely about The Page that makes it such a toxic annoyance to the many inside-the-Beltway types for whom hating The Page is a shibboleth, bespeaking common sense. But today's news offers an example.

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Sarah Palin: If People Choose to be Gay, Do They Choose to be Shallow?

Cindy Handler | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, Sarah Palin Katie Couric Interview, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, Media Criticism, Morning Joe, Katie Couric, Sarah Palin Vice President, Media, Gays, Sarah Palin, Homosexuals, Politics News
Cindy Handler

Maybe one of Palin's "best friends" said something along the lines of "You know, this straight thing is okay, but I think I'm going to go with being gay, because they have it so great in this country, and everyone's so nice to them!

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Jason Linkins

The Fox News Ethos Summarized In Thirty Seconds

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Fox News, Media Bias, Fox Voter Poll, Fox Scranton, Fox Pennsylvania, Media News

[Via Gawker/Sullivan] Back in 2004, filmmaker Robert Greenwald released a documentary called Outfoxed, which spent seventy-five minutes diving deeply ...

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Jason Linkins

For Bailout Analysis, Look Outside The Mainstream

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Paulson Bailout Package, Bailout, Espn, Gregg Easterbrook, Media Criticism, Henry Paulson Plan, Politics News

While the political press continues to play with the bright shiny ball that is Who Is To Blame For Everything That Happened Yesterday, I'm picking up ...

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Jason Linkins

Mark Halperin Somehow Concludes McCain Won The Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Media Criticism, The Page, Barack Obama, Mark Halperin, Media News

After this sort of week, one might expect that the negative poll trends that bedeviled Obama in the run out from the RNC would begin to reverse themselves. And, you know what? They have. BUT FORGET ALL THAT.

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Pro-McCain Group Dumping 28 Million Terror Scare DVDs in Swing States

Erik Ose | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obsession Horowitz, New York Times Obsession Swing State Insert, Mccain, Right-Wing, Obama, New York Times Obsession Dvd, General Election, Presidential Campaign, Politics News, Fear Watch 2008, 2008, Obama 2008, Obsession New York Times, Swing State Dvd Obsession, Fear Watch, John McCain, Karl Rove, Dvd, Obsession Insert, Radical Islamic Terror Obsession, Right-Wing Establishment, Obsession Suppplement, Obama Biden Ticket, Propaganda, Right Wing, Obsession, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Obsession the Movie, David Horowitz, Mccain Palin Ticket, Obsession Terror, Right Wing Media, 9/11, Iraq, War on Terrorism, Fox News, Media Criticism, Terrorism, Breaking Media News, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Politics News
Erik Ose

Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.

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Jason Linkins

Halperin On Palin: "Stop The Madness"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Gergen, Anderson Cooper, Media Criticism, Mark Halperin, Video, Obama Pig Comment, Ipstick on a Pig Origin, You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, Obama Lipstick, Politics News

Halperin went on AC360 and straight-up bare-knuckled it -- accusing the press of indulging McCain's "crocodile tears," calling the media's unwillingness to hold Palin to account "embarrassing," and dismissing and deflecting the McCain camp's attempt to change the conversation by making a mountain out of Obama's "lipstick on a pig" molehill.

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Jason Linkins

MSNBC's Kelly O'Donnell's Mindblowing Pronouncement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Criticism, Kelly O'Donnell, John McCain, Video, Video. Kelly O'Donnell McCain, McCain POW, Politics News

If after nine months and hundreds of speeches you are under the impression that McCain is "resistant" to talk about "his time as a P.O.W.," then you are, quite frankly, useless.

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Jason Linkins

Sunday Hosts Under The Microscope At Pre-Convention Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Judy Woodruff, George Stephanopoulos, Media Criticism, Tom Brokaw, Bob Schieffer, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Ed Rendell, Politics News

Sunday morning was business as usual on the networks, with Face The Nation, Meet The Press, and This Week performing their familiar weekly duties agai...

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Jason Linkins

Middle Class Supports Key Progressive Policies, Study Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Criticism, Progressive Politics, Drum Major Institute Poll, Middle Class Poll, Drum Major Institute, Politics News

ThinkProgress is touting an encouraging study from the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy that indicates that wide swaths of middle-class American...

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Women's Media Events in the Bay Area: BlogHer, Momentum, and PARTY!

Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Women in Media & News, Social Justice, Media Justice, Jennifer L. Pozner, Media Activism, Media Criticism, Jenn Pozner, Jeff Perlstein, Lisa Jervis, Media Commentary, Media, Women in Media and News, Robert Greenwald, Bitch Magazine, Feminism, Politics, Progressive, Lisa Rudman, Mdia Analysis, Op-Ed Project, Catherine Orenstein, Momentum, Media Reform, Jennifer Pozner, Feminists, Martha Wallner, Sarah Olson, Wimn, Blogher, Media News
Jennifer L. Pozner

On behalf of Women In Media & News, I'm taking our show on the road tomorrow. Over the next two weeks, San Francisco/Bay Area journalists, bloggers, m...

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