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There are 18 entries tagged with "Media Matters".
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Barack Obama and the Corporate Media

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted April 29, 2008 | Media

Read More: Ashley Dupre, Barack Obama, Bill Ayres, Fair, Harold Ford, Joseph McCarthy, Jr., Matt Drudge, Media Matters, Michael Dukakis, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Willie Horton

Let's review what we've had to endure from the corporate media in recent weeks:

Corporate media shills inundated us with "commentary" about a "scandal" they called "bittergate" based on a single phrase Barack Obama uttered at a closed-door fundraiser. These same corporate media mouthpieces jawboned incessantly about whether or...

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McCain's Cronies: Busting Media Myths On McCain's Lobbyist Hypocrisy

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted April 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Lobbyists, Mccain, McCain Lobbyists, McCain's Cronies, Media Coverage Of 2008 Election, Media Matters, Media Matters McCain

Today, Media Matters releases another report in its series on McCain media myths, documented fully in Free Ride. It goes to the heart of McCain's phony public persona of "do what I say, and don't look at what I do:" his cozy, long-term relationships with some of the biggest...

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My Proudest Moment as a Pundit: Bill O'Reilly Calls Me a Race Baiter

Eric Deggans | Posted April 8, 2008 | Media

When a master at manipulating race-based tension calls you out, you must be doing something right.

Exhibit A: Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, a guy who I've called on the carpet many times for his use of coded words and phrases to pass along stereotypical, insulting ideas. He's gleefully pointed...

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Free Ride: Inside The Media's Love Affair With McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | March 25, 2008 11:15 AM

Read More: David Brock Book, Free Ride Book, Free Ride John Mccain, Mccain Free Ride, McCain Media, Media Matters, Media Matters Book

"The press loves McCain," MSNBC's Chris Matthews has declared. "We're his base." This tawdry media love affair with the presumptive GOP nominee is the focus of a new book by two experts in the field -- David Brock and Paul...

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Hillary Goes Big Nurse

Warren Goldstein | Posted March 13, 2008 |

Read More: As Far As I Know, Barack Obama, Big Nurse, Eric Boehlert, Hillary Clinton, Media Matters

I've begun to agree with my sociologist friend and colleague Doug Eichar at the University of Hartford who told me the other day that he thought Hillary Clinton had "crossed the line" by first, implying that John McCain had better credentials to be President than did Barack Obama; and second,...

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Eric Boehlert Is Right About The 60 Minutes Clinton Flap

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | March 11, 2008 03:18 PM

When I point out that the media often makes misstatements and unfair characterizations with respect to Hillary Clinton, that's less about me supporting Clinton than it is me supporting, well, accuracy.

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L'Affaire Shuster: Big Camel, Big Straw

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | February 12, 2008 09:07 AM

Some people thought this called for Shuster's firing, but they're wrong: It called for an examination of a pattern of behavior. At this point, Clinton and her team should know that any more is gonna smack of politics; her point has been amply, amply made.

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Sister Frigidaire Tries To Ice MSNBC

Stephen Kaus | Posted February 12, 2008 | Politics

David Shuster and Katie Couric have opened windows on Hillary Clinton's character and the view is not pretty.

By speaking on cable television in the way that everyone regularly speaks on the Internet, Shuster gave us a preview of speech control in Hillaryland, where no one can take a...

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John McCain: Maverick Man Who Thinks War With Iran Inevitable

Steve Clemons | Posted February 4, 2008 | Politics

Read More: George W. Bush, Iran, Iraq, John McCain, Media Matters, Vietnam, Ximena Ortiz

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There's so much tension in the air now as we trip into tomorrow that folks are forgetting to laugh a bit about the sillier part of elections.

I kind of liked this montage that Media Matters put together on McCain...

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Sexist Chris Matthews Apologizes to Sexist Hillary Clinton

Beverly Davis | Posted January 18, 2008 | Off The Bus

Read More: Apology, Bill Clinton, Chris, Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews Apology, Chris Matthews Hillary Clinton, David Brock, Hardball, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Media Matters, MSNBC Morning Joe, Nbc, New Hampshire, Sexist, Steve Capus

Hardball TV host, Chris Matthews, bowed to Hillary Clinton by apologizing for his sexist (though correct) comments about her on the Joe Scarborough Morning Joe show on MSNBC.

Here's what he said about HRC that got him into hot water though let's face it, Chris has been...

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Long-Weekend Reading List

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted December 28, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Books, Guest Workers, Housing, Immigration, Media Matters, Naomi Klein, New Orleans, Pew, Policy, Poverty, Report

Do you have a bit of down-time at the end of the year? Catch up on your reading with the DMI 2007 Year in Review's Reading List. This list features some of the "can't miss" books, studies and reports that you just may have accidentally missed. So here...

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What's Howard Kurtz's Agenda at the Wash. Post?

Eric Boehlert | Posted December 12, 2007 | Media

Read More: Bloggers, Cnn, Dailykos, Fisa, Glenn Greenwald, Howard Kurtz, Joe Klein, Media, Media Criticism, Media Matters, Media News, Michelle Malkin, Reliable Sources, Salon, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Washingtonpost.Com

Blogger Glenn Greenwald's recent take-down of Time's Joe Klein was a can't-miss media story that raged online for weeks, yet Kurtz at the Washington Post missed it. For two solid weeks there was nothing in the Post, nothing in Kurtz's daily online media column, and nothing on CNN's "Reliable Sources,"...

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Fox News Refuses To Run Pro-Constitution Ad

Media Matters | December 3, 2007 12:21 PM

Read More: Constitution, Danny Glover, Fox Advertising, Fox News, Media Matters, Media Matters For America

Fox News has refused to air an ad produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights that criticizes the Bush administration for "destroying the Constitution" by the use of renditions, torture, and other tactics. The ad, "Rescue the Constitution," which is...

Malkin and Limbaugh and O'Reilly! Oh my!

Eric Boehlert | Posted October 17, 2007 | Media

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Bloggers, Fox News, Media, Media Matters, Michelle Malkin, Right-Wing, Rush Limbaugh, Schip

Between Michelle Malkin Swift Boating a traumatically injured 12-year-old boy, Rush Limbaugh denigrating anti-war veterans, and Bill O'Reilly insulting black Americans, the mighty right-wing media machine is in the process of driving American conservatism right off a cliff. The stars have become the face of the Republican Party.

Honestly, the...

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I Know You Are But What Am I?

Eric Alterman | Posted October 8, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Brendan Nyhan, Media Matters, Rush Limbaugh Phony Soldiers

In "The Irony's Getting a Bit Thick in Here, Department.," Brendan Nyhan woke up the other morning and apparently decided it would be a good idea to join in Rush Limbaugh's campaign of vilification against Media Matters. Thing is, he didn't have evidence on hand, or at least didn't want...

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O'Reilly Interview Causes Tension Between Fox, NPR

The Nation | Ari Melber | October 3, 2007 09:58 AM

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Juan Williams, Media Matters, Npr

The ongoing fallout over Bill O'Reilly's recent racial comments is stoking tensions between Fox News and NPR. Both channels employ Juan Williams, who got O'Reilly talking about race during their now-infamous radio interview, and Mara Liasson, who regularly appears on...

O'Reilly Calls MoveOn.org, Media Matters "Most Vicious Element In Our Society Today"

Media Village | September 6, 2007 03:09 PM

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters, MoveOn.Org

During the September 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly once again attacked Media Matters for America and MoveOn.org, calling the two organizations "the most vicious element in our society today" and referring to their staff as...

MSNBC, Tucker Carlson and the Bathroom Assault...

Jamison Foser | Posted August 31, 2007 | Media

Read More: Dan Abrams, Joe Scarborough, Media Matters, Msnbc, Senator Larry Craig, Tucker Carlson

During a discussion Tuesday night on MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams about Sen. Larry Craig's (R-ID) arrest for "lewd conduct" and eventual guilty plea, Tucker Carlson described to fellow MSNBC hosts Dan Abrams and Joe Scarborough his assault on a man who he said "bothered" him in a Washington,...

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