Media Matters for America

Fox News and the ACORN Charade

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.29.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

By the end of this month, Fox News will likely have mentioned the community organizing group nearly 1,500 times, which is roughly 1,300 more than CNN.

Fox News And Jerome Corsi, Living In The Past

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

How did a sure-fire follow-up hit turn into such a trouble-plagued production? And why isn't Fox News' Swift Boat formula working?

What America Needs To Hear About Jerome Corsi

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 08.14.2008 | Media


Jeffrey Feldman

These books destroy civic debate on purpose -- and are fundamentally at odds with democracy. The goal of Corsi's project is not to discuss facts -- it is to destroy the very possibility of discussion.

The AP Has A Ron Fournier Problem

Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The revelation that as an AP reporter Fournier privately urged Karl Rove to "keep up the fight," came as no surprise to anyone who has read his recent campaign work.

Bill Clinton Is Right About the Campaign Coverage

Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media


Eric Boehlert

I'm almost nostalgic for the days when the press paid too much attention to campaign consultants since at least those dispatches had some substance to them.

Have GOP bloggers stopped whining yet?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.05.2007 | Media


Eric Boehlert

Conservative bloggers are so afraid of democracy that they spend their days and nights blaming the press for allowing it to take place. The incessan...

Fox News Refuses To Run Pro-Constitution Ad

Media Matters | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics


Fox News has refused to air an ad produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights that criticizes the Bush administration for "destroying the Constit...

Bill O'Reilly: I'm Being Smeared!

AP | David Bauder | Posted 09.27.2007 | Media


Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and "fabricated a raci...