Blog Profile / Media Matters for America
| URL : | http://mediamatters.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 11094 | |
| Posts / Week: | 41.7 | |
| Archived Since: | April 14, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
REPORT: NRA News' Misplaced Outrage Over Children And Guns
As media scrutinize accidental shootings involving children, the National Rifle Association's news program Cam & Company has instead repeatedly highlighted incidents where students clashed with administrators over school policies that...Show More Summary
New Talking Point Revelations Should End Benghazi Witch Hunt
Emails from Obama administration aides obtained by CNN should end the right-wing media's nine-month witch hunt regarding the creation and editing of talking points related to the September 2012 attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi,...Show More Summary
Right-Wing Media Lead Charge For Abortion Bans, No Exceptions
Right-wing media are increasingly and uniformly pushing the "personhood" position in their anti-choice attacks, an absolutist argument that equates fetuses with persons and goes beyond repealing Roe v. Wade to banning all abortions. As recently as the 2012 presidential campaign, the GOP standard bearer claimed that although he opposed Roe v. Show More Summary
Fox Distorts Obama's Response To IRS Report In Order To Justify Calls For A Special Prosecutor
Fox News ignored President Obama's explicit demand for accountability in the wake of news that the Internal Revenue Service applied extra scrutiny to conservative groups. The network's omission gave it cover to accuse Obama of not taking...Show More Summary
Fox Ignores Marriage Equality Victories While Peddling Anti-Equality Horror Stories
Fox News chose to ignore the historic passage of marriage equality in Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota, opting instead to promote a handful of asinine horror stories about same-sex marriage. Fox News viewers are likely unaware that...Show More Summary
Despite Dramatic Deficit Reduction, Fox & Friends Promotes Harmful Austerity Measures
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade reacted to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report showing the 2013 deficit dropping by $200 billion by lamenting that the report might discourage further austerity measures.
In a May 14 report,...Show More Summary
REPORT: Fox News Spent One Minute Covering Marriage Equality In Three States
Fox News spent one minute covering the historic legalization of same-sex marriage in Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota over the past several weeks. According to an Equality Matters analysis, the network completely ignored the passage...Show More Summary
Is Hannity Really The Third Most Diverse Show On Evening Cable News?
Our recent report on diversity on evening cable news produced an unexpected finding that raised eyebrows here at Media Matters: According to our results, Fox News' Hannity was the third most ethnically diverse show, sandwiched closely between MSNBC's Politics Nation with Al Sharpton and CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront. Show More Summary
Krauthammer Still Hasn't Seen This Photo Of Obama From Night Of Benghazi Attack
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer continued to hype the right-wing myth that President Obama was missing on the night of the September 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
During a May 14 panel discussion...Show More Summary
Tantaros Continues Fox's Campaign Of Connecting Gosnell's Crimes To Legal Abortion
From the May 14 edition of Fox News' The Five: Previously: Gosnell Conviction Revives False Abortion Analogies Fox Gosnell Special Promises To Equate Legal Abortions With Grotesque Crimes The Five Pretends Planned Parenthood Has Never Condemned Gosnell
Fox Host: "Rush Limbaugh Is Probably The Most Significant Republican In The Country"
From the May 14 edition of Fox News' The Five: Previously: Limbaugh Reasserts His Role As GOP Power Center Under Scrutiny, Fox And Limbaugh Reassert Role Advising GOP Limbaugh Touts GOP Adopting His Talking Point That Obama Is Campaigning, Not Governing
When ABC News Claimed It Had "Obtained" The Benghazi Emails
ABC News is now claiming that its Benghazi "exclusive" was based on summaries of emails between administration aides, not the emails themselves -- an assertion belied by their earlier reports.
CNN's Jake Tapper reported on May 14 that...Show More Summary
Fox vs. Fox: O'Reilly Pours Cold Water On "Gross Speculation" About Obama Link To IRS Controversy
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is admonishing conservatives -- many of whom have appeared on the channel for which he works -- for baselessly tying President Obama to allegations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups...Show More Summary
NRO Falsely Attributes Gosnell's Crimes To An Increasingly Anti-Choice Court
The National Review Online falsely attributed convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell's illegal practices to judges who have "declared every abortion sacrosanct." This assertion from a May 13 editorial, "Gosnell is Not an Aberration," flies in the face of a mounting pile of judicial decisions upholding restrictions on abortion and Roe v. Show More Summary
Limbaugh: "I Do More Than Oppose" President Obama, "I Define Him"
From the May 14 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Previously: Rush Limbaugh's Campaign To "Otherize" Obama Limbaugh: "Obama Is Alinsky. Obama Is A Thugocracy" Limbaugh: "It Can Now Be Said, Without Equivocation," Obama "Hates This Country" Limbaugh: Obama Is "A Street Thug. As A Community Organizer, That's What You Are"
Four Media Reports From Libya That Linked The Benghazi Attacks To The Anti-Islam Video
For months, the Obama administration has been subject to media criticism for its initial statements linking the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to an anti-Islam video that had triggered protests across the Middle East at that time. Show More Summary
While Economy Posts Surplus, Media Still Call For Deficit Reduction
Economic media coverage has been heavily focused on advocating for deficit reduction, even as deficits decline and the federal government posts a surplus. A Media Matters analysis on economic news coverage in the month of April found...Show More Summary
CNN: Media Outlets Misrepresented White House Benghazi Email
CNN is challenging the accuracy of reporting on a supposed email from a White House aide that seemed to suggest an effort to provide political cover for the administration following the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The new revelations...Show More Summary
Gosnell Conviction Revives False Abortion Analogies
Since Kermit Gosnell's conviction of the murder of three infants, right-wing media have dismissed existing laws and the context of Gosnell's case as part of their ongoing campaign to connect his horrific crimes to legal abortion procedures. Show More Summary
Major Newspapers Whitewash Obama's "Act Of Terror" Assertion
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal provided incomplete reporting of GOP criticism that President Obama downplayed the role of terrorism in the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Show More Summary