Fox News ignores right-wing extremists
The cable network sees what it wants to see
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 5:20 PM UTC 31News AlterNet, Fox News, Media
Eric Boehlert
News AlterNet, Fox News, Media
When Anthony Lewis took on the GOP — and the New York Times
Absent from the obituaries is his noble defense of Bill Clinton during the impeachment witch-hunt of the 1990s
Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 9:03 PM UTCPolitics Media Matters, Anthony Lewis
Is Roger Ailes the GOP’s worst enemy?
Despite the party's rebranding efforts, Fox News seemingly has no interest in moderating its attack programming
Friday, Mar 22, 2013 6:49 PM UTC 33Politics Media Matters, Roger Ailes
Could Twitter have prevented the Iraq War?
The conflict might not have become a fait accompli if the mainstream media was forced to answer for its mistakes
Monday, Mar 18, 2013 3:38 PM UTC 13News Media Matters, Twitter, Iraq
Hey, Sean Hannity, here’s what a “lapdog” press really looks like
The Fox talker whines about the media's leftist bias. Has he forgotten the Bush years?
Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 72Politics Media Matters, George W. Bush
Glenn Beck’s incendiary angst dangerously close to having a body count
The pundit's crusade against the Tides Foundation is the latest in a line of tirades that have led to violence
Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010 3:28 PM UTC 67News Glenn Beck, Crime
The day the bloggers won
With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:47 PM UTC 39Entertainment 2008 Elections, Glenn Greenwald
Republicans make Fox News sick
When the GOP catches a cold, everybody at Fox News is ailing. No wonder its ratings are in the pits.
Thursday, Jan 31, 2008 12:34 PM UTC 108All Salon George W. Bush, CNN, Fox News
Lapdogs
Cowardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time.
Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:16 PM UTC 53News Iraq war, The New York Times
Katrina jolts the press
Why has it taken thousands of hurricane fatalities to finally wake up reporters?
Wednesday, Sep 7, 2005 4:57 PM UTCAll Salon George W. Bush, Iraq war
The politics of hurricane relief
In 2004, swing-state Florida voters slammed by hurricanes received lots of help and close personal attention from President Bush. But there's no election this year.
Monday, Sep 5, 2005 7:18 PM UTCAll Salon New Orleans
“Flip-flopping” Americans
Right-wing bloggers are attacking military mom Cindy Sheehan for changing her mind about Iraq. But so have millions of other citizens.
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2005 4:20 PM UTCNews George W. Bush, Iraq war
The big lie defense
Karl Rove's loose-lipped attorney now claims that Time reporter Matt Cooper "burned" his client. And flaming winged monkeys lit the match.
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2005 1:40 PM UTCNews CIA, Karl Rove
AP dropped the ball on the Downing memo
Newspaper editors looking for wire copy on the British prewar document came up empty. But it wasn't just the Associated Press who neglected the story.
Tuesday, Jun 14, 2005 7:42 PM UTCNews
Supreme Court stymies media titans
The top court refused to get invovled in the long-simmering controversy over media ownership rules, halting for now efforts toward further consolidation.
Monday, Jun 13, 2005 7:54 PM UTCPolitics War Room
New York Times’ Downing Street shuffle
The paper gets to the second leaked briefing late, and gets it wrong.
Monday, Jun 13, 2005 3:43 PM UTCPolitics War Room, The New York Times
The briefing before Downing Street
It took six weeks, but the other shoe has dropped regarding the Downing Street Memo.
Monday, Jun 13, 2005 12:28 PM UTCPolitics Iraq war, War Room
The GOP war on PBS and NPR
Republicans on a House subcommittee move to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Friday, Jun 10, 2005 3:35 PM UTCPolitics War Room, PBS, NPR
“Kicking butt” at CNN?
The cable network's new chief says his reporters are "rollicking, aggressive pursuers of facts." Where have they been on the Downing Street memo?
Friday, Jun 10, 2005 3:08 PM UTCPolitics CNN, War Room
Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!
Why did it take more than a month for the U.S. press to report on the serious revelations in the Downing Street memo?
Thursday, Jun 9, 2005 10:15 PM UTCNews Fox News, MSNBC, Iraq war
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Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer for Salon, is the author of "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush."
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