Media Matters: The right-wing media's election analysis just ain't that good
November 06, 2009 8:12 pm ET
For anyone following Fox News and others in the conservative media in the days leading up to and following this year's off-year election, it should have been apparent what was afoot from the very start. Hint: It wasn't news gathering or objective analysis.
The Friday Rush: For conservatives, $400 million buys defeat at the ballot box
November 06, 2009 7:24 pm ET
The myth of Fox News' ratings spike
November 03, 2009 9:32 am ET
No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, it's just not true that Fox News' ratings went "through the roof" after the White House called out the cable channel.
Howard Kurtz's bogus conflict-of-interest defense
November 02, 2009 1:50 pm ET
Washington Post/CNN media critic Howard Kurtz has the biggest conflict of interest around. He says it doesn't affect his reporting, but his treatment of key executives at CNN and the Post tells a different story.
Media Matters: Conservative media's "radical" attacks are so lame
October 30, 2009 8:46 pm ET
Let's let Sean Hannity explain: "This is so important. Because for all the town halls and everything that happened this summer, these are the critical weeks if you don't want health care." And who wants health care? Much less health care reform? Hannity and the rest of the right-wing wrecking crew are gearing up for a war.
The real lessons of Fox/MSNBC comparisons
October 30, 2009 7:03 pm ET
Any reporter who tells you MSNBC is the liberal Fox is really telling you everything you need to know about the quality of his or her own journalism.
The Friday Rush: Documenting Limbaugh's war on reality
October 30, 2009 6:31 pm ET
Here at Media Matters, we've long documented Rush Limbaugh's proclivity for disputing inconvenient facts by simply concocting his own reality in which those facts are no longer true. In recent weeks, Limbaugh seems to have declared an all out war on statistics as well, since he has blanketly shown no regard for what many people would consider facts. But that's how things go when it comes to Rush Limbaugh's never-ending war on reality.
30 reasons why Fox News is not legit
October 27, 2009 5:26 am ET
The facts regarding Fox News' lack of professionalism seem rather obvious. And that ought to be plain for Beltway journalists as well. But whether for reasons having to do with external professional, social, or political pressure, many journalists have opted to pretend that Fox News is a serious outlet, that it's just like its cable and network TV news competitors.
Media Matters: Fox News isn't news -- this is news?
October 23, 2009 11:45 pm ET
The problems with Fox News aren't confined to "certain reports." Nor are they confined to Fox's "opinion programming." Fox has organized and promoted campaigns against the Obama administration. Fox has allowed its personalities to use the network to raise money for conservative PACs -- money that is used for more attacks on the administration. And Fox News' actual "news" is anything but. As Media Matters President Eric Burns pointed out this week, "Fox News is the story."
The Friday Rush: His dream deferred, Limbaugh takes a backseat to Glenn Beck
October 23, 2009 9:44 pm ET
Maybe Rush Limbaugh is still torn up over the whole St. Louis Rams debacle. In recent days, his status as the most prominent and reliably conspiratorial conservative voice in the media has begun to wane, replaced by none other than the even-more conspiracy-obsessed Glenn Beck.
