Contrary to media hype, Sarah Palin is very unpopular
November 19, 2009 12:21 pm ET
The news media's relentless hyping of the Palin "phenomenon" obscures an essential fact: Sarah Palin is extremely unpopular.
How can health care reporting get worse? Add abortion to the mix
November 12, 2009 8:10 pm ET
Led by Chris Matthews, much of the media has adopted factually incorrect and logically flawed conservative spin about how health care reform would affect abortion funding, applying an anti-choice frame to both the health care and abortion debates.
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.
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.
Remembering Nixon
October 23, 2009 2:25 pm ET
Comparisons of White House criticism of Fox News to Richard Nixon are preposterous -- and where were the allegations of Nixonian behavior when George W. Bush was spying on reporters?
The media's Glenn Beck problem
October 16, 2009 10:26 pm ET
The real problem with Glenn Beck and Fox News isn't that they misinform the 1 percent of Americans who watch their nonsense (the vast majority of whom already agree with them). It's that the rest of the media run to the right in response to Fox -- even while becoming more and more convinced that they are guilty of liberal bias.
No apology
October 09, 2009 5:16 pm ET
If The New Republic really regrets publishing Betsy McCaughey's deeply dishonest assault on the Clinton health care reform efforts, it should finally do the right thing: Apologize, and give back the National Magazine Award it won for the article.
A chance for big media to show their worth
October 01, 2009 9:27 pm ET
Strong, broadly popular health care reform is in danger of dying in a smoke-filled back room, without transparency or accountability. So far, the media have helped the politicians avoid accountability -- but it isn't too late to change.
Like a dog that's been beat too much
September 25, 2009 11:00 pm ET
News coverage of ACORN -- and of conservative complaints about that coverage -- demonstrates that when the right says, "Jump," the media say, "How high?" Then they apologize for not jumping sooner.
How Time magazine enables Glenn Beck's lies
September 17, 2009 4:17 pm ET
In its new issue, Time features a cover profile of Fox demagogue Glenn Beck, written by David Von Drehle, that downplays or ignores Beck's defining qualities, draws false equivalencies between liberals and conservatives, portrays obvious lies as simple differences of perspective, and omits Beck's most shocking and outrageous statements.
