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.
Media Matters: Limbaugh's NFL dream slips through his "formerly nicotine-stained fingers"
October 16, 2009 10:51 pm ET
Six years after Rush Limbaugh was forced to resign in disgrace from his gig on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, the nation's top right-wing radio host saw his dream of owning a pro football team slip through his "formerly nicotine-stained fingers" this week due to mounting criticism over his history of racially charged commentary.
Is Dr. Fox-enstein -- errr ... Roger Ailes building another monster?
October 13, 2009 11:10 pm ET
With Halloween just around the corner, Fox News president Roger Ailes -- a former Republican communications guru -- is looking more and more like the news industry's Dr. Frankenstein. For months now, he has been putting the finishing touches on his first monster, Fox News Channel, just as its bride, Fox Business Network, is showing signs of life.
Media Matters: Right again makes an anti-American ass of itself following Obama's Nobel win
October 09, 2009 9:50 pm ET
On Friday, the nation awoke to the news that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to President Barack Obama. What followed was a tantrum from right-wing media figures unmatched in its madness save for the extreme joy on display last week from some of the very same figures that cheered Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid loss.
All aboard! The right's Fox News gravy train rolls on
October 06, 2009 9:45 am ET
Since President Obama took office in January, Fox News has been acting more like the propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee than a legitimate news outlet. Perhaps it's the rallies or the lobbying or the fundraising or the demonstrably false attacks that's kept the president from appearing on Fox. Regardless, the right's gravy train rolls on undeterred, facts be damned.
Media Matters: Right-wing media lynch mob gay-baits White House, facts be damned
October 02, 2009 9:39 pm ET
For the better part of a week, conservatives in the media have been on a witch hunt for Kevin Jennings, the director of the Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The attacks on Jennings, the latest Obama administration official in the right's crosshairs, have been disgusting, misleading, baseless, and at times pointedly anti-gay.
Media Matters: Fox News' incomplete, misleading ACORN coverage is just nuts
September 18, 2009 11:13 pm ET
Fox News is already teasing its next round of ACORN attacks. If credible journalists don't stand up for their craft, then Fox News will keep enjoying its position in the driver's seat.
Glenn Beck's "deep-seated hatred" of Obama and why Fox News won't budge
September 09, 2009 9:04 pm ET
If Bill O'Reilly has the "no-spin zone," Glenn Beck seems to have the "sponsor-free zone" of late. The Fox News strategy for dealing with its Beck problem seems pretty simple: Keep a low profile and hope that advertisers return to Beck's broadcast sometime down the road once the controversy over his incendiary attacks on President Obama has died down.
Media Matters: Glue? Check. Protractor? Check. No. 2 pencils? Check. Insane reaction to president's back-to-school speech? Check.
September 04, 2009 8:16 pm ET
It's that time of the year again. Parents are busy preparing their children for the first day of school, while children are busy holding on to every minute left in their precious summer vacation. But, out in the distance, an ominous threat is looming. That threat has a name ... gulp ... and it is ... whimper ... President Barack Hussein Obama.
Lou Dobbs and his hate groupies
September 01, 2009 2:32 pm ET
By now, CNN's Lou Dobbs, with his single-minded obsession over all things anti-immigrant and his bizarre embrace of the loony birther movement, is well known for trafficking in disturbing, misleading, and often inaccurate garbage. Escaping under the radar of many, however, are his close associations with an organization that has been described by experts as a "hate group."
