Major Media Outlets Fail to Disclose Prominent Clinton Critic’s Role as...
Major media outlets are looking to former attorney general Michael Mukasey to report smears against Hillary Clinton. But they forgot to disclose that Mukasey is a current adviser on Jeb Bush's...
View ArticleFox News Criticizes Obama for Advocating Gun Reform After Virginia Shooting...
Fox News criticized President Obama after he called for new gun safety measures just days after two journalists were killed while on air. Obviously, we know where Fox News stands on gun reform. The...
View ArticleVendetta or Paranoia? The ‘Times,’ the ‘Beast’ and the Clintons
It's time to discuss the New York Times and the Clintons. Is it wrong to skew the discussion of alleged Times bias against the Clintons as Pulitzer-winning Times editors and staffers versus "diehard...
View ArticleFox Figures Demand Obama Make Remarks Condemning Violence Against Police Days...
Fox News hosts recently accused President Obama as dismissive of law enforcement even after he publicly condemned violence against police officers as "completely unacceptable" and "an affront to...
View ArticleMyths and Facts About the Landmark Iran Deal
Media Matters "debunks the myths" surrounding the media debate on the Iran deal that could soon have a Republican-backed resolution of disapproval passed by the U.S. Senate. The post Myths and Facts...
View ArticleFirst Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS...
A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag. The post First Library...
View ArticleFox News Pushes Impossible Claim That Community Clinics Could Fill Gap If...
Recent moves to defund Planned Parenthood would mean the elimination of critical family planning services, wellness checks, STD testing, and cervical and breast cancer screenings for millions of...
View ArticleYou Can’t Trust the (Corporate) Press
From operation mockingbird to wars based on official lies, you can't trust the corporate press. Democracy will only flourish when "the press can decide whether to print what it knows.” The post You...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why the Wall Street Journal’s Attack on Bernie Is Bogus
The Wall Street Journal recently dumped on Bernie Sanders' expansion of government based on misinformation and distortion. Now, Robert Reich is responding to the recent article by spreading the truth....
View ArticleMedia Praise Carly Fiorina’s GOP Debate Attack on Planned Parenthood Despite...
Several media outlets praised Carly Fiorina for her answer to a question about defunding Planned Parenthood. But was her attack on Planned Parenthood based on a series of deceptively-edited videos? The...
View ArticleAnother Study Debunks Myth that Obamacare Stymies Job Market
While right-wing media outlets have spent years claiming health care reform would threaten American jobs, a new study confirms that Obamacare did the contrary. Another mainstream media "fact" debunked....
View ArticleDivert the Serfs to Maintain the Empire
When will the real silent majority of working stiffs demand that the military spending be drastically reduced, at least by 25%, and used to save our economy? The post Divert the Serfs to Maintain the...
View ArticleRight-Wing Media Praise ‘Populist’ Trump Tax Plan that’s Anything But
While right-wing media has praised Donald Trump's proposed "populist" tax plan, critics detail how it overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and corporations—anything, but populist. The post Right-Wing...
View ArticleFour Times Latinos Stood Up for Hispanic Representation in the Media
As Media Matters celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, here are four examples of Latinos in the media who stood up to xenophobia, anti-immigrant slurs and attacks on Spanish language. The post Four Times...
View ArticleWhy the Washington Post’s Attack on Bernie Sanders is Bunk
Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold says as President Sanders couldn’t get any of his ideas implemented anyway because Congress would reject them. But if Bernie Sanders is elected president, American...
View ArticleUSA Today Should Correct Its Blatant Errors About Clinton, Sanders and Biden
USA Today not only misread its own poll, the paper botched a poll graphic about the top descriptions. Here are the blatant errors they made about current and potential Democratic presidential...
View ArticleInside the Dream Defenders’ Social Media Blackout
Dream Defenders, a group founded in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder in 2012, announced a six week “social media sabbatical.” Members of the Dream Defenders’ explain the reasons for their social...
View ArticleExperts: New Anti-Planned Parenthood Footage Still Doesn’t Support Fiorina’s...
Carly Fiorina falsely described a scene in an anti-Planned Parenthood video, but experts are contradicting her claim of the misrepresented content saying the footage is likely of a miscarriage. The...
View ArticleTwisted Social Media and Mass Murder
Is social media honoring killers past and certifying the most twisted world views? The growth of social media has created an online community that perhaps endorses the perverse fantasies of the...
View ArticleMajor Broadcast News Networks Ignore Poll Showing 78 Percent of Americans...
A recent report analyzing broadcast coverage of campaign finance reform on Sunday morning talk shows as well as nightly news programs showed Americans are in favor of overturning Citizens United. So...
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