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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.
By Eric Boehlert Jan 31, 2008
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.
By Eric Boehlert May 4, 2006
Katrina jolts the press
Why has it taken thousands of hurricane fatalities to finally wake up reporters?
By Eric Boehlert Sep 7, 2005
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.
By Eric Boehlert Sep 5, 2005
"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.
By Eric Boehlert Aug 9, 2005
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.
By Eric Boehlert Jul 13, 2005
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.
By Eric Boehlert Jun 14, 2005
New York Times' Downing Street shuffle
The paper gets to the second leaked briefing late, and gets it wrong.
Eric Boehlert Jun 13, 2005
The briefing before Downing Street
It took six weeks, but the other shoe has dropped regarding the Downing Street Memo.
Eric Boehlert Jun 13, 2005
The GOP war on PBS and NPR
Republicans on a House subcommittee move to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Eric Boehlert Jun 10, 2005
"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?
Eric Boehlert Jun 10, 2005
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?
By Eric Boehlert Jun 9, 2005
All Throat, all the time
The president couldn't get a word in edgewise this week as the press stayed glued to the story of W. Mark Felt.
Eric Boehlert Jun 3, 2005
"Fair and balanced" -- the McCarthy way
CPB head Kenneth Tomlinson, who is leading a jihad against "liberal bias" in public broadcasting, and one of his two new ombudsmen both worked for the late Fulton Lewis, a reactionary radio personality associated with Sen. Joe McCarthy.
By Eric Boehlert May 26, 2005
How Newsweek's sneak peek failed
In what looks like a case of CBS syndrome, the magazine allowed a Pentagon official to read its Quran-abuse story -- all of it -- prior to publication.
Eric Boehlert May 24, 2005
Making PBS as "fair and balanced" as Fox
Critics blast the CPB's unprecedented move to hire competing, "Crossfire"-style ombudsmen, saying the move is intended to make public broadcasting toe a right-wing line.
By Eric Boehlert May 17, 2005
GOP now goes after NPR
Bad news from the Middle East? Maybe more music programming would be nice.
Eric Boehlert May 16, 2005
Pushing PBS to the right
Republicans have launched a heavy-handed campaign to correct public broadcasting's "liberal slant." There's just one problem: Most Americans don't think it has one.
By Eric Boehlert May 10, 2005
The woman who could detonate the "nuclear option"
The looming filibuster showdown is likely to be triggered by Priscilla Owen, who was accused of judicial activism by an unlikely foe -- Alberto Gonzales.
By Eric Boehlert May 3, 2005
Time hearts Ann Coulter
A contrived, peculiar love letter to the hate-mongering pundit seems designed to prove the magazine doesn't tilt left.
By Eric Boehlert Apr 19, 2005
Indecency wars
Activists who beat back the FCC on media consolidation are dismayed to find former allies leading an unprecedented effort to restrict radio and TV content.
By Eric Boehlert Apr 14, 2005
"Citizen journalists"? Try partisan hacks
Right-wing bloggers shrieked that the GOP Schiavo memo was a "liberal media" fraud. Now that they've been proven wrong, are they apologizing? Why, no!
By Eric Boehlert Apr 8, 2005
Jeff Gannon on "Who's a Journalist"
The former White House day-passer offers up his views on Fox News.
Eric Boehlert Apr 8, 2005
The liberal media conspiracy, papal version
By ignoring conservative critics of John Paul II, Hugh Hewitt says the mainstream press has revealed its lefty bias once again.
Eric Boehlert Apr 8, 2005
A tale told by an idiot
Wildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
By Eric Boehlert Mar 31, 2005
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