Eric Boehlert

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  • CBS vs. WMD

    News outlets couldn't get enough of "Memogate." But the failure to find Saddam's weapons? That's right up there with the cat-found-in-a-tree story.
    By Eric Boehlert January 14, 2005

  • No pundit left behind

    After Armstrong Williams pocketed $240,000 from the Department of Education, he conducted a flattering interview with Education Secretary Rod Paige for Sinclair Broadcasting.
    By Eric Boehlert January 12, 2005

  • Behind the firings at CBS

    An independent investigation reveals that the team that produced the Bush National Guard story made shocking, rudimentary mistakes.
    By Eric Boehlert January 11, 2005

  • Fox News gets blown away

    Fox's weak coverage of the tsunami in South Asia proves that when it comes to stories with global significance, the nasty, partisan network isn't ready for prime time.
    By Eric Boehlert January 7, 2005

  • Payola is dead! Now what will we listen to?

    The bizarre, sleazy system of independent radio promotion may finally have bitten the dust. But believe it or not, pop radio may get even worse.
    By Eric Boehlert January 5, 2005

  • Back by unpopular demand

    Come next month, Bush's Inauguration Day approval ratings may be the worst of any president in modern-day history.
    By Eric Boehlert December 21, 2004

  • The Grinch who saved Christmas

    Battling the homosexuals, liberals and Jews, Bill O'Reilly and friends are making America safe for Christmas.
    By Eric Boehlert December 16, 2004

  • Why it took soldiers to put Rumsfeld on the defense

    The Pentagon press corps has been missing in action, so Army grunts stepped in to do its job.
    By Eric Boehlert December 10, 2004

  • Media goes weak-kneed for tough-guy Kerik

    As he sails toward confirmation as Bush's new homeland security chief, Bernard Kerik's ugly attack on John Kerry has been conveniently forgotten.
    By Eric Boehlert December 9, 2004

  • More coldblooded than Abu Ghraib

    An international law expert explains why the new Red Cross report on the Guantanamo prison camp is more disturbing than the U.S.-operated torture chambers in Baghdad.
    By Eric Boehlert December 1, 2004

  • Clinton to ABC News: It's payback time

    The former president chastises Peter Jennings for ABC's "sleazy" coverage of Whitewater -- and he's right.
    By Eric Boehlert November 23, 2004

  • William Safire's dubious legacy

    The departing Times columnist says he's proudest of his reporting. Looking over decades of his false accusations and erroneous assertions, it's hard to see why.
    By Eric Boehlert November 22, 2004

  • Fallujah anticlimax

    Al-Jazeera's subdued coverage reveals some ambivalence in Arab views of the showdown.
    By Eric Boehlert November 12, 2004

  • The media gives Bush a mandate

    Falling to its knees in record time, the press predicts the president will be a uniter this time -- really.
    By Eric Boehlert November 10, 2004

  • The TV ad that put Bush over the top

    An unscripted emotional encounter with the president, captured on camera, ends up a winner.
    By Eric Boehlert November 5, 2004

  • Fox's Osama surprise

    The network's predictions that the bin Laden videotape would help the GOP aren't born out by Bush's drop in its own poll.
    By Eric Boehlert November 2, 2004

  • Iraq explosives story detonates under Bush campaign

    How team Bush has bungled the al-Qaqaa controversy -- with a new "60 Minutes" blockbuster coming on Sunday.
    By Eric Boehlert October 30, 2004

  • Blocking the shot

    A federal judge orders an end to the Pentagon's program of mandatory anthrax vaccinations.
    By Eric Boehlert October 29, 2004

  • Ad blitz

    Bush and Kerry harness the symbolic power of wolves and eagles, and hugs and tears, in their last-minute TV appeals to voters.
    By Eric Boehlert October 25, 2004

  • Sleaze and smear at Sinclair

    David Smith and Carlton Sherwood, the two men behind the "Stolen Honor" fiasco, are a perfect match.
    By Eric Boehlert October 22, 2004

  • Reality-based reporting

    Ron Suskind, who exposed the ruthless internal operations of Team Bush, tells Salon that many Republicans, too, are frightened by the White House's "kill-or-be-killed desire to undermine public debate based on fact."
    By Eric Boehlert October 20, 2004

  • Team Bush declares war on the New York Times

    The GOP attack on a Times Magazine story is the latest attempt to rally the conservative base by "whacking a newspaper with 'New York' in its name," says executive editor Bill Keller.
    By Eric Boehlert October 19, 2004

  • Sinclair's disgrace

    The right-wing network's decision to force its affiliates to air anti-Kerry propaganda is one of the lowest moments in the history of television news, says the former head of the FCC. And it may unleash a backlash.
    By Eric Boehlert October 14, 2004

  • The media reaction: Ho-hum, just a Kerry sweep

    If Bush had won all three debates, would the pundits have been so reserved?
    By Eric Boehlert October 13, 2004

  • The media reaction: Bush did better, but he needed more

    The pundits say Bush didn't change the dynamic -- and Kerry continued to impress.
    By Eric Boehlert October 8, 2004
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