Eric Boehlert

The day the bloggers won The day the bloggers won

With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
By Eric Boehlert May 19, 2009

  • 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 January 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 September 7, 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 August 9, 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 September 5, 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 July 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 June 14, 2005

  • New York Times' Downing Street shuffle

    The paper gets to the second leaked briefing late, and gets it wrong.
    By Eric Boehlert June 13, 2005

  • The briefing before Downing Street

    It took six weeks, but the other shoe has dropped regarding the Downing Street Memo.
    By Eric Boehlert June 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.
    By Eric Boehlert June 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?
    By Eric Boehlert June 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 June 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.
    By Eric Boehlert June 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.
    By 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.
    By 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 April 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 April 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 April 8, 2005

  • Jeff Gannon on "Who's a Journalist"

    The former White House day-passer offers up his views on Fox News.
    By Eric Boehlert April 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.
    By Eric Boehlert April 8, 2005
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