http://dir.salon.com/topics/eric_boehlert/?source=rss&aim=eric_boehlert en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2009/05/19/eric_boehlert/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2009/05/19/eric_boehlert/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/31/fox_news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/31/fox_news/index.html?source=rss When the GOP catches a cold, everybody at Fox News is ailing. No wonder its ratings are in the pits. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/04/lapdogs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/04/lapdogs/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/07/press_katrina/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/07/press_katrina/index.html?source=rss Why has it taken thousands of hurricane fatalities to finally wake up reporters? By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/09/sheehan_protest/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/09/sheehan_protest/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/05/hurricane_track_record/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/05/hurricane_track_record/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/13/luskin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/13/luskin/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/14/ap_memo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/14/ap_memo/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/13/nyt_shuffle/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/13/nyt_shuffle/index.html?source=rss The paper gets to the second leaked briefing late, and gets it wrong. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/13/dsm_briefing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/13/dsm_briefing/index.html?source=rss It took six weeks, but the other shoe has dropped regarding the Downing Street Memo. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/10/pbs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/10/pbs/index.html?source=rss Republicans on a House subcommittee move to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/10/cnn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/10/cnn/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/09/press_and_downing_street_memo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/09/press_and_downing_street_memo/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/03/watergate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/06/03/watergate/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/26/fulton_lewis_connection/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/26/fulton_lewis_connection/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/24/newsweek/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/24/newsweek/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/17/cpb_ombudsman_controversy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/17/cpb_ombudsman_controversy/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/16/npr/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/16/npr/index.html?source=rss Bad news from the Middle East? Maybe more music programming would be nice. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/10/cpb_bias_campaign/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/10/cpb_bias_campaign/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/03/filibuster_showdown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/03/filibuster_showdown/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/19/coulter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/19/coulter/index.html?source=rss A contrived, peculiar love letter to the hate-mongering pundit seems designed to prove the magazine doesn't tilt left. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/14/fcc_and_indecency/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/14/fcc_and_indecency/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/08/schiavo_memo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/08/schiavo_memo/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/04/08/gannon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/04/08/gannon/index.html?source=rss The former White House day-passer offers up his views on Fox News. By Eric Boehlert Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/04/08/pope/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/04/08/pope/index.html?source=rss By ignoring conservative critics of John Paul II, Hugh Hewitt says the mainstream press has revealed its lefty bias once again.