Huge Servings of Stupid Royal Baby Coverage
Last week, news of the anticipation of the royal baby eclipsed much other news in the U.S., but it gave no indication of the level of stupid that was to come with the kid's actual birth.
View ArticleThe Government Can't Prove Bradley Manning Hurt Anyone–but Joe Klein Knows
The government isn't having much luck showing the real world harm done by Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. Perhaps they should call in Time columnist Joe Klein--he knows "for a fact" that bad things...
View ArticleNot Enough Debate in Morning Joe's Walmart Wage Debate
An MSNBC debate on Walmart and the minimum wage need at least one thing: More debate.
View ArticleRichard Engel and U.S. Aid to Egypt
Since Engel's point was that things must stay as they are, it's not likely that the NBC reporter's words will cause much controversy--certainly things would be different if he'd have given an equally...
View ArticleInform the Public? Not My Job, Says Chuck Todd
NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd's declaration that it's not his job to inform viewers when politicians spread misinformation was noted by several progressive blogs today, including Talking...
View ArticleDoubling Down: Healthcare Site Isn't Obama's Katrina–It's His Iraq War
No, the website problems with the Affordable Care Act aren't like Hurricane Katrina. They're more like the Iraq War.
View ArticleA Wedding Was Bombed–Don't Worry, It Was by the US, Not in the US
What seemed to be a US drone strike hit a wedding convoy in Yemen, killing over a dozen people. What kind of coverage does an event like that get on US television?
View ArticleDo You Trust Fox News to Tell You How Trusted Fox News Is?
Fox News is certainly the place for Republicans to go to be told what they want to hear--including that their favorite news outlet is the one that Americans in general find most trustworthy.
View ArticleOur Boss Is Great! How MSNBC Covered Comcast Merger
How did MSNBC cover the mega-merger between its parent company and Time Warner cable? Hardly at all--except for a segment glorifying their boss.
View ArticleBeing O'Reilly Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
It tells you a lot about our media and society that no one even expects O'Reilly to apologize for his slur of the left.
View ArticleFAIR TV: Climate Change False Balance, MSNBC Cheers Its Boss, Apology-Free...
David Gregory seemed to say that the science on climate change was settled. So why did he have a debate about whether climate change is happening? Plus MSNBC's Morning Joe cheers on its corporate...
View ArticleOnce Again: Progressive Budget's Media Blackout
What if lawmakers put forward a federal budget plan to tax big financial institutions, enact a healthcare public option and increase spending to put millions of Americans to work on badly needed...
View ArticleSharpton and the Media's Cat-and-Mouse Game
Both the New York Post and the Daily News sensationalized, for the second day in a row, revelations that Al Sharpton was an informant for the FBI. Revelations first alluded to in 1988 by Newsday, to...
View ArticleThis Just In: US Ruled by the Rich
The same well-heeled elites and their representatives who dominate US politics and policy are also grossly over-represented among the owners of US corporate media.
View ArticleMichael Brown, According to the New York Times
The New York Times makes some curious choices in its coverage of the victim in the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting.
View ArticleA Most Interesting Man: Did Maddow Really 'Tar' Rand Paul on Civil Rights?
The new issue of Time magazine declares Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul the most interesting man in politics. Maybe that says something about Time, or about the state of American politics.
View ArticleFAIR TV: Ebola & Washington 'Dysfunction,' Rand Paul's Record and Silencing...
On this week's episode: Pundits say now would be a great time to have a surgeon general–but that hasn't happened, thanks to "Washington dysfunction." Is that really what's happening here? Plus Time...
View ArticleMuslim-Bashing Not a No-Go Zone for Bobby Jindal
As Arsalan Iftikhar suggested, Bobby Jindal does devote considerable effort to criticizing minority groups who have done less to fit the the American majority image. This strategy was on full display...
View ArticleChris Matthews Calls for 'Rambo Kind of Stuff' as Response to Real-World...
Chris Matthews doesn't know how to solve the ISIS problem. But he knows who does--and he's a fictional character played by Sylvester Stallone.
View ArticleMedia Inflate Threat With ‘ISIS Plots’ That Don’t Actually Involve ISIS
The specter of ISIS constantly trying to enlist dozens of Americans, often for attacks on US soil, is a crucial element in maintaining the current war effort. The media inability to point out that...
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