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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Beck: No to Censoring Foes, Yes to Violent Death
Appearing on the O'Reilly Factor (3/25/10) to discuss being named by Joy Behar as one of the media figures the View panelist (3/22/10) says are inspiring hate among Tea Party activists ("There is a difference between free speech and hate … Continue reading
Fox News Commentators Find 'Common Ground' in Praising Fox News
One of USA Today's regular op-ed features is a "right-left" conversation between conservative columnist Cal Thomas and "liberal" Democratic strategist Bob Beckel in which they seek "Common Ground"–the name of the op-ed feature–on "issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot." Last … Continue reading
An 'Ignoble Attempt' to Smear the Pope?
The Vatican is lashing out at mounting news reports suggesting that, before becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger used his positions to cover up the the church's sex abuse scandals, with little regard for the child victims of the … Continue reading
Posted in Media Criticism
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One GOP Lawmaker Says Dems Are 'Ratcheting Up Rhetoric,' While Another Calls for Beating Enemies to Pulp
Articles like "Accusations Fly Between Parties Over Threats and Vandalism" in the New York Times today (3/26/10) are fairly useless. Are Republicans "fanning the flames with coded rhetoric," as a Democratic lawmaker says, or is a Republican representative right that … Continue reading
Health Reform and the Imaginary Conservative Majority
One of the main assumptions of the final weeks of coverage of the congressional debate over healthcare reform was that the public was opposed to the White House plan. But some polling analysis shows that this wasn't the case. Barry … Continue reading
GritTV: The Witch Hunt Against ACORN
FAIR's Jim Naureckas appeared on GritTV yesterday to discuss media coverage of ACORN:
Newsweek Not Sure If Remote-Control Assassinations Are 'Awful' or 'Awesome'
Newsweek has a regular feature called "The Index" where the magazine picks out three current news events and maps them a 100-point scale, from Awful (1) to Awesome (100). The latest installment in the March 29 issue (which is not … Continue reading
Posted in Media Criticism
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NYT Admits It Was Wrong About ACORN, But Still Gets It Wrong
The New York Times, thanks in large part to FAIR activists, printed an ACORN correction today (3/23/10): Several articles since September about the troubles of the community organizing group ACORN referred incorrectly or imprecisely to one aspect of videotaped encounters … Continue reading
Posted in New York Times
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If Chris Matthews Were Capable of Embarrassment
…he would have to take a leave of absence to recover from the shame of having heaped ridicule on a guest who tried to explain to him how Congress could and would pass a healthcare reform bill. Daily Kos (3/22/10) … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky on Healthcare and the Media
Via an interview with Raw Story (3/22/10): The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor added that it's a damning referendum on American democracy that one of the most highly supported components of the effort nationally, the public insurance option, was jettisoned. … Continue reading
This Week on CounterSpin: Jemima Pierre on Haiti, Megan Tady on TV Wars
This week on CounterSpin: The network camera crews have mostly packed up and gone home, but the political fights over reconstruction and rebuilding in Haiti are only just getting started. University of Texas professor Jemima Pierre was part of a … Continue reading
All Smart People Are Centrists–and Other News From PBS
Broadcasting & Cable (3/17/10) spoke with the head of PBS's flagship New York station about the recent hire of Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and former MTV and NPR host Alison Stewart for PBS's forthcoming program Need to Know, which is … Continue reading
NYT Exposes Amazon's Fiendish Plot to Sell Books for Less Money
Boy, the folks at Amazon.com sure are mean–to hear the New York Times tell it. A March 18 story by Motoko Rich and Brad Stone begins: Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless … Continue reading
Posted in Media Business, New York Times
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