The Media's Liberal Reverse Bias
Obama could pick almost anybody for his cabinet and it would represent something new from the current lame ducks.
Obama could pick almost anybody for his cabinet and it would represent something new from the current lame ducks.
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media
During the presidential campaign season, media coverage of McCain was 57% negative and 14% positive while the coverage of Obama was 29% negative and 36% positive.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
When I was at CBS and working with the News guys, they spent hours each day planning to distort the news and never show America anything that they did not like! Boy was that fun.
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media
Liberals may be ecstatic about the influence the blogosphere has had on the election results, but thoughtful citizens should have reservations about the absence of conservative dialogue.
Jan Herman | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media
It is the Journal, in a column this morning by Thomas Frank, an addition to the Journal's opinion pages to balance all the resident right-wingers, that puts Obama's victory in proper perspective.
Rick Siegel | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Thanks to President-elect Obama not just for leading this nonviolent coup of everyday Americans overthrowing a military industrial junta, but for recognizing that the work has just begun.
Jim Kaplan | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home
It is not enough to report what a candidate says. When he lies, distorts, or smears, he should be held accountable in print or on the air.
Robert Draper | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
To me at least, Obama doesn't do that convincing an impression of a socialist. He's much more convincing as Machiavelli.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics
I'm trying to think of where Sarah Palin and I parted ways. There would be the abysmal interviews, the rhetoric whipping up crowds into meanspiritedn...
James Boyce | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media
When the votes are counted next Tuesday, this site and many others like it, deserve a share of the applause and a mention in everyone's victory speech.
Odile Weissenborn | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
I thought the criticism of Palin was rather remarkable, as it was coming from fellow Republicans so close to the election. "I am a New York City Republican," said one, "which means I'm like a left-wing Democrat in Wyoming."
Jan Herman | Posted 09.24.2008 | Media
When that salary ended, Davis asked for, and received, a consultant fee from Freddie Mac that payed him $15,000 a month.
Jay Rosen | Posted 09.03.2008 | Home
McCain's convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists and bloggers and on confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party.
Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Republicans have no lack of would-be George F. Wills. But what they really need are some more Robert D. Novaks. The distinction between the two prom...
NewsTrust | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
If a news story has appeal on the right and left it suggests deeper coverage. Here then are five stories on McCain from center-right sources which appealed to our OfftheBus news hunters.
Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
The media is neither sexist nor liberal. Hillary Clinton has been treated the way she has treated her opponents.
Ari Melber | Posted 02.26.2008 | Media
Some top journalists say that newspapers should just end endorsements altogether.
Sean Carman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
Watergate was invented by the liberal media as retaliation for the great success of Nixon's law and order presidency.
Marianne Williamson | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
The only question any real progressive should be asking right now is, "Tell me again why we're not supporting Kucinich?"
Media Matters | Posted 09.11.2007 | Politics
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J. L. Ballinger | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics