Former News Director Spills 'Secrets Of Talk Radio'
As a follow-up to yesterday's post on the state of right-wing radio, an emailer points me in the direction of an article in Milwaukee Magazine by Dan ...
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Media Matters Casts Net For America's Next Top Limbaugh
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
"Are you paying attention to what's being said on your radio?" asks Media Matters. And the answer, for me anyway, is: "No! I thought that's what all...
An Interview with Erica Payne, Author of The Practical Progressive
Julian Brookes | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
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Erica Payne's book, The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-First Century Political Movement, is the essential guide to what's happening, who's who, and how to get involved in the new progressive "infrastructure."
Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: For the Beltway Media, Even Democratic Victories Prove the Country is Conservative
Paul Waldman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Media
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When Republicans win, we're told that Democrats need to move to the center. When Democrats win, on the other hand, we're told that... Democrats need to move to the center.
Meet the Bloggers: Henry Rollins and Paul Waldman Spurn the Media's Love for McCain
Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media
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Make no mistake, FOX is willing to do whatever it takes to advance their conservative agenda. They will lie, smear, and distort to their hearts' content.
McCain Thinks the Media is Out to Get Him...Try Not to Laugh
Paul Waldman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
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Many journalists decided long ago that McCain is just different from other politicians. They declare McCain innocent of all sins associated with other members of his profession, no matter how often he commits them.
Obama Nation Author Assailed By All Parties On Larry King Live
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
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Jerome Corsi, Swift Boater and author of the newly released Obama Nation, appeared on Larry King Live last night to defend his smear-plagued, yet best...
Slaying Himself with the Jawbone of an Ass: Michael Savage on Autism
Harold Pollack | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
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Whether Americans are black or white, Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, decent folk don't care to hear Michael Savage disparage the disabled or their caregivers.
Gen. Clark and That POW Thing McCain Hates Talking About
Paul Waldman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
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There's a myth out there that McCain is reluctant to exploit his Vietnam POW story for political advantage, so modest and full of integrity is he. Nothing could be further from the truth.
MediaMatters Offers A Pictoral History Of The Fist Bump
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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MediaMatters continues to hilariously needle dim-bulb Fox News anchor E.D. Hill for her obtuse "terrorist fist-jab" comments, using this amazing new t...
McClellan and Second Thoughts
John Feffer | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
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In this version of shock therapy, Scottie McClellan and David Brock and Eric Shinseki would warn kids not to listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch Bill O'Reilly or read Ann Coulter.
Barack Obama and the Corporate Media
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
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The bad news about our nutrient-starved, 24-hour media environment is that there will be more news cycles dedicated to destroying Obama -- or at least slowing the momentum of his campaign.
McCain's Cronies: Busting Media Myths On McCain's Lobbyist Hypocrisy
Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
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Pretending that McCain has clean hands when his highest-ranking advisors are shoveling the muck is both illogical and dishonest. And the media knows it.
My Proudest Moment as a Pundit: Bill O'Reilly Calls Me a Race Baiter
Eric Deggans | Posted 04.08.2008 | Media
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Why is it that the main people who don't seem to want to talk about race in America these days, are those who earn their living by keeping us apart?
Free Ride: Inside The Media's Love Affair With McCain
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
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"The press loves McCain," MSNBC's Chris Matthews has declared. "We're his base." This tawdry media love affair with the presumptive GOP nominee is the...
Hillary Goes Big Nurse
Warren Goldstein | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home
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I've begun to agree with my sociologist friend and colleague Doug Eichar at the University of Hartford who told me the other day that he thought Hilla...
Eric Boehlert Is Right About The 60 Minutes Clinton Flap
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media
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When I point out that the media often makes misstatements and unfair characterizations with respect to Hillary Clinton, that's less about me supporting Clinton than it is me supporting, well, accuracy.
L'Affaire Shuster: Big Camel, Big Straw
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 02.12.2008 | Media
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Some people thought this called for Shuster's firing, but they're wrong: It called for an examination of a pattern of behavior. At this point, Clinton and her team should know that any more is gonna smack of politics; her point has been amply, amply made.
Sister Frigidaire Tries To Ice MSNBC
Stephen Kaus | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
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By speaking on cable television in the way that everyone regularly speaks on the Internet, Shuster gave us a preview of speech control in Hillaryland.
John McCain: Maverick Man Who Thinks War With Iran Inevitable
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
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McCain's framing of the Iraq War and the inevitability of a war with Iran feels like someone who has not gotten beyond Vietnam.
Sexist Chris Matthews Apologizes to Sexist Hillary Clinton
Beverly Davis | Posted 01.18.2008 | Home
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I guess Matthews had to apologize for telling the truth about Hillary and how she got where she is. Hillary owes Matthews an apology too though, but don't hold your breath.
Long-Weekend Reading List
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
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This list features some of the "can't miss" books, studies and reports that you just may have accidentally missed. So here are our suggestions for inspired holiday reading.
What's Howard Kurtz's Agenda at the Wash. Post?
Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
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Glenn Greenwald's recent take-down of Time's Joe Klein was a can't-miss media story that raged online for weeks, yet Kurtz at the Washington Post missed it.
Fox News Refuses To Run Pro-Constitution Ad
Media Matters | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
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Fox News has refused to air an ad produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights that criticizes the Bush administration for "destroying the Constit...
Malkin and Limbaugh and O'Reilly! Oh my!
Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.17.2007 | Media
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The mighty right-wing media machine is in the process of driving American conservatism right off a cliff.
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