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Friday, May 1, 2009

• Liasson repeats tired Obama earmark falsehood on NPR

• Coulter's credibility rating drops even further with repetition of Obama approval falsehood

Thursday, April 30, 2009

• Media infected with conservatives' "socialized medicine" myth

• Time has Beck praising Limbaugh's "honesty" in Time 100 profile

• NBC/WSJ poll question advanced false claim about proposed labor law

• Does Dobbs think Dr. Gupta and others at CNN are "out of their cotton pickin' minds"?

• Rove pushes "extreme" distortion of Obama health care remark

• Media still bored by Obama press conferences

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

• Stamp of approval: Media tout Obama polling falsehood

• Fox's Henneberg repeats right-wing myth that hate crimes bill could gag ministers

• FNC's Napolitano peddles paranoia about "swine flu," Obama's health care plan

• Wilson says Michelle Obama "was portrayed in some quarters as an angry woman" -- but omits Fox

• Frisch: Fox News: 100 days of "opposition" to Obama

• Media Matters looks at 100 days of ...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

• Fox's Angle repeated false and misleading claims on harsh interrogations

• Fox's Cameron provides bad medicine in health care report

• The Hill reported Ryan and Gregg's reconciliation criticism, omitted their prior support

• Baier ignored study's finding that media coverage of Obama's policies skewed negative

• VandeHei uncritically repeats Gregg's reconciliation criticism

• Post reports GOP criticism of HHS vacancy, but not GOP's role

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Friday, May 1, 2009

• Using Media Matters research, MSNBC's Shuster documents "misleading arguments" from conservative broadcasters playing "blame game" with immigrants, swine flu

• MSNBC's Novotny describes Savage's and Boortz's blame of immigrants for "swine flu" as "paranoid" and a "scare tactic"

• We Report, You Decide, Kelly asks: "Is that still open for debate, that President Obama is governing from the left?"

• National Review's Whalen asserts and Beck agrees that "realistically, President Obama could get Bill Ayers confirmed [to the Supreme Court] these days"

• Discussing gay marriage, radio host Michael Reagan tells Stephanie Miller: "Thank you, I'll stay with God, you stay with New Hampshire"

• Fails to grasp the concept: Doocy complains that "gay community" not "tolerant" of Miss California's "opposite marriage" beliefs

• Scarborough: "It's ridiculous. One woman on the Supreme Court doesn't seem right to me"

• Not-President Doocy "would like to officially nominate" the "fair and balanced" Judge Andrew Napolitano for Supreme Court

• Doocy claims that "Obama would really have to appoint an outright Socialist for him to find somebody more to the left of Justice Souter"

• Allen on GOP response to possible replacements for Souter: "[I]t doesn't matter what name is out there, you're going to hear that they're a 'liberal' and 'activist' "

Thursday, April 30, 2009

• Hannity: "Journalism is dead in America but for Fox, and talk radio, and Matt Drudge"

• Coulter says torture memos document "wussy stuff" that "people pay to have done to them at Six Flags"

• Hannity: "I don't think anybody that understands economic systems can deny" that "America is moving from free-market economy to a socialist economy"

• On Rachel Maddow, infectious disease expert Osterholm says closing the border "makes no scientific sense at all," would be a "hysterical" response

• Olbermann awards Rove "Worst Person" "silver" for "the most dishonest thing you can do in a newspaper"

• O'Reilly jokes about waterboarding Soros, Colmes

• Ingraham: "I was surprised, frankly, that no one in the administration has yet blamed America for the H1N1 virus"

• Beck falsely claims that under DHS report, "a teabag person is kind of a threat possibly to the United States"

• Cavuto hosts Sheriff Arpaio, who is concerned about the "hundreds and thousands that sneak into our country that could be diseased"

• Limbaugh on closing Guantánamo: "[T]hey're just going to turn them loose in Montana or wherever else"

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• Coulter's credibility rating drops even further with repetition of Obama approval falsehood

• Robertson says Republicans "ought to filibuster every single one" of Obama's judicial nominees

• Liasson repeats tired Obama earmark falsehood on NPR

• Politico, Roll Call ignored GOP flip-flops on filibustering judicial nominees

• Media infected with conservatives' "socialized medicine" myth

• RedState.org's Erickson on reports of Justice Souter's looming retirement

• Does the Wash. Times' Joseph Curl have an editor?

• Paranoia pandemic: Conservative media baselessly blame swine flu outbreak on immigrants

• Time has Beck praising Limbaugh's "honesty" in Time 100 profile

• CNN anchors wondered: "How dignified could [a filibuster] be?" and "Will [Alito] get the fair vote that the president has been asking for?"

• Does Dobbs think Dr. Gupta and others at CNN are "out of their cotton pickin' minds"?

• Fox News: 100 days of "opposition" to Obama

• Media still bored by Obama press conferences

• Stamp of approval: Media tout Obama polling falsehood

• MSNBC's Novotny describes Savage's and Boortz's blame of immigrants for "swine flu" as "paranoid" and a "scare tactic"

• NY Times reported GOP senators' "threat" to filibuster judicial nominees, but not their prior claims that tactic violates Constitution

• Rove pushes "extreme" distortion of Obama health care remark

• NBC/WSJ poll question advanced false claim about proposed labor law

• Fox's Henneberg repeats right-wing myth that hate crimes bill could gag ministers

• Allen on GOP response to possible replacements for Souter: "[I]t doesn't matter what name is out there, you're going to hear that they're a 'liberal' and 'activist' "

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Friday, April 24, 2009

• REPORT: Media favor process over substance in Obama press briefings

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

• REPORT: "Fair and balanced" Fox News aggressively promotes "tea party" protests

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

• REPORT: Conservative media consistently scapegoat undocumented immigrants, ACORN

Friday, March 6, 2009

• REPORT: Despite warnings from many economists that stimulus may be too small, network news rarely raised the issue

Thursday, March 5, 2009

• REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

• UPDATED REPORT: Economists comprised only 6 percent of guest appearances discussing stimulus on cable news, Sunday shows

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

• REPORT: Lack of demand: Cable channels, Sunday shows leave economists on the sidelines in recovery debate

Monday, May 14, 2007

• Sunday Shutout: The Lack of Gender & Ethnic Diversity on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows

Monday, May 7, 2007

• Locked Out: The Lack of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

• If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005

May 2007

• Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media

July 2008

• Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Prime-Time Cable News

June 2007

• The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth

March 2007

• If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative Special Report: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows

September 2007

• Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns

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