Running with a bad crowd
43 minutes ago
Last fall, editors at The New York Times and Washington Post announced that they needed to be more responsive to conservative media and quicker to pick up stories that their conservative competitors promote. After several months of obviously false claims from the right-wing media, those statements look even more foolish now than they did at the time.
The Pentagon shooter, insurrectionism, and right-wing bloggers
March 09, 2010 6:31 am ET
Sorry, right-wingers, but you cultivated this poisonous, arm-yourself-against-the-government hysteria -- and now you own it. You have to deal with increasingly predictable, and at times deadly consequences.
Media Matters: Bush-nesia strikes again in smear against Obama, DOJ
March 05, 2010 7:07 pm ET
Conservative media figures have been sounding the alarm, attacking President Obama and the Department of Justice for employing lawyers who previously represented terrorism suspects. It really is just the latest case of Bush-nesia, in which media conservatives block all memory of the Bush administration in an attempt to tar the Obama administration.
How did media cover GOP's 2003 use of reconciliation? They didn't
March 03, 2010 4:48 pm ET
The only thing that's "unprecedented" about the use of reconciliation is the media's treatment of it, as a look back at coverage of President Bush's 2003 tax cuts passed via reconciliation demonstrates.
Breitbart confirms he was duped by O'Keefe and the ACORN pimp hoax
March 02, 2010 5:40 am ET
Should we believe Breitbart's latest pimp spin? Tough to say. It probably represents his only way out of this mess.
Media Matters: Fox News: "Voice of the opposition" on health care reform
February 26, 2010 8:16 pm ET
A newspaper worth paying for?
February 25, 2010 6:39 pm ET
If newspapers like The New York Times want people to pay for online news, they need to demonstrate greater commitment to accuracy -- and to correcting their mistakes.
Will Breitbart, O'Keefe, and Giles come clean about the ACORN pimp hoax?
February 23, 2010 12:54 pm ET
If Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe, and Hannah Giles obfuscate about clothing, what will they tell the truth about?
Media Matters: Postcards from the edge (and by "edge," I mean "CPAC")
February 19, 2010 8:51 pm ET
Glenn Beck's keynote address at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference cements the hold conservative media figures have on the right. After all, Rush Limbaugh was last year's big speaker, and thus far, the CPAC lineup has been as light on the truth and heavy on hateful vitriol as these leaders could possibly expect.
The myth of the "liberal" Washington Post opinion pages
February 19, 2010 4:43 pm ET
There may be no better example of the absurdity of the "liberal media" myth than the widespread notion that the Washington Post's opinion pages -- and Fred Hiatt, the man who runs them -- lean to the left.
