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Eric Boehlert

Why is Rupert Murdoch so clueless about Fox News?

November 17, 2009 5:57 am ET

The sad truth is Murdoch either has no idea what kind of programming Fox News now produces, or he's too embarrassed to acknowledge it.

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Eric Boehlert

The GOP's looming (media) civil war

November 10, 2009 1:47 pm ET

In just the last 12 months, the balance of power within the conservative movement has completely swung in the direction of the right-wing press, which is stoking the flames of the GOP civil war.

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Eric Boehlert

The myth of Fox News' ratings spike

November 03, 2009 9:32 am ET

No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, it's just not true that Fox News' ratings went "through the roof" after the White House called out the cable channel.

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Eric Boehlert

30 reasons why Fox News is not legit

October 27, 2009 5:26 am ET

The facts regarding Fox News' lack of professionalism seem rather obvious. And that ought to be plain for Beltway journalists as well. But whether for reasons having to do with external professional, social, or political pressure, many journalists have opted to pretend that Fox News is a serious outlet, that it's just like its cable and network TV news competitors.

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Eric Boehlert

Why the NFL and corporate America reject Limbaugh and Beck

October 19, 2009 5:07 pm ET

The right-wing pretends the 1 percent of Americans who watch Fox News somehow reflect Main Street America. But the NFL fiasco and the sweeping Glenn Beck ad boycott tell us a very different story.

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Eric Boehlert

Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party

October 13, 2009 8:14 am ET

Fox News has changed the rules in 2009. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News .

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Eric Boehlert

The NY Times' pointless pursuit of right-wing "buzz" stories

October 05, 2009 3:55 pm ET

Just after The New York Times announced it would appoint somebody to monitor the partisan opinion media more closely, and right after editors were chastened for reacting too slowly to buzzworthy news scoops launched by the conservative media, the right-wing press went into overdrive last week.

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Eric Boehlert

Wash. Times and Fox News now unleashing mobs on private citizens (including kids)

September 29, 2009 7:23 am ET

Lacking any sense of common decency, the right-wing media are sending their overeager foot soldiers out on seek-and-destroy missions not to unmask politicians or those in power, but to dig up dirt on  private citizens. Even children.

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Eric Boehlert

How Fox's Chris Wallace became irrelevant

September 22, 2009 8:33 am ET

Snubbed by Obama, and busy playing along with whatever distorted brand of so-called journalism Roger Ailes is now peddling, Wallace's days of being taken seriously as a journalist are fading.

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Eric Boehlert

Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie

September 14, 2009 7:19 pm ET

The scary part is that within the fact-free conservative blogosphere, lots of people still believe the 2 million nonsense, or are at least repeating it. They believe it despite the fact that nobody can point to any evidence to support it.

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