Simon Maloy | Media Matters for America

Simon Maloy was a senior writer at Media Matters. Formerly a political writer for Salon.com, his writing on politics and media has also appeared in The Week, Rolling Stone, and The American Prospect.

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Blitzer left unchallenged Bennett's claim that U.K. terror arrests “help[ed] the president”

08/21/06 6:49 PM EDT
On Meet the Press, McCain's statements on Iraq, terrorism, and Lieberman went unchallenged

08/21/06 5:03 PM EDT
ABC featured only conservatives defending “necessity” of warrantless surveillance program

08/18/06 4:43 PM EDT
Will the media acknowledge there was no “Bush bounce” after U.K. terror arrests?

08/17/06 6:39 PM EDT
O'Reilly on Soros: An “incredible imbecile, with all due respect”; “a guy who doesn't understand evil,” despite having “fled the Holocaust”

08/17/06 3:17 PM EDT
Miniter's revisionist history: Cleland “was voted out of office for being too soft on the war on terror”; Kerry lost after “allegedly inflating his service on a Navy swift boat”

08/15/06 6:02 PM EDT
A question for conservatives: Is George Will endangering our national security?

08/15/06 4:28 PM EDT
Stumping for the GOP? Media figures uncritically linked Iraq war with fight against terrorism

08/14/06 5:50 PM EDT
In claiming Iraq war isn't unpopular, Coulter expressed her distrust of current Iraq polling -- after citing 2002 Iraq polling

08/11/06 7:26 PM EDT
Wash. Post's Weisman: Cheney “utterances are losing their news value”

08/11/06 2:59 PM EDT
Cal Thomas: Lamont's victory “completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing”

08/10/06 6:19 PM EDT
Media uncritically repeated false GOP attacks on Lamont, Democrats

08/10/06 4:36 PM EDT