What questions should we be asking about the IRS-Tea Party scandal? Also: Chris Matthews praises Reagan's union-busting, and the Newseum caves on dead Palestinian journalists.
Marcy Wheeler fills us in on the Justice Department's alarming investigation of the Associated Press. And Robert Greenwald talks about his new film War on Whistleblowers.
On the story of Syria and chemical weapons, is the New York Times making the Iraq WMD mistake all over again?
Praise for a conservative president's breaking the air traffic controllers' union–that's what you hear on the liberal cable channel.
How media are using sketchy intelligence about Syrian chemical weapons to argue for greater U.S. military involvement in that country's civil war.
When it comes to conversations about citizens’ rights, the lion’s share of coverage has gone to perceived infringements on constitutional rights that are of concern mostly to white Americans—like gun ownership—rather than issues like stop and frisk, which primarily impact communities of color.
Corporate media seem to be once again bending over backwards to prove they’re “balanced” by giving a non-judgmental platform to bigotry.
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