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The story of “Clipboard Man” created a panicky sensation on Wednesday, and shined a light on the media’s failure to inform us about the danger Ebola actually poses to the average American.
Fox host Bill O’Reilly decides to lend fellow Islamophobe Bill Maher a hand.
On this week’s show: The ways corporate media cover war, a Fox News pundit wants to see more civilian deaths in Syria, and PBS uses its ad dollars to punish a magazine. All of that on this week’s show:
A Fox News military analyst is not afraid to talk about civilian deaths in Syria: He seems to want to see more of them.
Can a president who has launched military strikes on seven countries really be called a ‘reluctant warrior?’
It would be wonderful if more Republicans–and, for that matter, more Democrats–were speaking out about police abuses and related issues. But treating one lawmaker’s op-ed as a sign of a fundamental shift on the right seems a bit of an overreach.
Fox hosts rush to the defense of a local reporter who blamed a pervasive “anti-cop mentality” on “young black men growing up without fathers.”
Bill O’Reilly edited the New York Times editorial calling for marijuana legalization in order to make it easier for him to debunk.
Journalism about the current violence is bound to focus on the death and destruction in Gaza. But there remains ample space to ask whether the war was launched to punish Hamas for something it had nothing to do with.
Fox News won’t mention the significant evidence that the Internet video was behind the attacks because it is so deeply invested in the story of a White House conspiracy, and it’s too late to change the script.
In their Bowe Bergdahl coverage, some media outlets are stoking fears about freed Guantanamo prisoners ‘returning to the battlefield.’
The same well-heeled elites and their representatives who dominate US politics and policy are also grossly over-represented among the owners of US corporate media.
Bill O’Reilly uses the horrible Boko Haram kidnappings to launch into yet another tirade against Muslims.
National Journal reporter James Oliphant has discovered that the Obama White House has a very powerful weapon it can deploy against its critics: bloggers.
Bill O’Reilly calls out the media for dishonest Benghazi coverage. But he’s the one mangling the facts.
In a USA Today op-ed, Fox News liberal Kirsten Powers weighs in on Brandeis University’s decision to rescind its offer to honor the anti-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali during commencement activities.
Right-wing pundits spin the new Obamacare numbers. Media botch the timeline on Israel/Palestine negotiations. Bill O’Reilly finds Judeo-Christian roots on the Supreme Court walls–but misses everything else that’s there.
Fox host Bill O’Reilly sees Moses at the Supreme Court as proof of America’s Judeo-Christian roots. But wait till he finds out who else is depicted on the Court walls.
What happened when Republican ‘straight shooter” Chris Christie accurately called the West Bank occupied territory? He apologized.
