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STUDY: The Press And The Pipeline

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Jfk, Jnf - Jan. 26 (Special Report) - A Media Matters analysis shows that as a whole, news coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline between August 1 and December 31 favored pipeline proponents. Although the project would create few long-term employment opportunities, the pipeline was primarily portrayed as a jobs issue.

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Fox Continues To Fabricate Obama Administration Bullying

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Sep. 27 (Fact Check) - On its Fox Nation website, Fox accused the Obama administration of "pressur[ing]" the Ford Motor Co. to pull a television ad promoting the fact that the company didn't take advantage of the auto bailout. However, Ford and the White House have both denied the allegation, with Ford saying it pulled the ad because the ad's campaign had ended.

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Economists Shut Out of Debt-Ceiling Debate

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - Of the 1,258 guest appearances during segments that discussed the issue in the month leading up to the debt deal, only 52 -- or 4.1 percent -- were made by economists.

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Krauthammer Urges GOP To Attack Obama Using Ridiculous Apology Tour Line

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Top Fox News Executive Admits Lying On-Air About Obama

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Eric Hananoki - Mar. 31 (News Report) - In newly uncovered audio, a Fox News executive boasts that he lied repeatedly during the closing days of the 2008 presidential campaign when he speculated on-air "about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism."

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Fox News Discovers Nuclear Reactor In Japanese Disco

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Simon Maloy - Mar. 15 (News Analysis) - A quick Googling of "shibuyaeggman" turned up no meaningful results. A Nexis search was also fruitless. However, further inquiries revealed that Eggman is the name of a dance club in a trendy neighborhood of Tokyo called... Shibuya. And, it just so happens, the Fox graphic appears to place the alleged reactor in Tokyo. Here's a photo of Eggman -- as you can see, it's right below The @ Super Suits Store. And Johnny Hi-Fi played there in 2006.

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Huckabee: Obama Grew Up "In Kenya"

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Eric Hananoki - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama's purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if "we deserve to know more about this man." Huckabee responded, "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough."

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Fox News Insider: 'Stuff Is Just Made Up'

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Eric Boehlert - Feb. 14 (News Analysis) - 'Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: 'I don't think people would believe it's as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.'

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Conservatives grasp at straws to condemn DADT report

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Dec. 12 (News Analysis) - Since the release of the Pentagon's survey of service members regarding Don't Ask Don't Tell, conservatives have attacked the report as inaccurate, claiming it does not adequately represent veterans, that repeal would require a return to the draft, and that it would censor military chaplains. In fact, veterans are well represented in the survey, most said repeal would not affect their career plans, and existing regulations account for the varying beliefs of military chaplains.

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Why are Fox News employees allowed to plug their financial interests without disclosure?

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Nov. 12 (News Analysis) - on matters weightier than baseball, Fox News has consistently shown it has little interest in asking its on-air talent to disclose their financial interests in the topics they discuss. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal noted that Glenn Beck has been doing "live-read" advertisements on his radio program -- which is not produced by Fox News -- for FreedomWorks. On Fox News, Glenn Beck prominently featured the organization and its president in an October show. Beck never mentioned his financial connections with FreedomWorks. Video of the appearance, along with a "partner with Glenn Beck" promotion, is currently featured on the front page of FreedomWorks' website

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Fox GOTV day three: Fox continues its week of relentless campaigning for Republicans

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - Fox continued its week of relentless campaigning for Republicans by hosting six more GOP candidates while hosting just one Democratic candidate as well independent Charlie Crist and DNC chair Tim Kaine. Fox has spent the week before the election almost exclusively hosting Republican candidates.

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Rove keeps on spinning to defend the secret donations to his GOP slush funds

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 24 (News Analysis) - On CBS' Face the Nation, Karl Rove continued to defend his GOP-aligned political group from criticism that it does not disclose its donors by using falsehoods and obfuscation.

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Economists agree: Legislation Reid led to passage prevented economic collapse

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 22 (Investigative Report) - Right-wing media have mocked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for saying that "But for me, we'd be in a worldwide depression." In fact, economists have credited legislation that passed the Senate under Reid's leadership for averting a far deeper economic collapse.

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Fox revives abortion funding falsehood to call Sestak a liar

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 21 (Investigative Report) - On Fox & Friends, Michelle Malkin falsely claimed that Rep. Joe Sestak had "finesse[d] the truth" when he said that he had not supported federal funding for abortions. Malkin asserted that Sestak had done so when he "voted for Obamacare." In fact, the health care legislation Sestak supported did not expand federal funding of abortion.

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"Party on!" Fox relentlessly promotes Tea Party Express tour

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 19 (Investigative Report) - Despite Rupert Murdoch's statement that he doesn't think Fox "should be supporting the tea party," Fox News and Fox Business have relentlessly promoted the Tea Party Express in recent days, devoting numerous segments to the launch of its latest tour as well as hosting its chairman for softball interviews.

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Does Special Report believe its Chamber conflict is worth disclosing or not?

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 18 (News Analysis) - Fox News' Special Report has discussed allegations that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent millions from undisclosed donors on GOP attack ads in a total of seven segments on four programs. But in only one segment has the network disclosed that their parent company, News Corp., donated $1 million to the Chamber this year.

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Fox News' latest election "controversy" falls apart

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 31 (News Analysis) - Fox News baselessly suggested that Democrats would attempt to "skew" the fall elections by exempting "battleground" states from a requirement that they ship ballots to overseas military personnel at least 45 days before the election. This manufactured controversy has completely fallen apart: The only "battleground" state (as defined by Fox News) that received an exemption has a Republican official overseeing its elections. Moreover, the waiver process is part of the law and was mentioned during the debate over the legislation, which was co-sponsored by 26 Senate Republicans.

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"No daylight" between Fox and GOP "and they don't apparently care who knows it"

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Eric Boehlert - Aug. 17 (News Analysis) - (video)

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House administration committee staff rebuts Fox suggestion that Grayson DVD violates ethics rules

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - Fox & Friends baselessly suggested that Rep. Alan Grayson's (D-FL) mailing of a DVD to his constituents constituted an "ethics violation." In fact, a spokesman for the committee that oversees the approval of such mailings told Media Matters that Grayson's DVD had been vetted and that the mailing was "not a violation" of House ethics rules.

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Wash. Post hides the holes in Rep. Ryan's proposed budget

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - In two August 2 articles, The Washington Post highlighted the purported deficit-reducing effects of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) economic "roadmap," in one piece misleadingly reporting the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) "estimate" of his "plan." However, at Ryan's instruction, CBO did not analyze significant tax changes found in his proposal that would likely reduce revenues CBO assumed would be collected.

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Hayes retells myth that Reagan ended recession with tax cuts

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - Stephen Hayes criticized the Obama administration's response to the recession by reviving the myth that President Reagan ended the 1981 recession by cutting taxes. In fact, economists have said that the recession was ended under Reagan primarily due to federal interest rate cuts.

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Solomon's new right-wing catnip waits till 52nd graph to undermine its headline

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Matt Gertz - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - A few minutes ago, RedState.com managing editor and CNN contributor Erick Erickson tweeted that "Growing evidence points to the U.S. government causing the BP oil spill"

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Doocy's deception: "Fox News Channel" did not touch Sherrod story "until she had actually quit"

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy once again deceptively claimed that "Fox News Channel did not touch" the Shirley Sherrod story "until she had actually quit." In fact, Doocy's statement ignores that FoxNews.com published a story based on the deceptively edited video before Sherrod resigned; indeed, a subsequent FoxNews.com article reported that she resigned "shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video."

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Timeline of Breitbart's Sherrod smear

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Media Matters has documented a timeline of Andrew Breitbart's smear of Shirley Sherrod, from Breitbart's initial posting of his deceptively edited clip of Sherrod -- which was amplified by Fox News and other right-wing media -- through the release of the full video of Sherrod's comments, which made clear the context of her remarks.

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Attacking the victim, right-wing media brand Sherrod a Marxist

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Jul. 22 (News Analysis) - Media conservatives, including Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, have continued the right wing's attacks on Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from her position at the Department of Agriculture after Andrew Breitbart posted edited video of a speech she gave to falsely label her a racist. These conservatives have branded Sherrod a Marxist, Maoist, communist, and socialist.

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