Showing posts with label Media Matters for America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media Matters for America. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Rupert Murdoch Lied to Media Matters


Surprised? Given FOX 'News'' complete abandonment of any meaningful (i.e. non-partisan) news coverage, and its embracing the practise of simply broadcasting unvarnished US conservative opinion, perhaps we shouldn't be.


And now, at least with this news, we can dispel the doubt and Fox can quit the charade of being, ahem, "fair and balanced", and admit it's just the GOP's mouthpiece.




Click to read: Fox News' corporate parent gave Republican Governors Association $1 million


Thanks to Media Matters for its content

 

 


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Saturday, 3 April 2010

Rush Limbaugh: only opens his mouth to change feet




Rush Limbaugh redefines apoplexy whilst proving his terms of reference are suspect at best - apparently “Storefront”, “factory” and “worker” are “Marxist-Leninist Terms”. Who knows, perhaps they are, in the Teabagger Dictionary...

Thanks to Media Matters for America for the clip

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Saturday, 27 March 2010

USA: Mainstreaming the Fringe



This piece is from the Media Matters for America YouTube site:



Mainstreaming the Fringe

Media Matters for America held a panel discussion on the growing culture of extremist, anti-government, and violent rhetoric in conservative media. Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert, who has written extensively on the subject, hosted leaders from the Southern Poverty Law Center, America's Voice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Council of La Raza, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to examine how the mainstreaming of extremism impacts our security, politics, and culture.



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