Mitch Albom's Faulty Tax Math
Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom–best known for his bestseller Tuesdays With Morrie–had a July 25 column that criticized the Obama healthcare reform with an argument that suggested an...
View ArticleAnd 10 Times as Many Clueless Pundits
Asked by a Canadian viewer, "Has anyone noticed that life expectancy in Canada under our health system is higher than the USA?" Bill O'Reilly (7/27/09) responded: "Well, that's to be expected, Peter,...
View ArticleLA Times Acknowledges Gaping Hole in Media's Healthcare Debate
An LA Times column today cited FAIR's petition demanding that the TV networks include single-payer in their coverage of the healthcare reform debate, acknowledging that there is a "gaping hole in much...
View ArticleWaPo on Healthcare: 'Correct. But. . . Not Helpful'
Presenting yet another example of corporate media failure to grasp the concept of "Adjusted for Inflation," Kevin Drum (MotherJones.com, 7/26/09) has written up a Washington Post piece in which "David...
View Article'Silencing and Excluding' Insistent Single-Payer Voices
"With the corporate media relentlessly distorting the public discussion around healthcare reform," Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce Dixon (7/29/09) has enumerated his "Top 10 Ways to Tell Your...
View ArticlePolitico's 'New Right-Wing Scare Tactic' on Healthcare
Following the growth of "a new right-wing scare tactic" that "has blossomed on conservative blogs and emails lists," Talking Points Memo Muckraker Zachary Roth (7/28/09) describes the healthcare meme...
View ArticleWomen's Mags Rife With Phony 'Body Acceptance'
Editorial cartoonist Mikhaela Reid has a new drawing (Women In Media & News, 7/29/09) in reaction to the fact that even Vogue has an annual "Shape" issue where they patronizingly allow someone as...
View ArticleNPR Debate: 'False Distortion' vs. 'Fact-Based Statement'
NPR Check blogger mytwords has taken the time (8/4/09) to closely "consider [Scott] Horsely's verbal sleight of hand" on National Public Radio's August 4 Morning Edition: He equates a completely false...
View ArticleObama Has Sweets, but No Questions, for Helen Thomas
FAIR associate Sam Husseini has blogged his reaction (Husseini.org, 7/4/09) to a Barack "Obama Photo Op with Helen Thomas" in which the president "came with cupcakes to wish Helen Thomas a happy...
View ArticleThe 'Center' of the Health Reform Debate
Today's Washington Post offers a helpful lesson on the media's notion of centrism; see the headline and subhead: Senators Closer to Health Package: Bipartisan Talks on Reform Move Toward Center The...
View ArticleDobbs Still Resisting 'Nonpartisan Objective Reality'
Since "on his Wednesday radio show, [Lou] Dobbs as much as announced that CNN president Jon Klein" is forcing him into "focusing on a nonpartisan objective reality that it is our job to cover"–with...
View ArticleA 'Sudden Interest' in 'Amplifying Grassroots Concerns'
Between the Lines executive producer Scott Harris (8/14/09) has a new Q & A featuring FAIR's own Peter Hart discussing how "Media Coverage of Healthcare Debate Emphasizes Drama Over Substance."...
View ArticleFrom Lie to Official History, via 'Simple Repetition'
Consortium News Robert Parry (8/13/09) is citing media-promoted "'deathers' who claim that President Barack Obama's healthcare plan would promote euthanasia," along with how the U.S. "population was...
View ArticleHow 'Death Panels' Became a 'Justifiable Political Claim'
Columnist Rick Perlstein has a new analysis of "Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage" in the Washington Post (8/16/09). In it, he tells why "liberals are right to be vigilant...
View ArticleHealthcare Debate as Lobbyist's Own 'Business Interests'
According to Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald (8/18/09, ad-viewing required), pro-coup lobbyist and frequent news show guest Lanny Davis is merely "masquerading as a 'political analyst' and Democratic...
View ArticleFox Still Leads in Misinforming Viewers
Think Progress' Matt Corley (8/19/09) has the depressing, if predictable, news that recent polling shows "'all the misinformation out there' about health care reform proposals in Congress is taking...
View ArticleOn Liberal Media's Single-Payer Failings
Longtime friend of FAIR Sam Husseini (Husseini.org, 8/21/09) has a new blog post responding to Robert Kuttner's recent Washington Post column, in which the American Prospect magazine editor "asks...
View Article'Meaningful Change' at the New Republic
Glenn Greenwald (8/27/09, ad-viewing required) of Salon's series of New Republic quotes morphing from condemning a perceived "anti-Lieberman jihad" to calling for "knocking off Democrats like Conrad...
View ArticleNYT Stands Up for the Little Insurance Company Employee
It's about time someone stood up for the poor insurance companies! The New York Times today delves into what it's like to be "Dealing With Being the Healthcare 'Villains,'" eliciting sad stories from...
View ArticleNPR Boosts 'Dominance of Private Health Insurance'
Analyzing "The Art of Framing at NPR" on his NPR Check blog, Mytwords (8/29/09) thinks that "there are many ways you could frame the role of Sen. Kent Conrad, one of the gang of six senators who are...
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