MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews argued President Obama “tried to avoid” talking about Iran to help get better headlines during MSNBC’s coverage of the State of the Union on Tuesday. Matthews said, “I don’t think he got into Iran. … I
If you’re like me, you’re tired of being lied to. That’s what got me started in media criticism. I would read the Los Angeles Times every day and shout at the newspaper’s reporters and editors over my cornflakes. “This isn’t
Andrew Breitbart has already welcomed you all to Big Journalism. Now I’d like to add my voice to his. As you can see from our logo, Big Journalism will be a throwback in spirit to the freewheeling moxie of the
So, just about every single day I get a slew of emails from a dude named Doug Stauffer, from Media Matters. The emails are press releases – 99% of them devoted to Fox News. I’m sure some of you get
Bow-wow. You can call me Bo. I’m President Shoutout’s family mutt, a Portuguese water dog with curly black hair. My real name isn’t Bo, but I’m not telling you my real one. Bo is fine. It’ll do anyway. Took the
Back in September, after the Giles-O’Keefe ACORN reveal had blown through the alternative media with Katrina-strength winds, the New York Times‘ public editor, Clark Hoyt (Mr. Collins to the Gray Lady’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh), wondered if just maybe the
To “storyboard the news” is to replace straight news reporting with a pre-shaped comic-book narrative, an edited fable sustained by selective reporting. Victims of media fraud suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder will be excused for hearing the phrase as a
I couldn’t believe I was having this conversation. It felt like a scene from a movie that conveniently ties plot points together when two critical characters in the storyline share a moment of implausible significance – where the intrepid reporter
