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Mediaite: U.S. Pastor Kills Eight People, UN Workers Correcting the Right On “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” Tax Breaks Media Tale of Two Marches: Solidarity Saturday v. Pro-Life Sunday CORRECTION REQUEST STANDS: Media Matters Fudged Truth On Planned Parenthood Mammograms Correction Request:

Media Matters Definition of 'Misinformation': Icky Old Opinions

Evidently, the newspeak definition of ‘misinformation’ is actually ‘opinions with which I don’t agree’. According to Media Matters for America that is, as The Right Sphere points out. They use an example given in Howard Kurtz’s article “Partisan Organizations Use

Mediaite: U.S. Pastor Kills Eight People, UN Workers

At least, it says as much in the headline: Eleven people-including several officials of the United Nations-were killed in Afghanistan today, and ABC News is reporting the killings may have been motivated by the burning of a Koran by Florida

Media Matters Refuses To Retract Factual Error

I’m really starting to get the Media Matters strategy – create a ton of SEO-friendly content that piles on lie after lie then count on your loyal fan base to unquestionably link and comment. It’s amazing. And it works! But

Irony Alert: Obama Receives Transparency Award In Secret

Initially, I thought this was a joke. President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday. The secret presentation happened almost

CNN's Ratings Boosted by Citizen Journalists

Lately CNN’s ratings have been in the ditch – often in last place against its cable news rivals. But the ratings shot up when CNN used on-the-scene citizen reporters during the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, according to The New York

Live Action: Planned Parenthood Mammogram Lies Exposed

The left and their friends in the media have been frantically pushing the spin regarding Planned Parenthood and the recent move, via the Pence Amendment, to stop providing them with federal funding (from we, the taxpayers). Screeching things like “If