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The great thing about this new media-era we’re currently living in (at least for the media), is that there’s no accountability. This means the media can do whatever it wants and manufacture whatever reality it would like to manufacture. For

WaPo media writer Erik Wemple: No matter your view of the media’s role in Benghazi; no matter your take on whether U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice leveled with the country on the Sept. 16 talk shows; no matter

In his illuminating new e-book on covering the Obama re-election campaign, Buzzfeed reporter Michael Hastings reveals that President Obama secretly joined reporters for drinks once while the campaign was in Orlando, Fla.  The “beer summit” with supporters is described by Hastings as little like

The GOP-as-racists narrative continues on Buzzfeed with a piece today focused on the minority outreach being planned by National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Greg Walden. Reporting for Buzzfeed on Walden’s appearance at a recent GOP retreat, John Stanton reports only on

This morning, BuzzFeed Politics’ McKay Coppins ran a story titled “How the Gun Culture Won Over Liberals,” that featured Complex magazine’s Foster Kamer, The New York Times’  David Carr, and Reuters’ Anthony De Rosa. The three are described by Coppins

Right on the heels of NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell admonishing a guest for describing herself as “pro-life” because, according to Mitchell, the label was not “value neutral,” Planned Parenthood is now saying that they will be moving away from the

For the most complete demonstration of just how far the MSM is willing to go in its attempt to use the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense as a cudgel to put Israel on trial and endanger the

In a classic example of substituting opinion for facts, Buzzfeed reported that MSNBC’s recent ratings should “make Fox News nervous.” It seems the main reason Fox should be nervous is because its featured stars and its back bench correspondents are

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio now appears to be trying to distance himself from House Speaker John Boehner when it comes to the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. Rubio told Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket on Tuesday that while he empathizes with

Does Susan Rice pulling her name from consideration to be the next Secretary of State somehow “end” the Benghazi scandal? BuzzFeed seems to think it does. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice came before the American people and served up the false

Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed is stumping on behalf of the House members responsible for the purge of top conservatives from committee leadership. They’re accomplishing that trick by having staffers for those House members praise each other. BuzzFeed then reports those comments

Today, Media Matters featured Breitbart News in its front-page salvo against conservative media, which it labeled a “racket,” following in the footsteps of discredited former conservative Joe Scarborough of MSNBC. Media Matters acknowledged the explosive growth of Breitbart News: [I]n

The all-important social media site BuzzFeed ran a weekend hit piece on comic artist Matthew Inman, proprietor of TheOatmeal.com, the incredibly popular comic website. Buzzfeed’s article was penned by one Jack Stuef. What was the point of the piece? It

For the first time, the Obama administration is showing some flexibility by deploying Vice President Joe Biden to explain to the media that raising rates on top earners to Clinton rates would not be an unbreakable precondition for negotiations over

BuzzFeed recently compiled a list of things Millennials, those who are 18-30 years of age, have been accused of supposedly ruining, and some the findings show how bleak the Obama economy has been for young people. Young people in Obama’s economy

House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday warned his House Republican conference against dissent from GOP leadership – and threatened retaliation similar to that against the already-purged conservatives if anyone else breaks from his pack. The Hill reports that, according to

Last week, at the post-election Harvard Institute of Politics conference, Republican campaign managers intensely took notes as Obama’s top campaign operatives explained some of the technology, data, and metrics the campaign employed to run circles around Mitt Romney’s operation. According to

We’ve been found out. Yes, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Joel Pollak is one of the top bidders for an hour-long “strategy session” with Obama campaign operative Sandra Fluke at BiddingForGood.com. Fluke, who rose to prominence advocating for government to force private

In November, voters in four states — Minnesota, Maine, Maryland, and Washington — handed election day victories to supporters of same-sex marriage initiatives, a marked contrast to the 2008 defeat they experienced with California’s Proposition 8. President Obama won all

Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins claims that “conservative media lost the election.” He echoes an emerging theme in the mainstream media and the Republican establishment, arguing that conservative outlets were wrong about the polls, and that we failed to make our narrative

For a website that was leading with the story “27 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names” at the time of this writing, BuzzFeed has a surprisingly tenuous grasp of irony.   Earlier Tuesday, editor-in-chief Ben Smith‘s top political reporter,

The press corps following presidential candidate Mitt Romney frequently displayed anti-Mormon bigotry through the election season, according to fellow reporter and BuzzFeed Politics author McKay Coppins. Coppins, who is also a Mormon, offers several interesting bits of information and even

President Obama held his unity meeting at the White House today over the fiscal cliff. Attendees ranged from John Podesta of the Center for American Progress to Bono; all were there to urge the president to stick by his guns

Today, Nancy Pelosi told reporters that she could step down tomorrow as House Minority Leader. “I love you all very dearly, but I thought I’d tell my caucus first,” Pelosi said. “We may not have the majority. We may not

There’s nothing more edifying than hearing celebrities wax eloquent on what the Republican Party must do after the election loss to Barack Obama: Sarah Jessica Parker, who hosted a $40,000 per person fundraiser for Obama, said she hadn’t heard from

BuzzFeed Politics was forced on Friday to ask the question that all tween girls find themselves pondering about their first crush: why won’t he talk to me? Andrew Kaczynski seemed confused and distraught that President Obama issued a statement without

President Barack Obama will never again have to face voters. Nothing he does will have to be calibrated for how it plays in swing states or with Independent voters. He is now governing solely for his own legacy. This is

Actor Edward Norton greeted the new Obama administration with a puff piece documentary capturing his ascension to the White House. Now, Norton has served up a new campaign video hoping to keep the president in power. At David Axelrod’s request,

Vice President and Mensa candidate Joe Biden has slipped up again in Florida. This time, a man came up to Biden and asked for a picture. Biden then turned to a bystander and asked, “Are you Indian?” The man replied,

From Politico: BuzzFeed reporter McKay Coppins was picked up on a hot-mic at today’s Mitt Romney event in Kettering, Ohio, saying there was “at least a 40-percent chance” that the candidate would “say something stupid.” The remark, picked up on