“Doomed”: Rupert Murdoch Stands By His Horribly Shameless And Irresponsible...
Last week was not a great week for the New York Post. But then again, not many weeks are. It’s front page last Thursday wrongly identified two innocent young men as the bombers of the Boston Marathon....
View Article“Most Striking Is What’s Not There”: George W. Bush’s Multi-Million Dollar...
Big doings in Big D — the George W. Bush Presidential Library is open for business! What a piece of work it is: a $250 million, 226,000-square-foot edifice on 23 acres in Dallas. His...
View Article“TV Channel Or Cult?”: Fox News’ Conspiratorial Paranoia On The Screen...
Fox News fired its head of PR recently, an act that would’ve been a dry bit of news of interest only to cable news junkies and media reporters were it not for Fox News’s scorched-earth style of PR....
View Article“The Lies That Will Kill America”: Pundits Run To The Defense Of A Massive...
Here in Manhattan the other day, you couldn’t miss it — the big bold headline across the front page of the tabloid New York Post, screaming one of those sick, slick lies that are a trademark of Rupert...
View Article“There’s No There There”: How Fox News Dresses Up Extreme Right-Wing...
The Benghazi blueprint matches up right down to the fact that there’s no there there, in terms of a criminal White House cover up. It “doesn’t add up to much of a scandal,” wrote Michael Hirsh at...
View Article“Unrelenting Hostility Of The Washington Media Clique”: Playing By The Old...
As a professional matter, I’ve been halfway dreading Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy. The 2016 Democratic nomination appears to be hers for the asking. Democrats enjoy a strong Electoral...
View Article“Clinton Cash”: Yet Another Charles And David Koch Production
Endorsements from mainstream media figures have provided a scrim of credibility for Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, the Hillary-and-Bill-bashing book just published by Rupert Murdoch’s...
View Article“Frenzy Of Ignorance And Indignation”: Scandal? Knowing Zero About Clinton...
A very strange thing has happened to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Suddenly, journalists who never paid the least attention to the foundation’s work over the past decade or so — and...
View Article“The Incredible Weakness Of The National Republican Party”: The GOP Is Now...
One of the more interesting things about the GOP debate wasn’t even what happened at the debate, but the meta-narrative of how it happened. It’s also interesting how weak and helpless the Republican...
View Article“Wallowing In Ignorance”: Epistemic Closure Comes Back To Haunt The GOP
Five years ago Julian Sanchez did us the favor of defining a pattern among conservatives that he called “epistemic closure.” One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement...
View Article“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”: The Gullibility Of American Television Audiences
Is NBC really responsible for the rise of Donald Trump? On a recent edition of the progressive radio program Ring of Fire, hosts Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discussed the mainstream media’s role...
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