Although Media Matters initially described itself, inauspiciously, as a progressive research and information center, it quickly earned its stripes as a pro-Democrat smear group. It exists to obliterate conservative thought and eradicate any person, place, or thing that’s perceived to be a threat—particularly to Hillary Clinton throughout her two pr
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And though the primary sources on Benghazi missteps were Obama officials—many of them lifelong Democrats—Media Matters used its sharpest propaganda tricks to portray the whole scandal as a debunked fabrication conjured up by partisan Republicans.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
At the core of this is a debate on whether The New York Times, The Washington Post and others are failing the American people by pushing more content behind the paywall.
Jarrod Dicker • Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model
For several decades, the American mainstream press endeavored to satisfy the political demand of neutrality, sacrificing even objectivity itself to avoid labels of bias.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
“One-pagers” were issued for left-wing pundits so they could fan out on TV network Sunday talk shows with coordinated messages—which explains, in part, the syndrome of news programs devolving into little more than look-alikes, with pundits and experts on both sides forwarding the narratives of paid interests. A Message Matters one-pager issued in M
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It’s election season, so the viral charts are flying around fast and furious, as each side tries to support an economic narrative that will help their candidate win. In these trying, troubled, turbulent times, you’re basically on your own as an intelligent consumer of news. You can’t trust any single source — even me! — to be a complete unbiased ex... See more
How not to be fooled by viral charts, Part 2
On January 20, 2017, Time magazine seems to inadvertently prove the point when one of its reporters, Zeke Miller, erroneously reports that incoming president Trump has removed a bust statue of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office. The incendiary claim is born of a bias that used to be verboten in responsible journalism: Miller later explained th
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