After Post refuses to address numerous global warming falsehoods, leading environmental organizations join Media Matters in calling for correction Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Today, Media Matters for America President Eric Burns joined Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski, and Friends of the Earth President Brent[Read More…]
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Media Matters: Putting the ‘Partisan’ in ‘Bipartisanship’
Analysis by Jamison Foser If there was any doubt that the news media have a badly skewed understanding of “bipartisanship” — one in which no number of concessions from Democrats is enough and no number from Republicans is too little — the reaction to Judd Gregg’s decision to back out[Read More…]
Substantive Policy Takes Back Seat to Raw Politics in the Media
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– As President Obama signs the economic recovery package into law, Media Matters for America looks back at how the media too often let politics drive the debate and failed to give the public an accurate and honest assessment of what is in the legislation. Since Obama took office,[Read More…]
Wash. Times Falsely Claimed CBO “Estimated That the Full Cost Of” Recovery Bill “Will Reach $3.2 Trillion By 2019”
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A February 17 Washington Times editorial falsely claimed that “[t]he nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the full cost of [the economic recovery] bill, including its $348 billion debt service and the out-year financing, will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019.” In fact, more than half of that[Read More…]
Full Circle in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail February 8th, 2009 | T r u t h o u t Among things that have not changed in Iraq is one that I hope never changes. After a four-year-long absence, each of my meetings here with former friends and fresh acquaintances seems to suggest that adversity[Read More…]
Media Reports Ignore Gregg’s Statement That Census Was “Not a Major Issue”
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Consistent with Republicans’ framing of the issue, several media reports have noted that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) cited concerns about the census in a February 12 press release announcing that he was withdrawing his nomination for secretary of commerce, but ignored Gregg’s subsequent statement during a February 12[Read More…]
Limbaugh Falsely Claimed Homeless Woman at Obama Town Hall asked for “Car” and “New Kitchen”
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Discussing President Obama’s February 10 town hall event in Fort Myers, Florida, Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that a homeless woman at the event asked Obama for a “car” and a “new kitchen.” In fact, the woman, Henrietta Hughes, was simply saying that she needs housing. She stated: “I[Read More…]
The New Fallujah Up Close and Still in Ruins
By Dahr Jamail Fallujah, Iraq — Driving through Fallujah, once the most rebellious Sunni city in this country, I saw little evidence of any kind of reconstruction underway. At least 70% of that city’s structures were destroyed during massive U.S. military assaults in April, and again in November 2004, and[Read More…]
Straight Americans to “Come Out” for Gay Rights on Oct. 7-13, 2007
Austin, TX (PRWEB) September 24, 2007 — On October 7-13, 2007, straight people across the nation will "come out" as supporters of equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans. From Santa Rosa, California, to Montgomery, Alabama, to Augusta, Maine, overnight vigils will light up American cities over the course of[Read More…]
Youth Day Newsflash
Youth Day Saturday June 16 Noon – 5 p.m. Village Green Downtown Park Forest Featuring: Jesse White Tumblers Music Art Crafts Climbing and Free Raffles!
