Commentary By Jamison Foser If you want an illustration of how conservative framing dominates media coverage of politics and policy, you need only watch Chris Matthews talk about abortion each night on Hardball. Since early summer, the Hardball host has been hyping anti-abortion complaints about proposed health care reform, even[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar Antonio Peck was in kindergarten in 1999 when his family filed suit against the Baldwinsville, N.Y., school district. Antonio is in 10th grade now — and his family is still waiting for the case to be[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2009.  One year after working families voted for change, electing President Barack Obama and progressive candidates up and down the ballot, SEIU released the statement of SEIU President Andy Stern on some of the remarkable progress that has already been achieved for working families. “There’s an old[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Fact: The breathless claim that Fox News’ ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House’s public critique is bogus hype — hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed. It’s just not true. No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the[Read More…]

Commentary By Jamison Foser In his Sunday column, Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander addressed what he described as Post media critic Howard Kurtz’s "inescapable conflict" of interest "that is at odds with Post rules" — Kurtz’s side job as host of Reliable Sources on CNN, one of the media companies[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski I am a student of Paul Krugman. I believe his The Conscience of a Liberal should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States. That is my humble opinion. We need the New Deal back, and we need it bad. President[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Every American is protected by the guarantees of the First Amendment, but protections for religious liberty and free expression apply only when government actions are involved — and therein is the rub for some of our[Read More…]

Commentary By John A. Ostenburg A dockworkers strike in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, on October 21 resulted in a tour ship of the Holland America line not being allowed to dock or disembark any of its passengers for sightseeing visits. Although officials of the cruise line – including both the[Read More…]

Alan Cottrell. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Commentary By Alan Cottrell When Democrats go to the polls in the South Suburbs this February, they are likely to be surprised by a few names. Top of the list will be Bloom Township Supervisor "T.J." Somer, who was the Bloom Township Republican Committeeman before he[Read More…]

"Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information." — Society of Professional Journalists Commentary by Eric Boehlert Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House’s public critique[Read More…]