Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center The five freedoms in the 45 words of the First Amendment are simple enough to list: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. But in 2009 Americans once again found some unique, conflicting and at times ironic ways to interpret[Read More…]
Opinion
The Conservative Media Don’t Believe Their Own Attacks
Commentary By Jamison Foser The best single reason to permanently ignore the rantings of the right-wing media is not that their attacks are often easily disproven. Don’t get me wrong: That’s a good reason. But the best reason is that it is clear the conservative echo chamber often doesn’t believe[Read More…]
2009: A Year of Fox News Political Activism
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– With the inauguration of President Obama in 2009, Fox News transformed itself from a conservative media outlet into a partisan, right-wing political organization that openly viewed itself as the "voice of the opposition." Throughout the year, Fox News has declared war on the Obama administration, the Democratic Congress,[Read More…]
Auld Lang Syne: Farewell to Another Decade of ‘Liberal Media Bias’
Commentary by Eric Boehlert It might seem futile to try to select just two quotes from the previous decade and single them out as bookends to illustrate how the political press so often malfunctioned over the last 10 years. But if pressed, I know which duo I’d nominate in hopes[Read More…]
Glenn Beck: Media Matters’ 2009 Misinformer of the Year
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Glenn Beck’s well of ridiculous was deep and poisonous before he launched his Fox News show, but the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States — and the permissive cheerleading of his Fox News honchos — uncorked the former Morning Zoo shock jock’s unique brand of[Read More…]
Obama Will Win: Why and How His Critics from the Left and Right Will be Proven Wrong
Commentary By Frank Schaeffer From The Brad Blog: Before he’d served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted Left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled Right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds — including this white, straight, 57-year-old,[Read More…]
SEIU President Vows to Fight to Improve Health Reform Bill, Calls Out GOP for ‘Rooting for America to Fail’
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. Statement of Andy Stern, president of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, the largest healthcare union in the country: “Tonight, sixty Senators voted to bring the American people one step closer to reforming our health insurance system. “While the process to get to sixty[Read More…]
Threats To Religious Liberty In 2009, Mountains And Molehills
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar A very bad year for religious liberty got worse earlier this month when the Russian Supreme Court upheld a regional court ruling prohibiting Jehovah’s Witnesses from gathering to worship and banning their publications as “extremist” literature.[Read More…]
According To Its Ethics Code, NPR Still Has a Fox News Problem
Commentary by Eric Boehlert Smart newsrooms develop an ethics code to help journalists do their jobs well, and to create clear lines of demarcation for when inevitable conflicts arise. To its credit, National Public Radio operates under a wide-ranging ethics code that leaves little doubt about how its journalists should[Read More…]
Who’s Behind the Right’s Base Closure Smear?
Commentary By Jamison Foser The right-wing media are accusing the Obama administration of playing politics with national security. But by using a trumped-up allegation peddled by a discredited former McCain aide to smear the White House, Obama’s critics are guilty of the politicization of the military they claim to denounce.[Read More…]
