By Jamison Foser Suddenly, the media are once again obsessed with budget deficits. This always seems to happen when they cover Democrats, even though, as Joe Conason notes, 90 percent of the $11 trillion in federal debt run up in America’s history can be attributed to Ronald Reagan and the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– So how did we get to this point? Job losses in the hundreds of thousands every month, almost weekly bank failures, and 401(k)s at half their value from a year and a half ago. The media treat the question as a mystery that can be solved through scrutiny[Read More…]

Media Matters issues open letter to CNBC President calling for action Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters for America President Eric Burns issued an open letter to CNBC President Mark Hoffman expressing concern over CNBC host Larry Kudlow’s use of air time to further his potential candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Kudlow[Read More…]

Media return to familiar pattern of falsely characterizing earmarks as Democrats’ alone Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Media Matters for America has recently documented several examples of the media uncritically advancing the false notion that congressional Republicans are champions of earmark reform and in contrast, the Democratic Party are champions of wasteful spending.[Read More…]

Analysis by Jamison Foser For weeks, the news media have been buzzing about earmarks in the recently signed omnibus spending bill. We’ve been told over and over that the bill is “loaded,” “filled,” and “stuffed” with earmarks. Since earmarks made up less than 2 percent of the bill’s total spending,[Read More…]

AnalysisBy Eric Boehlert Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Call it The Washington Post‘s 766-word non-correction correction. It ran Saturday in the form of a Paul Farhi article about the dubious nature of trying to measure the size of Rush Limbaugh’s radio audience. Farhi stressed that trying to determine the total number of weekly[Read More…]

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by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective This Monday at 2 PM Baghdad time, a US soldier gunned down five fellow soldiers at a stress-counseling center at a US base in Baghdad. Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US military’s Joint Chiefs of[Read More…]

Commentary By Jamison Foser President Obama is scheduled to speak at Notre Dame’s graduation ceremony this weekend, after more than a month of complaints from a small number of anti-abortion rights activists who have received media attention far disproportionate to their numbers. Since the announcement on March 20 that Obama[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A Media Matters for America analysis of daytime cable news shows in the week following Justice David Souter’s May 1 retirement announcement found that significantly more Republican members of Congress, especially on Fox News, participated in discussions about or touching on the Supreme Court than did Democratic members[Read More…]