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Reference: Media Partisanship – Lies – and Incompetence as Chronicled by Media Matters, April 20 - April 26, 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

• Politico doesn't challenge comparison of Obama health care plan to UK and Canada
• Fox's Angle did not disclose that "analyst" Holmstead is an energy lobbyist
• Scarborough slowly walked back criticism of Obama's interaction with Chavez
• Contradicting Bush Justice Dept., Angle equated waterboarding of terrorists, trainees
• NBC report on NY Times' five Pulitzers ignores military analysts report

Reference: Media Partisanship – Lies – and Incompetence as Chronicled by Media Matters, April 13 - April 19, 2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

• Fox News Watch doesn't disclose Pinkerton's role in hyping tea parties
• Contradicting other reporting, Bennett claimed intel chief opposed torture memos release
• Wallace, defender of "fair and balanced" Fox, ignores Fox's promotion of tea parties

Saturday, April 18, 2009

• Fox News market analysis: Blame Obama for bears, credit tea parties for bulls

Friday, April 17, 2009

IPD Political News Summary: Monday, April 6, 2009

Friday, April 3 – Sunday, April 5, 2009

| For 18 years, in a practice begun by George H.W. Bush, the government has banned the media from providing coverage of returning war dead.
At President Obama’s request, the Pentagon has now lifted the ban, although permission from the service member’s family is required. “The arrival of the remains of Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers, a 30-year-old supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, at Dover Air Force Base at 11 p.m. today [ipd note: Sunday, Apr. 5] marked the first time that the transfer of any of the nearly 5,000 U.S. troops who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan was open to the media. The transfer of the flag-draped casket was carried out with great dignity, for the seven family members present.” source
AP/Reuters photo
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Reference: Media Incompetence/Negligence as Chronicled by Media Matters, April 6 - April 12, 2009

Sunday, April 12, 2009

• After smearing Obama, media figures call him polarizing

Friday, April 10, 2009

• Conservative media unleash violent, revolutionary rhetoric
• Conservative media smear Obama for purported overseas "apology tour"
• Pandemic: Limbaugh's Obama Derangement Syndrome spreads through conservative media
• Media Matters: Fox News is throwing a party!
• Foser: The military-media-industrial complex
• Black helicopter alert! Conservative media suggest Obama supporting one-world government
• Hannity rewrites economic history to bash Obama
• Fox News' Tantaros overstates support for "tea parties"
• Wash. Times misrepresented Obama's position on Iraq war funding bills
• Frisch: Warning: This tea may cause severe damage to journalistic integrity

Reference: Media Incompetence/Negligence as Chronicled by Media Matters, March 30 - April 5, 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

• Media promote claims of global cooling despite overwhelming consensus to the contrary
• Fox News invokes Canadian health care bogeyman in talking about Richardson's death

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 on Media Matters

• Times' Dowd used falsehood to advance McCain accusation that Obama broke promise on earmarks
• NY Times article missing reference to Graham's statement that "nationalizing the banks" should be considered
• Wash. Times ignored McConnell's $51 million contribution to omnibus bill he decried as part of "spending binge"
• Fox's Henneberg falsely claimed Democrats in White House "want government-run health-care programs"

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 on Media Matters

• This is "a great leader for conservatives"? Media Matters looks back at some of the worst of Limbaugh

• MSNBC's Brewer cropped Dow to suggest current decline began on Election Day

• Politico, Roll Call ignored GOP flip-flops on filibustering judicial nominees

• WSJ uncritically quoted former CEO of scandal-plagued hospital firm attacking Obama on health care

• Was Scarborough listening when Krugman explained why "we can't" fix economy by doing "the things we did in the '80s"?

• AP omitted that Santelli retreated from claim of White House "threat" when challenged by Lauer

• Wash. Post latest to omit Sebelius' Catholic support

• On Twitter, Gingrich falsely claimed "no [oil] spill since 1969" in waters off Santa Barbara
• Drudge, Fox News again suggest a few days of cold weather trump climate change science
• NY Times ignored other recent example of Republican walking back criticism of Limbaugh, despite Emanuel pointing it out

Monday, March 2, 2009 on Media Matters

 

• Just weeks after suggesting Dodd should be "impeached" on CNBC, Kudlow confirms interest in Dodd's Senate seat

• Limbaugh accused Sebelius of blocking KS tax refunds, ignoring Republicans' budget demands

• Boehlert: Matthews' "Oh God" vs. Santelli's rant: Which told us more about the press?

• Media predictably revive conservative rhetoric of "socialized medicine" with Sebelius pick

• Wash. Times' Lambro falsely accused Obama of misrepresenting contents of bill
• CBS Evening News airs Donohue saying Sebelius nomination is "an insult to Catholics" without noting her Catholic support
• Wall Street Journal advances discredited claim that Clinton did not condemn Suha Arafat's remarks
• USA Today uncritically reported Rep. Price's tax deduction falsehood

February 27, 2009 on Media Matters

 

• Dobbs falsely claimed Holder had "no empirical basis" for suggesting Mexican cartels are using weapons from America

• Media Matters: Asymmetrical class warfare

• Down for the count: The real fight for 2012

• Politico falsely suggested that a secret-ballot election is currently required to form a union
• ABC's Tapper joins media advancing small business falsehood

• Matthews did not challenge Ehrlich's false suggestion about small business taxes

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 on Media Matters

• USA Today falsely suggested that current system requires secret ballot election to form union

• Lashing out at critics, George Will spreads more falsehoods in new global warming column

• Fox News' Beck still attacking stimulus bill over things he doesn't understand

• AP ignored Democrats' response to earmark criticism: 40% are from Republicans

• McCaffrey again discusses Afghan security forces without disclosing ties to company training them

• Scarborough baselessly claimed nations "are testing" Obama "in a way ... they wouldn't have tested Dick Cheney"

• On Today, Matalin baselessly claimed Jindal's "education reform" made Louisiana "one of the top states in the country"

• CNBC's Bartiromo falsely suggested Obama proposed taxing small businesses' revenue

• Wash. Post forwards LA-Las Vegas rail line falsehood

• Santelli now agrees White House's purported "veiled threat" wasn't a threat

• Wash. Post, NY Times let Boehner revive small business tax falsehood

• O'Reilly, Miller falsely suggested Obama supported Prop 8

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 on Media Matters

• NY Times drew false equivalence between Will and Gore

• MSNBC's Brewer, Watson aired Gingrich's gratuitous Twitter attack on Pelosi

• O'Reilly advanced falsehood that "the Democrats in charge of the finance committees" resisted regulating mortgage industry

• Politico falsely claimed that Santelli's "rant" criticized "careless banks"
• Fox & Friends' Carlson allows guest to misrepresent speech to claim Obama engaged in "class warfare"
• O'Reilly latest to advance UAW pay falsehood
• Confronted with the truth, Hannity refused to back down from debunked mouse, LA-Vegas rail falsehoods
• NY Times uncritically quoted Jindal's misrepresentation of Obama remarks

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 on Media Matters

• Media quote Jindal without noting he is misrepresenting Obama's comments
• Updated Report: Economists comprised only 6 percent of guest appearances discussing stimulus on cable news, Sunday shows
• Wash. Times claim that Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib were "completely unrelated" contradicted by bipartisan Senate report
• Ignoring FDIC, ABC's Stark says bank nationalization happens "in socialist countries" and is "not supposed to happen" in the U.S.
• Cavuto purported to "correct" Obama with corporate tax falsehood
• On Hannity, Dietl promoted Social Security falsehood
• AP falsely reported Obama called Social Security "the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face by far"

Monday, February 23, 2009 on Media Matters

Updated throughout the day.

• Limbaugh falsely claimed that taxes on "most small businesses" would increase if Bush tax cuts on wealthiest Americans expire
• CNN's King allowed McConnell to revive debunked small business tax claim
• Boehlert: Unhinged in 30 days: The right-wing media's Obama era implosion
• Scarborough, Buchanan mislead on Obama's tax plan
• CNN slams Pelosi for "living the dolce vita" in Italy while giving Afghan leg of trip only brief mention
• The Hill uncritically repeated NRCC's mouse falsehood
• "[E]ducated Joe the Plumber" Santelli spreads conspiracy theories with admitted homicide plotter G. Gordon Liddy

Friday, February 20, 2009 on Media Matters

Updated throughout the day.

• Media Matters: In support of shunning

• CNBC's Kudlow said housing plan "hurt[s]" Americans while benefiting Fannie and Freddie -- but government holds majority shares

• MSNBC twice aired Santelli's criticism of administration foreclosure plan without substantive response

• Myths and falsehoods about the 2010 census and the Obama administration

• Discussing financial crisis, Buchanan baselessly blamed lending in "minority communities"
• Hannity falsely suggested lawmakers cited in CQ article on PMA campaign funds are "all Democrats"
• Citing AP, Baier mentioned only Democrats "embroiled in ethical issues"

Thursday, February 19, 2009 on Media Matters

Updated throughout the day.

• On Beck, Byrnes smeared CO solar energy company as "socialist"

• Limbaugh misquoted Obama on home values, used it as evidence of Obama "talking down the economy"

• Rove falsely claimed Frank "was one of the more prominent opponents of [housing] reform in 2004 and 2005"
• Fox News' Van Susteren did not challenge Kyl's false stimulus math
• Wash. Times, CNN.com advanced 61-detainee falsehood
• NY Times ignored Holmstead's extensive energy lobbying
• Beck falsely claimed average UAW worker makes $154 per hour

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 on Media Matters

Updated throughout the day.

• Fox Business Network infested by false tale of stimulus bill's salt marsh mouse
• Fox special promoted numerous myths and falsehoods about Obama and the economic recovery bill
• Politico, ABC's The Note spotlighted Wash. Times article reviving Obama flag smears
• Echoing GOP, Fox figures falsely claim Reid included $8 billion in bill directed to LA-Vegas rail
• NBC's Myers is latest to repeat inflated GOP's "quarter of a million dollars per job" calculation
• Lou Dobbs advances Wash. Times' false $3 trillion stimulus figure

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 on Media Matters

Updated throughout the day.

• Media start timers on stimulus, Obama "honeymoon period"
• AP did not note Heartland Institute's ties to energy industry
• Ignoring Padilla case, Blankley suggested Bush administration curtailment of civil liberties applied only in capture of foreign terrorists
• Wash. Times falsely claimed CBO "estimated that the full cost of" recovery bill "will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019"
• Wash. Times adopted GOP's inflated cost-per-job calculation for recovery bill