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Can Publicly Financed Journalism Ever Be Honest?
Hamilton Nolan · 07/03/14 11:25AM
Voice of America is a news outlet financed by the U.S. government. Now, the journalists who work at VOA are locked in a fight over a policy change that would require them "to actively support American policy." Is it possible to make sense of this?
Wal-Mart Has an Ally in the Wall Street Journal
Hamilton Nolan · 07/02/12 12:20PM
Wal-Mart has been the target of union campaigns for years. Why? Because Wal-Mart is the biggest fucking retailer in the world, and the most famous anti-union company in America. It makes sense for both practical and symbolic reasons. In L.A. right now, unions and worker advocates are trying to stop the construction of a new Wal-Mart in the city's Chinatown district. But Wal-Mart has an ally in the fight: the Wall Street Journal.
College Kids Think Gay Professors Are All Biased
Hamilton Nolan · 06/29/11 12:47PM
College students: will they ever be able to judge political bias with any accuracy? No, they haven't even decided whether Ayn Rand or Chinua Achebe is cooler yet! So it's no surprise they think every gay teacher is biased.
Does Google Reject Job Applicants Because They're Fat?
Remy Stern · 06/23/11 02:35PM
Google is famous for its lifestyle perks, including in some instances, fitness classes. But does the company actively discriminate against fat people? That's what on New York City woman is claiming. [Jezebel]
Study: College Kids Who Detect Bias in Class Are Mostly Dumb
Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/11 01:25PMFox News Memo: 'Public Option' Sounds Too Friendly, Stop Using It
Jim Newell · 12/09/10 12:20PM
An August 2009 e-mail from Fox News' Washington managing editor, Bill Sammon, ordered reporters to drop the term "public option" for "government-run plan" during the health care reform debate. Could Fox News have a right-wing bias?
Jon Stewart Exposes Fox News' Increasingly Shameful "Ground Zero Mosque" Propaganda
Matt Cherette · 09/13/10 10:23PMTonight, Jon Stewart continued his skull-violation of Fox News' coverage of the "Ground Zero Mosque" and Imam Rauf. Most notably, Stewart cut footage of Rauf's reasoned Larry King Live interview with that of Fox's ridiculous reaction to it. Video inside.
Jodi Picoult Thinks She's Charles Dickens
Richard Lawson · 08/26/10 09:14AM
Author Jodi Picoult's raging about the New York Times ignoring her hokey movie-bait books continues. Why should the Times highlight her commercial fiction? "Think about Charles Dickens. Think about Shakespeare. They were popular authors. They were writing for the masses."
Washington Post Reporter Slammed for Bias Against Bigots
Hamilton Nolan · 05/04/10 01:43PMRupert Murdoch's Idea of a Liberal: Greta van Susteren
Pareene · 04/07/10 09:46AM
Maybe the right-wing bent of Fox News is just a mistake? Maybe Rupert Murdoch just doesn't know what a liberal is? During an interview in the UK DC, the News Corp chairman couldn't name a single Democrat on Fox.
Christiane Amanpour: Too Brunette, Persian For TV?
Pareene · 03/24/10 01:37PM
There is some controversy over Christiane Amanpour taking over ABC's This Week. Longtime Washington Post critic Tom Shales, for example, is upset that she hates Israel and has bad hair.
Are Republicans Getting Away With Sex Scandals?
Pareene · 03/12/10 12:55PM
Is there a political sex scandal double standard? Do Republicans get off easier than Democrats? Steve Benen and Matt Yglesias think so. As does every other partisan in the world!
Keith Olbermann Is the Last Unbiased Man in the Media
Hamilton Nolan · 02/03/10 02:29PM
In your slushy Wednesday media column: Keith Olbermann sniffs out media bias whether it exists or not, a way to save magazines in fantasyland, PARADE's editor leaves, and Air America totally owes media people money.
'Controversial Sign'
Hamilton Nolan · 07/24/09 02:46PM
The TV station identifies this as a "Controversial Sign," but controversial to who? To the liberal media of Azle, Texas. Think, sheeple. [Guanabee]
Washington Post Fires Token Liberal
Hamilton Nolan · 06/18/09 03:40PM
The Washington Post, which pays money to opinion writers such as Bill Kristol (smarmy) and Richard Cohen (smarmier), has fired blogger Dan Froomkin, one of the only WaPo opinion writers who pointed out that the Bush White House was crooked.
CBS Hires Big Jerk
Pareene · 02/23/09 02:58PM
CBS just hired some guy with the improbable name of Jeff Ballabon to be their Senior Vice President of Communications. Boooring! But wait, outrage: he's a Republican!
Liberal Media Elite Spent Weekend Partying With McCain Staffers
Pareene · 01/26/09 06:11PM
As we all know, John McCain lost the election because the media was biased against him. So his former staffers got wasted with journalists this weekend because they all missed each other so much!
Ann Coulter: Professional Victim
Hamilton Nolan · 01/06/09 09:51AMSkeletal oddity Ann Coulter was "BANNED BY NBC," but now she's making the rounds of the fair networks to bleat about her own victimhood:
Today Offers Coulter Wednesday Slot
Ryan Tate · 01/05/09 11:14PM
After hilariously bumping Ann Coulter from Tuesday's show for Perez Hilton, NBC's Today asked the conservative simpleton on the next day, an olive branch she accepted with grace and wit. Hahahahahahaaa.