Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– During the March 11 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric stated that the omnibus spending bill was “filled with earmarks.” Likewise, chief White House correspondent Chip Reid reported that the bill was “loaded with about eighty-five hundred pet projects known as earmarks, inserted by members[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Echoing a falsehood advanced by numerous media figures, Fox News Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed on the March 9 edition of the show that President Obama “pledged that he was going to get rid of all these earmarks.” Discussing the omnibus appropriations bill, Carlson also[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– During the March 10 edition of Fox News America’s Newsroom, co-host Megyn Kelly claimed that “the Democrats and the country’s biggest unions today [would be] kicking off an effort to kill a worker’s right to a private ballot.” Kelly later asserted that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In the past few days, MSNBC has repeatedly used misleading graphics of the Dow Jones industrial average showing a decline since the beginning of November 2008, suggesting that the drop started with the election of President Obama. In fact, as Media Matters for America has documented, the Dow[Read More…]

But Limbaugh and GOP have done this for years Recently, media figures have echoed the charge made by Republican leaders that the White House has cast a spotlight on Rush Limbaugh in order to distract attention from the nation’s economic situation. In fact, Limbaugh himself, and Republican Party officials have[Read More…]

AnalysisBy Jamison Foser When is a tax cut for 98 percent of taxpayers portrayed as a tax increase? When some of the small handful of people whose taxes will go up happen to control the nation’s news media. Last week, President Obama unveiled a budget outline that extends the Bush[Read More…]

AnalysisBy Jamison Foser Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The media are outraged at the “class warfare” supposedly present in President Obama’s budget plans. In the past few days alone, Michelle Bernard said Barack Obama “was almost declaring class warfare” in his speech to Congress; CNBC’s Carlos Quintanilla said, “I don’t want to call[Read More…]

AnalysisBy Karl Frisch This column also appeared in the Orlando Sentinel. In 1994 when Republicans regained power in the House of Representatives after 40 years of Democratic control, the freshly minted majority knew just who to thank: radio host Rush Limbaugh. With great fanfare they bestowed upon their spokesman the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Today, Media Matters for America released a video on the media’s coverage of America’s number one talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh. In his keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend, Limbaugh reasserted his claim that he hopes President Obama fails and that the economic recovery[Read More…]

During the March 3 edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Contessa Brewer stated, “Since Election Day, the Dow Jones industrial average has dropped nearly 3,000 points. It’s shed a quarter of its value in just the past two months.” But the Dow was on a downward trajectory months before the election,[Read More…]