CNSNews.com editor Terry Jeffrey mounted a major defense of Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed changes to Medicare in his May 18 column. Insisting that “Ryan’s Medicare reform plan is not radical change,” Jeffrey…
WND’s Vox Day Warns Men Not To Marry ‘Career’ Women
He doesn’t like that women can vote. He considers women’s rights “a disease that should be eradicated.” So it’s no surprise that Vox Day would turn in yet another misogynistic WorldNetDaily column,…
Meet Michael Maloof, WND’s Newest Reporter, And His Sketchy Past
A May 22 WorldNetDaily article announced that F. Michael Maloof will be “a senior reporter in WND’s Washington bureau.” WND calls Maloof “a former senior security-policy analyst in the Office of the…
Farah: Global Warming’s A ‘Phantom,’ But Obama Speech On Israel Caused Joplin Tornado
In his May 18 WorldNetDaily column, Joseph Farah declared global warming to be a “phantom crisis,” and that Newt Gingrich’s endorsement of it “demonstrated that he had gone over to the politically…
NewsBusters Invents A Nazi Smear
NewsBusters’ Alex Fitzsimmons devises a new way to invoke Godwin’s law: declare there’s a Nazi link to a common phrase. In a May 26 post, Fitzsimmons declares that an NBC correspondent’s description…
CNS Adds Bias to AP Headline
The original headline the Associated Press supplied for a May 29 article reads “Obama travels to Missouri to view tornado damage.” But when CNSNews.com put the article on its website, it made…
WND’s Misinformation Machine Rolls On
Remember when WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah admitted his opinion columnists put misinformation in their columns? Well, here’s a prime example. From a May 25 WND column by Michael Master: Last week, USA…
MRC: No One May Praise Obama (Or His Wife)
Brent Bozell’s May 25 column carries the headline “No One May Lecture Obama.” He, like most conservatives, misled by claiming that President Obama claimed that he wants Israel to “retreat behind pre-1967…
WND Labeling Bias Watch
A May 25 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein is quick to label Media Matters (disclosure: our employer) as a “liberal advocacy group funded by philanthropist George Soros,” but none of the conservative…
CNS’ Starr Shills for Oil Industry
The Media Research Center has received $412,500 in funding from ExxonMobil since 1998. This money presumably manifests itself in things like CNSNews.com reporter Penny Starr essentially doing PR work for the oil…