2008 Election
Claiming McCain "tangled with conservatives before" on taxes and immigration, Shuster didn't note reversals
In a Hardball report on Sen. John McCain's position on the environment, MSNBC's David Shuster pointed to "taxes" and "immigration" as evidence that McCain has "tangled with conservatives before." But Shuster did not report that McCain has since embraced conservative positions on both of those issues, now supporting the permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts and saying that he would no longer support his own immigration bill if it came up for a vote in the Senate. Read more
Wash. Post's Weisman, Shear repeated GOP's false claim about Obama and Israel without providing context showing it was false
The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Michael D. Shear wrote that "Republican surrogates" trying to portray Sen. Barack Obama as "anti-Israel ... pluck[ed] one sentence out of an extended interview with the Atlantic Monthly to accuse him of calling Israel 'a constant sore' that infects U.S. foreign policy." However, Weisman and Shear did not provide the context of Obama's "constant sore" remark to show that the GOP's attack is false. Read more
Media Ethics
EXCLUSIVE: Military analysts named in Times exposé appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR
On the heels of an April 20 New York Times investigative report exposing the hidden relationship between media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries, Media Matters for America exclusively released an accounting of the analysts identified in the Times exposé and their more than 4,500 appearances and quotations on ABC, ABC News Now, CBS, CBS Radio Network, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, and NPR. Read more
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