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Will media acknowledge they were too credulous in touting Rove's pre-election optimism?

11/09/06 8:10 PM EST
“Closing in”: The life and death of a Beauprez media myth

11/09/06 5:09 PM EST
Before midterms, media downplayed potential Dem gains in House and Senate, touting GOP's “formidable” and “stunning” get-out-the-vote campaign; will they revisit?

11/08/06 7:00 PM EST
Citing no specific polls, Fox 31 claimed Beauprez “has been able to narrow” Ritter's lead in “most” polls; 9News reported “Republican candidates gaining strength”

11/07/06 7:09 PM EST
Fox's MacCallum said, "[L]ook at ... Barack Obama ... he looks young, he looks healthy, he looks strong," over footage of Harold Ford Jr.

11/07/06 4:43 PM EST
Rupert Murdoch -- who once predicted Iraq war could lead to $20/barrel oil -- described war casualties as “minute”

11/07/06 1:52 PM EST
Network evening newscasts selectively cited polls to claim GOP is “closing the gap”

11/06/06 9:35 PM EST
Fox & Friends crew ignored Cheney, Bush unpopularity as reasons they're not appearing with candidates

11/06/06 8:20 PM EST
Mark Halperin's flip-flop at ABC News

11/06/06 5:40 PM EST
Media repeat GOP attacks on Pelosi as “extreme,” “out of touch,” ignoring House Dems' widely supported legislative agenda

11/06/06 4:50 PM EST
Fox News correspondent on his on-air “waterboarding”: “a pretty efficient mechanism to get someone to talk and then still have them alive and healthy within minutes”

11/06/06 2:44 PM EST
Juan Williams on public telling pollsters it favors Democrats on taxes: "[T]o me, that's crazy"

11/05/06 3:11 PM EST
Gibson and Campbell misrepresented NY Times article, with Gibson asserting, “The New York Times just said today Saddam had nukes”

11/04/06 4:42 PM EST
CNN and Fox let “straight-shooter” Tony Snow peddle false, misleading, and baseless GOP talking points

11/04/06 12:24 PM EST
Top election falsehoods, myths, and talking points

11/03/06 9:05 PM EST
Fox & Friends hosts touted WorldNetDaily, NY Sun allegations that terrorists “hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party's position on withdrawawing from Iraq”

11/03/06 8:51 PM EST
NPR's Liasson, Slate's Dickerson, Time's Cox all downplayed Haggard's significance

11/03/06 7:13 PM EST
NPR's Liasson, Slate's Dickerson, Time's Cox all downplayed Haggard's significance

11/03/06 6:43 PM EST

Will media acknowledge they were too credulous in touting Rove's pre-election optimism?

“Closing in”: The life and death of a Beauprez media myth

Before midterms, media downplayed potential Dem gains in House and Senate, touting GOP's “formidable” and “stunning” get-out-the-vote campaign; will they revisit?

Citing no specific polls, Fox 31 claimed Beauprez “has been able to narrow” Ritter's lead in “most” polls; 9News reported “Republican candidates gaining strength”

Fox's MacCallum said, "[L]ook at ... Barack Obama ... he looks young, he looks healthy, he looks strong," over footage of Harold Ford Jr.

Rupert Murdoch -- who once predicted Iraq war could lead to $20/barrel oil -- described war casualties as “minute”

Network evening newscasts selectively cited polls to claim GOP is “closing the gap”

Fox & Friends crew ignored Cheney, Bush unpopularity as reasons they're not appearing with candidates

Mark Halperin's flip-flop at ABC News

Media repeat GOP attacks on Pelosi as “extreme,” “out of touch,” ignoring House Dems' widely supported legislative agenda

Fox News correspondent on his on-air “waterboarding”: “a pretty efficient mechanism to get someone to talk and then still have them alive and healthy within minutes”

Juan Williams on public telling pollsters it favors Democrats on taxes: "[T]o me, that's crazy"

Gibson and Campbell misrepresented NY Times article, with Gibson asserting, “The New York Times just said today Saddam had nukes”

CNN and Fox let “straight-shooter” Tony Snow peddle false, misleading, and baseless GOP talking points

Top election falsehoods, myths, and talking points

Fox & Friends hosts touted WorldNetDaily, NY Sun allegations that terrorists “hope Americans sweep the Democrats into power because of the party's position on withdrawawing from Iraq”

NPR's Liasson, Slate's Dickerson, Time's Cox all downplayed Haggard's significance

NPR's Liasson, Slate's Dickerson, Time's Cox all downplayed Haggard's significance

Salem's Eric Metaxas defends Moms for Liberty quoting Hitler

Fox’s Jesse Watters is pushing a bizarre conspiracy theory that Joe Biden has been blackmailed by the FBI as an “intelligence op” to control the White House

Laura Ingraham's show has often flown under the radar. But she has been central to Fox News’ controversies.

Right-wing media champion SCOTUS decision to strike down Biden student debt relief plan

Following right-wing Supreme Court victories, Charlie Kirk boasts “we have to flood the zone” with more conservative cases