“I Am Not Reporting Anything to You”

How Fox News, CNN handled the initial Bin Laden news

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 2, 2011 at 06:04 PM

In the event that you were not watching cable news last night, rest assured that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and... More

“Are You a Flake?”

Wallace’s bad question an announcement-day gift for Bachmann

By Joel Meares   Jun 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM

Michele Bachmann officially launched her campaign today in Waterloo, Iowa, the onetime hometown from which—according to a speech Bachmann... More

“Bill, I know football.”

O’Reilly and Obama in the Fox Bowl

By Joel Meares   Feb 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM

So, it turns out Bill O’Reilly and the president give a better pregame show than Christina Aguilera. In the fifteen-minute... More

NYT’s Scoop on an Alleged Roger Ailes Coverup

Lawyers say the Fox chief urged Judith Regan to lie to the feds about Giuliani pal Bernie Kerik

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 24, 2011 at 02:44 PM

The New York Times has an excellent scoop out today that could mean trouble for Fox News's Roger Ailes. It's... More

And We’re Off!

First debate low on candidates, substance, & attention

By Clint Hendler   May 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM

The first debate of the 2012 presidential season took place last night in Greenville, South Carolina. If you missed it,... More

Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM

Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More

Audit Notes: Fox on the Overpaid, Winkler Smiles, FT Ads

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 4, 2011 at 06:33 PM

The Fox News propaganda machine has been ramped up to portray $700 a week teachers and other government employees as... More

Audit Notes: The Murdochs at Parliament, In the Journal, and Via Fox News

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2011 at 12:50 AM

How sweet would it have been if The Guardian's Nick Davies had been on the committee questioning Rupert and James... More

CNBC Pushes the Financial-Terrorism Nonsense

“Really good information” on why “outside forces may have” caused the 2008 Crash

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 3, 2011 at 01:02 PM

I took the hammer to The Washington Times the other day for a dumb story on a report that says... More

CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal

Questions raised about primetime anchor’s tenure as a tabloid editor

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2011 at 02:00 AM

It would be rather ironic if Fox News enemy CNN turns out to have a hacking-scandal-by-association problem on its hands,... More

Frank Luntz Rides Again

The wordsmith and the public option

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 10, 2010 at 07:42 AM

Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using... More

Glenn Beck Going Back to Silversmithing?

Beck explains why he’s jumping off the horse

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM

First: a confession. I have not been a particularly diligent media reporter where Glenn Beck is concerned. In fact,... More

Jon Stewart On Fox’s Reverse Class Warfare

Meantime, the Journal notes leading GOP candidates want to raise taxes… on the poor

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2011 at 03:48 PM

Yesterday, The Daily Show had one of Jon Stewart's greatest takedowns of Fox News—which is saying something. The jumping-off point... More

Murdoch vs. Muto

The “Fox News mole” is being charged for leaking to Gawker as Fox’s corporate parent remains under fire for ethics violations

By Kira Goldenberg   Apr 25, 2012 at 03:53 PM

Let me get this straight: Even as Rupert Murdoch’s media empire remains under official scrutiny for an allegedly extensive phone-hacking... More

New Survey Says Fox Least Trusted

But there are more questions to be asked

By Joel Meares   Jan 20, 2011 at 03:05 PM

Public Policy Polling yesterday released its annual study of people’s trust in TV news, and the results are sure to... More

Pew’s Spin Through the Online Midterm News Cycle

Survey shows where we got our 2010 campaign news

By Joel Meares   Mar 17, 2011 at 02:08 PM

Reading through comment streams during last year’s midterms, one often had to ask: Where are people getting their “information”... More

Play With The 2010 News Cycle Thanks To Pew

How did Fox, NBC, NPR fill the year’s “newshole”?

By Joel Meares   Jan 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM

Forgive us for not noting this sooner—our attention has been devoted to the Giffords shooting and debates that followed. But... More