Media

Defying Convention Defying Convention

This article draws on reporting by Eyal Press, Esther Kaplan and Katha Pollitt.

Sep 2, 2004 / Liza Featherstone

Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them

For well over a decade now, right-wingers and Republicans have heaped insult, lies and slander on liberals and Democrats, who responded for the most part by becoming starchy, sel...

Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Billboard Barons Billboard Barons

It was a bomb that started the whole thing--an image of one anyway.

Aug 26, 2004 / David Montero

ABC’s Digital Convention Scam ABC’s Digital Convention Scam

The Center for Digital Democracy is part of a "Public Interest, Public Airwaves" coalition supporting a policy that would require broadcasters to air more public service programmin...

Aug 25, 2004 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester

Google’s ‘Haphazard’ Ad Policy Google’s ‘Haphazard’ Ad Policy

Google has been acting as a censor to any political advertising with an edge.

Aug 12, 2004 / Feature / Katherine C. Reilly

PBS Adds Insult to Injury PBS Adds Insult to Injury

Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network's new conservative slant. CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation's total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 bil...

Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Press Watch Press Watch

A silver lining amid the dismal outpouring of news from Iraq has been the unbroken parade of conservative (and liberal hawk) commentators who now admit--with mea culpas, half-apo...

Aug 12, 2004 / Scott Sherman

My First (and Last) Time With Bill O’Reilly

My First (and Last) Time With Bill O’Reilly My First (and Last) Time With Bill O’Reilly

How bias works on The O'Reilly Factor.

Jul 13, 2004 / Feature / David Cole

A No to Media Monopoly A No to Media Monopoly

Media monopolists were dealt a rare setback when the Philadelphia-based US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit blocked implementation of last year's decision by the Federal Co...

Jul 1, 2004 / John Nichols

Big Blow to Big Media Big Blow to Big Media

A federal appeals court rejects FCC rule changes that eased limits on media monopoly.

Jun 24, 2004 / Feature / John Nichols

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