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View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal Does It Again: Another Whopper Of A Lie On Climate...
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View ArticleIsaac Poised To ‘Torment’ New Orleans As Category 1 Hurricane On Anniversary...
Latest storm track for Isaac The good news: Tropical storm Isaac veered away from Tampa. The bad news: It is taking aim at New Orleans and is on a path to deliver that beleaguered city a dangerous...
View ArticleU.S. Experiences The Most Extreme Eight-Month Period For Weather Ever Recorded
The period from January to August 2012 saw the most extreme weather in recorded history throughout the contiguous U.S., according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
View Article‘Iron Man 3′ Is Tony Stark v. PTSD
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View ArticleTelevision News Outlets Ignore Climate Change During Sandy Coverage. Should...
In a recent interview with MTV, President Obama said he was “surprised” that climate didn’t come up in the presidential debates. This isn’t a very good excuse for avoiding discussion of the problem,...
View ArticleNew Details Discredit Fox News Reports On Benghazi Attacks
A slew of new reporting this morning debunks Fox News reports claiming that the Obama administration withheld assistance during the Sept.
View ArticleTimothy Johnson: Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim National Guard Kept Out Of...
Right-wing media outlets are reporting that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an advocate of gun violence prevention, denied the National Guard entry into Brooklyn to aid victims in the wake of...
View ArticleFox News Underreports Marriage Equality Victories, First Gay Senator
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View ArticleEmily Arrowood: Fox Brings Soros Paranoia To Walmart Labor Protests
Fox News is harping on the right-wing myth that philanthropist George Soros is behind MoveOn.org to falsely accuse him of directing people to protest at Walmart on Black Friday, the busy shopping day...
View Article‘The Family Stone’ And Underappreciated Christmas Movies
Now that Netflix is back up after its deeply unfortunate Christmas outage, there’s a lot of discussion of underrated holiday movies floating around the Twittersphere, and a consensus seems to be...
View ArticleSTUDY: Warmest Year On Record Received Cool Climate Coverage
A Media Matters analysis finds that news coverage of climate change on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX remained low in 2012 despite record temperatures and a series of extreme weather events in the U.S. When...
View ArticleCarlos Maza: GLAAD To Fox News: If You Want To Attend Our Events, Stop...
Representatives from Fox News attended this year's annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) media awards, prompting the organization to condemn the network's history of anti-LGBT...
View ArticleDartmouth College Threatens To Discipline Students For Protesting Sexual Assault
In a campus-wide email sent out on Friday, Dartmouth College’s Board of Trustees Chair Steve Mandel appeared to equate the actions of sexual assault protesters with the subsequent death and rape...
View ArticleJill Fitzsimmons: VIDEO: What The Press Is Missing About Midwest Floods
As Midwestern states assess the damage wrought by record flooding in recent weeks, scientists tell Media Matters that the media has missed an important part of the story: the impact of climate change....
View ArticleThomas Bishop & Brian Thorn: Fox’s Crowley Revisits Debunked Myth That Obama,...
Fox News contributor Monica Crowley suggested that President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acted irresponsibly following the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, by claiming they...
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