Stories by Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen is founder of the media watch group FAIR, former TV pundit, and author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.
The year's stinkiest media performances.
Posted on Dec 30, 2008
Most Americans reside on the left side of the political spectrum. But the mainstream media stubbornly refuse to acknowledge this.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008
In his last year of life King condemned American militarism. But we don't see that in retrospectives.
Posted on Apr 5, 2008
The year's stinkiest media performances.
Posted on Dec 26, 2007
Why isn't there greater opposition to Hillary Clinton's candidacy by the progressive online movement?
Posted on Sep 7, 2007
Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate MLK's death, we get perfunctory news reports that fail to account for the last several years of his life -- and for good reason.
Posted on Apr 4, 2007
Last night, Webb offered a populist, anti-corporate stand on economics and a blunt attack on Bush for "recklessly" dragging our country into war, while Hillary and Obama barely uttered a peep.
Posted on Jan 24, 2007
A cable news vet fears for Olbermann's job in a conservative landscape.
Posted on Oct 4, 2006
Conservatives were quick to lash out at Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush a "devil," but that's exactly what Rush Limbaugh was calling Democrats only a few years ago.
Posted on Sep 23, 2006
As the John Mark Karr debacle shows, TV news loves stories that keep viewers passive and fears the ones that might motivate us to take action.
Posted on Aug 30, 2006
Get your gas at Citgo, and help fuel a democratic revolution in Venezuela.
Posted on May 17, 2005
Ralph Nader's campaign now depends on folks like Dick Armey and the Reform Party to get on state ballots.
Posted on Jul 20, 2004
Mainstream media repeatedly presents former U.S. foreign policymakers as omniscient seers who stem crises. But the Internet tells another story, such as that Zbigniew Brzezinski enabled guerilla activities inside Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001
On February 25 Secret Service agents fetched George Bush's teenaged daughter's boyfriend from jail, where he'd been arrested for public drunkenness. Since then, the media has been mum about it.
Posted on Apr 3, 2001
As usual, the competition for P.U.-litzers -- the annual award that pays tribute to this nation's stinkiest media performances -- has been fierce.
Posted on Dec 19, 2000
A tiresome Democratic VP seeks the presidency ... activists take to the streets to protest his convention ... the GOP serves up a shrewdly moderate candidate... If events unfolding in LA feel like a recurring dream, that's because we've lived through a very similar ordeal in 1968. But there is one significant difference between then and now -- Ralph Nader.
Posted on Aug 15, 2000
