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Rove memory loss: Op-ed accuses Obama of "unusual" use of Friday news dumps

source: Media Matters for America

Every modern White House has put out news on contentious issues late on Friday in the hope that doing so will bury it, or reduce the amount of critical scrutiny it would otherwise receive. What is unusual is the degree to which this White House has relied on this tactic.

Published Fri, Nov 20

Fox News' fearmongering: Nonbinding cancer screening recommendations are rationing

source: Media Matters for America

Fox News' Dr. Marc Siegel fearmongered that recent recommendations that younger women get fewer cervical cancer screenings represented a precursor of government rationing under health care reform. In fact, the guidelines, issued by a nongovernment medical organization, are the res...

Published Fri, Nov 20

Fox News' Siegel falsely claims insurers would be required to deny preventive care under health care reform

source: Media Matters for America

House bill requires insurers to adopt task force recommendations in favor of specific coverage, but not those against coverage. Similarly, the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, requires insurance companies to cover the A or B recommendations o...

Published Fri, Nov 20

Quick Fact: Beck advanced dubious claim that "[n]owhere in the Constitution can you find" authority for health reform legislation

source: Media Matters for America

During his Fox News show, Glenn Beck claimed that "[n]owhere in the Constitution can you find any of this" while he pointed to two stacks of paper representing the Senate and House health care bills. Contrary to Beck's suggestion that Congress does not have the authority to enact health c...

Published Thu, Nov 19

Fox News' year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP

source: Media Matters for America

On November 19, co-host Jane Skinner apologized for Happening Now "mistakenly" airing a fake video of Sarah Palin's book tour "crowds." This was not the first time Fox News has apologized for airing fake videos and false information.

Published Thu, Nov 19

Fox & Friends misleadingly inflates cost of Senate bill by adding doctor pay fix

source: Media Matters for America

The first was passed in 2003, when Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House. The next came in 2005. Then there was one in 2006. The next year, Democrats took control of the Congress. They passed fixes in 2007 and 2008. The neat trick of this is that it also made the deficit l...

Published Thu, Nov 19

TV Patrol: "Nothin' new to see here..."

source: TVgasm

2. The Office (NBC) 3. Criminal Minds (CBS) 6. Flash Forward (ABC) 7. NCIS (CBS) 9. Glee (FOX) 10. CSI: Miami (CBS) 11. NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) 12. Castle (ABC) 13. The Good Wife (CBS) 14. Modern Family (ABC) 15. CSI: NY (CBS) 16. House (FOX) 17. Heroes (NBC) 19. 30 Rock (NBC) 20. Law & Order (NBC)

Published Wed, Nov 18

"Abortion foes cautiously optimistic about healthcare win"

source: jillstanek.com

In a weekend interview on CNN, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod suggested that Obama wanted to alter the Stupak-Pitts language because he felt it moved federal abortion policy in the antiabortion direction. "I think it's fair to say the bill Congress passed does change the statu...

Published Tue, Nov 17