Media Matters

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann claimed again Monday that Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, estimated health care reform would cost 5.5 million jobs. Last month PolitiFact called that claim “problematic and contrary” to Romer’s statements. Now Media Matters slams Bachmann for repeating the claim “baselessly.” And on top of that, [...]

What kind of “crack research” is Fox’s Gretchen Carlson smoking? The Fox & Friends co-host and former Miss Minnesota claimed today that after spending “a tremendous amount of time” researching the issue, she found that only two cash-for-clunkers deals have been consummated in her home state. The widely reported stat: two percent of pending deals have [...]

Bill Clinton may have wanted to nail down the definition of “is,” but right-leaning critics of the Democrat-controlled federal government seem happy to use “-ism” loosely. In only the last three months, media conservatives have accused President Obama and Democrats of socialism, fascism, communism, corporatism, terrorism, Nazism, McCarthyism and Marxism. Media Matters’ County Fair blog [...]

Shakopee reporter Ruth Anne Maddox (pictured) was murdered this week, and her paper is flooded with stories and notes by her readers and co-workers. The Mankato Free Press shuts down its online forum as a casualty of Election ‘08. And Media Matters takes issue with a local writer’s New York Times account of the Franken/Coleman recount.

As Minneapolis’ NEED magazine gets new life after a January burglary, an old standby of progressive news, the link aggregator Cursor.org, goes on hiatus. Meanwhile circulation sinks again at the Star Tribune as Media Matters questions the timing of its editor’s decree about columnists refraining from partisanship.

Chris Baker desperately wants attention. It’s rather sad and pathetic. So we probably shouldn’t do him the favor. But given that Baker somehow commands four hours of air time each weekday in the Twin Cities market, it’s worth highlighting the KLTK (FM-100.3) host’s latest inane rant. As captured by Media Matters, Baker’s beliefs about voting [...]