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Media Matters: Fox's Anti-Tax Zealotry Leads To Conclusion That One Should Make Less Money In Order To Avoid Paying Taxes
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Dateline: 2013-06-19 10:16am -07:00T (1 words)
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Media Matters: Meet Tobin Smith: The Dubious Stock Pitchman Fired From Fox News
Fox News has fired paid contributor and market analyst Tobin Smith for receiving compensation to promote the stock of Petrosonic Energy, a violation of network policy. According to a Media Matters review, Smith's company, NBT Equities Research, also recei...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 10:16am -07:00T (437 words)
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Media Matters: Fox Promotes New O'Keefe Smear Campaign With False Claim About Low-Income Phone Program's Funding
Fox News hosts falsely claimed that a federal program that helps low-income Americans obtain phone access is paid for by individual taxpayers, when in fact the program is funded by fees levied on telecommunications companies. Fox fabricated this falsehood...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 10:16am -07:00T (815 words)
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Media Matters: Right-Wing Media Misrepresent CBO To Pit U.S. Workers Against Immigrants
Right-wing media outlets cherry-picked data from a Congressional Budget Office report on the Senate's immigration reform proposal to claim that immigrants who would benefit under the bill will drive down the wages of U.S. workers. In fact, while CBO predi...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:16am -07:00T (349 words)
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Media Matters: Fox News Botches Civil Rights Law To Defend Discriminatory Background Checks
Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg railed against long-standing employment discrimination law, mangling a civil rights doctrine to incorrectly claim the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is seeking to prevent companies from screening job applic...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:16am -07:00T (237 words)
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Media Matters: Niall Ferguson Cites Flawed Evidence To Stoke Regulation Fears
Conservative author Niall Ferguson used discredited research to overstate the negative impact of regulations on the economy.
In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled "The Regulated States of America," Ferguson, a Daily Beast contributor, claimed th...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 9:16am -07:00T (453 words)
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Media Matters: Fox Cuts Away From Obama's Berlin Speech To Cover Tea Party Protests
From the June 19 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
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Fox Provides Double Airtime To GOP During Benghazi Hearing...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (17 words)
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Media Matters: Canonize or Villainize?
No act in modern media culture can create as instantly polarizing a figure as the leaking of classified information. Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and now Edward Snowden -- the complexity of their human psyche was instantly reduced to ...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (403 words)
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Media Matters: <em>NY Times</em> Leaves Industry Disclosure Out Of Op-Ed Celebrating Broadband Mediocrity
Complaints about the poor quality of customer service from big internet providers like Comcast or Time Warner are often punctuated with an exasperated variant of "I'm paying XX dollars every month, how can they get away with this?" The short answer is bec...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 8:01am -07:00T (297 words)
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Media Matters: Fox News' Transphobia Problem
Fox News seems to have largely given up in its losing battle against marriage equality for gays and lesbians, but there's still one segment of the LGBT community that it feels comfortable openly mocking and demonizing on air: transgender people.
In late 2...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 6:46am -07:00T (202 words)
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Media Matters: Glenn Beck Bringing Anti-Immigrant Conspiracy Theories To Tea Party Rally
Glenn Beck announced on his website The Blaze that he will be attending a June 19 rally in Washington, D.C. to oppose the Senate's immigration reform bill and to "stand against amnesty." In a segment titled "Why is Glenn going to DC?" Beck claimed that th...
Dateline: 2013-06-19 5:31am -07:00T (64 words)
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Media Matters: Experts: Fox News' Coverage Contributes To Violence, Discrimination Against Transgender Community
Fox News' inaccurate, defamatory, and dehumanizing coverage of the transgender community contributes to transphobic violence and discrimination according to several groups working toward transgender equality.Experts: Fox News' Coverage Contributes To Tran...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (1072 words)
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Media Matters: Media Misunderstanding Of IRS Story Triggering Baseless Links To Washington Office
Major media outlets are misinterpreting testimony from a former high-ranking Internal Revenue Service official to baselessly suggest that Washington, D.C.-based officials were involved in the improper targeting of conservative groups seeking non-profit st...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (514 words)
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Media Matters: <em>WSJ's</em> Taranto Dismisses Military Sexual Assault Epidemic, Cries "War On Men"
The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto dismissed the epidemic of sexual assault in the military, claiming that efforts to address the growing problem contributed to a "war on men" and an "effort to criminalize male sexuality."
In May, the Department of ...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:01am -07:00T (591 words)
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Media Matters: Fox Suggests Obama's Overseas Trips Are Ploy To Help Poll Numbers
Fox News host Martha MacCallum and contributor Byron York suggested that the President Obama may have scheduled his current trips to Europe and Africa to help his poll numbers even though both trips were scheduled as early as November 2012.
Obama is curre...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:01am -07:00T (153 words)
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