Media Matters - Journal Editorial Report

Media Matters - Journal Editorial Report http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/journal_editorial_report This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Journal Editorial Report en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Fox News repeatedly echoes only opponents of Employee Free Choice Act http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260003 Fox News hosts, reporters, and contributors have repeatedly provided or echoed the claims of only opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would give workers the right to form or join a union if a majority of workers sign a card stating they want to unionize. Absent from numerous reports and discussions on Fox News is the argument made by proponents of EFCA that under the current system, employers often fire union supporters and pressure employees to vote against unionizing. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811260003 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:08:43 EST Bound to repeat it: Conservative media cited National Journal "most liberal" rating in 2004, now touting 2007 rating http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140003 In an email to readers encouraging recipients to read the National Journal article on the magazine's 2007 vote ratings, the National Journal Group wrote: "In 2004, President Bush invoked Senator John Kerry's liberal Vote Ratings score repeatedly on the campaign trail and at their head-to-head debates. We anticipate similar attention for our Vote Ratings across the 2008 election cycle." Numerous media did follow suit and tout the Journal's 2003 rating of Kerry. And once again, the media are giving the 2007 ratings the "similar attention" the National Journal Group anticipated -- despite the Journal's acknowledgment that the methodology it used to rate Kerry was flawed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200802140003 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:56:48 EST Reporting National Journal's rating of Obama, media ignored magazine's non-rating of McCain because of missed votes http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050002 Media Matters for America has identified numerous media outlets or figures who reported that the National Journal has rated Sen. Barack Obama "the most liberal senator in 2007," but did not report that the same National Journal feature stated that Sen. John McCain "did not vote frequently enough in 2007 to draw a composite score. He missed more than half of the votes in both the economic and foreign-policy categories." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050002 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:46:58 EST Ignoring researcher's caveat, WSJ's Henninger claimed stem-cell controversy "[b]asically [...] is over" http://mediamatters.org/items/200712100004 On Fox News' The Journal Editorial Report, Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Daniel Henninger discussed the announcement that American and Japanese research teams discovered, in the words of the senior American scientist, a "new way to trick skin cells into acting like embryos" by "reprogram[ming] skin cells into multipurpose stem cells without harming embryos." Henninger said: "Basically, the controversy is over. And I think, in retrospect, we should say something on behalf of, say, [President] George Bush, who vetoed that stem-cell bill." However, the senior American scientist wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that the new developments "[f]ar from vindicat[e]" the Bush administration's policy "of withholding federal funds from many of those working to develop potentially lifesaving embryonic stem cells." http://mediamatters.org/items/200712100004 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:52:07 EST Myths and falsehoods about global warming http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:13:29 EST WSJ's Kirkpatrick baselessly claimed Clinton "moved right" on abortion, health care http://mediamatters.org/items/200702210002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702210002 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:02:04 EST Journal Ed. Report selectively quoted Clinton to claim she is "disingenuous" and "supported the war" in 2004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702200005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200702200005 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:39:48 EST Media figures warned incoming Democratic majority against aggressive oversight http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030002 Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:17:54 EST WSJ's Pollock on why increasing troops "not a hard thing to do": just cut breaks and extend tours of duty http://mediamatters.org/items/200612180004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200612180004 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:18:58 EST WSJ's Stephens touted conservative think tank as "very effective" on global warming http://mediamatters.org/items/200612120006 Bret Stephens claimed that "a relatively small, very effective think tank," the Competitive Enterprise Institute, "has been consistently pointing out the flaws in some of the political conclusions that have been reached" about global warming. But contrary to Stephens' assertion about the quality of CEI's work, Media Matters has documented that two of CEI's television ads contained misleading statements about global warming. http://mediamatters.org/items/200612120006 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:32:06 EST Media repeat, fail to challenge Republican claims that Democrats oppose wiretapping terrorists' phone calls http://mediamatters.org/items/200608210009 After a federal judge recently struck down the Bush administration's warrantless domestic wiretapping program, some media figures have repeated the false Republican charge that critics of the program are opposed to wiretapping in general. In fact, critics of the program say that the Bush administration is violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by conducting surveillance of U.S. citizens and legal residents without obtaining a warrant from the FISA court http://mediamatters.org/items/200608210009 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:45:49 EST Kalb to Gigot: WSJ "dead wrong" for publishing editorial attacking NY Times on bank-tracking story http://mediamatters.org/items/200607100004 On Fox News' Journal Editorial Report, Marvin Kalb described a Wall Street Journal editorial as "dead wrong" for criticizing The New York Times and defending the Journal over their reports on a U.S. program designed to monitor international financial transactions. Kalb, who is a senior fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, told Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot: "I think you declared war on another American newspaper without due cause. It is mean. It is mean-spirited." http://mediamatters.org/items/200607100004 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:38:17 EST Media coverage of Iraq debate steeped in GOP talking points http://mediamatters.org/items/200606300009 A Media Matters analysis of the media coverage of the Iraq war debate shows that the favored Republican talking points on Iraq have gone largely unchallenged in the media and have even been adopted as truths by some media outlets and figures. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606300009 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:31:32 EST WSJ's Stephens claimed that Americans are "not for pulling out" of Iraq; polls suggest otherwise http://mediamatters.org/items/200606270002 On The Journal Editorial Report, Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bret Stephens asserted that an internal White House poll "reflects the fact that Americans want a strategy for winning ... not for pulling out," but failed to note that the most recent Journal poll, as well as other recent public polls, show that Americans do support pulling troops out of Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606270002 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:59:42 EST Pollock: Negotiations with Iran are"a dereliction of the president's fundamental constitutional duty" http://mediamatters.org/items/200606050004 On Fox News' The Journal Editorial Report, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Robert Pollock said that "at some point, we're going to have to come to a realization that negotiations" with Iran over that country's apparent nuclear programs and apparent pursuit of nuclear weapons are "not responsible" as a course of action but are, "in fact, a dereliction of the president's fundamental duty, which is to defend the American people." http://mediamatters.org/items/200606050004 Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:46:44 EST