Eric Boehlert, an award-winning journalist who has written extensively about media and politics, is a senior fellow for Media Matters for America and the author of Lapdog: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush. A former writer for Salon and Rolling Stone, he lives with his wife and two children in Montclair, New Jersey.
Lapdogs is the first book to demonstrate that, for the entire George W. Bush presidency, the news media have utterly failed in their duty as watchdog...
...PM: Seven Surveys Make A Trend For Fox And Viewers November 22, 2011 1:35 pm ET by Eric Boehlert The release yesterday of yet another survey indicating the more you watch Fox News the less they know, has once again shone a spotlight on one of the unique...
...new book about Abraham Lincoln. O'Reilly is going on the defensive instead of issuing corrections. Media Matters' Eric Boehlert joins Ed Schultz to explain O'Reilly's mistakes. (The Ed Show...
...m leaving.”– Waylon Jennings to Willie Nelson. “The Tea Party is the pet rock of politics.”– Eric Boehlert from Mother Jones,... Read more 28 Apr 2011 Hits:931 This year, 2011, Americans will celebrate the 150th anniversary of that glorious,...
...m leaving.”– Waylon Jennings to Willie Nelson. “The Tea Party is the pet rock of politics.”– Eric Boehlert from Mother Jones,... Read more 28 Apr 2011 Hits:836 This year, 2011, Americans will celebrate the 150th anniversary of that glorious,...
...to fill 24 hours a day, seven days a week? “Everyone wants to take over a network,” said Eric Boehlert of Media Matters. “But it’s a Herculean task. Oprah can barely get one off the ground, and she’s iconic. People flock to her and run from him...
...was I trying to explain why my “own side is on balance more deserving.” Read more. Related Posts: Eric Boehlert rightly slams NYT Book Review Another Salon reader calls it quits A new book full of hard and necessary truths about the Vietnam war...
...Corrected Bad Planned Parenthood Story Media Matters Refuses To Retract Factual Error Caught in a Lie: MMfA’s Eric Boehlert Embarrassed on Twitter Again *UPDATE: Silence on Union Coffin Protest Media Matters Refuses to Cover Soros Scandal CNN...
Left Blog Feeds- Progressive News, September 21, 2011
...volume to them, have struck me as outstanding in one way or others: Bloggers on the Bus by Eric Boehlert Going Rouge edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed Article source:...
Media Matters for America - County Fair, July 20, 2011
...Street Journal Writers Have "Total Editorial Freedom" To Defend Murdoch July 20, 2011 1:15 pm ET by Eric Boehlert News Corp.'s phone-hacking fiasco continues to do lasting damage to Rupert Murdoch's reputation, as well as the reputation of the media...
Media Matters for America - County Fair, July 11, 2011
...To date though, the Journal has published just one paragraph about Hinton. And it took the newspaper an entire week to produce it. I'd say that's actually record-breaking turn-around time for them to actually acknowledge the wrong-doing of one of their...
...up, there is nothing Breitbart could possibly do to attract the political sympathy of someone who thinks, say, Eric Boehlert is mostly correct in his political notions or vice versa. A fight with Beck is a completely different beast. After the initial...
...of Common performing at Trinity United with Rev. Jeremiah “God d-mn America!” Wright dancing in the background. Update: Eric Boehlert was for “freaking out” over violent rap artists before he was against them...