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Kucinich: ‘Defeat Doesn’t Have Power Over Me’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dennis Kucinich on life after Congress; Eric Boehlert of Media Matters on Rush Limbaugh; Frances Causey, director of the new documentary "Heist," and former CIA interrogator Glenn Carle, who tells us about his struggle with institutionalized torture. Dig deeper

The Keystone XL Media Bias

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2012 Media Matters turned its bias detectors on the corporate media’s coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil way that the Obama administration put on hold last week. The analysis found that in all mediums, pipeline supporters got more talk time than their opponents, and counted the ways reporters parroted industry’s talking points. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Limbaugh Wonders Why Jews, AKA ‘Money People,’ Aren’t Fed Up With Obama

Staff / Truthdig Jan 21, 2010 "To some people, banker is codeword for Jewish," explains Rush, who wants to know whether these "money people" have any "buyer's remorse" about President Obama. After all, he says, taxes are "anathema to Jewish people." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

TV News Makes TV Look Bad

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2009 A survey of stimulus coverage by Media Matters has found that watching TV news may actually shrink your brain. Well, that's not fair, but it certainly won't teach you much about stimulating the economy. That's because the personalities that populate the airwaves -- and not just Fox News -- are given license to repeat untruths over and over again. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

’20/20′ Host Says Global Warming May Be ‘a Good Thing’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2007 John Stossel has truly gone off the deep end. While appearing on Glenn Beck's radio show, the co-anchor of ABC News' "20/20" called Robert Kennedy Jr. an "imbecile," suggested global warming could be "a good thing," and implied combating the crisis would "wreck the lives of poor people." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )