From HuffPost.com: During a segment about the ethics violations California Democrat Maxine Waters is accused of, “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” producers actually showed footage of another black woman in the news: Shirley Sherrod.
The media manufactured spectacle that is and was the Shirley Sherrod incident tells us all we need to know about Andrew Brietbart, Fox “News” and the dangers of extremist hack media– unregulated, irresponsible and unethical– run amok.
From Huffingtonpost.com: Shirley Sherrod has a simple answer for the Fox News producers begging her for an interview: Too late.
From ThinkProgress.org: While working on his article published yesterday in the New York Times highlighting the right-wing media’s “misleading coverage,” reporter Brian Stelter did some background research into cable news viewership demographics. While he didn’t include the findings in his story, he found them notable enough to publish on Twitter. The Huffington Post summarizes the […]
From Media Matters Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed that members of the New Black Panthers were “standing in front of a polling place and saying they want to kill white babies.” In fact, O’Reilly conflated two separate incidents: Video of a member of the New Black Panther Party suggesting the murder of babies is from a […]
From HuffingtonPost.com: Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean took direct aim at Fox News for its involvement in the Shirley Sherrod racism flap, calling their coverage “absolutely racist.”
I UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt. Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by […]
From CNN.com: Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from her government job in Georgia based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave, has been offered a new job by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack But, she said Thursday she is “not so sure.”
