Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. In 2003, he was awarded a Discovery/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation for his poetry.

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I like Media Matters for America, although they take everything so literally. When President Obama's team teased Fox News for its imaginative use of facts, commentators repeated ad nauseam Rupert Murdoch's claim that Fox News' ratings went "through the roof." Wasn't it ironic that this light teasing from the White House actually helped Fox News? Along comes Media Matters armed with their Nielsen reports. "In fact, not only did Fox News' overall ratings not soar," writes buzzkill Eric Boehlert on Media Matters' Web site. "Instead, in the two weeks following the initial verbal jousts with the White House, Fox News' total day ratings virtually flatlined." I wish Media Matters would lighten up. I'll keep reading them just to see if they do.

10:59 pm, Nov 4, 2009

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Rawk5tar

He also offers pretty convincing info on why the rating did not, in fact, rise. I don't see out telling it like it is is not "lighening up." Thier sole purpose is to be the liberal watch dog, and that's what they're doing.

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6:08 pm, Nov 5, 2009

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