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Eric Boehlert, a media critic devoted to calling out right-wing misinformation through his writing at Media Matters for America, Salon, Daily Kos and most recently as the founder of the Press Run website, died Monday in a bike accident. He was 57. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery His death was announced…

CBS Late Show star Stephen Colbert reminded fans that, while his show has a lot of fun talking about some of the terrible things President Donald Trump says on camera, it’s not fair to single him out because a lot of people say terrible things. “And, by a lot of people I mean Tucker Carlson,” he segued, becoming the…

Tucker Carlson foamed over at the top of the Monday edition of his Fox News Channel program, claiming a liberal mob was coming to get him. In his first show since Media Matters posted a nearly four minute video of interesting things Carlson had said to shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge from 2006-11, including a slur…

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has responded to the controversy that erupted after he was heard on old audio clips unearthed Sunday, calling women "extremely primitive" beings. According to liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America, Carlson made those and other sexist comments multiple times when he called…

Lara Logan, who took a leave of absence from CBS News after her botched Benghazi report on 60 Minutes in 2013, is back in the spotlight this week. She gave an interview to a conservative podcast in which she compared Breitbart and Fox News to put-upon women who have but “this tiny little spot” at which to pray in…

Seems if Fox News hosts aren’t tweet-screaming at CNN’s Brian Stelter, they’re blocking him entirely. Fox’s Sean Hannity took the former approach during Stelter’s Reliable Sources program this morning, while Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo just kept shunning. The Stelter-Hannity skirmish – or at least the latest…

Six companies have either pulled ads or publicly distanced themselves from Fox News’ Hannity after the host was criticized for an interview with Republican Alabama Senate candidate and accused child molester Roy Moore. Though most of the non-advertisers didn’t give specific reasons for their absence from Hannity…

UPDATED with Lord reax: Conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord took to Twitter again Thursday afternoon, moments after CNN announced it had kicked him to the curb for tweeting “Sief Heil!” in response to a tweet from the head of liberal org Media Matters. In a statement issued Thursday afternoon, CNN said, “Nazi…

UPDATE: Bill O’Reilly says that when he said, “I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head” he was referring to having seen photographs of the nuns who were executed in El Salvador in 1980, and not claiming he actually saw the murdered nuns: "While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence…