Facing a transformed political landscape, with a newly invigorated president and a war with Iraq looming, it's time to ask a crucial question: Will the media ...

George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth By Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan Available now from Touchstone Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

Sep 25, 2003 · Despite new information, a number of conservative pundits continue to spin the widely-debunked story of a phone call Democratic presidential ...

Oct 23, 2003 · In the column, Coulter dodges most of the criticism of Slander, relying instead on twisted parsings of criticisms, straw-man arguments, and ad ...

Jun 18, 2003 · In what can only be described as a collective hallucination, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) has been described by a wide range of journalists ...

Spinsanity analyzes the use of spin in American politics and the damage it is doing to our political discourse.

Apr 17, 2001 · Ironically, the study also found that under the counting standards advocated by Gore and the Florida Supreme Court, George W. Bush would have ...

Davis is quoted as calling the Democratic Party "an organized conspiracy to seize power," in an apparent reference to their takeover of the Senate leadership ...

Jun 30, 2003 · But, as in her syndicated columns (many of which are adapted in the book) and her previous book Slander: Liberal Lies Against the American Right ...

Jan 15, 2003 · President Bush injected "class warfare" into the debate over his new tax cut proposal even before he presented the plan last Tuesday. Talking to ...

Oct 25, 2002 · The past two weeks have seen several examples of what has become a trend: making comparisons and references to terrorists and Saddam Hussein ...

Oct 28, 2003 · SCHWARZENEGGER: Let me tell you something. We have never seen a situation like this. $38.2 billion budget deficit. We just found out that the ...

Jul 1, 2002 · These days, the commentariat is bursting with self-professed media critics of all stripes (this column included).

11/23/04: Brendan Nyhan is quoted extensively in an American Journalism Review piece on fact-checking in media coverage of campaign 2004. 11/15/04: Spinsanity ...

Mar 24, 2004 · A handful of conservative pundits initially took the lead in flogging the Kerry-France association. It's been a favorite, for instance, of James ...

Dec 3, 2001 · He also calls Ashcroft a "Cornbelt Cromwell" and says Bush nominated him to appease "the religious right - the American Taliban if you will". As ...

Aug 27, 2003 · Last year, for instance, the President repeatedly said that the federal budget deficit was justified because during the 2000 campaign he had ...

Aug 16, 2004 · The reality is that the President has actually allowed federal funding for research into embryonic stem cell lines that had already been created ...

May 22, 2003 · The New York Times columnist's distorted quotation of President Bush has spread throughout the national and international press.

One of the most interesting rhetorical attacks in the Jeffords controversy, apparently pioneered by Rush Limbaugh, is to call the Democratic takeover of the ...

May 7, 2001 · Spinsanity analyzes the use of spin in American politics and the damage it is doing to our political discourse.

Jul 29, 2003 · Over the past several weeks, debate has raged over whether President Bush lied in his State of the Union address when he claimed that Iraq ...

Nov 19, 2001 · On November 7, former President Bill Clinton gave a speech at Georgetown University on foreign policy and globalization in the wake of the ...

Jun 4, 2001 · President Bush has used his campaign promise to change the tone to suppress criticism of his administration.

Mar 20, 2003 · In fact, none of the hijackers were Iraqi citizens, and even the most ardent backers of war with Iraq have not presented evidence that Saddam ...

Apr 23, 2001 · The controversy over the Ashcroft nomination and subsequent debate highlight how a right wing counteroffensive against so-called "racial ...