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Fox News contributor Monica Crowley suggested that President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acted irresponsibly following the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, by claiming they were “unaccounted for” even though Obama and Clinton are both documented to have been active at the time of the attack. On the May 9 edition of Fox News’  America’s Newsroom , Crowley revisited the  long – debunked   myth  that Obama and Clinton were absent or inactive following the September 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya. During her guest segment on a congressional hearing that took place the previous day, she claimed ”the two leaders of the U.S.

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As Midwestern states assess the damage wrought by record flooding in recent weeks, scientists tell Media Matters that the media has missed an important part of the story: the impact of climate change. A Media Matters analysis finds that less than 3 percent of television and print coverage of the flooding mentioned climate change, which has increased the frequency of large rain storms and exacerbated flood risks

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In a campus-wide email sent out on Friday, Dartmouth College’s Board of Trustees Chair Steve Mandel appeared to equate the actions of sexual assault protesters with the subsequent death and rape threats made against them by several other Dartmouth students on anonymous online forums and message boards. The threats materialized after students who allege that they have personally encountered sexual assault, homophobia, and racism on campus protested the Dartmouth administration’s inability to foster a safer environment during a prospective students’ event on April 19th.

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Representatives from Fox News attended this year’s annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) media awards, prompting the organization to condemn the network’s history of anti-LGBT coverage. GLAAD hosted its annual media awards – meant to honor the media for outstanding representations of the LGBT community – in New York City on March 16

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A Media Matters analysis finds that news coverage of climate change on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX remained low in 2012 despite record temperatures and a series of extreme weather events in the U.S. When the Sunday shows did discuss climate change, scientists were shut out of the debate while Republican politicians were given a platform to question the science. Broadcast Networks Continued To Overlook Climate Change In 2012 Even In Record-Breaking Year, Broadcast Climate Coverage Remained Minimal.

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Now that Netflix is back up after its deeply unfortunate Christmas outage, there’s a lot of discussion of underrated holiday movies floating around the Twittersphere, and a consensus seems to be emerging around Gremlins . And because no on else has said it, I want to offer a few words in praise of the 2005 Christmas dramedy The Family Stone . The easiest way to characterize the emotional tone of the movie is to say that it’s the perfect film for people who loved the sad, true parts of Love, Actually more than the dancing prime minister or the Portugese lessons.

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Fox News is harping on the right-wing myth that philanthropist George Soros is behind MoveOn.org to falsely accuse him of directing people to protest at Walmart on Black Friday, the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving. Many Walmart employees and their allies have been protesting over labor conditions at Walmart and are planning to do so again on Black Friday.

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Fox News continued its habit of downplaying major advancements for LGBT equality after last week’s election, underreporting three states’ adoption of marriage equality through popular vote and ignoring Wisconsin’s election of the country’s first openly gay senator. Analysis: Fox News Underreported Marriage Equality Victories Marriage Equality Was Adopted By Popular Vote In Three States.  Maine, Maryland, and Washington became the first states in the country to embrace marriage equality through popular vote.

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Right-wing media outlets are reporting that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an advocate of gun violence prevention, denied the National Guard entry into Brooklyn to aid victims in the wake of Hurricane Sandy because members of the National Guard carry firearms. In fact, during the press conference the critics are citing, Bloomberg said he opposed having the Guard patrol the streets because he believed the New York Police Department was sufficiently equipped to protect the public and that the Guard would be better used in locations with smaller police forces. During an October 31 press conference, Bloomberg was asked to respond to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s  request for additional National Guard resources  to deter criminal activity. Bloomberg responded that “The National Guard has been helpful, but the NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns,” adding that “[w]e don’t need it” and that the troops would be better used for that purpose in ”locations upstate and into surrounding states where they don’t have a police department the size of New York.” REPORTER: Mr.

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A slew of new reporting this morning debunks Fox News reports claiming that the Obama administration withheld assistance during the Sept.

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