Media Matters Daily Summary

Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. O'Reilly falsely claimed he didn't call Tiller "Dr. Killer" Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed that it is "a lie" that he "called George Tiller 'Dr. Killer' while covering his murder last week." In fact, on the June 2 edition of his Fox News program, O'Reilly did refer to Tiller as "Dr. Killer." Read More NY Times ignored Sessions' double standard in nomination timing The New York Times quoted Sen. Jeff Sessions' criticism of the timing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing, but did not note that, according to the Times itself, Sessions called for fast action on Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation process, saying, "We don't need to read everything he has written." Read More Fox Nation, Drudge, CBSNews.com assert Obama shoe photo was an "insult" to Israel The Fox Nation and the Drudge Report linked to a CBSNews.com post titled "Some Israelis Insulted By Obama Picture" to claim President Obama insulted Israel or Israelis. Read More Wash. Post ignores Pence double standard on war funding bills The Washington Post quoted Rep. Mike Pence -- criticizing Democrats' war funding bill -- as saying, "A war funding bill should be about war funding and nothing else." But the Post did not note Pence's previous support for war funding bills that included non-defense spending. Read More Fox attacks media's Army recruiter shooting coverage, but didn't carry survivor's press conference Fox News figures have repeatedly accused other media of inadequately covering the shooting of two soldiers at an Army recruiting center in Arkansas. But while CNN and MSNBC offered live coverage of a press conference held by a survivor of that shooting, Fox News did not, nor did it report later that day on the man's remarks to the media. Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.