The Media Matters for America Action Center gives you the means to hold the media accountable. Over the next few months, we'll be developing new tools to help you take action on both the national and local levels. Use the information and tools on this site to stay informed and make an impact.
Current Actions
Military Analysts
When the broadcast media ignored reports that many of the military analysts they featured on the air to talk about the war in Iraq were actually Pentagon-sponsored advocates, Media Matters was there. We provided viewers the tools they needed to contact the media and demand honesty and accountability. Make your voice heard today.
Send an email to the networks and ask them to come clean.
More information on your action will be available after logging into the calling tool.
Savage
On the September 16 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, discussing a caller's comment that "Muslim fundamentalists" are "walk[ing] around Northern Virginia as if they own the place," Savage asked, "Why would a nation that is as evolved as America, and as liberal as America is socially, want to bring in throwbacks who are living in the 15th century? Now you have to ask yourself, what's the benefit? What is the societal benefit of bringing in throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna produce children who will become terrorists?"
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CBS
When CBS spliced an interview with Sen. John McCain, removing a false assertion by McCain and adding an answer taken from another context, Media Matters mobilized concerned citizens to demand a response from CBS and encouraged CBS News to publicize its ethical standards for editing news interviews.
Call CBS News and urge it to spell out, on the air and online, its policy on editing interviews.
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Action Center Tools
Local Media Reporting Tool
Conservative misinformation isn't confined to the national media -- it's local, too. Does your local paper quote conservative attacks without giving progressives the opportunity to respond? Does your local TV station give you two sides of every debate: the right, and the far right? Does your local talk-radio blowhard repeat false rumors and smears from right-wing blogs as if they were fact? Log in below to report conservative misinformation, and take the first step in holding the media accountable.
