MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Format change will take Cullen off WPTT
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By By Mark Roth - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Even though Serena said politics had nothing to do with the decision, the demise of Cullen's show fits into a larger national picture in which politically liberal talk radio has... More »
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Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
New York Times - By Michiko Kakutani - Aug. 17 (News Report)
IT'S been more than eight years since "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and... More »
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The Kremlin's Virtual Army
Foreign Policy - By Evgeny Morozov - Aug. 16 (Special Report)
As Russian tanks lumbered southward over mountainous Ossetian terrain, Russian netizens were seeking to dominate the digital battlefield. More »
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How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
AlterNet - By Terrence McNally, Susan Jacoby - Aug. 18 (Interview)
"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." Barack Obama finally said it. Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against... More »
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Citing convention negotiations, Fox News Sunday 's Wallace asked if President Obama would negotiate by "caving in"
Media Matters - By Media Matters - Aug. 17 (News Analysis)
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said that "after giving Hillary Clinton a speaking role on Tuesday night and Bill Clinton a speaking role on Wednesday night, now Hillary... More »
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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NBC coverage gives a narrow view of China
USA Today - By Robert Bianco - Aug. 18 (Opinion)
Many journalists in China, including USA TODAY's Christine Brennan, have written about the sterile atmosphere on the Olympic Green in the first week caused by the Chinese... More »
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Ban media cross-ownership
Seattle Times - Aug. 16 (Editorial)
The U.S. House of Representatives has a chance to do what it would not in 2003: take a stand against media consolidation, which is one of the greatest threats to democracy... More »
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The Candidate We Still Don't Know
New York Times - By Frank Rich - Aug. 16 (Opinion)
While reporters at The Post and The New York Times have been vetting McCain, many others give him a free pass. Their default cliché is to present him as the Old Faithful everyone... More »
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Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media -
Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 18 (Blog Post)
That's because The Post's role here has been and continues to be what the establishment media's role generally is -- to serve government sources and amplify their claims, not to... More »
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Obama and the Politics of 'Presumptuousness'
The Nation - By eric alterman - Aug. 16 (Opinion)
in fact it is the Post's white house columnist who is the symbol:a symbol of a press core that has become almost as corrupted--morally and intellectually by Bush and company, as... More »
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Welcome to a (rather dour) party
Economist - Jul. 31 (News Analysis)
The party has tapped into a nationalist wellspring fed by history textbooks and popular culture that portray early 20th-century China as a country derided by foreigners as the... More »
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McCain Tries to Define Obama as Out of Touch
New York Times - By Jim Rutenberg - Jul. 31 (News Analysis)
Mr. McCain's campaign is now under the leadership of members of President Bush's re-election campaign, including Steve Schmidt, the czar of the Bush war room that relentlessly... More »
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In study, evidence of liberal-bias bias
Los Angeles Times - By James Rainey - Jul. 27 (News Report)
Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week. Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insufferable liberals... More »
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Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
TruthDig - By Col. Ann Wright - Aug. 3 (News Report)
The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on sexual... More »
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Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation
Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 3 (News Analysis)
The death of government scientist Bruce Ivins has generated far more questions about the anthrax attacks than it has answered. I want to return to the role the establishment media... More »
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Ban media cross-ownership
Seattle Times - Aug. 16 (Editorial)
The U.S. House of Representatives has a chance to do what it would not in 2003: take a stand against media consolidation, which is one of the greatest threats to democracy... More »
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NBC coverage gives a narrow view of China
USA Today - By Robert Bianco - Aug. 18 (Opinion)
Many journalists in China, including USA TODAY's Christine Brennan, have written about the sterile atmosphere on the Olympic Green in the first week caused by the Chinese... More »
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This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression
The Guardian - By Seumas Milne - Aug. 14 (Opinion)
You'd be hard put to recall after all the fury over Russian aggression that it was actually Georgia that began the war last Thursday with an all-out attack on South Ossetia to... More »
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Georgia/Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame
FAIR - Aug. 14 (Press Release)
Georgia's contribution to the escalation of tensions in the region were not completely ignored by U.S. media, but its aggressive actions were often euphemized, as in AP's... More »
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Why Obama Could be in Trouble
AlterNet - By Robert Parry - Aug. 7 (Blog Post)
When American news consumers aren't hearing misinformation, they're almost surely hearing trivia. The TV news shows couldn't resist endlessly repeating McCain's attack ad that... More »
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Format change will take Cullen off WPTT
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Aug. 19 (News Report)
Even though Serena said politics had nothing to do with the decision, the demise of Cullen's show fits into a larger national picture in which politically liberal talk radio has... More »
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Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
New York Times - Aug. 17 (News Report)
IT'S been more than eight years since "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and... More »
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Media spars with organizers
National Post - Aug. 14 (News Report)
Communist China and the western media have been heading for a collision ever since the IOC's daily press briefings began six days ago and unpleasant questions began to be asked... More »
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ABC's Ross On The Purpose And The Future Of Investigative Journalism
Media Bistro - Aug. 20 (Interview)
Under a system endorsed and kept alive by both parties, lobbyists and corporate executives and union officials have been able to buy access to powerful American politicians in... More »
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Citing convention negotiations, Fox News Sunday 's Wallace asked if President Obama would negotiate by "caving in"
Media Matters - Aug. 17 (News Analysis)
On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said that "after giving Hillary Clinton a speaking role on Tuesday night and Bill Clinton a speaking role on Wednesday night, now Hillary... More »
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar
Slate - Aug. 16 (Opinion)
Nobody seems to know whether this is a centralized Russian attack, the work of a loose band of hackers, or something else. Having read so many contradicting accounts, I knew that... More »
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The Candidate We Still Don't Know
New York Times - Aug. 16 (Opinion)
While reporters at The Post and The New York Times have been vetting McCain, many others give him a free pass. Their default cliché is to present him as the Old Faithful everyone... More »
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Why do we have such a hard time hearing good news from Baghdad?
Slate - Aug. 11 (Opinion)
It is in no spirit of revenge that I remind you that, as little as a year ago, the whole of smart liberal opinion believed that the dissolution of Baathism and militarism had been... More »
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Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media -
Salon - Aug. 18 (Blog Post)
That's because The Post's role here has been and continues to be what the establishment media's role generally is -- to serve government sources and amplify their claims, not to... More »
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It Is Time to Send Maureen Dowd Packing
AlterNet - Aug. 16 (Opinion)
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has evolved into a destructive force. Her pieces are almost purely gossip, innuendo, and meanness; worst of all they are often wrong. More »
