MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Selling the Post Dinners
Atlantic Monthly - by Joshua Green - Jul. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
Mike Allen’s recent report on the controversial Washington Post lobbyist dinners has sparked a furor. One thing ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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Post Publisher Cancels Plans for Off-the-Record 'Salons'
Washington Post - by Howard Kurtz - Jul. 2, 2009 (Breaking News)
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after ...
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Africa | Nigaz name sparks racism debate
BBC News - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with ...
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Poetry From Iran, One Tweet at a Time
National Public Radio - by Davar Iran Ardalan - Jun. 28, 2009 (Special Report)
Persians are known for their poetry. So it is not surprising that as recent dramatic events have unfolded in Iran, ...
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Fact Check: Decoding Obama's Prescription for Health Care
ABC News - by Rick Klein, Bret Hovell, Z. Byron Wolf - Jun. 25, 2009 (News Analysis)
A fact check on President Obama's main messages of Wednesday night's health care forum at the White House reveals a ...
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The Big Whorehouse On The Potomac
Vdare.com - by Paul Craig Roberts - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
America would be better off if the Washington Post whored for lobbyists than for the US Imperial State, which has ...
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Daily Show Iran | Colbert Report Iraq
GlobalPost - by Thomas Mucha - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
It’s been a fascinating few weeks for global news — the real kind, of course — but also for the fake stuff. ...
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Media Call for Immigration Reform | OneWorld.net (U.S.)
OneWorld - by Jeffrey Allen, OneWorld US - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
One week after U.S. President Barack Obama re-opened the national conversation on immigration, much of the ...
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Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists
Huffington Post - by Arianna Huffington - Jun. 30, 2009 (Other)
We want to deepen the conversation about the importance of citizen reporting in today's media landscape," Steve ...
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A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post
New York Times - by David Carr - Jul. 4, 2009 (Opinion)
Mrs. Graham bestowed legitimacy (Richard M. Nixon never made the cut, even as president). Ms. Weymouth decided to ...
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What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party.
Slate - by Christopher Hitchens - Jul. 1, 2009 (Opinion)
I wonder sometimes whether the Nixon tapes really will just continue to be the gift that never stops giving. I was ...
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Pitts: What does a homosexual demon look like?
Salt Lake Tribune - by Leonard Pitts Jr. - Jun. 29, 2009 (Opinion)
To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.: Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me what a "homosexual ...
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Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change
The Guardian - by George Monbiot - Jun. 26, 2009 (Opinion)
There are mind-boggling concessions to the biofuels industry, including a promise not to investigate its wider ...
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A More Contentious Obama Press Conference
CBS News - by Brian Montopoli - Jun. 24, 2009 (Opinion)
Barack Obama's fourth solo White House press conference differed from his past efforts in many ways: It was held ...
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Independents' Warning for Obama
Wall Street Journal - by Gerald F. Seib - Jun. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
Independent voters are the canaries in the coal mine of American politics, telling a leader whether the air is safe ...
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The Washington Post Writers Group
postwritersgroup.com - by James Hill et. al. - Jul. 1, 2009 (Comment)
(Interactive) How Do You Do the Things You Do? Posted on June 30, 2009 Now that we're under way, maybe we should throw out a ...
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The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back
AlterNet, TruthDig - by Chris Hedges - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Our economic crisis -- despite the corporate media circus around the death of Michael Jackson or Gov. Mark ...
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Ahmadinejad and the Press
Tehran Bureau - by Jason Rezaian - Jun. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Iran is in the process being re-branded globally, with most media outlets showing younger, more Western friendly ...
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George F. Will Admits Public Option Will Cut Costs
FiveThirtyEight - by Nate Silver - Jun. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Insurance exists because of the decreasing marginal utility of income: most people would rather have a 100% chance ...
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Selling the Post Dinners
Atlantic Monthly - by Joshua Green - Jul. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
Mike Allen’s recent report on the controversial Washington Post lobbyist dinners has sparked a furor. One thing ...
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About Those Iran Polls - Behind the Numbers
Washington Post - by Jon Cohen - Jun. 15, 2009 (News Analysis)
Public opinion surveys are central to the Iranian opposition's argument that the elections there were rigged for ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Wired - by Kevin Kelly - Jun. 17, 2009 (News Analysis)
The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version ...
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David Rohde, Times Reporter, Escapes Taliban After 7 Months
New York Times - Jun. 21, 2009 (News Report)
David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to ...
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Obama Rips Iran in Tactical Shift
Wall Street Journal - by Jay Solomon, Jonathan Weisman, Yochi J. Dreazen - Jun. 24, 2009 (News Analysis)
President Barack Obama delivered his sharpest criticism of Iran's election and political crackdown, throwing into ...
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What the new Jim Comey torture emails actually reveal
Salon - by Glenn Greenwald - Jun. 7, 2009 (News Analysis)
The primary argument against prosecutions for Bush officials who ordered torture is that DOJ lawyers told the White ...
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How to run a protest without Twitter
GlobalPost - Jun. 20, 2009 (Special Report)
we talked to past protest leaders to find out how they toppled governments and grabbed the world's attention before ...
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The Big Whorehouse On The Potomac
Vdare.com - by Paul Craig Roberts - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
America would be better off if the Washington Post whored for lobbyists than for the US Imperial State, which has ...
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Iran: When journalists can't be heard, how successful can citizen journalism be at providing back-up?
The Editors Weblog - by Emma Heald - Jun. 24, 2009 (News Analysis)
Following the Iranian election on 12 June, which both sides claim to have won, Iranians and the rest of the world ...
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Why the newspaper still beats the Amazon Kindle.
Slate - by Farhad Manjoo - Jun. 20, 2009 (Review)
After using it for a week, I can say the new Kindle is a good first attempt at melding what's great about papers ...
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Why Iran Matters
Atlantic Monthly - by Andrew Sullivan - Jun. 19, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) Iran is at the very heart of the global struggle between the forces of distorted and politicized religious tyranny ...
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What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party.
Slate - by Christopher Hitchens - Jul. 1, 2009 (Opinion)
I wonder sometimes whether the Nixon tapes really will just continue to be the gift that never stops giving. I was ...
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We no longer fully understand the web
New Scientist - by Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Marks - Jun. 5, 2009 (Interview)
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our ...
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Mourning a Scourge of the Comfortable
Washington Post - by Dana Milbank - Jun. 7, 2009 (Comment)
When an investigative reporter passes on it’s not just the family that suffers.
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Independents' Warning for Obama
Wall Street Journal - by Gerald F. Seib - Jun. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
Independent voters are the canaries in the coal mine of American politics, telling a leader whether the air is safe ...
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Iran: Protests and Repression
Global Voices - by Hamid Tehrani - Jun. 16, 2009 (Opinion)
Although Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are currently blocked in Iran, many Iranians have been using proxies to ...
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Ahmadinejad and the Press
Tehran Bureau - by Jason Rezaian - Jun. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Iran is in the process being re-branded globally, with most media outlets showing younger, more Western friendly ...
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Open Letter To Stephen Colbert
Media Channel - by Danny Schechter - Jun. 15, 2009 (Comment)
The Pentagon was delighted and this effort was consistent with the “AAU” mantra that governs news coverage (AAU ...
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George F. Will Admits Public Option Will Cut Costs
FiveThirtyEight - by Nate Silver - Jun. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Insurance exists because of the decreasing marginal utility of income: most people would rather have a 100% chance ...
