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Democrats Clear Impasse Blocking Health Care Vote

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By David Espo, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Nov. 07 (Breaking News) - Capping months of months of struggle, House Democrats cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote

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Rove, Fox & Friends' Briggs falsely claim Pelosi broke promise to have health bill available for 72 hours | Media Matters for America

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Research - Nov. 07 (News Analysis) - However, Pelosi's office posted both the text of the bill and the "manager's amendment" -- which The Sunlight Foundation called an "extra final version of legislation" -- 72 hours in advance; those actions meet guidelines set by a House transparency measure that Pelosi told the Weekly Standard she "absolutely" supported.

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Many Still Believe That Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/11, and Now We Have Some Idea Why

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Emily Badger - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Of 49 people included in the study who believed in such a connection, only one shed the certainty when presented with prevailing evidence that it wasn't true. The rest came up with an array of justifications for ignoring, discounting or simply disagreeing with contrary evidence — even when it came from President Bush himself.

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Fort Hood: A First Test for Twitter Lists

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - Nov. 06 - Journalism and curation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins. The chicken/egg relationship between the two solidified into conventional wisdom during the aftermath of the Iranian election this summer, when journalists—mostly barred from shoe-leather reporting and other, more traditional methods of newsgathering—were forced to play the role of social-media editors. In the...

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WND's Jerome Corsi Claims Fort Hood Shooter Advised Obama [UPDATE]

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Well, if you were wondering what paranoiac smear artist would be the first to step out and attempt to name President Barack Obama as the man who guided Nidal Malik Hasan to his murderous rampage at Fort Hood yesterday, the answer -- naturally! -- is Jerome Corsi. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/iwndis-jerome-corsi-claim_n_348461.html&cp

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Edit This Page: Is it the end of Wikipedia?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Review - By Evgeny Morozov - Nov. 05 (Review) - Wikipedia owes its existence to the nerdy culture of the first online discussion systems, such as Usenet; the unlikely success of moderated social sites, such as Slashdot, which was so influential in Wikipedia’s early days that the project was briefly known as “the Encyclopedia That Slashdot Built”; and the emergence of a tight community around WikiWikiWeb, the first application to use the wiki style of editing. The dotcom recession also helped by freeing a supply of superbly talented technologists from the burdens of paid employment.

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Conservatives Rework Rhetoric After Loss in NY Special

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Independent - By David Weigel - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Jim Kelly walked into the lounge of the Hotel Saranac, his red tie undone and flapping against his shirt. He sighed. He plopped into a chair. “Four thousand votes,” he said. “That couldn’t fill up one side of seats at Shea

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Deadline Every Login: What has and hasn’t changed in newsrooms ? My Register Experience

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Greenlee School of Journalism, Iowa State - By Michael Bugeja - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - When I worked at United Press International in the 1970s, we’d often remark how we wished we had the schedule of the typical newspaper reporter who had time to develop stories as well as relationships with his sources. Our motto, borrowed from International News Service, which merged with United Press in 1958, was, “Get it first, but get it right.” Our mantra then is chanted now in the typical digital newsroom.

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Helen Thomas: What has changed in the digital press corps ? My Register Experience

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

My Register Experience - By Michael Bugeja, Helen Thomas - Nov. 05 (Other) - In preparing the post, “Deadline Every Login,” I also received a reply from my former colleague and role model at United Press International, Helen Thomas. She wrote in the staccato of the teletype machine, in bursts that read like poetry–so much so, that I reprint her message as a “found poem” (all I did was cast her e-mail into lines and stanzas) in response to my question about what has changed in the digital press corps.

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Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Chris Harris - Nov. 04 (News) - As these "AstroTurf" organizations sprouted up, progressive operatives and bloggers scrambled to link them to big business and political players in Washington. Well, the scrambling days are over.

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Curating, not moderating, the flow of content and participation

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Headshift - By Robin Hamman - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - User generated content is, for many media companies and other organisations, more of a problem than a solution. Vague calls to action lead to waves of irrelevant content submitted by audiences who have taken time, effort, and in some instances spent money to do so - only for that content to, in most instances, be ignored. Online communities require moderation to keep discussions on the right side of the law. Breaking stories of importance, or topics that capture the imagination, lead to floods of content that quickly overwhelm processes and technical platforms. In all these situations, which will be familiar to anyone who has ever worked at the social media collision point between audiences and organisations, very little of value is extracted from what can be a costly exercise, primarily because most "social platforms" have been built to pull in audiences and allow moderators to police user activity.

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Fox News' declaration that election results mean "Obamacare" is dead is undermined by facts | Media Matters for America

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Research - Nov. 04 (News Analysis) - ". . .Dick Morris' words, that the results were a "deathblow to Obamacare" and have argued that the election should send a message to moderate Democrats. But exit polls do not support these claims, showing that in both states, the voters who cited health care as a top concern sided with the Democrat in the race.

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Obama watched documentary last night? FOX botched this one… | csmonitor.com

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:34:09 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Nov. 04 -

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Whaddaya Mean Obama Hasn't Done Anything?