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

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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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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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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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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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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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide range of abuses, including torture and murder, the UN Human Rights Committee said Friday.

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The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - When you step back from the specifics of the health care debate — as well as the rancor surrounding it — an odd contradiction emerges. Fairly or not, insurance companies have traditionally been regarded with a combination of contempt and scorn. Yet the president's proposal to change the nation's system of health care coverage — which would put restrictions on some of the companies' more egregious practices and provide increased competition — has provoked fear and outrage in a sizable portion of the populace. Americans who under other circumstances might be grousing about rising premiums or denials of coverage are tenaciously clinging to a system they know and dislike.

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FCC Fine Print Could Undermine an Open Internet | Save the Internet

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

savetheinternet.com - By Tim Karr - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Buried in the fine print of the FCC’s proposed Net Neutrality rules is a potential loophole that if left open would undermine the future of Internet freedom.

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Health care reform: A summary of recent distortions

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan - Oct. 24 (News Analysis) - The debate over health care reform has been defined by exaggerations and falsehoods. Republicans have falsely labeled the Democratic plan "government-run health care" and warned of death panels for the elderly and taxpayer subsidies for illegal immigrants. Democrats, meanwhile, have exaggerated the savings of their plan and made false claims about their favorite villains, the insurance companies.

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WH: We're Happy To Exclude Fox, But Didn't Yesterday

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Christina Bellantoni - Oct. 24 (News Report) - Adding to the Fox News v. White House feud today is a dust-up over an interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg. Feinberg did a pen and pad with reporters to brief them on cutting executive compensation. TV correspondents asked to get the comments on camera; Treasury agreed to one pool camera, giving the list of those who asked. (Fox was not among them)

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Heather Graham Teaches Us About Polls

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Justin Bank - Oct. 23 (Special Report) - The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org Political Action has released another health care ad featuring a Hollywood celebrity. Last time it was Will Ferrell talking of pygmy horses and executive compensation. This time it’s actress Heather Graham dressing up as a track and field runner (labeled "public option") and challenging health insurance executives to a race. [...]

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Communications arm? Fox & Friends recites misleading GOP press release on stimulus

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - Fox & Friends hosts Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlton parroted a House Republican press release and repeated its claim that the stimulus impact is "6 million jobs shy of what the administration promised us" since the administration stated "that 3.5 million jobs would be created. And, in fact, the United States has lost 2.7 million since the stimulus plan." However, the administration estimated that by 2011 -- not September 2009, when the 2.7 million job losses since February were recorded -- 3.5 million jobs would be created or saved by the stimulus compared to the number of jobs that would have existed at the end of 2010 had the government not passed the legislation.

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Attack on White House criticism of Fox follows years of GOP assaults on media

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - Following White House communications director Anita Dunn's entirely justified criticisms of Fox News as an "arm" of the Republican Party, conservative media figures have attacked both Dunn and the Obama administration. But Media Matters for America has compiled a list of organized attacks that GOP leaders -- often aided by Fox News -- have conducted against media outlets based on groundless complaints of bias; those attacks have included boycotts or threatened boycotts of media outlets, efforts to revoke journalists' credentials or ban them from press planes, and even calls to have journalists prosecuted.

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Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Eli Clifton - Oct. 22 (News) - But an IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Some of these organisations have tied the origins of Palestinian nationalism to Nazi ideology, and suggested that a vast Muslim conspiracy - in a similar vein to the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion - is mobilising to undermine the U.S. constitution and impose Sharia law.

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Latinos to CNN: Are You With Us or Against Us?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Manuel Avendano - Oct. 22 (News) - Dozens of angry demonstrators gathered in Manhattan on Wednesday to demand that the cable news network CNN fire its prime-time anchor Lou Dobbs for his denigration of Hispanic immigrants.

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Coulter says husbands rarely beat up their wives

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - On his Fox News show, commentator Sean Hannity defended Rush Limbaugh, who was dumped by business partners bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams due to controversy about racial comments Limbaugh has made. Hannity brought on conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who argued the NFL has long been "easily very spooked by crazy left-wing hoaxes."

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A new side effect of H1N1 virus: exaggeration

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Robert Farley - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - Public health officials making the pitch for the H1N1 vaccine to a wary public are having to overcome an unprecedented torrent of misinformation. PolitiFact looked into several of the claims making the rounds in chain e-mails and from political talk show hosts.

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Inoculation Misinformation

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Jess Henig - Oct. 19 (News Analysis) - Wild rumors are flying about the newly developed vaccine for pandemic influenza H1N1, also known as "swine flu." We’ve seen e-mails stating that the vaccine is tainted with antifreeze or Agent Orange, causes Gulf War syndrome, or has killed U.S. Navy sailors. One says the vaccine is an "evil depopulation scheme." The claims are nearly pure bunk, with only trace amounts of fact.

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The Reconstruction of American Journalism

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Leonard Downie, Jr., Michael Schudson - Oct. 19 (Special Report) - American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed. As almost

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At the NPR and PBS unconference, 2009 is the year of “We, the media”

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Digiphile - By Digiphile - Oct. 19 (News Report) - “TV, radio and pro journalism still matter in this new ecosystem”-John Boland, PBS. This past weekend, I attended Public Media Camp, an unconference at American University in Washington, D.C. I came away from the two days of sessions, talks, informal discussions, random encounters and rapid-fire information exchange inspired, exhilarated and a bit exhausted. That last is why it took a day to get a post up. By its nature, I couldn’t go to everything. What I did attend, I tried to take notes upon and livestream to Livestream.com and uStream. When it comes to the archiving that video, unfortunately, I endured two crashes and suffered from the lack of a decent mic. Happily, much better video will be coming online from other sources over the next week. What follows are my thoughts, links and video from “Pubcamp.”

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Axelrod, Emanuel Criticize Fox News: "It's Not Really News" (VIDEO)

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Oct. 18 (News Report) - White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's criticism of Fox News during their interviews this morning on ABC and CNN, respectively. Both Axelrod and Emanuel cautioned that one of their main concerns is that other news organizations not follow Fox's lead in coverage, which the White House does not see as 'fair and balanced.'

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Ted Turner's Quixotic Quest to Retake CNN

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

theatlanticwire.com - By John Hudson - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Ted Turner, the Fortune 500 billionaire and founder of CNN, has caused a stir saying he wants to takeover his old company again. After a decade in retirement, Turner said CNN needs to focus on "less talk, more news" and offer better coverage of international events.

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CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Roberto Lovato - Oct. 15 (News Analysis) - Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

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