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Blog Entries by Will Bunch from 04/2009

Giving Away Free Netbooks to Save America's Newsrooms

| Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
Read More: Philadelphia Daily News, Netbooks, Newspapers, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Digital Divide, Philadelphia-Pennsylvania, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Online News, News, Newspaper Industry, Media News

What if newsrooms put their remaining muscle behind a program to provide information to the public and close the digital divide at the same time? That's "social benefit" we can believe in.

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How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right

| Posted 04.15.2009 | Media
Read More: Journalists, Cynthia Tucker, Ronald Reagan, Ethics in Journalism, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Fair and Balanced, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Journalism, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Tear Down This Myth, Media News

It's so true that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose -- and so our brush here with terminal illness is occasionally truly liberating for America's newsrooms.

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Torture is Not About "Winning the Afternoon," OK?

| Posted 04.27.2009 | Media
Read More: Iraq War, Journalists, Bush Administration Torture, Journalism Ethics, Barack Obama Torture, The Politico, Shepard Smith, New York Times, Bybee Impeachment, Barack Obama, David Broder, Investigative Reporting, Torture, Media News

The torture issue doesn't lend itself to cute little "up" and "down" arrows, to dueling cable shouters "on the right" and "on the left," to all the little devices we in the media use.

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