Dave Saldana
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Dave Saldana is a principal and strategic communications consultant with Bullfight Strategies. An Emmy Award-winning TV news producer, a civil rights attorney and media adviser, he has worked extensively in all media, as a labor activist, media critic and journalism professor.

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Journalists Participate in Democracy; Gannett Cowers

17 Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 10:20 PM

You really have to hand it to right-wing media hounds. They've gotten so good at bird-dogging the media that they don't even have to raise their alarm of faux outrage and trumped up claims of bias anymore. Now, so fearful are the once-great bastions of journalism of the mere accusation,...

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The News About the Truth, and the Truth About the News

0 Comments | Posted January 17, 2012 | 4:37 PM

I had to read the headline twice. Then after reading the lede, I had to question whether I actually had read what I had just read. Was "the Paper of Record," the purveyor of "All the News That's Fit to Print," really asking if its reporters should bother checking out...

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Justice Dept. Sees Through AT&T's Jobs "Promise"

0 Comments | Posted September 7, 2011 | 1:20 PM

The Department of Justice gave wireless customers an extremely valuable gift last week when it filed suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, a $39 billion boondoggle that would've made AT&T richer and more powerful at the expense of everybody else. By suing to block the merger, the Justice Department allowed...

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Losing on the Facts, AT&T Turns to Smears

0 Comments | Posted August 23, 2011 | 5:56 PM

A cornered animal is a dangerous thing. It will scratch. It will bite. It will lash out desperately in any direction to escape its predicament. And so it is that AT&T swings wildly as its $39 billion bid for T-Mobile unravels.

AT&T's deception about the need to...

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AT&T Messes with Texas: Is Campaign Cash More Important than Latino Jobs?

0 Comments | Posted August 15, 2011 | 11:44 AM

Texas Gov. Rick Perry suddenly finds himself among the frontrunners for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, buoyed by his supposedly strong record on creating jobs in the country's second most populous state. But beneath the veneer of Perry's purported success--it's been called "a Texas miracle"--are some...

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The Media Fail Workers in Wisconsin, as Usual

0 Comments | Posted March 6, 2011 | 5:38 PM

A joke's been going around the Internet recently:

"A CEO, a Tea Partier and a union member are sitting with a plate of 10 cookies. The CEO grabs nine cookies and says to the Tea Partier, 'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.'"

It's...

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Media Buys into Political Frame of National Security Case

0 Comments | Posted October 11, 2010 | 10:19 AM

For those of us who believe in things like the Rule of Law, the decision in the Ahmed Ghailani terrorism case to exclude tainted witness testimony- linked to the defendant only through the torture of said defendant--is something to be celebrated. After all, with judicial supplication before the...

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