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Steve Young

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Scott McClellan: White House Fed Fox News Talking Points

Steve Young | Posted July 26, 2008 | Media


"I've been here from the beginning, and have never seen a White House "talking points." -- And I don't know anyone else who's seen one either. I asked senior management if they have ever seen a White House talking points. No one had." Bill O'Reilly reacting to Dan Rather's accusation...

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

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What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Review of My Sister, My Love. By Joyce Carol Oates. Publisher: Harper Collins. $25.95

Oscar Wilde delighted in dissing Dickens. "One must have a heart of stone," he wrote, "to read about the death of Little Nell without laughing." He would have felt the same way, we think, about the...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted July 25, 2008 | Green


Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding Isn't Torture

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft told the House Judiciary Committee last week that waterboarding is not torture. Ashcroft also claims waterboarding is more effective than other interrogation techniques and has served a "very valuable" purpose.

"I believe a report of waterboarding would be...

Timothy Karr

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Adelstein and Copps: Voices at the FCC for a Free and Open Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


It's unusual for federal bureaucrats to achieve rock star status, but two commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission have amassed an enthusiastic fan base among the emerging "Open Internet" movement.

For several years, Democratic Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps have stood up, spoke out and worked all...

Eric Alterman

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Perverting the Truth

Eric Alterman | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert has written a terrific column about the AP's "Ron Fournier problem," here. He does the kind of digging that is so rare both in the MSM and in most of the blogosphere to show why Fournier's suck-up comments to Karl Rove were not evidence of a reporter's...

Allison Kilkenny

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No Love. For Anyone.

Allison Kilkenny | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


On Thursday, The New Republic published an article entitled "End of the Affair." The article details how the press believes the Obama camp is behaving secretively, arrogantly, and carrying itself with a sense of unearned entitlement.

The love, it seems, is over. But so what? The end of...

Lauren Kirchner

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Obama and McCain: Juxtaposers!

Lauren Kirchner | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Rory O'Connor

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The Shock Jock Racket

Rory O'Connor | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Angry citizen reaction to the latest cynical, cyclical outpouring of hateful speech over the public radio airwaves -- top-rated talk show host Michael Savage's despicable attack on autistic children as "brats, morons and idiots" -- has once again injected America's talk radio problem back into the mainstream news cycle. But...

Bill Katovsky

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McCain Tries to Fight Back the Obama Surge as the Cracker Jack Candidate

Bill Katovsky | Posted July 25, 2008 | Politics


You almost gotta love the sheer audacity of John McCain's recent ad called "Pump" which blames Barack Obama for rising gas prices. It's the kind of over-the-top commercial you'd expect from Jimmy Kimmel or Jay Leno comedy writers, not one coming from a Republican presidential nominee.

What will be McCain's...

Nathan Robinson

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MSNBC and MySpace Team Up To Fight Their Own Irrelevance: Could A Contest Be The Hallmark of an Overdue Awakening?

Nathan Robinson | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


If you're not of a certain age and disposition (a teenager who likes to take glamour shots of yourself in your bathroom mirror), you may not have noticed the coming of a curious period of internet history called The Decline and Fall Of MySpace. After Rupert Murdoch bought the popular...

Steve Young

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Savage's Inartful Radio Network Inartfully Excuses Savage's Inartful Comments...Inartfully

Steve Young | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Better than explain the inartful headline, it would be better to read the complete statement issued by Talk Radio Network (posted below*) - the company who owns Michael Savage's radio show - that lays out their defense of Savage's inartful comments about Autistic children. Don't be surprised if Savage or...

Wayne Besen

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The Big 'Ex-Gay' Extravaganza

Wayne Besen | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Sporting a fog machine for its smoke and mirrors routine and an extravagant stage that would make The Rolling Stones blush, the "ex-gay" group Exodus International held its glitzy annual conference in Asheville, North Carolina. I was in town all week to partner with regional and...

Michael Shaw

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Reading The Pictures: Fudge Haus

Michael Shaw | Posted July 25, 2008 | Media


Mccain-Schmidts
Sein republikanischer Kontrahent John McCain und Senator Lindsey Graham
hatte die Worte Obamas in "Schmidt's Fudge Haus" in Columbus (Ohio) verfolgt.

(caption courtesy the Berliner Morgenpost with the 66 photo Obama slide...

Alan Miller

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Why Has 'China Bashing' Become So Popular?

Alan Miller | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


Seldom does a day pass without stories of China's rapid emergence both as an economic giant and a political power. Recently, with the approaching Beijing Olympics, it seems as though much of the discussion is more akin to an ongoing tirade, a continual verbal onslaught by western journalists and politicians....

Sara Whitman

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Newsweek's Hate Crime

Sara Whitman | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


I am stunned by an article put out by Newsweek, "Young, Gay and Murdered". At best, it is poor journalism, at it's worst, it is a hate crime in itself, paving the way for a "gay panic" defense for the kid who pulled the trigger.

Remember? Larry King was...

Eric Alterman

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Suprised to be Surprised

Eric Alterman | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


This year I promised myself not to be surprised by how awful our election coverage is, no matter how awful it is. How awful is it?

Well, this WSJ op-ed is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Richard V. Allen, who was forced...

Bob Cesca

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The Barbeque Media Wants Senator Obama To Win? That's Rich.

Bob Cesca | Posted July 24, 2008 | Politics


As we have observed throughout the last several years, the notion of fairness in journalism has been guided by a miscalculated rule that in order to report good news about a liberal or a liberal success, news reporting has to be counterbalanced either with unearned praise for conservatives or trumped...

Marissa Moss

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Goodnight, CDs, Goodnight: the Return of Vinyl

Marissa Moss | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


I think it was Hamlet that said "for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ: the record player."

Perhaps that wasn't the exact quote. But one thing is true: the CD is finally dying its much-awaited death, and it wasn't the MP3 that killed...

Kriston Capps

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Fascist Art? It Takes More Than Typical Design

Kriston Capps | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


If you want your wheatpasted poster to last in Berlin, you have to come correct. In a city whose name is synonymous with design at the bleeding edge, an ad campaign needs to show both political and artistic acumen to stand tall. Barack Obama knows that, if the...

Sam Greenfield

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Keeping Abreast of Decency

Sam Greenfield | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


Four years ago, I'm eating Chinese take out with three other guys in Brooklyn during halftime at the Super Bowl. Janet Jackson was dancing and singing (or lip syncing) with Justin Timberlake, and during a certain movement, her breast was revealed for (according to Rachel Maddow on Countdown) 9/16 of...

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