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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...

Georgianne Nienaber

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DRC Congo: Killing of Civilians Continues Despite Cease Fire Agreement

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


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There is a human rights crisis that is unfolding today in the Democratic Republic of Congo that requires the attention of all journalists. A photographer working in the region was quoted as saying that ANY journalist,...

Cenk Uygur

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Another John McCain Gaffe -- Iraq Was the First Major Conflict After 9/11

Cenk Uygur | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


There is one more John McCain gaffe that the media missed from the now famous CBS interview with Katie Couric.

This is the same interview in which McCain claimed the surge led to the Anbar Awakening, which is demonstrably false. But watch below for another gaffe when McCain says Iraq...

Dave Winer

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Comcast Shut Me Down Again

Dave Winer | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


Read More: Comcast

Oy. This is probably the end of the line for me and Comcast. About an hour before today's Obama speech, I was upstairs, with Slingplayer on the 2nd monitor, Audio HIjack Pro ready to record, when the net went down. I figured it was another outage, we had one here...

Jerry Weissman

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One MORE Last Comment on "The Cover"

Jerry Weissman | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


My previous post on the controversial New Yorker cover of sketch of Michelle and Barack Obama in terrorist and Muslim garb referenced several political cartoons that demonstrated the importance of perspective point of view in creating satire. One more cartoon deserves mention. Walt Handlesman's view on...

Dan Froomkin

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Former Knight-Ridder Editor Wins First I.F. Stone Medal

Dan Froomkin | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence.

I'm delighted to announce that our first winner is John Walcott, the bureau chief who ran Knight-Ridder's Washington bureau during the run-up to war in Iraq, producing dozens of...

Robert Koehler

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The Next New Yorker Cover

Robert Koehler | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


Since I'm usually one of the last people in the country to get my copy of the New Yorker (well, it sure seems like it), I'm aware of any excitement or controversy the new issue has generated long before the magazine actually lands in my mailbox.

So I was...

John McQuaid

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Edwards Love Child, Yawn

John McQuaid | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the National Enquirer? Is it exhibiting a double standard by giving blanket coverage to Larry Craig's bathroom antics, and ignoring Edwards's bathroom bunkering?

Oh, please. Edwards is a politician, which automatically puts...

Steve Young

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O'Reilly Wants Proof That FoxNews Is Racist: Read Your Own Columns, Bill

Steve Young | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


Yesterday on his Radio Factor, Bill O'Reilly tried as hard as he could to come up with something that proved the case those dang smear sites were making. That the Fox News channel is racist. He even brought on the ever brilliant, albeit Fox News consultant, Prof. Dr. Marc Lamont...

Charles Warner

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Go Get 'Em, Bob!

Charles Warner | Posted July 24, 2008 | Media


In this week's Advertising Age Bob Garfield in his "Garfield's Review" column writes a blistering open letter to Omnicom's President, John Wren, for allowing his ad agency to create a blatantly homophobic commercial for Snickers.

Garfield writes:

This is from your own statement on corporate responsibility: "As a...
Jon Robin Baitz

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Fahrenheit L.A. Times

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted July 23, 2008 | Media


So I read today that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, albeit not unexpected. Short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world. Bad news for readers, bad news for people who like to sit at counters in coffee shops learning about...

Huff TV

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Arianna Discusses the Slow Demise of Traditional News Reporting on Guardian's Future of Journalism Series

Huff TV | Posted July 23, 2008 | Media


This video first appeared on the Guardian's website.

Arianna Huffington

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Introducing HuffPost's Big News Pages: One Stop Shopping for Obamaniacs, Apple Junkies, Brangelina Freaks, and News Obsessives of Every Ilk

Arianna Huffington | Posted July 23, 2008 | Media


Are you an Obamaniac? Obsessed with all things John McCain? An Apple junkie? Fixated on Brangelina? Can't read enough about Sex or the Beijing Olympics? Do you want every detail coming out of Iraq, even if the mainstream media don't?

Then do we have a cool new feature for you!...

Andrew Sargus Klein

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The Information Age: Not Just Google

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted July 23, 2008 | Media


Google is not only is a verb, it's also -- officially -- an "evergreen" issue for media columnists, magazines and Internet publications. How can we talk generally about the state of the Internet without asserting anything new? Google. How is the Internet taking over our lives for the better? Google....

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