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New Internet Manifesto Backed by World Economic Forum... and You?

Juliette Powell | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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A post by the World Economic Forum led me down the rabbit hole to a new Internet Manifesto on 'how journalism works today.' I wondered what Huffington Post readers would think of the top 5 declarations.

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In Your Face(book)

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Eduardo Saverin, Mark Zuckerberg, Breaking Media News, Harvard, Facebook, Ben Mezrich, Sean Parker, Media News

The soft pornmeister of yuppy nonfiction, Ben Mezrich, author of Bringing Down the House, is back to tell the story of the founding of the hugely successful social network, Facebook.

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California TV Stations "Just Say No" to Drug Policy Ad

Anthony Citrano | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, California, Breaking Media News, Media News, Media, Marijuana, Drug Policy, Aclu, Corporate Media, Marijuana Legalization, AB 390, Political News, Politics, California Politics, Breaking Politics News, Media News

Marijuana decriminalization is getting fresh attention due to broad public support of the new AB 390 bill, but only a handful of media outlets, including CNN and CNBC, will air pro-legalization ads.

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Michael Jackson and the Media (Hello! What Happened to Iran?)

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Michael Jackson, Maureen Orth, Iran, Breaking Media News, John Lennon, Vanity Fair, Twitter, Neda Agha Soltan, Media, Pop Culture, Keith Olbermann, Farrah Fawcett, Elvis Presley, Media News

The watershed image of loss for me of the past week was not the "King of Pop." It was the picture of Neda Agha Soltan looking squarely into the camera, for what may have been a passport photo.

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Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Freedom of Speech, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Breaking Media News, Animal Rights, Earth Day, Vegan, Free Speech, Animal Abuse, Green, Gandhi, Media, TV and Animals, Animals, Vegetarianism, Media Bias, Media News

Under the dizzying spell of modernity's promises and consumerism's illusions, we see animals as mere objects, either as commodities for our consumption or as blank slates for us to write our fantasies and fears upon.

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Juvenal Delinquencies

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

Read More: David Denby, Breaking Media News, Marueen-Dowd, The New Yorker, Marueen-Dowd-Column, Snark, Abraham Lincoln, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

The heart of Snark, the part that resonates, is David Denby's thesis, presented in fits and starts, that snark is "mean, it's personal, and it's ruining our conversation."

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House-- Not

Sara Catania | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Humor Politics, Breaking Media News, Political Analysis, Comedy Central, Comedy, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News, Media, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

Comedy's Obama Problem It's been more than a week now since our historic presidential election, and comedians are suffering a serious case of Republi...

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Jon Stewart Clarifies Palin Remarks, Expands To 'F%ck All Y'All'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Video, Stewart Palin Boston, Palin Pro-American Areas, Sarah Palin, Weekly Standard, John Stewart Palin Video, Daily Show, Breaking Media News, Jon Stewart Sarah Palin, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart and Sarah Palin, Jon Stewart Palin, Jon Stewart Northeastern, Jon Stewart Fuck All Y'all, Media News

Earlier this week, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, performing at Northeastern University in Boston, criticized Governor and vice-presidential candida...

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Pro-McCain Group Dumping 28 Million Terror Scare DVDs in Swing States

Erik Ose | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obsession Horowitz, New York Times Obsession Swing State Insert, Mccain, Right-Wing, Obama, New York Times Obsession Dvd, General Election, Presidential Campaign, Politics News, Fear Watch 2008, 2008, Obama 2008, Obsession New York Times, Swing State Dvd Obsession, Fear Watch, John McCain, Karl Rove, Dvd, Obsession Insert, Radical Islamic Terror Obsession, Right-Wing Establishment, Obsession Suppplement, Obama Biden Ticket, Propaganda, Right Wing, Obsession, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Obsession the Movie, David Horowitz, Mccain Palin Ticket, Obsession Terror, Right Wing Media, 9/11, Iraq, War on Terrorism, Fox News, Media Criticism, Terrorism, Breaking Media News, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Politics News

Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.

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Joe Scarborough Disses Rachel Maddow

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Race for the White House With David Gregory, Msnbc, Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, Obama's Iraq Policy, Breaking Media News, Sexism, Sexism in the Media, Hillary Clinton, MSNBC Sexism, Media News

Scarborough epitomized every boorish, condescending male that ever tried to diminish a woman... whether it be a family member, a co-worker, or a presidential candidate.

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Artificial Dissemination

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Network, Democratic Primary, Old Media vs. New Media, Big Media, Howard Beale, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Democratic Primary Debates, The Kingmakers, Democratic Party, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mike Gravel, Breaking Media News, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Trent Lott, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Strom Thurmond, Books, Media News

Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.

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Russert Watch: 5-25-08: In Which Tim's Round Table Considers Gender and Race

Todd Gitlin | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Jon Meacham, Media News, Breaking Media News, Tim Russert, Barack Obama, Russert Watch, Tim Russert vs. Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton RFK, Media News

The significant question Russert raised for his amiable bull session this week was: "What role did race, gender, and religion play in this campaign?"

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Johnny Come Late-Nightly

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Republic.com; Cass Sunstein, Breaking Entertainment News, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Late-Night, Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Russell L. Peterson, Late-Night Comedy, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show, S, Late Night With David Letterman, Breaking Media News, Entertainment News

Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.

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Goodbye to the Eye? Why This Couric Flap May Be The Beginning of the End For CBS News

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Katie Couric Leaving CBS, Breaking Media News, Katie Couric Ratings, Katie Couric Fired, Katie Couric CNN, Katie Couric, CBS News, Katie Couric CBS, Cbs, Katie Couric Contract, Couric Fired, Media News

We know that CBS News is a distant third in the ratings, we know that newsgathering is expensive -- and we know that Katie Couric is, too. All of this suggests why, amidst the mutterings about how the evening news is doomed, CBS will clearly be the first to go.

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Backwards Day! Wherein We Call Out The Celeb Media For Referring To A Fact As A Rumor

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Chelsea Clinton, Video, Monica Lewinsky, Pimped Out, The Insider, Dan Abrams, Chelsea Clinton Press, Breaking Media News, Chelsea Clinton Media, Laura Spencer, Evan Strange, Breaking Politics News, Chelsea Clinton Monica Lewinsky, Rachel Sklar, Chelsea Clinton Lewinsky, Chelsea Clinton Campaign, Clinton Lewinsky, Media News

Is a rumor still a rumor once it's been videotaped, replayed on network and cable news, reported everywhere, debated furiously on cable news and in the press and been picked up all over the blogosphere?

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Hillary Clinton's Bosnia Story A Hit On YouTube!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media

Remember last week when Barack Obama's race speech racked up millions of views on YouTube? Well, history is repeating itself this week for Hillary Cli...

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Oh, The Hannity! Sean Hannity's Flip-Flop Between Wright And Falwell

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Breaking Media News, Sean Hannity, Sean Hannity Jerry Falwell, Hal Turner, Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity Christopher Hitchens, Obama Wright, Barack Obama, Media News

It's been a busy few days for Sean Hannity in the blogosphere since New Black Panther leader Malik Shabazz came on his show and brought up a previous...

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Fox's Chris Wallace Criticizes Own Network For "Two Hours Of Obama Bashing"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.29.2008 | Media

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Update: Here is the audio of Chris Wallace calling into Brian Kilmeade's radio show later that morning where they talk about the incident and Wallace ...

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FLASHBACK! Spitzer on "The Colbert Report" The Night Before D.C. Tryst

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Emperors Club VIP, The Colbert Report, Breaking Media News, John Gibson Canceled, John Gibson, Eliot Spitzer Kristen, Big Story Canceled, Fox News, Stephen Colbert, Emperors Club, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Eliot Spitzer, Cheaters, Media News

Colbert spoke earlier this week of how he was in the middle of a "Spitzer Sandwich" owing to the fact that he'd hosted the officially-former-on-Monday...

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TRANSCRIPT: Olbermann Anti-Hillary Special Comment

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Text of Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" delivered live last night on MSNBC, decrying Hillary Clinton for the tactics of her campaign and specifica...

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Once You Go Black...

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: O.J. Simpson, Msnbc, Olbermann Clinton, White Vote, Obama Black Vote, Ferraro Obama Remarks, Barack Obama, Ferraro Obama Comments, Geraldine Ferraro, Ferraro Obama Lucky, Keith Olbermann Special Comments, Breaking Media News, Keith Olbermann Special Comment, Olbermann Ferraro, Olbermann Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ferraro Black Obama, Ferraro Clinton, Politics News

What Geraldine Ferarro said about Obama isn't entirely without merit -- it just entirely misses the fact that there hasn't been a candidate in our lifetimes that didn't benefit from a certain appeal due to their height, wealth, race, name, faith or smile.

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Olbermann Slams Clinton in Special Comment: "You Are Campaigning As If Barack Obama Were The Democrat And You Were The Republican"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media

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Whobama? SNL Returns Tonight With Mystery Obama, And Actual Huckabee

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Fred Armisen, Barack Obama SNL, Breaking Media News, Fred Armisen Barack Obama SNL, Fred Armisen Barack Obama, Jordan Peele, Obama Girl, Jordan Carlos, Tina Fey SNL, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Saturday Night Live, Media News

Fauxbama Drama! Comedy fans have been buzzing all week in advance of SNL's post-strike return to the airwaves after 9 long weeks of reruns, untold ...

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Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Prominent And/Or Pimped-Out Children Of Presidential Candidates

236.com: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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MSNBC suspended correspondent David Shuster after comments he made about Chelsea Clinton angered the Clinton campaign. While discussing her role in Se...

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Writers' Union Declares "Huge Victory" With New Contract, Strike Coming To An End

LA Weekly | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Writers' Strike, Writers Guild of America Strike, Breaking Media News, Writers Strike News, Writers Strike Deal, Media News

SUNDAY 12:30 PM: At the WGA's news conference today, union leaders declared the new contract is "a huge victory for us". Trumpeted WGAW President Patr...

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