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Tom Friedman Explains Causes Of America's 'Sub-Optimal Solutions' (VIDEO)

Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Gerrymandering, Governance, President Obama, Civics, Media, Citizens, American Business, Internet, Politics, One-Party System, Cable News, Global Warming, China, Charlie Rose, Media News

New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is worried that America is producing "sub-optimal solutions" to big problems like global warming, an educa...

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Al Gore's Current TV Lays Off 80 Staff, Changes Direction

Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Layoffs, Al Gore, Cable Tv, Current TV, Cable News, Mtv, Current.com, Media News
Lisa Derrick

The pioneering, Emmy-Award winning channel was originally conceived by Gore and businessman Joe Hyatt as a peer-to-peer news and information network.

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CNN President: Unfair To Compare Us To Fox News, MSNBC; Fox News: CNN More Like G4 Network

Los Angeles Times, | Matea Gold | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Jon Klein, Fox News, Cnn, Cable News, g4, Media News

"We are not going to try to boost numbers during fallow news periods by running cartoons, as our competitors do," Klein said. "We're going to cover th...

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Elections: The New National Pastime That Could Save Journalism

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: The State of Journalism, Baseball, Election 2009, Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, Mike Allen, Politico, Cable News, Election 2008, Murray Chase, Media News
Glynnis MacNicol

Apparently the future of journalism is politics. Can anyone remember this level of attention being paid for a handful of local elections? I can remember presidential elections that barely got this level of coverage.

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To Be Real

Steven Weber | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Cable News, Cnn, Broadcast TV, Network News, Media News
Steven Weber

CNN started out by merely being good (remember?), an antidote to the hoary network news bureaus. But with success comes hubris and imitators and competition and eventual madness.

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CNN Falls To Last Place In Primetime Demo

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Cnn, HLN Ratings, Hln, Cable News Ratings, Fox News, Fox News Ratings, Cable News, MSNBC Ratings, CNN Ratings, Media News

The October 2009 cable news ratings are in with a major milestone: CNN has fallen to last place in the primetime demographic, the category advertisers...

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Can You Really Get the "News" From Watching TV?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: TV News, Corporate Media, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
John W. Whitehead

Truth is often lost when we fail to distinguish between opinion and fact, and that is the danger we now face as a society.

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Think Again: It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's...Cable News

Eric Alterman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Afghanistan, Rachel Maddow, Mission Accomplished, Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene Balloon, Glenn Beck, Cable News, Falcon Heene, Media News
Eric Alterman

Not long ago, cable news cameras turned their focus skyward to an almost celestial body hurling itself across the sky. Was it a bird? Was it a plane? No, it was a hoax.

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News

Norman Horowitz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Msnbc, Nbc, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Cbs, Cable News, Wolf Blitzer, Journalism, Media News
Norman Horowitz

News as defined by dictionary.com is the presentation of a report on recent or new events [intelligence; information] in a newspaper or other periodi...

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Up, Up and Away: How TV News Blew It

Sara-Ellen Amster, Ph.D. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Balloon Boy Hoax, Cable News, Balloon Boy Coverage, Balloon Boy Found, Balloon Boy, Media News
Sara-Ellen Amster, Ph.D.

In light of the balloon boy fiasco last week, cable news outlets need to review their methods of verification. The public must know that what they see on television purporting to be news actually is.

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Fox News Ratings Undamaged By White House War

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable News Ratings, Fox News, Fox News Ratings, Cable News, Media News

Many critics of the Obama administration's ongoing war against Fox News have cautioned that, if anything, calling out the network will only increase i...

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Laura Ingraham Rips Cable's 'Balloon Boy' Coverage: "Puts Egg On All Of Our Faces" (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Richard Heene, Cable, Laura Ingraham Audio, Balloon Boy Coverage, Laura Ingraham, Balloon Boy, Audio, Falcon Heene, Cable News, Arianna Huffington, Media News

Cable news networks' rather breathless coverage of the 'balloon boy' saga has come in for its share of media criticism from across the political spect...

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Jason Linkins

How Watching Cable News Induces Despair

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable News, 24-Hour-News-Stations, Media Criticism, Inside DC, Media News

What could have possibly reduced Center For American Progress blogger Matt Yglesias to a state of "agitation," "despair," anger, and "helpless[ness]" ...

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News Viewers: Fox -- News Users: CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Internet News, Digg, The New York Times, Quantcast, Cbs, Yahoo, Time Warner, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, New York Times, Cable News, Jeff Bewkes, Fox News, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

The full third quarter cable news ratings are in, and nothing has changed very much. Fox News still has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.

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Fox News Dominates 3Q 2009 Cable News Ratings

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Tv, Cable News Ratings, Fox News, Fox News Ratings, Cable News, Media News

Fox News has pulled off another dominant quarter, claiming the top 10 cable news programs in 3Q 2009 and growing against 3Q 2008, while CNN and MSNBC ...

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The Impeachment of President Obama

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Pat Buchanan, Republican Attacks, Wingnuts, Impeachment, Joe Biden, Rush Limbaugh, Jack Kingston, John Ensign, Nazis, Joseph McCarthy, Racism, Adolf Hitler, Cable News, Lee Atwater, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Southern Strategy, Republican Party, Czars, Republicans, Politics News
Bob Cesca

I've been following the Republican descent into the realms of the bizarre for some time now, and I'm convinced that if they retook Congress the Republicans might try to impeach the president.

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Why 2010 Will Not be a Replay of 1994

2morrowknight | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, 1994, Democrats, Barack Obama, 2012, Shpadoinkle, Social Media, The Tonight Show, Tea Party, Univision, Democratic National Convention, Espn, Jay Leno, Stimulus, David Letterman, 2008 Campaign, The USA Today, Yes We Can, The Economy, Cable News, Democratic Party, Wall Street Journal, Will.I.Am, Viral Hit, Barack, Nancy Pelosi, Republican Party, Demographics, 2010, Politics News
2morrowknight

You remember the story quite well: a young president and his party are soundly defeated in the midterm elections. It really sounds good, but it ain't gonna happen this time.

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CNN Has Lost Its Way

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Tea Party Protests, Cnn, President Obama, Cable News Ratings, Fox News, Fox News Ratings, Cable News, MSNBC Ratings, Bill Higginbotham, Tea Party, CNN Ratings, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Giving an audience of millions to enraged extremists is too great a gift to qualify as "freedom of speech."

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Kirchner and Clarin: Argentina Media Fight Gets Personal

AP | By MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Kirchner, Christina Fernandez, Tv, Media, Argentina, Cable News, Grupo Clarin, Newspaper, Buenos Aires, Nestor Kirchner, Media News

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)-- An epic battle between Argentina's two reigning powers -- the presidency and media giant Grupo Clarin -- started with a...

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The Public Option is Popular, Moral and Inexpensive, Therefore it Must Die

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, Chuck Todd, Cbo, Obamacare, Public Option, Maria Bartiromo, David Brooks, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Cable News, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics News
Bob Cesca

There's no ambiguity about it. The public option is resoundingly popular, fiscally conservative and morally sound. It's centrist, it's liberal, it's conservative. Unless you don't believe in, you know, numbers.

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Cable News Ratings--Liberals Jump Ship

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Ted Kennedy Funeral, FoxNews Ratings, Msnbc, Cnn, Health Care Reform, Cable News Ratings, Cable News Channels, Fox News, Cable News, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Fox News Channel, CNN Ratings, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Unless Democrats develop a clear and compelling message, they face a very tough time in the 2010 elections.

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The Modesty of Hope

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, American Exceptionalism, Public Option, President Obama, Congress, Health Insurance, American Dream, Insurance Companies, Single Payer, Sarah Palin, Socialized Medicine, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Medical Costs, Cable News, Public Health Care Option, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Inequality, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, and even before, there has been a deep strain of exceptionalism in the American character.

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MSM's Scary Impotence When Faced with Death Panels

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable News, New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News, Howie Kurtz, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Media News
Glynnis MacNicol

If we can't rely on news institutions to rationally explain the complicated (and extremely important) issues of the day in a way that will reach people, than why do we need them at all?

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Here's a Handy List of Fox News Enablers/Advertisers

Bill Mann | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Ed Schultz, Fox News, Cable News, Glenn Beck Advertisers Withdraw, Glenn Beck Advertizers Withdraw, Glenn Beck, Media News
Bill Mann

"I'm ready to boycott all of Fox News' sponsors," one female Commenter on my blog last week here said, adding,"It sickens me to watch Fox News. Could you provide a list of Fox advertisers?"

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Bipartisanship Porn

Bob Cesca | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Public Option, President Obama, Obama Bipartisanship, Media, Democrats, Jon Kyl, Barack Obama, Rob Zombie, Chuck Grassley, Rahm Emanuel, Mel Gibson, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Glenn Beck, Cable News, Bipartisanship, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Bob Cesca

What we've been witnessing during this health care reform process can easily be defined as "bipartisanship porn." It's a display of bipartisanship so obscene and excessive that it borders on perverse.

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