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The Dalai Lama, China's "Main Melody" and the Modernizing Propaganda State

Monroe Price | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Mia Farrow, Dalai Lama, Barbara Boxer, Olympics, Tibet, Darfur, Jack Cafferty, John Negroponte, China, Media News
Monroe Price

China has taken steps to make it more costly, at least symbolically, to attack its narrative of strength, efficiency and progress at becoming a "normal" world power.

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James Carville: Barack Obama "Hides Under The New York Times Editorialists' Skirt"

Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Video, New York Times Editorial Board, James Carville, New York Times, Paul Begala, Barack Obama, Media News

Clintonite James Carville appeared on "Anderson Cooper 360" Wednesday night along with Paul Begala to talk about the race between Clinton and Obama fo...

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The Self-Loathing Liberal Media

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Karl Rove Newsweek, Karl Rove, Tony Snow Iraq Surge, Bill Kristol, Bill Kristol New York Times, Cnn, Tony Snow Return, Tony Snow, Tony Snow CNN, Media News
Arianna Huffington

Coming in the wake of Newsweek's hiring of Karl Rove, and the Times' hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media's embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile wide.

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Surrender, Integrity

Chez Pazienza | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, CNN Anchor Snow, Tony Snow, Tim Robbins Speech, Deal or No Deal, Media and Politics, Tim Robbins, Tony Snow CNN, George Bush Deal or No Deal, Media News
Chez Pazienza

CNN had a responsibility to be the necessary beacon in the night and instead, it drank the Kool-Aid and did exactly what it was told to do by people like, irony of ironies, Tony Snow.

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Lou Dobbs Rants About Clinton, Obama "Distortions"

The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Political Ads, Distortions, John McCain, Cnn, Video, Oil Companies, Lou Dobbs, Campaign Ads, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jessica Yellin, Media News

CNN's Jessica Yellin's report on Lou Dobbs' show last night on the back-stabbing half truths of political ad campaigns was apparently a revelation for...

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The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost: Primary Coverage Drinking Games

Reny Monk | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Msnbc, News Politics, Pundits, Broadcast, Politicos, Television, Talking Heads, Cnn, Chris Matthews, Bloviator, Abc, Fox, Nbc, Home News
Reny Monk

"Clinton's Last Stand" "Obama Can't Close the Deal" "Bitter and Angry" Argh. It's a bad TV drinking game. For me, the hackneyed vocabulary of these politicos drains all meaning from the process!

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Jason Linkins

Tony Snow, CNN Commentator: A (Long) Litany Of Past Sins

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tony Snow Iraq Surge, Cnn, Tony Snow, Tony Snow War on God, Tony Snow Bill O'Reilly, White House Press Secretary, White House Press Briefings, Tony Snow CNN, Tony Snow Fox News, White House Press Corps, CNN Anchor Snow, Politics News

Tony Snow has begun his new gig at CNN, and ancient declaimer of non-sequitirs Larry King's heart is so a-flutter that you'd think CNN had just hired a lissome blond, 50 years his junior.

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The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Obama Lapel Pin, Pentagon, MoveOn.Org, Nbc, Fox, Cbs, Pentagon Propaganda, Clinton MoveOn.Org, Pentagon Analysts, Cnn, Karl Rove, Sam Stein, ABC News, Bill Ayers, MoveOn Afghanistan, ABC Debate, Abc, Weather Underground, Ayers Obama, Clinton MoveOn, Obama Flag Pin, Media News
Arianna Huffington

The mainstream media seems intent on confirming that it has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become part of its DNA. The first of the latest round of exhibits proving this was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. This was followed by the New York Times' epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms. And it's not just the media. Witness Hillary Clinton repeating the Rove-promoted lie that MoveOn was against intervention in Afghanistan after 9/11.

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"I Have Some Meth in my Pocket" -- at Least One Cable News Personality Told the Truth Last Week

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Deception, Cnn, John McCain, Glenn Greenwald, Cindy McCain, Dana Milbank, Hillary Clinton, Richard Quest, Barack Obama, Wolf Blitzer, Media Bias, Richard Quest Drugs, Richard Quest Arrested, Richard Quest Meth, Richard Quest CNN, Media News
RJ Eskow

CNN reporter Richard Quest told police who stopped him last week that he had some meth in his pocket. And guess what? He did have some meth in his pocket.

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The Pentagon's "Message Force Multipliers" in Run-Up to Iraq Invasion

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abc, General Barry McCaffrey, Cnn, Treason, Richard Myers, Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Nbc, Victoria Clarke, Fox News, Cbs, Peter Pace, Pentagon Military Analysts, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Nothing is more despicable than former military officers behaving like a bunch of Enron executives and knowingly lying to the American people about matters relating to war and peace.

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The Pentagon's Corrupt Sock Puppet "Military Analysts" Exposed

Gareth Porter | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thomas G. McInerney, David Barstow, Cnn, Pentagon, Bush Administration, Propaganda, Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Fox News, New York Times, Military-Industrial-Media Complex, Pentagon Analysts, Pentagon Media, Politics News
Gareth Porter

This story should bring overwhelming public pressure for the immediate termination of any "military analyst" who has been compromised by links with the Pentagon and/or its business allies.

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The 23/6 Network News Apology-o-Tron

236.com | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

Read More: ABC Debate, Cnn, Jack Cafferty, Network News, 236.Com, Media News

China has angrily rejected an attempted apology from CNN for their commentator Jack Cafferty saying the Chinese were "goons" and that their products w...

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CNN: Where Politics and Religion Mix

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Elections, Religion, Cnn, Video, God, Clinton, Hillary, Barack, The Compassion Forum, Obama, Jamal Dajani, Mosaic, Media News
Jamal Dajani

What did the voters learn about Hillary and Barack from the Compassion Forum? That they can both give impressive lipservice to their faith and spirituality if it turns out to be politically expedient.

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Faux Obama Supporter Mayhill Fowler Smears Obama

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cnn, John McCain, Lou Dobbs, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Smear, Barack Obama, Mayhill Fowler, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

I have close friends who attended the Obama donor event in Pacific Heights. Mayhill Fowler apparently took away a totally different feeling from the event than anyone else in the room.

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Pushing Clinton: CNN's Push Poll on Obama's Remarks

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Sen. Clinton, Barack Obama 2008, Lou Dobbs Poll, Cnn, Lou Dobbs, Obama Bitter, Media, CNN Poll, Video, Media News
Tom D'Antoni

It says "his elitist," not "an elitist" attitude as though his statements were proof of something that already existed, but was, perhaps doubtful. Viewers, why don't you validate that for us here in Atlanta!

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Deborah Kerr Rhymes With Star, and What a Star She Was: She Deserves to Be Remembered, Too

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The King and I, Anthony Minghella, Writers Guild, Christopher Reeve, Deborah Kerr, Brazil, Writers Strike, Sao Paulo Film Festival, Tea and Sympathy, From Here to Eternity, Robert Anderson, Michael Russnow, Roxy Theatre, Writers Guild Strike, Los Angeles Times, Charlton Heston, Motion Picture Actress, British Dailies, The Queen, Cnn, Ceremonial Secretariat, Internet Cafe, Daniel Taradash, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

Though Kerr was 86 and had been out of the public eye for a number of years, her film and stage career, spanning four and a half decades, had secured her legendary status in motion picture history.

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Howie Kurtz's Multi-Platform Newseum Story

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Reliable Sources, Video, Newseum, Howard Kurtz Newseum, Media News

Rarely does Kurtz get the chance to use his program to provide a multi-media counterpart to the stories he reports.

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Jenny McCarthy and the Autism Dilemma

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 04.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Jenny McCarthy, Cnn, Larry King, Jenny McCarthy Autism, Thimerosal, Vaccinations, Science, Autism, Jenny McCarthy Son Autism, Vaccines, Breaking Living News, Pediatricians, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

Yes, the parents of autistic kids are more "emotional" than the aloof doctors before them. But why are they met with anger, rather than compassion?

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CNN: Modern Black Church Shuns Martin Luther King Jr's Message

CNN | John Blake | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Modern Black Church, Black Churches, Martin Luther King, Black Churches and Martin Luther King, Cnn, Home News

In a stinging passage from a "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. condemned white churches for rejecting his pleas for ...

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Peabody Awards Are Ironic

Charles Warner | Posted 04.05.2008 | Media

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Charles Warner

It's ironic that the Peabody Awards committee thinks what CNN reports best on is religion, not politics.

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Lou Dobbs: "I Can't Say 'I Love You' To A Fellow In San Francisco"

Thinkprogress.org | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, CNN Lou Dobbs, Cnn, Gavin Newsom, Robert Menendez, Media News

Last night on CNN, host Lou Dobbs expressed his displeasure at having "one of those days" when "some folks are kind of just on you." He then aired a c...

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CDC Has Lost Control of the Autism Argument

David Kirby | Posted 04.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Jenny McCarthy, Cnn, Larry King, Hannah Poling, Cdc, Autism, Thimerosal, Vaccines, Jenny McCarthy Autism, Autism Thimerosal, Poling, Hannah Poling Autism, Autism Vaccines, Jenny McCarthy Son Autism, Living News
David Kirby

The real problem here is the track record and credibility of the CDC to continue conducting any vaccine safety studies at all.

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Nico Pitney on CNN's Election Center- 4/3/08

Huff TV | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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The Cables' Cash-Cow: The Neverending Primary

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Msnbc, Cable News, Advertising, Barack Obama, Cnn, Nielsen Ratings, Media News
Eric Schmeltzer

Why the harsher focus on stories that might drive down Obama's numbers and less on those that might drive down Hillary's?

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Myth: Americans Tuned Out Iraq Fact: The Press Tuned Out Iraq

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Cbc, Abc, Npr, Nbc, Breaking Iraq News, Msnbc, Cnn, Breaking Media News, Greg Mitchell, Iraq News, Nightline, Fox News, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Pew Research, Eric Alterman, Media News
Eric Boehlert

In the wake of disturbing new violence in Baghdad, it's important to understand that American news consumers did not walk away from Iraq. The press did.

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