Liberal Media

Should Elected Leaders Talk to All Journalists, Even Rabid Ones?

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Colorado Independent, David Sirota, Scott Gessler, Mike Rosen, John Tomasic, am760, Elected Officials Media Interviews, Conservative Media, Liberal Media, Independent Media, Denver News
Jason Salzman

With the major media in decline, and more small outlets lining up along ideological lines, many people are less likely to hear from elected officials they disagree with.

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CO Secretary of State Reveals He's a Brilliant Media Critic

Jason Salzman | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Judy Hope Strogoff, Scott Gessler, Colorado Statesman, Vincent Carroll, Denver Post, Denver Media, Liberal Media, Denver News
Jason Salzman

There's a good chance someone is going to say something newsworthy when they preface it with, "some folks in my office cringed when I said this, but I'm going to say it again."

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Newt's Victim Card Is a Joker

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Republican Primary, Rush Limbaugh, Superpacs, Ann Coulter, Republican Presidential Candidates, Sarah Palin, President Obama, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Florida Primary, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, Liberal Media, Gingrich Strategy, Romney Strategy, Gingrich Media, Liberal Media Bias, Romney Media, Politics News
Michael Sigman

The trouble for Newt is that the victim strategy has no exit strategy. Having embarked on the trail of "You started it, Mitt"/"you're a big bully, Mitt," Newt hasd to project his own massive flaws onto others ever more hyperbolically.

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Does Humor Have a Liberal Bias?

Lori Day | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Jon Stewart, Political Humor, Dennis Miller, Conservative Comedians, Liberal Media, Comedians, Liberal Comedians, Liberal Bias, Media News
Lori Day

The current GOP candidates are drop-dead funny, but they aren't trying to be. They're the manna from heaven that falls into the laps of left-wing talk show hosts who have the easiest job in the world these days.

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The Liberal Media Up to Its Old Tricks

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, Michele Bachmann, Palin, Arab-Muslims, Israel, First Jewish President, Barack Hussein Obama, Al Jazeera, John Heilemann, Perry, New York Magazine, Media News
The Relentless Conservative

My frustration with this President's terrible treatment of Israel and his concurrent support of Muslims and Arab dictatorships is well known. So imagine my surprise and irritation when I saw New York magazine's most recent cover.

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The Leadership Question

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Leadership, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart, Liberal Media, Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd, Dana Milbank, Richard Nixon.Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Bill Maher, Politics News
The Relentless Conservative

Obama was a follower in leader's clothing from the beginning -- or, as Winston Churchill said about Clement Atlee, "a sheep in sheep's clothing."

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Rush Limbaugh: Liberals Wouldn't Care If Casey Anthony's Child Had Died In The Womb

Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony Trial, Casey Anthony Trial Verdict, Casey Anthony, Real Clear Politics, Media News

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh spoke to the liberal media during his Wednesday broadcast -- specifically cable news show hosts -- in response ...

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Reality Has a Liberal Bias

Bill Swadley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Liberal-Bias, Npr, Reality, Liberal Media, Liberal, Media News
Bill Swadley

The reason almost all news outlets can readily be accused of having a liberal bias regardless of how diligently they try to stay in the middle of the road is this: Reality has a liberal bias.

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Has Anti-Latino Sentiment Peaked?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Latino, Undocumented Immigrants, Ethnicity, Illegal Immigration, Utah Immigration Law, Immigrants, Immigration, Arizona, Hispanics, Prejudice, Utah, 2010 Census Population Growth, Kansas, Virgil Peck, Illegal Immigrants, U.S. Census, Racism, Gop, Discrimination, Sb 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Adam and Steve, Republican Party, Bigotry, Latinos, Liberal Media, Racial Hostility, Anti-Latino, Xenophobia, Hispanic, Undocumented Immigration, Population Demographics, Racial Discrimination, Ethnic Hatred, Anti-Hispanic, Gay Marriage, Undocumented, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

Virgil Peck's feeble attempt at humor lines up with the more overt shrieking of those conservatives who are terrified of Latinos, immigrants, undocumented people, or all three. They know that their mindset, once the default setting for the nation, is fading away.

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The Media's Failure to Report on Pigford Hurts Black Farmers

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, Tom Vilsack, Liberal Media Bias, Agriculture, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Racism, Pigford, Black Farmers, Pigford v. Glickman, Race, Eric Holder, Media News
Lee Stranahan

The story the press wants you to hear about Pigford is an overly simple one. But it's a very complex story, and not something that can be explained easily between two commercial breaks.

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Reality Re-Right

Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Npr, Liberal Media, Politics News
Steven Weber

By editing reality through the bought-and-paid-for media, the right is steadily destroying the truth behind this nation's bulwarks of democracy, justifying its dangerous agenda.

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Hey Keith, I'm Hiring

Edward Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Liberal Media, Phil Griffin, Msnbc, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Cnn, Comedy News
Edward Murray

Keith, I'm hiring, and here's my pitch: I'm starting a new, progressive-minded, cable television news and information network. You will have full control over the content that airs on your show. Let's get Anderson Cooper on board, too.

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A Message of Sanity -- Jump Rope With a Muslim

Tom Gerdy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christians, Jews, Freedom, Liberal Media, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Steven Colbert, Sanity Rally, Muslims, Snookie, Jon Stewart, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Tom Gerdy

As I sat on the National Mall this weekend looking over the thousands of people at the Capitol, I couldn't help but think that the people who gave birth to the United States had this in mind when they talked about freedom of speech.

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The Potential Disastrous End of PBS/NPR is Over-rated

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pbs, Liberal Media, Juan Williams, Npr, George Lakoff, Jim Demint, Right-Wing-Echo-Chamber, Media News
Rob Kall

Still, I stand by my belief that the end of NPR and PBS would be good for the left, for liberals and progressives. Here's why.

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'Apres le deluge' -- a Liberated Obama?

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Blogosphere, Liberal Media, Senate Majority, MoveOn.Org, Howard Dean, Compromise, Obama Agenda, Obama Approval Rating, Robert Gibbs, Democratic Party, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, President Clinton, Politics News
Lanny Davis

Out of the deluge, if there is one, President Obama may be able to convince the Republicans, who are no longer the opposition party and now might be blamed for the country's unsolved problems.

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Should liberals be allowed to teach in our schools? A response to a Daily Caller article about the Medill School of Journalism

Paul Dailing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mainstream Media, Daily Caller, The Daily Caller, Brian Schneider, Liberal Media, Soft Mucousy Eggs, Medill, Liberal Bias, Medill School of Journalism, Fox News, Media News
Paul Dailing

I recently thought about the zoo, thanks to a Daily Caller opinion piece by a young man about to graduate from my old grad school. In the article, en...

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I Admit It: I'm The Liberal Media

Edward Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, Obama, Neil Diamond, Conservatives, Liberals, Pie Chart, Al Franken, Comedy News
Edward Murray

It's time for me to come clean and admit my role as a selfish manipulator of the most complex network of information dissemination the human race has ever seen. Yes, I'm the Liberal Media.

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"The List" of Journolist Participants is Fake

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cenk Uygur

If the liberal media is so strong, as the right claims it to be, then how come all of the liberals in the country don't have as much influence as just Glenn Beck? That's really painful to write, but clearly true.

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Information Terrorists Hijack Our Airwaves

Nomiki Konst | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nomiki Konst

Let's face it Dems, you have the heart but you don't have the brains. The GOP has discovered a way to make the media work for them.

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The Opportunity to Hate

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bart Stupak, Liberal Media, Women's Rights, Jews, John McCain, Civil Rights Act, Social Security, John Boehner, Jesse Helms, John Lewis, Barney Frank, President Obama, Jim Demint, Strom Thurmond, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Segregation, Voting Rights, Nancy Pelosi, George Wallace, Health Care Reform, Hate Speech, Martin Luther King Day, Medicaid, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Politics News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

The principles that Helms stood for were bigotry, hatred and fear. Obama passed health care reform, something both Republicans and Democrats have tried to do for decades.

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What We "Need to Know" About PBS After Moyers

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, PBS Need to Know, Public Television, Need to Know, Pbs, Media News
Marty Kaplan

PBS's new program Need to Know positions itself as an antidote to the poisonous advocacy of cable news. What it succumbs to instead is what makes mainstream news so impotent.

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Liberal Media Again Serves Republican Interests

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamison Foser, Liberal Media, Rachel Maddow, Reconciliation, Media News
Jonathan Weiler

That Republicans lie and adopt positions that directly contradict positions they've previously adopted. is bad enough. Much worse is the liberal media treating falsehoods as if they're merely just a "side" in a debate about politics.

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Harvard Press Was Right to Reject "The Case for Marriage"

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msnbc, Singled Out, Divorce, Economy, Marriage Movement, Harvard University Press, Fat, Marital Status, Stanley Kurtz, The Case for Marriage, Media, Maggie Gallagher, Wall Street Journal, Happiness, Scientific Research, Marriage Promotion, Single Parents, Heart Health, Widowed, Linda Waite, Finances, Liberal Media, Depression, Children of Single Parents, Longevity, Selective Reporting, Marriage, Living Single, Cohabiting, Psychology Today, Time Magazine, Obesity, Myths, Drug Study, Stereotypes, Doubleday, Hazardous to Health, Health, Sex, Methodology, Single With Attitude, Books News
Bella DePaulo

I have news for Stanley Kurtz: The Case for Marriage was second rate and not worth publishing.

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The Massachusetts Debacle and the Big "Why" Lie

Teri Szucs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, Msnbc, Massachusetts Election, Democrats, Massachusetts Senate Race, Progressives, Politics News
Teri Szucs

The so-called liberal press, including MSNBC, keeps talking about how this is all about angry, anxious independents feeling government is getting too ...

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Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Islam, Afghanistan War, Terrorist Attack, Homeland Security, Fort Hood, Kabul, Obama, Media, Afghan War, Lieberman, Hoekstra, White House, Al-Qaida, Killeen, Liberal Media, Joseph Lieberman, Ft. Hood, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Troop Levels, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, Army, Democratic Party, Taliban, Nidal Hasan, Muslim, Peter Hoekstra, Republicans, Politics News

For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...

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