Mainstream Media

Edwards Love Child, Yawn

John McQuaid | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, National Enquirer, Edwards Love Child, Edwards, John Edwards Scandal, John Edwards Affair, Media News
John McQuaid

It sure looks like Edwards is a hypocrite who misrepresented himself by showcasing his wife and kids so prominently in the campaign.

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Critics of New Yorker Cover Ignore Depth and Substance of Racism

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Michelle Obama, John McCain, Arabs, Ethnic Minority Media, Muslims, Racism, Barack Obama, Bigotry, Journalists of Color, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Media News
Ray Hanania

The media never looked at the cover as racist on its face, exploiting a stereotype that is only denounced when it is wrapped around a popular presidential candidate and a minority.

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Obama and Clinton: Does The Mainstream Media Have It Wrong?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Abortion, Michele Obama, Segolene Royal, Hillary Clinton, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Planned Parenthood, Hillary's Debt, Barack Obama, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Gail Collins, Women for Obama, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

The questions about the Obama-Clinton relationship will undoubtedly remain. However, the voices for "party unity" and "taking back the White House" are starting to sound increasingly strong.

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Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and What's Wrong with the Mainstream Media

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 07.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Msm, Mainstream Media, Hillary Clinton Press Coverage, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Election Coverage, Barack Obama, Media News
Robert Schlesinger

if no one watches the inanity of the cable networks, who cares how dumb they are? The fact is that it informs and distorts how the media covers the election.

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Washington's "Newseum": The Media Gives Itself a Big, Wet, Sloppy Kiss

Nathan Robinson | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Arrogance, Mainstream Media, New York Times Self-Perception, Grey Lady, Fourth Estate, H.L. Mencken, Museums, Newseum, New York Times, Washington DC, Media News
Nathan Robinson

The Newseum is a mammoth structure, and it does a fairly good job of illustrating just why mainstream media is such a letdown, even if it does so unintentionally.

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Momentum Building For Bugliosi's Case Against George W. Bush For Murder

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Corporate Media, Vincent Bugliosi, George W. Bush, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, American Patriot, Republicans, Justice, Evidence, Democrats, John Conyers, Author, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

To be clear, this is not a partisan effort -- It's a legally binding and provable case for murder, that Bugliosi -- an American patriot -- would bring against any president regardless of affiliation.

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Despite Media Blackout, Bugliosi's Book On Trying Bush For Murder Is Bestseller

Suzanne O'Keeffe | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, Murder, C-Span, Trial, Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Vincent Bugliosi, Criminal Trial, Bush High Crimes, Democracy Now, Home News
Suzanne O'Keeffe

The famous lawyer-author met with publishers face-to-face but they were afraid to touch the book. He had to get the BBC to record the audio version because no U.S. company would agree to do it.

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Why Doesn't the Press Ever Talk About the Oil?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Government Proaganda, Mainstream Media, Oil, Exxon-Mobil, No-Bid Contracts, Press, Iraq War, Media News
Cenk Uygur

Today, the four major American oil companies, thrown out by Saddam Hussein 36 years ago, came back into Iraq by getting... you guessed it... no-bid contracts!

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My Interview with Matt Taibbi on His Book, the Media, the Election and His Spat with Erica Jong

Ben Cohen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Erica Jong Matt Taibbi, Matt Taibbi, Podcast, Campaign 2008, 2004 Election, 9/11, 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists, Feminism, 2008 Election, Mainstream Media, John Hagee, Erica Jong, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Rolling Stone, Hillary Clinton, Scooter Libby, Media News
Ben Cohen

Matt Taibbi: "I think there was a lot of real anger there and I got caught up in that, I think unfairly because I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope."

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The Liberal Bias Newspaper Snipe Hunt

John McQuaid | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Liberal Bias, Newspapers, The Record, The Record Liberal Bias, Newspaper Industry, Media News
John McQuaid

The problems we face today don't fit well into the "liberal vs. conservative" culture-war frame. And the editor of a daily newspaper shouldn't have to investigate himself. For six months.

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Giving the "Daughter Test" to Mainstream Media

Marie Wilson | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Media, Race, Clinton, Presidential Politics, Gender, Mainstream Media, Sexism in Media, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Marie Wilson

We lost something for our nation's daughters who were sent a strong message about fairness during the primary season -- you can play, but it won't be a fair fight.

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What's Up With the Featured "News" on CNN.com?

Dan Brown | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iran, John McCain, Pakistan, Cnn, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Chrysler Building, News Outlet, Cable News, cnn.com, Abu Dhabi Investment Council, Barack Obama, Baghad, Media News
Dan Brown

The selection of CNN.com's top, featured stories gives a visitor the impression of browsing a trashy magazine, not one of the self-proclaimed finest news organizations in the country.

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Ann Coulter, Porn Star

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Porn, Ann Coulter, Jenna Jameson, Media News
Ben Cohen

As Jenna Jameson brought blow-jobs and plastic breasts to Howard Stern and VH1, Coulter brought brainless right wing fascism to Fox News and MSNBC.

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Can Newspapers Be Saved?

John McQuaid | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Newspapers, Tribune Company, Journalism, Blogs, New Media, Web Journalism, Blog Journalism, Media News
John McQuaid

Papers have to protect and nourish two things they already have -- reporting and the newspaper "brand." Original voices and journalistic credibility are pretty much all papers have left.

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Who is A.B. Stoddard?

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Hack, TheHill.Com, A.B Stoddard, Punditry, Tucker Carlson, Media News
Ben Cohen

The point is not to pick on Stoddard, but to make a larger reference to media punditry. Real journalists stand up to power rather than cozy up to it.

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Katie Couric Gets it. Kathie Lee, Mmmm, Not So Much.

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Women Bloggers, Mommy Bloggers, Kathie Lee Gifford, Punditmom, Msm, Katie Couric, Mainstream Media, Media News
Joanne Bamberger

There are millions of "Mommy Bloggers" out here networking and relationship building. We've been denied a voice in the mainstream media for generations and we're finding a way around it.

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On The Road Again (How The Press Led Us Astray)

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Politics, Mainstream Media, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Beth Arnold

Obama blew many of the old political rules to smithereens, and this new landscape is fresh and exciting to much of the electorate. In the end, the Clintons' politics come off as So Last Century.

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FCC Endorses Junk News, Calls Fox's TMZ and 700 Club 'Bona fide Newscasts'

Josh Silver | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Mainstream Media, 700 Club, Media, Media Consolidation, Tmz, Pat Robertson, Fcc, Media News
Josh Silver

Stamping junk news as genuine isn't new; Entertainment Tonight got its bona fide pass from the FCC in 1988.

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The Specter of 1988

John McQuaid | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Michael Dukakis, Mainstream Media, 1988 Presidential Race, George H.W. Bush, 2008 Election, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
John McQuaid

Covering the 1988 presidential campaign, I learned some fundamental lessons about politics. One was that a Democrat must never allow him/herself to be portrayed as less than 100 percent patriotic.

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Why(?) The Wright Story Stuck...and Will Most Likely Continue To

Steve Young | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Right Wing Talk, Media News
Steve Young

The Wright story has not gone away, and if the Right has anything to do with it, it will continue to ride with the fury of a runaway swift boat through November 4.

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McCain is a Lousy Candidate: He Will Be Clobbered in November

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, John McCain, Citizen Reporters, Fred Thompson, Youtube, General Election, Barack Obama, Online Newspapers, Politics News
Paul Abrams

The conventional wisdom that John McCain's remarkable powers of resurrection that captured the Republican nomination means that he will be a formidable general election candidate is false.

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Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Pentagon Analysts, Pentagon Propaganda, Howard Kurtz, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Gibson, Howard Kurtz Reliable Sources, Keith Olbermann, Campbell Brown, Msnbc, Dan Abrams, Reliable Sources, Larry King, Glenn Greenwald, Katie Couric, Bob Schieffer, Pentagon Papers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pentagon, Abc, Lou Dobbs, Nbc, Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Mainstream Media, Cnn, George Stephanopoulos, New York Times, Pentagon Military Analysts, Fox News, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
Arianna Huffington

The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV

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The Political Media Freakshow: What Went Wrong?

John McQuaid | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Maureen Dowd, 2008 Campaign, Jeremiah Wright, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Maureen Dowd Barack Obama, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Maureen Dowd Hillary Clinton, Media News
John McQuaid

What went wrong? It's a strange convergence of trends. One of those trends is ... Maureen Dowd.

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Of Sharks in the Water, Superdelegates, and Hannah Montana's Breasts

Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Miley Cyrus, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Pundits, Superdelegates, Shark Attack, Media Coverage, Miley Cyrus Topless Pictures, Jeremiah Wright, Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair, Media News
Andrew Foster Altschul

What the news media is selling is dangerous: Wright, Obama and Clinton, Iraq and health insurance and Hannah Montana all get stirred into the same idiotic, phony pot.

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Would The Real Chris Matthews Please Stand Up?

Ben Cohen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Media News
Ben Cohen

Matthews is capable and honest when he puts his mind to it. Unfortunately, he does so for about 3 minutes of every 60 he is on air. Matthews displays a schizophrenic attitude to politicians, allowing his infatuation with performance and rhetoric to cloud his judgment.

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