Mainstream Media

When You're Wright, You're Right

Linda Hansen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home

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Linda Hansen

The Wright/Obama story has been utterly mangled. It's a human story and a tragic one. Two decent men doing good work are being used against each other in a game of political one-upsmanship.

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Fox News Still Featuring Pentagon Pundits

Josh Silver | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Propaganda, Mainstream Media, Pentagon Analysts, Media, Military, Pentagon Propaganda, Media News
Josh Silver

Fox is still airing -- without disclosure -- two of the exposed pundits, Robert H. Scales and Thomas McInerney. See them for yourself.

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The Mea Culpas Didn't Come

Dave Winer | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Larry King, Karla Faye Tucker, Moyers, Mainstream Media, Jeremiah Wright, Politics News
Dave Winer

I'll never understand why we enjoy a circus like the shaming of Rev. Wright. It reminds me of the aftermath of the Karla Faye Tucker execution in Texas.

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On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

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Jessica Wakeman

Clinton's run for the Democratic nomination has been awash with the most dispiriting ridicule I have seen in my (albeit short) lifetime.

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Why The Left Must Shout Louder

Ben Cohen | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Danny Rodrik, Mainstream Media, Paul Krugman, Economics, Democrats, Neoconservatism, Politics News
Ben Cohen

Financial globalization has failed to deliver the goods, and the poor are paying a huge price for the ideological stubbornness and greed of neoconservatives.

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TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened

Josh Silver | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Pentagon, Bush Administration, Breaking Media News, Pundits, Media, Iraq, Propaganda, Pentagon Propaganda, War in Iraq, Journalism, Media Bias, Media News
Josh Silver

In the ensuing days of the revelations of pro-war propaganda on our major TV news outlets, these same outlets are either dismissing the damning revelations or pretending they never happened.

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Why, To The Mainstream Media, Does Hillary's 9.4 Victory Margin Equal "Double Digits"?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Double Digit Victory, Pennsylvania Primary, Voting Integrity, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

I am as concerned about accuracy in reporting as I am in about other issues related to the health of our democracy. But for now, I just want to mainstream media to prove that it knows how to count.

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Video: Pentagon Pundit Scandal in 4 Minutes

Josh Silver | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Media, Media Bias, Pentagon, Pentagon Propaganda, Pentagon Pundit Scandal, Media News
Josh Silver

That Government-sanctioned propaganda has been allowed to continue undisclosed for years is an indictment of both this White House and a docile American media.

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Citizen Journalism: Can We Trust it?

Tom Alderman | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Obama's Bitter Speech, Democracy, Obama, Mainstream Media, Mayhill Fowler, Citizen Reporters, Clinton, David Hazinksi, Critical Thinkers, Citizen Journalist, Citizen Journalism, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Judith Miller, Leonard Witt, University of Georgia, Media News
Tom Alderman

Citizen reporters provide independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditional media doesn't provide, goes the argument. Independent? Perhaps. Accurate and reliable? Can't be sure, say concerned professionals.

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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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Experienced Reporters Unwanted

Leslie Griffith | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Reporting, Reporters, Media, News, Political Journalism, Journalism, Local Journalism, Media News
Leslie Griffith

Your local news has the money to buy a helicopter and install expensive high definition, but not the money to hire experienced investigative reporters to help protect your community?

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Beyond Jeremiah: A New Kind of Media for Obama's New Kind of Politics

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Shaun Jacob Halper

The lesson of Jeremiah-gate: without a new kind of mainstream television media, Obama will never cultivate a new kind of politics.

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Our Sound Bite Culture Should Provide More Questions than Answers

Byron Williams | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Journalists, Sound Bites, Sound Bite Culture, Media, Journalism, Media News
Byron Williams

When we the public make the sound bite the end and not the beginning, we risk violating what the code of ethics we also warn journalists to guard against.

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Where Did McCain Get What He's Got "in the Bank" with the Press?

Jay Rosen | Posted 03.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Chuck Todd, John McCain, David Patraeus, Press, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Journalists, Political Journalism, John Mccain Al Qaeda, Media, John McCain and the Media, 2008 Election, Journalism, Mainstream Media, John McCain Foreign Policy, Mccain Al Qaeda, McCain Iran, Home News
Jay Rosen

By demonstrating that you can say false things, refuse to correct them, and pay no real price for it, you dishearten reporters and make their efforts appear futile to themselves.

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Reverend Wright: Raw and Un-Cut

Steven Weber | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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Steven Weber

Fox and CNN's co-opting of Rev. Wright's incendiary text is as much a reason to lose faith in the democratic process as tampering with vote tallies in a national election.

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Give The News Impartially? FAIR Report Highlights Conflicts of Interest

Janine Jackson | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media

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Janine Jackson

We should also have a right to expect that the news we get is produced in a climate where journalistic priorities are paramount.

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Letter to America

Joe Vogel | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Jeremiah Wright, Media, Barack Obama, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Iraq War, Mainstream Media, Pundits, Infotainment, Media News
Joe Vogel

We are witnessing a giant circus, a spectacle. Our journalists are lackeys, our pundits clowns.

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CNN Trivializes Iraq and Hits a New Low

Josh Silver | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iraq War, Cnn, Media, Investigative Journalism, Fox, War in Iraq, Journalism, CNN Iraq, Jeanne Moos, Media News
Josh Silver

2008-03-20-jeanne_moos_iraq.jpgOn Wednesday, CNN 's "Best Political Team on Television" took their vapid approach to journalism to a new level when reporter Jeanne Moos satirized demonstrations against the war in Iraq.

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Your Librul Media

Susan Madrak | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage of Hillary, ABC News Bureaus, Media Coverage, Hillary Clinton, Brian Ross, Mainstream Media, Stained Blue Dress Day, Media News
Susan Madrak

In all my years in journalism, I've never seen anything quite as disgusting as this. What a piece of trashy, superfluous, truly MEAN excuse for journalism.

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Hillary Whines to the Refs

Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

Why isn't the press reporting that Clinton can't possibly make a comeback in the remaining elections? Because they don't want to say it's over and have the wrath come down on their heads.

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Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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Mark Weisbrot

A herd mentality often prevails: journalists know that they will almost never get in trouble for reporting something that is wrong when everyone else is also saying it.

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Attention, New York Daily News: 7-Year-Olds Don't "Have Sex"

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Child Abuse, Rape, Nixzmary Brown, Media Coverage of Sexual Assault, Children Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Nixzmary Brown Sexual Assault, Nixzmary Brown Rape, Media News
Jessica Wakeman

Seven-year-old girls don't "have sex" with grown-ups. They're sexually abused by grownups. They're raped by grownups. But "have sex"? No.

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Your Insignificance Will Be Televised

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Super Delegates, Media, Blackwater USA, Blackwater, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Blackwater California, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

It's true that Americans are consistently exploited by uncaring government and corporate elites, but the amazing thing is that they have not surrendered under the pressure.

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Relevance, Please? Bloomberg, Nader, & Angelina Jolie

Dorothy Bendel | Posted 02.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, Michael Bloomberg, Angelina Jolie, Ralph Nader 2008, Washington Post, Media, 2008 Election, Ralph Nader, Offthebus, Home News
Dorothy Bendel

The main stream media must be experiencing a lull in political stories they feel are news-worthy. We have been deluged with coverage that seems questionably relevant.

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Media Has Large, Often Unnoticed Role In National Politics

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Democratic Primary, US Election, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Polls, Mainstream Media, 2008 Elections, John McCain, Hillary Clinton 2008, Nafta, John Edwards, Media, Media Narratives, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

Obama knew how to define his candidacy within the limits of the media's constraints and still have a mass appeal.

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