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You Won't Believe What Martin Eisenstadt Said At The White House Correspondents Dinner

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

Read More: LA Times, Howard Kurtz, President Obama, Twitter, Martin Eisenstadt, Somali Pirates, Green Zone, The New Republic, Demi Moore, Howard Kurtz Reliable Sources, Time Magazine, White House Correspondents Dinner, Facebook, Diane Tucker, Dan Mirvish, Mainstream Media, Time.com, Cnn, John McCain 2008, Wanda Sykes, Todd Palin, MSNBC Martin Eisenstadt, Eitan Gorlin, Ashton Kutcher Twitter, Wanda Sykes Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Wanda Sykes White House Correspondents Dinner, Wolf Blitzer, Ashton Kutcher, Rachel Skylar, Fox News, Media News

TIME.com followed several members of the "elite Twitterati" as they attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the ballroom of the Washington ...

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Content Producers of the World...Unite!

Keith Blanchard | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Creativity, Mainstream Media, New Media, Media, Content, Advertising, Media News

Why is the media page on the Huffington Post orange? Maybe because we're on permanent Serious Threat alert.

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100 News Cycles Later

John McQuaid | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, White House Press Corps, Media, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Media News

Obama's ambitions depend on his ability to nudge the news cycle away from the cable network- and Drudge-driven obsession with transient panics and cultural outrages. He's been partially successful so far.

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Obama Should Be Ashamed Only Two-Thirds Approve of Him

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

People are weighing their own impressions of our new president with what the media is telling them to believe. For the most part, they are deciding that the media's take is wrong.

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Obama Declares Himself President-For-Life (No Fooling!)

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Market, Populism, President Obama, Economy, Jindal, Poll, Obama, Media, Agenda, America, Blagojevich, Hat. Aretha Franklin, Pelosi, Muslim, Populist, Bonus, Socialist, Tax Cut, Auto Workers, Over-Exposed, Stimulus Package, Limbaugh, Reid, Teleprompter, Rush Limbaugh, Budget, Socialism, Do Too Much, Conservative, Congress, Right Wing, Sixty-Percent, Capitalism, Bipartisan, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Palin, Hypocrisy, Political Capital, Msm, Two-Thirds, Bipartisanship, Pundit, Class Warfare, Partisan, Leona Helmsley, President-for-Life, Helmsley, Politics News

"I am ashamed at getting my stimulus bill passed so quickly. Republicans, those masters of bipartisanship, offered their sincere efforts to delay this bill for months and, I admit, I ignored them."

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Good News? Is This Possible?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Mainstream Media, Economic Stimulus Package, Employment, Solar Panels, Green Business, Department of Energy, Green Energy, Business, Solyndra, Business News

The economy is in extremely fragile shape, but there are nuggets of good news as well.

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Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Politics, Digital Media, Newspapers, Civic Participation, New Corp, Community Organizing, Democracy, Media, Policy, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, New York City, Journalism, Mexico, Media News

With News Corp's purchase of neighborhood publications like the Brooklyn Paper, all that annoying journalism that challenges pesky things like protecting citizens from eminent domain is all but lost.

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What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Jon Stewart Dick Cheney, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart Jim Cramer, Media Criticism, Cheney Interview, Media, Dick Cheney, Media News

Someone needs to kidnap King and take him to a journalism deprogramming center -- preferably one run by Jon Stewart and his team.

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How To Fix American Journalism

Sara Catania | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Newspapers, Non-Profits, Nonprofits, Mainstream-Media, New Media, Columbia-University-Journalism, Media, Media News, Journalism, Propublica, Center for Public Integrity, Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press, Fund-for-Independence-in-Journalism, Media News

If American journalism is to save itself, it must look to non-profits and universities for funding and support.

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Twitter...Life in 140 Characters or Less

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Blackberry, Tweetie, Puff Daddy, Twitter, Britney Spears, iPhone Applications, Gawker, Demi Moore Twitter, MC Hammer, Twitterific, Media, Twitterberry, Twitterati, Tweets, Danyel Smith, Followers, Iphone, Mainstream Media, Twittering, Cnn, Omarosa, Reuters, New York Times, Financial TImes, Farai Chideya, Drudge Report, Vibe Magazine, Ashton Kutcher, Toure, Media News

And as interesting (or not) as this whole conversation about what Twitter is, the better question to ask is why are people using it? Why has Twitter caught on?

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Is the Media Our Best Frenemy Forever?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Business News, Financial Crisis, Cable News, Media News, Time Magazine, Business, Housing Bubble, Media News

Only now that the members of the media have seen their own 401ks and home values decline like those of the rest of the citizens in the country, they are broadcasting loud outrage.

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How Big Media Misses the Biggest Stories and Some More Stories They Will Miss

Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, National Debt, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Budget Deficit, Bailout, Big Media, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Administration, Future Generations, Media Coverage of the War, Media Bias, Gary Shapiro, Media News

We are in trouble unless we have an honest inquiry and discussion on the big issues of our time -- and they all come down to money and priorities.

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Celine Dion is Stalking You

Timothy Karr | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Congress, Free Press, Limbaugh, Radio, Big Media, Lpfm, Indepenendent Radio, Local Community Radio Act, Media News

The Local Community Radio Act would unleash the potential of new music for millions of listeners across the country. The bill tasks Washington with licensing thousands of Low Power FM radio stations (known in radio geekdom as LPFM).

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Appetite for Destruction: why an "iTunes for News" is a bad idea

Daniel Sinker | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Itunes, Apple, Journalism, Chicago, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Music Industry, Newspaper Industry, Media News

We can talk about saving journalism, or we can talk about saving the established order, but we can't talk about both.

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It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right

Rinku Sen | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Obama Controversy, Eric Holder Speech, Eric Holder Attorney General, Eric Holder Obama, Racial Equity, Racial Disparities, Nation of Cowards, Department of Justice, Media, Race, Media Bias, Eric Holder, Obama Administration, Black History Month, Politics News

Apparently, there's only room for one black man at the highest levels of government taking the nation to task on race.

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Don't Let Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam

Sahil Kapur | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Iraq War, Karzai Obama, Fareed Zakaria, Afghanistan Surge, Iraq Surge, Barack Obama, US Troops in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, White House, Russ Feingold, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Congress, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, Nato, Stephen Tanner, Richard Holbrooke, United States Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Newsweek, Media Failure, Obama's Vietnam, Obama 17000 Troops Afghanistan, World News

Although the president's goals for the region are commendable, he must carefully examine the larger strategy or Afghanistan might devolve into a hauntingly familiar quagmire.

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At Your Feet or At Your Throat

Sam Greenfield | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Msm, Mainstream Media, Cnn, Economic Stimulus Package, MSM Flaws, Stimulus Package, Media News

One might wonder why the media attacks the stimulus plan so vehemently when the GOP offers nothing but greater poverty and higher unemployment. I have three reasons.

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Where's Ross Perot When You Need Him?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Congress, Stimulus Package, Ross Perot, Bank Bailout, Obama Stimulus Plan, Barack Obama, The White House, Politics News

I'm ready for a little old fashioned Ross Perot specification of the expected outcomes of the stimulus package. This is what we call in education a "teachable moment."

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Amusing Ourselves to Death -- How to Waste Our Last (Obama) Chance

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Neil Postman, Obama, News Cycle, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Enetertainment, Mainstream Media, Msm, Media, Media News

President Obama is a serious man trying to rescue a frivolous trivialized nation with the attention span of an inebriated jellyfish.

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Moderate Muslims are the World's Swing Voters

Steven Hill | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Mainstream Media, Barack Hussein Obama, War on Terror, Obama Muslim, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Muslims, Malaysia, Amitai Etzioni, Swing Voters, Clash of Civilizations, Moderate Muslims, World News

There are millions of moderate Muslims in the world, and they, too, are looking for a "new deal." A president with the name of Barack Hussein Obama presents an opportunity, but the opening may not last long.

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Why Was Coal Sludge Story Big On Twitter, Small On National Sources?

Mother Nature Network | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mainstream Media, TVA Spill, Twitter, Water, Tennessee Coal Ash, New York Times, Pollution, Tva, Coal, Green News

Three days before Christmas, a billion gallons of liquefied coal ash poured out through a broken retaining wall, inundating fifteen homes, covering hu...

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Obama vs. the Media

John McQuaid | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Media, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Ap, Associated Press, New York Times, Foia, Obama FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Obama Media, David Broder, Media News

Obama (correctly, I think) sees the press representing two things that are clear obstacles to his ambitious plans: official Washington and a trivia-obsessed media culture.

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Hudson Crash Required Journalists to Collaborate

Danny Groner | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Photography, Us Airways Hudson River, New York Waterway Ferry Terminal, Scott Mcclellan, Associated Press, Citizen Journalism, Airplane Crash Hudson River, Plane Crash Hudson River, Plane Hudson River, Airplanes, Hudson River, Plane Crash, Plane Crash in Hudson River, Citizen Photographs, New York, The White House, Mainstream Media, Photographs, Plane in Hudson River, New York Times, Hudson River Plane Crash, ABC News, Hudson River Crash, US Airways Crash Photos, US Airways Crash, Flight 1549, Media News

The photographs taken at the site of the Hudson crash may be the best proof yet that citizen journalism is not only essential, but is here to stay.

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Bush Drops Fake Cowboy Shtick

Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Fred Thompson, Mainstream Media, Little Red Truck, Andover Cheerleader, George W. Bush, Press, Cowboy, Fake Cowboy, Crawford Ranch, Traditional Media, Media News

When did the press come to think their job was to reinforce the fake images and storylines of politicians rather than to challenge them?

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Correcting Bush's Revision of History

Sahil Kapur | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, George Bush, History, National Security, Media, Revisionist History, George W. Bush, 9/11, Keith Olbermann, Terrorism, Democrats, Republican Party, September 11th, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush Revisionist, Reckless Negligence, Media Negligence, Politics News

Seven years later, it continues to elude many that President Bush had the responsibility to protect the country from attacks like 9/11. Still, Republicans tout their national security heroics.

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