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Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Right Wing, Media, Criticism, Poetry, Lou Dobbs, Newsweek, Immigration Reform, Scott Whitlock, Cnn, Jerry Adler, Fox News, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News

Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."

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

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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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Watch for More Hybrid Marketing in 2010

Rich Nadworny | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Augmented Reality, Marketing, Social Media, Media, Hybrid Marketing, Media News

Social media has enabled digital marketing in a way nothing previously has. It's clearly shown the value of two-way communication, using technology to enable the dialogue.

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Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Travel, Media, Wells Tower, Writing, Journalism, Outside Magazine, Media News

Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.

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Pundit Contest Would Have Gone Down Better with a Spoonful of Psychology

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Psychological Research, Msm, Opinion, America’s Next Great Pundit, Psychology, Media, Social Influence, Winners, Critiques, Contest, Bias, Mythology, Reporters, Washington Post, Authority, Blogging, Media News

Once upon a time there were well-worn paths to the top of the press pile. America's Next Great Pundit Contest, however, is based on the premise that well-informed voices could come from just about anywhere.

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Those Who Hate The Fairness Doctrine Should Love Net Neutrality

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Fcc, Fairness Doctrine, Net Neutrality, Media, FCC Net Neutrality, Media News

If conservatives truly understood the Fairness Doctrine, then they wouldn't go around using it as a justification for opposing Net Neutrality.

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Liberal Elitism? No. Some People Are, Sadly, Stupid

Oliver Willis | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Media, Joe Biden, Conservatives, Liberals, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

While the concerns of many white, middle-class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals, it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts for who they are.

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Shame! Shame! China Shame!

Kenneth Kales | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Editors, Obama China, Media, Obama, Books, Book Publishers, China, Barack Obama, Books News

Why are we as a nation giving a free pass to Mr. Obama on his avoidance to confront human rights atrocities in China? I am baffled sometimes when I see in the media those stories gushing about how great China is.

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Media Fail: Kimberly Munley Did Not Bring Down Fort Hood Killer

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Munley, Fort Hood, Media, Major Hasan, Todd, Hasan, Media News

The media, once again, fell hook, line and sinker for a military account of what happened during the tragedy.

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Justicia Poetica: Dobbs Rises and Then Falls Thanks to Immigrants

Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

As I watched the sad eyes of Lou Dobbs last night while he bade an abrupt farewell to his long career at CNN, I shed the tears that he apparently couldn't. I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.

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Making Sense of the Hyperlocal Landscape

Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Rachel Sterne, Jeff Jarvis, Community, Media News, Media, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Groundreport, Hyperlocal News, Media News

New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...

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Met Home Gets the Hatchet

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Decorating, Web, Housing, Print, Internet, Economy, Media, Media News, Magazines, Domino, Martha Stewart, Cottage Living, Elle Decor, Metropolitan Home, Oprah Winfrey, Country Home, Southern Accents, Blueprint, Media News

Only yesterday Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. announced the closure of the magazine fondly known as Met Home to the urban, sophisticated home decor cognoscenti.

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Ashley Judd: Please, Population Control is Not the Answer for Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Congo's economy is not undermined by "unregulated fertility" rates. Civil society has been destroyed by decades of war and over a hundred years of exploitation of Congo's wealth by international interests.

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Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: George Saunders, Media Criticism, Print Journalism, Media, Writing, Books, Gq, David Foster Wallace, New Journalism, Books News

Like David Foster Wallace, Saunders appears in his own journalism as the bumbling journalist, but Saunders is more believable, which is to say that he is a bumbler, which is part of the charm.

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Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Shootings, Army Shooting, Eric Harris, Politics News, Terrorism, Dylan Klebold, Media, Journalism, Major Nidal Hasan, Reporting, Harris, Politics, Cnn, Army, Virginia Tech Shooting, Cho Seung-Hui, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, New York Times, Fox News, Racism, Racism in Media, Colombine Shootings, US Army, Virginia Tech Massacre, Wolf Blitzer, Fort Hood Shootings, Klebold, Colombine, Media News

When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

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Veteran Moulitsas Versus Tom Tancredo as Moral Tale

Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, David Shuster, Politics, Veterans Administration, Progressives, Markos Moulitsas, La Raza, Crashing the Gate, Va, Health Care Reform, Immigration, Media, The Ed Show, Tom Tancredo, Daily Kos, Media News

You merely need to let Tancredo talk to defeat him in a debate. Why would you deride him for not serving his country because of depression, a debilitating illness that affects 8 to 12 percent of the population?

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Our Public Advocate's Public A**-Kissing and Other Tales of Disappoinment

Will Schwartz | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, New York Daily News, Bill De Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, The New York Times, Bloomberg, John Liu, Media, Bill Thompson, New York City, New York News

Within hours of winning their elections, Bill De Blasio, our future public advocate, and John Liu, our comptroller-elect, each demonstrated their own distinct styles of ineptitude.

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Media Literacy 101: The Doritos Challenge

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Knight News Challenge, Hunger, Knight Foundation, Eric Newton, Washington Post, Op-Ed, Hunger in the United States, Caption Contest, Leslie Walker, Doritos, Media News, Media, Thanksgiving, Media News

Today's digital-media-enabled contests, perhaps even the most familiar reality-TV, American Idol-type kind, are popular because they promise a rags-to-riches success for at least one contestant.

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EMA's: Introducing the Legacy Award

Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Paramount Studios, Walt Disney, Big-Cats, National Geographic, Values, Gorillas, Environment, Walt Disney Company, Environmentalism, Lions, Environmental Media Association, Media, Legacy, Disney, Cheetahs, Debbie Levin, Green News

The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: African-Media, New Media, Glenn Beck, Lagos, Old Media vs. New Media, Media News, Media, Home News

Just back from Lagos, Nigeria, where I took part in the second African Media Leadership Forum, which brought together journalists from 46 African countries. New media play a powerful role on the continent, where traditional media face constant government restrictions, over 300 million Africans have cellphones, and locals are being trained to use texting and camera phone video to report from rural areas. Hearing the stories of many of the journalists present was a powerful reminder that, in much of the world, being a journalist requires great courage. "I've been arrested 136 times," a journalist from Cameroon told me. "The government threw grenades into our offices," said a newspaperman from Liberia, "so we went down the street and started another paper." It makes the rheumy bleatings of the likes of Glenn Beck feel even more contemptible and pathetic.

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Wheel of Fortune

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Bloomberg LP, Businessweek, Charlie Rose, The Economist, Fortune Magazine, Condé Nast, Time Inc., Media, Business, Media News

So Fortune magazine is cutting back its issues to 18 from 25. But don't panic. The new Fortune will become more of a lush-looking premium product.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Jerry Falwell, Council for National Policy, Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Willis, Media, Michelle Bachman, Austin American Statesman, Rambo, Dixie Chicks, Forum on the Family, Nra, Phyllis Schlafly, Matthew Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, James Dobson, Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Austin, Barry Levinson, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Discovery Institute, Poliwood, Ed Meese, Creative Coalition, Barbra Streisand, Texas, Edwin Meese, Hollywood, Left Behind Books, Tim LaHay, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Left Behind, George Gilder, Miranda Ruling, Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Chuck Norris, Charlton Heston, New York Times, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Perkins, Politics News

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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The Tone of the Debate Sounds... Familiar?

Rich Nadworny | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Politics, William Hearst, Teabaggers, Media, Yellow Journalism, Spanish-American-War, Media News

The teabaggers and the angry conservatives sure make a lot of noise these days. And much of the noise is about them making noise. It sure seems like the online channel is a key element in the vitriol.

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Deriliction of Representation. Unreal Video.

Mike Stark | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darryl Issa, Sen. Jim DeMint, Media, Health Care, Virginia Foxx, Joe Wilson, Steve King, Politics News

I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.

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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Albert Alligator, White House, President Obama, Washington, Progressive Utopia, Iraq, Obama, Mccain, Media, Campaign, Anniversary, Sarah Palin, Republican, Alligators, Bush, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Change, Dadt, Gay Rights, Clinton, Rock Star, 2008, Disillusionment, Governing, Politician, Castles in the Air, Candidate Obama, Pogo Possum, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Left, Lefties, Bill Clinton, Right, John McCain, Pogo, One Year, Democrat, Swamp, Democrats, Campaign Promises, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, Vrwc, Progressive, Chris Weigant, Change We Can Believe In, Palin, George W Bush, Afghanistan, Republicans, Doma, Partisanship, Gay Marriage, Partisan, Righties, One Year Later, Obama One Year Later, Politics News

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

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