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Media Bias

Obama: Change the Channel

Robert Guttman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama Fox News, Fox News, Obama, Media Bias, Obama Fox News, Obama-Glenn-Beck, Anita Dunn Fox News, White House Fox News, Media News
Robert Guttman

Fox News is biased -- we all know that. No White House staff likes to be criticized so they attack the media -- end of story.

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New White House Line Against Fox: It's War

Ari Melber | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Dan Pfeifer, Robert Gibbs, Anita Dunn, Major Garrett, Bill Burton, Obama, Fox News, Media Bias, Jen Psaki, Media News
Ari Melber

In the most significant exchange on CNN, Communications Director Anita Dunn stressed that Obama now personally views Fox as a partisan opponent, rather than a journalistic organization.

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The Era of Media Objectivity Is Over. Deal With It.

John McQuaid | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Washington Post, Media, Journalism, Media Objectivity, Newspapers, Media Bias, Media News
John McQuaid

The era of the media-as-honest broker is over. The Washington Post and other establishment outlets just haven't realized it yet. But this is actually a good thing.

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Talk Radio Inciting Violence? What Happened to Listener Discernment?

Michael D. Brown | Posted 09.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Holland Cooke, Left Wing, David Sirota, Talk Radio, Violence, Right Wing, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Chris Matthews, Dog Whistles, Denver News
Michael D. Brown

We should never refrain from expressing our opinions with emotions and passions for fear that the nut case will hear it wrong and act out violently.

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Pentagon Caught, uh, Promoting Its Interests

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Propaganda, Pentagon Propaganda, Media Bias, Public Relations, Media News
Eric Dezenhall

As a rule, the more hated an organization, the more vigilant it has to be with the media because of the near certainty its message will be met with intense, and sometimes deserved, resistance.

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Woodstock's Real Hostess

Laurie Nadel | Posted 09.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Media Coverage of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Media Bias, Style News
Laurie Nadel

By the time we found out about the festival, Woodstock Ventures, Inc. had sold over 114,000 tickets to the event and hundreds of attendees were already arriving on our property.

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Protest and Progress in Pasadena

Peter Dreier | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Pasadena Educational Foundation, Invest in PUSD Kids, Pasadena Star-News, Activism, Protest, Pasadena Unified School District, Pasadena, Media Bias, Pico, School-Test-Scores, Living News
Peter Dreier

Social movements are built on small victories; stepping-stones that give people a sense of their collective power and whet their appetites for change -- a process that occurred this week in Pasadena.

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FOX Got Holland All Wrong

Morgan Warners | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

Read More: The-Netherlands, The Netherlands, Netherlands, Holland, European Union, Fox News, Travel, Media News, Media, Fox, Europe, Fox News Channel, Media Bias, Media News
Morgan Warners

I've been living in the Netherlands for almost a year and like most other people from the States I showed up intrigued by the legendarily liberal poli...

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The Savaging of Sarah Palin

Heather Robinson | Posted 08.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Attacks on Sarah Palin, Child Abuse, Sarah Palin Resignation, Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 2008 Campaign, Governor Sarah Palin, Media Bias, Home News
Heather Robinson

Whatever your opinions, Palin and her family were savaged in a manner that went beyond any reasonable standard.

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Iran, Al Sharpton, Sarah Palin and Myths About "Media Bias"

Rob Asghar | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Neil Postman, Al Sharpton, Media Bias, Matt Welch, Sarah Palin, Media News
Rob Asghar

When we began to receive more information than we could possibly digest, we grew able to digest only that which is tasty and entertaining -- in politics, in education, even in religion.

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Media Feeding Frenzy Cheats Viewers

Saul Segan | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, News Coverage, Farah Fawcett, News Media, Ed McMahon, Iran, Media Bias, Journalism, Media News
Saul Segan

While it was understandable that Jackson's death merited considerable coverage, the disgraceful monopoly of the topic on the television screens and neglect of any other news story were not.

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CNN Praises a Dictator

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Kerry, Media, Sanjeev Bery, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Election, Khomeini, Bery, Media News, Shah of Iran, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah, Iran, Savak, Cnn, cnn.com, Iranian Democracy, John Kerry, Mossadegh, Cia, Operation Ajax, Media Bias, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.

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Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Freedom of Speech, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Breaking Media News, Animal Rights, Earth Day, Vegan, Free Speech, Animal Abuse, Green, Gandhi, Media, TV and Animals, Animals, Vegetarianism, Media Bias, Media News
Vamsee Juluri

Under the dizzying spell of modernity's promises and consumerism's illusions, we see animals as mere objects, either as commodities for our consumption or as blank slates for us to write our fantasies and fears upon.

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Yelling "FIRE!" in an Empty Theater

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Greg Palast, Andrew Meyer, Usc, Media News, John Ziegler, Media Bias, John Ennis, Sarah Palin, Media News
John Wellington Ennis

I encourage everyone to freely review all speech from everywhere, and then reach their own independent, informed decisions about how big of an embarrassment John Ziegler really is.

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Media Literacy 101: Of Susan Boyle, Michelle's Arms and Bo the Dog

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Simon Cowell, Turkey, Susan Boyle, England, Media Literacy, Youtube, Media, Media News, Bo Obama, Media Bias, Michelle Obama Fashion, American Idol, Newspapers, Media News
Susan Moeller

How do mainstream media -- on any platform -- determine what is news?

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Warning: This Tea May Cause Severe Damage to Journalistic Integrity

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Bill Shine, Greta Van Susteren, Media Matters, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, Media, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Fox News Channel, Media News
Karl Frisch

Organizers of these tea-party protests have no bigger cheerleader (or crowd-builder, for that matter) than Fox News, which has provided attendance and organizing information for the events on air and online dozens of times.

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Study Finds Bias in 2008 Campaign -- Among Men Only

Ari Melber | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Yochai Benkler, Puma, Gender Bias, Male Bias, Clinton, Bias, Harvard Study, Obama, Media Bias, Politics News
Ari Melber

A new Harvard study reports that male voters displayed "in-group" bias for people who shared their candidate preference in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, while women voters did not.

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Meet The Real Press

Stu Kreisman | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Karl Rove, Meet the Press, Andrea Mitchell, Jon Stewart, George Tenet, David Gregory, Media Criticism, Paul Bremer, The Daily Show, Media Bias, David Letterman, Jim Cramer, Tim Russert, Media News
Stu Kreisman

The fourth estate has abdicated its responsibilities to Stewart, Letterman, Olbermann, Maddow, Campbell Brown and the bloggers on the internet.

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The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Animal Rights, Human Rights, Louisiana, Rural Poor, Fema, Mary Landrieu, Hurricane Recovery, Media Bias, Congo, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.

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Jane Brody, Wrong on Nutrition

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 04.03.2009 | Style

Read More: American Dietetic Association, American Diet, The New York Times, Jane Brody, New York Times, NY Times, Diet, Media Bias, Style News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

I have a love / hate relationship with the New York Times. On the one hand, there's David Brooks and Gail Collins. On the other hand, there's Jane ...

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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
Gary Shapiro

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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The Three R's: Roland, Racism and Resignation

Hermene Hartman | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Roland Burris, Racism, Roland Burris Senate, Roland Burris Senate Appointment, Media Bias, Chicago News
Hermene Hartman

The Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune editorials have called for the resignation of Senator Roland Burris. I oppose their position. I should hope fr...

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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
Rinku Sen

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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Jonah Goldberg Is Still a God-Awful Media Critic

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Matters for America, Jonah Goldberg, Media Bias, Nro, President Obama, Media News
Eric Boehlert

It's telling that Goldberg never addressed the fact that I called him out for concocting a story about how Obama allegedly "walked into an Oval Office window."

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Living News
Jaemin Kim

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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