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Interchangeable Quagmires: Why Doesn't CAP Apply What It Wrote About Iraq To Afghanistan?

newshoggers.com | Posted 10.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Cap, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Iraq Media Coverage, Media Coverage, Iraq, Center for American Progress, Afghanistan Media Coverage, War in Iraq, Interchangeable Quagmires, Media News

It seems to me that you could make a case for all they said to be applicable to Afghanistan too, though. Yet again we have a multi-factional and viole...

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For Today's Media the Economic Crisis Is Yesterday's Story

Ann Pettifor | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Media Coverage, Unemployment, Recession, Pew Research Center, Economic Crisis, Business News
Ann Pettifor

Despite the fact that a quarter of a million Americans lost their jobs last month, many have been persuaded by the media that the recession is yesterday's story.

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Dean Baker: The Economy Loses 824,000 Jobs And The Washington Post Doesn't Notice

The American Prospect | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Unemployment Numbers, Beat the Press, Newspapers, Unemployment, Labor Department, Media Coverage, Washington Post, Newspaper Fail, Media News, Job Loss Numbers, Dean Baker, Media News

One of the big pieces of news in the September jobs report released by the Labor Department yesterday was that the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) p...

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Health Care By Sound Byte

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Media Coverage, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Andrew Weil, Healthcare, Health, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

If media outlets, pundits, and commentators were seriously concerned about the health of Americans, why after the President's speech, would media coverage land upon a single word shouted by an idiot--rather than the substantive realities of American health care reform?

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Pew Study: Obama Got More Positive Coverage During First Months In Office Than Bush And Clinton

Pew Research Center | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage, Bill Clinton, Media, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Media News

As he marks his 100th day in office, President Barack Obama has enjoyed substantially more positive media coverage than either Bill Clinton or George ...

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The Truthiness of Political Polling

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Politics, Marc Ambinder, Polling, Public Opinion Polls, Public Opinion, New York Times, Media Coverage, Media, Barack Obama Polls, Poll, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

Barack Obama has been in office less than the totemic 100 days, and yet we are bombarded by public approval polls almost every day.

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Who Is Pressing The Pressmen?

Emily Bracken | Posted 04.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Journalists, The Press, Politicians, Fourth-Branch-of-Government, Cnbc, Media Coverage, Comedy Writing, Vigilantes, Jon Stewart Jim Cramer, Media, Press, The Daily Show, Journalism, Edward R. Murrow, Jim Cramer, Checks and Balances, Comedians, Irony, Jon Stewart, Satire, Daily Show CNBC, Political Satire, Ombudsman, Media News, Idealism, Humor and Satire, Jim Cramer Daily Show, Comedy News
Emily Bracken

Humorists and comedians are a curious bunch. Quixotic by nature, they want so desperately to live in a world of decency, fairness and goodness, and in Stewart's case, in a world where the media grew some cajones.

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Compassion Fatigue

Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage, Rod Blagojevich, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Africa, Media News
Marty Kaplan

It's no contest. Rod Blagojevich's corruption is way more entertaining than Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's. We tend to care about people who are, one way or another, like ourselves.

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Courting the Jester: The Slippery Right's Love Affair With Limbaugh

Jane Devin | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Stimulus Plan, Religious Right, Media Coverage, Conservatives, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Political Strategy, Media News
Jane Devin

Limbaugh isn't just a barker, but a godhead with a loyal legion of followers hailing from the furthest backwoods shacks to the hallowed halls of Washington.

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Inaugurate This: Waiting for Barack Obama

Danny Schechter | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Grassroots, Media Coverage, Inauguration, Barack Obama, President Obama, Campaign, Joe the Plumber, Politics News
Danny Schechter

We want to mark a historical moment by investing hopes and hearts in Barack Obama's triumph, by hoping that change is coming and that he will and can heal a troubled world.

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Fox News Ate My Brain (I Swear!) - Of Chaos Theory & Roland Burris

Brian Ross | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roland Burris Senate, Bill Hemmer, Media Coverage, Roland Burris, Media, Barack Obama, America's Newsroom, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Fox News, Harry Reid, Burris Media Coverage, Megyn Kelly, United States Senate, Fox News Channel, Senate, Politics News
Brian Ross

The Fox News spin on Roland Burris was interspersed with video and misstatements of the event, trying to weave in the racism angle, or trying to paint Reid as the bad guy.

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Ann Coulter: Move Along, Nothing to See Here

Cindy Handler | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Ann Coulter Book, Anti-Liberal Bias, Ann Coulter, President Obama, Post-Partisan, Book Promotion, Media Coverage, Performance Art, Hate Speech, Ann Coulter on TV, Free Publicity, Fox News Channel, Media News
Cindy Handler

The reason that TV producers return to the well every time she comes out with a new book: they're betting that viewers won't be able to resist rubber-necking at this particular train wreck.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Randall Amster | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Media Coverage, Living, Media, The Shock Doctrine, Shock and Awe, Katrina, Economy, Living News
Randall Amster

Don't you get a small adrenaline surge when the serious-sounding NPR news voice comes on the radio at the top of the hour, and you're wondering what new calamity has transpired?

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Mr. Obama, Make Media Reform a Priority

Josh Silver | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Reform, Media Coverage, Obama Transition, Media, Barack Obama, Obama Media, Media News
Josh Silver

Obama has already made the call to create a more vibrant, diverse and democratic media system and to deliver the benefits of the open Internet and new technology to all Americans.

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Finding Personal Grief for Distant Suffering

Ruth Messinger | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Nigeria, Mumbai Attacks, Media Coverage, Judaism, Terrorism, Darfur, World News
Ruth Messinger

During the week of the Mumbai attacks, countless others succumbed to guns, starvation and disease elsewhere in the world. Why don't these stories make the front page for more than a day or two?

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Would President Bush Have Gone To War In Iraq If He Faced Incessant Coverage Of That War By the Television Networks?

Norman Horowitz | Posted 01.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, George Bush, Iraq, British, Iraq War Coverage, Media Coverage of Iraq War, Media Coverage, Media, Media Coverage of the War, Vietnam War, Media Coverage of Iraq, The Media, Vietnam War Coverage, Vietnam, Media News
Norman Horowitz

In the past, aggressive media coverage helped turn around public opinion about the Vietnam War. The press did ultimately get beyond the pro-military reporting from Vietnam.

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Sam Stein

Blagojevich Coverage: A Plea For Perspective

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Blagojevich, Reader Complaint Blagojevich, Ed Rendell, Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Health Care Coverage, Media Coverage, Politics News

Reader KP writes in to add some much needed perspective on the increasingly obsessive Rod Blagojevich coverage. Here is some food for thought. I lost...

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Running on Fumes

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Coverage, Politics, Obama Transition, Liberal, Media, Huffington Post, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

While keeping major progressive reforms such as health care, the economy and Iraq in his sites, Obama's choices for his administration have been pragmatic and, gasp, a bit moderate.

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Media Complicity in Mumbai Terror

Sunil Adam | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Television, Urban Guerilla, Bush Administration, Counterterrorism, Sunil Adam, Terrorism, 9/11, Media Coverage, India, Mumbai, Democracies, World News
Sunil Adam

What ensured the stupendous success of the Mumbai terrorists was the saturated coverage by international television networks, fueled by a weak news cycle over the Thanksgiving weekend.

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Exclusive: Christiane Amanpour On Her Genocide Documentary, International Reporting and New Media

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Christiane Amanpour Documentary, International News, Cambodia Genocide, Coverage of International News, Bloggers, Media Coverage, Darfur, Rwanda Genocide, Christiane Amanpour, Genocide, Bosnia Genocide, Scream Bloody Murder, New Media, Cambodia, Christiane Amanpour Genocide, World News
Hanna Ingber Win

CNN's Christiane Amanpour has spent much of the last 20 years covering conflicts in every corner of the world. Her new documentary, Scream Bloody Murd...

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My Response to Dorothy Rabinowitz and the WSJ

Gotham Chopra | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Deepak Chopra, Isi, War on Terror, Terrorism, Dorthy Rabinowitz, Islamic Fundamentalists, Media Coverage, Taliban, Media, Wall Street Journal, War in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Mujahadeen, Media Pundits, Fox News, Us Foriegn Policy, Afghan Taliban, Media News
Gotham Chopra

As concerned citizens it's our responsibility to challenge our leaders to think of new ideas, learn from our past mistakes, and be very conscious of the world they are shaping for our children.

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Did Gun Sales Really Spike Because of the Election? Not Really, it Turns Out.

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Coverage, Obama, Gun Sales, Barack Obama, Guns, Gun Control, Obama Gun Sales, Obama Gun Ownership, Obama Guns, Politics News
Joshuah Bearman

I thought all those stories about the bang up business at gun stores after Obama's win sounded hokey. And they are.

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How Obama's Win Went Down in Kabul

Nushin Arbabzadah | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Obama International Reaction, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Foreign Policy, Media News
Nushin Arbabzadah

The fear that Afghan warlords might have misunderstood Obama's message of "Yes we can," interpreting it as a message of empowerment for war-criminals rather than the people.

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More Shameful "False Equivalence" By The Traditional Media To Annoy You

Mark Nickolas | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Dave Wedge, False Equivalence, Media Coverage, Media Criticism, False Balance, Boston Herald, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Cadillac, Media News
Mark Nickolas

Case-in-point is today's Boston Herald story by Dave Wedge on the custom-made armor-laden presidential limo that is being assembled to protect America's first black president.

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Study: Media Coverage Has Favored Obama Campaign

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Media, Media Coverage, Media Coverage Obama, Media Coverage Mccain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media News

NEW YORK — John McCain supporters who believe they haven't gotten a fair shake from the media during the Republican's candidacy against Barack O...

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