Rahm Emanuel 'Bedeviling' News Organizations With His Name
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard makes note of the curious way that news organizations choose to identify White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whose v...
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Right-Wing Talkers Obsessed With Rape
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
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One of the things that's obviously under-appreciated about right-wing radio and television is the way hosts wield this awesome variety of artful metap...
Palin: Sexism Only Matters When It Hurts Me
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
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On the matter of Sarah Palin's Newsweekcover, the Washington City Paper's Amanda Hess has basically won the entire discussion.
WaPo's Cohen Suggests That Nidal Hasan Investigation Needs More McCarthyism
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
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As facts continue to emerge about alleged Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan, reasonable people should be able to agree that serious questions need to be as...
Going Rogue with Fact Checking
Janet Turley | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
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It's no surprise that Going Rogue has spun such a widespread reaction. Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure that rarely makes anyone indifferent to her....
Media Madness: Going Rogue Over Sarah Palin
Robert Guttman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
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Enough already on Palin and her new book! The national media is creating a best seller for the former GOP vice-presidential candidate by its harsh criticisms of her.
An Open Letter to Adam Lambert From the Gay Thought Police
Joe Vogel | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment
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I like you, Adam, I really do. That is why I freely offer these pearls of wisdom on how to celebrate, not dilute, the purity of your sexual identity.
Dueling Palin Reviews Equals Zero For Readers
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
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I don't really see much point to newspapers running dueling reviews of a single book -- it's sort of feckless, isn't it? Well, shucks! if you didn't ...
Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs
John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
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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."
Rick Morrissey, Chicago Sportswriter, Literally Eats His Own Words (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
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The Tribune columnist -- the author of an "unflattering assessment of Bulls center Joakim Noah" -- eats his own words. Maybe Rick Reilly should consider what will wash down his predictions about the Broncos!
FLASHBACK -- Lou Dobbs's Past Bluster: "It's Killing The Left... That They Can't Force CNN To Fire Me"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
Here's a reminder of how now-resigned-from-CNN Lou Dobbs used to bellow on and on about his various persecution complexes, and blustered that "It's just killing the left... that they can't force CNN to fire me."
John Galligan, Hasan Defense Attorney, Target Of Wolf Blitzer's Shame Campaign
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
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It goes without saying that when the available facts accrue and weigh so heavily against a defendant, like the alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, o...
Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
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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.
Fort Hood Fear-Mongering, Enabled By Media, Breeds Strange Bedfellows
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
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Yesterday afternoon, Newsbusters plugged this story about ABC News's report via Brian Ross "that suspected Fort Hood shooter Nidal Halik Hasan tried t...
Five Eliminated In WaPo's Important Pundit Contest
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
The Washington Post is searching for America's Next Top Cheaply-Bought Purveyor Of Online Opinion, and yesterday, the paper made its first round of cr...
"Fox And Friends" Hosts Worry That Military Needs "Special Debriefings" For Muslims
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media
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On this morning's Fox And Friends, hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were all a-whip with Salem Witch Trial panic over the thought that Nidal ...
Chris Matthews Thinks Health Care Reform Is Being "Hung Up By The Left"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
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On this evening's edition of Hardball, Chris Matthews hosted Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, and the two men proceeded to have the...
WaPo's Gene Weingarten On Fisticuff-Spawning Passions: "Hooray!"
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
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Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten took the time at the end of his "Chatalogical Humor" chat yesterday to weigh in on the recent newsroom dust-up ...
New York Times Bent Over Backwards To Please Spitzer Flacks During Scandal
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
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Hey kids! Remember that time when South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving his perplexed staff behind to g...
The State Of Your Post-Election Media Memes
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
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Bill Owens,
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2009,
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If you missed out on last night's election, well, don't you know that you missed out on the most important off-off-year election in our lives? It's t...
Referring To Marathon Winner As "Technically American" Has Become A Disturbing Trend [UPDATE]
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media
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It really takes a special kind of irredeemable pigheadedness to read about American marathon runner Meb Keflezighi's victory in the New York City mara...
WaPo Vet Involved In Newsroom Punch-Up Surprised By Attention
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media
Yesterday, we got news of a newsroom dust-up at the Washington Post, where Henry Allen, veteran features editor, criticized a "charticle" for its lack...
Valerie Jarrett Bungles Fox News Bias Question
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
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One of the things that's getting little discussion from Jon Stewart's penetrating take-down of Fox News yesterday night, is the way in which White Hou...
Downfall Parody Injects Confusion, Offense Into Crist/Rubio Race
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
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I crossed paths today with a news report from CBS Channel 4 in South Florida that was headlined, "Video Portrays Charlie Crist As Hitler." Immediatel...
Politico Finally Gets To The Bottom Of Listicles, With Listicle
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Listicles! Journalists love listicles the way the President loves playing basketball, without the ladies. We make them, I make them, Mark Halperin c...
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