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Media Criticism

Jason Linkins

Sean Hannity's Pattern Of Selective Editing Documented (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Major Garrett, Media Criticism, Selective Editing, Barack Obama, Media News

Seems like only yesterday I was talking about the way Sean Hannity cooks up some news, for his teevee show. It goes a little something like this: 1...

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Jason Linkins

Washington Post Uses The Word 'Torture' On Front Page

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Media Criticism, Torture, Media News

I received something of a shock whilst riding into the office on the subway this morning: There, on the front page of the Washington Post, above the f...

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Jason Linkins

Sean Hannity Caught Selectively Editing Obama Speeches, Again (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Barack Obama, Media Criticism, Major Garrett, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Selective Editing, Media News

Whenever President Barack Obama goes abroad, cameras follow him, and record the things he says to people. Just as often, it seems, Fox's Sean Hannity...

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Jason Linkins

Is The Recession Over Now That Gonzo Has A Job (No.) (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Mark Knoller, U.S. Senate, Alberto Gonzales, Ana Marie Cox, Twitter, Nico Pitney, Media Criticism, Senate Armed Services Committee, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Media News

What a frabjous day for former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who have finally surmounted what seemed to be his most insurmountable object --...

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Jason Linkins

McNamara Never Stopped Looking Down On War Critics

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Criticism, War in Iraq, Robert McNamara, Washington Post, War Punditry, Fred Hiatt, Politics News

It's very difficult to get taken seriously in the media today, unless you were strongly beating a drum in favor of the Iraq misadventure. Getting it right still comes with consequences: a diminished share of the pundit-hole. Getting it wrong still comes with rewards.

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Freedom Isn't Free -- We Still Aren't Free of Sarah Palin

Mary Lyon | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Sarah Palin Resignation, Sarah Palin Speech, Sarah Palin and the Media, Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor, Sarah Palin Appeal, Sarah Palin and Mccain Campaign, Media Criticism, Media News, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Mary Lyon

Ironically, you've announced your babbling bailout on the eve of Independence Day. The people of Alaska may indeed finally be free of you. Unfortunately, the rest of us are about to become hostages.

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Census 2010: The Right's Super-Secret Plan to End All Plans

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Census Bureau, Acorn, Clear Channel, Meghan Clyne, Neal Boortz, G. Gordon Liddy, Media Matters for America, Media, Barack Obama, Census, 2010 Census, Michelle Bachmann, Media Matters, New York Post, Rose Tennant, Fox News, Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Media News, Media News
Karl Frisch

Pssst. Hey, conservatives ... I want to let you in on a devious little plan being hatched by your leaders in the media.

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Michael Jackson, Man in the Music, Part 4 (Tabloid Junkie)

Joe Vogel | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Media Criticism, Media, Michael Jackson Death, Entertainment News
Joe Vogel

HIStory is, in Jackson's words, "a musical book." It encompasses all that he had felt and held in over the difficult past few years: it was his diary, his canvas, his rebuttal.

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In Search of the "Muslim World"

John Milewski | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Islamic Society of North America, Islam, Isna, Akbar Ahmed, Documentary, Media Criticism, Media, Fourth of July, America, Muslim World, Media News
John Milewski

Journey Into America portrays the experiences of Muslim-Americans, providing much food for thought about how we think about any designated group of Americans.

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Jason Linkins

AP Blows The Doors Off Of This 'Sex' Stuff We Keep Hearing About

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Sex in the News, Media Criticism, Sex, Mark Sanford, Media News

The brave souls at the Associated Press are finally going to get to the bottom of all of this sex stuff. And AP's report, entitled, "What Is Sex? Americans Can't Agree," is just as delightful as you might suspect.

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Jason Linkins

Sarah Palin Battles The Internet (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Civil Liberties, Internet, Detainee Rights, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, Ross Douthat, Prolonged Detention, Detentions, Sarah Palin, Ceci Connolly, David Letterman, Media News

My advice to Sarah Palin would be to do as the old ad copy said: Never let them see you sweat. Don't get involved in a land war with David Letterman.

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Jason Linkins

WaPo Covered For CIA In Iran-Contra Crack Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Drug Trade, Washington Post, Cia, Ryan Grim, Media Criticism, Media News

Over at The Root, you can read an excerpt of my colleague, Ryan Grim's book This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History Of Getting High In Ameri...

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Jason Linkins

The Best Local News Segment On Bears You Will Ever See, Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Animals, Media Criticism, Amazingness, Local News, Comedy News

A Fox News' Cleveland affiliate has broadcast what has to be the most amazing "BEARS ARE ON THE LOOSE" report, ever. Seriously! These guys went all ...

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Code Orange And June Bugs

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media-Accountability, Media Activism, Lesbian, Kai Wright, Gay, Transgender Issues, Andy Humm, Journalism, Civil Rights, Pro-Media, Joan Garry, Lgbt, Transgender, Bisexual, Revolution, Media Criticism, Pride, Gay Pride, Gay Marriage, Stonewall, Gay Issues, Manhattan, New School, Nlgja, Politics News
Rochelle Lefkowitz

It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.

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Jason Linkins

Sanford Adultery Emails Suggested As Cure For Media Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Mark Sanford, Media Economy, Media Criticism, Mark Sanford Argentina, Sanford Affair, Media News

As many of you know by now, the love that Mark Sanford shared with his Argentinean paramour played out in many, many emails, in which Sanford enumerat...

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Jason Linkins

Hal Turner, Internet Radio Host, Arrested For Inciting Violence Against Public Officials...Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Hal Turner, Talk Radio, Anti-Semitism, Media Criticism, Media News, Terrorism, Hate Speech, Media News

Hal Turner, New Jersey's top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was i...

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Jason Linkins

Dana Milbank Shows Nico Pitney What A Serious Journalist Looks Like

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Nico Pitney, Media Criticism, Fake-Ass Media Firestorms, Dana Milbank, Iran, Idiots, Media News

As you may have heard, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank is outraged at the White House "staging" a question from our own Nico Pitney at yesterday's ...

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Jason Linkins

Health Care Policy Sparks Squabbling On "Morning Joe" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Joe Scarborough, Media Criticism, Morning Joe, Health Care Reform, Mika Brzezinski, Chris Matthews, Media News

Hoo, boy! Things got crazy caffeinated on the Morning Joe show this morning, when MSNBC's lovable Our Gang of popnewstainment invited irascible old so...

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Jason Linkins

AP Uses The Word 'Torture!' (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Gitmo, Twitter, Media Criticism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Media Obsessions, War on Terror, Yahoo, Media News

So a federal judge has ordered the release of GITMO detainee Abd al Rahim Abdul Rassak, mainly because before he became a prisoner of the United State...

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Jason Linkins

NYT Poll Indicates Even Republicans Back Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Polls, Media and Polls, Polling, Public Option, Health Care, Media Criticism, Politics News

Allies of health care reform suggest that, if enacted, a public health care option will help make health care affordable, and will get us off the path...

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Jason Linkins

TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Media News

Good morning, HuffPo readers and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog of the flickering images and grunted sounds issuing forth from your Sunday morning talk shows.

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It's People Power, not "Democratic Diddling" in Iran

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Nonviolent Action, People-Power, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Democracy Promotion, World, Middle East, Iranian Election, Media Criticism, Conspiracy Theory, The Green Revolution, World News
Cynthia Boaz

"I suppose that human beings looking at it would say that arms are the most dangerous things that a dictator, a tyrant needs to fear. But in fact, no ...

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Jason Linkins

Karl Rove, Of All People, Worries That ABC And The White House Are Too Close

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Karl Rove, Health Care Special, Fox News, ABC News, George W. Bush. Barack Obama, Media Criticism, Rnc-Abc-Health-Care, Media News

Fox News has been full of complaints over ABC's plan to air a news special entitled "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," during wh...

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Jason Linkins

Dan Froomkin's Firing Leaves Post With Glut Of Neocons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Newspapers, Media Criticism, Washington DC, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Dan Froomkin, Media News

So, now that Dan Froomkin's been fired, what's the Washington Post looking like today? I think that Glenn Greenwald neatly sums it up: --Neocon Char...

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Jason Linkins

Public Strongly Supports Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Polls, Joe Scarborough, Public Option, Media Criticism, Deficits, Jim Cramer, Health Care Reform, Media News

Yesterday, what prompted CNBC's Jim Cramer to suggest that President Barack Obama needed "to go away for a little bit," was a poll, whose numbers indi...

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