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Jason Linkins

Benghazi Will Totally Be 'The Next Watergate' Unless It Isn't

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

This week, your House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will bring us the latest in l'affaire Benghazi with a set of hearings titled "Exposing...

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No Force On Earth Can Keep Thomas Friedman's Silky Fingers From Their Relentless Copying And Pasting

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

Last week, we got word that New York Times gadabout Thomas Friedman was going to step up and claim a piece of that sweet, sweet "Conferences About How...

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Despite 'Buckwild's' Ignominious End, Reality Television May Not Be Done With Ridiculing Rural Americans

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.10.2013 | Entertainment

MTV's "Jersey Shore in Appalachia" reality series "Buckwild" had a very brief and very unhappy lifecycle. It launched amid censure from critics and la...

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Conservative Mag Derides 'Rubio's Folly'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

As I've noted before, while a bipartisan "Gang" of eight senators are the prime movers behind the renewed hopes for passage of a comprehensive immigra...

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Jason Collins Accused Of Not Disclosing Thing He Actually Totally Disclosed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2013 | Media

Jiminy damn crickets. Mysterious multi-platform media macher Howard Kurtz has taken issue with the way NBA player Jason Collins -- now best known for ...

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Crazed Columnist Ain't Having It With Your Cheap Underwear, Ladies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2013 | Media

You just know she wears ratty underwear, I said. You know it’s cheap. That it rides up and doesn’t provide full coverage. And that it’s gray ins...

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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.28.2013 | Media

Naturally, John McCain was available this morning for Meet the Press, because life is just one crap sandwich that you have to swallow over and over again.

Law & Order SVU Directly Quotes Rape Survivors, Calls Itself "Fiction"

Lisa Wade | Posted 04.26.2013 | TV
Lisa Wade

Law & Order is brazenly capitalizing on the pain and trauma of young women and not only failing to compensate them for stealing their stories, but actually denying that they exist by claiming that the "story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event." Stunning.

Jason Linkins

Politico Grouses About Forthcoming Book In The Most 'Beltway Insider' Article Ever Written

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.26.2013 | Politics

Okay, so bear with me because this is going to be complicated and maybe not that interesting to any of you. Way back in 2010, Mark Leibovich wrote...

Lessons Learned By Media Coverage of Boston Marathon Bombing

Mike Berman | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business
Mike Berman

They say the first casualty in the heat of a moment is truth. The recent media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing offers invaluable material and lessons for any business executive to apply in any industry to validate that saying.

Jason Linkins

Bush Library Opening Presents 'Delicate' High-Wire Challenge To Obama, For Some Reason

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2013 | Politics

The George W. Bush Presidential Center, a museum and library that contains the historic bric-a-brac of President George W. Bush's White House, is bein...

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You Can Pay $995 to Hear Thomas Friedman Mansplain The 'Hyperconnected' World To You

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

Up until now, mankind has only been able to engage with The New York Times columnist and haver-of-thoughts Thomas Friedman in a small number of limite...

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Anonymous Sources: Our Boss, NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson, Is So ... Bossy!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2013 | Media

Great googly-moogly, newspaper fans! According to this piece in Politico today, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has "lost the newsroom."...

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Sarah Palin Racks Up Another Trollgaze Magazine Cover

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

A forthcoming cover piece from The American Spectator will tell the story of how Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and one-time vice presidentia...

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Terrible Revamp Of Terrible Show To Be Even More Terrible Than Anyone Imagined

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2013 | Media

Way, way back in the day, CNN used to have this show called "Crossfire," because it was cheaper than actually reporting the news. Occupying an hour of...

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Looking Forward In Angst: In Defense Of Maureen Dowd

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2013 | Politics

I rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to say something kind about New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. In fairness, this is mostly because I rarel...

We're All Journalists Now

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.22.2013 | Media
Janet Ritz

In the Internet age, we're all journalists. Everyone who posts on social media should consider that, if what they posted is incorrect, exposing, sensational, prejudicial or otherwise inappropriate, it may change the perception of those who see it in unforeseen ways.

Jason Linkins

Oh, Come On Now, CNN

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.19.2013 | Media

This evening, Wolf Blitzer kicked over to Susan Candiotti, reporting live from Watertown, Mass. What followed was unfortunate. (Hat tip to Gabriel Sny...

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Marco Rubio Forced To Clarify That He Is Not Giving Undocumented Immigrants Free Cellphones

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics

Lots going on up at Capitol Hill today as the Senate debates whether or not it should do what 90 percent of the country wants and improve the gun-sale...

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The FBI Would Really Like The Media To Please Please Please Calm Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.17.2013 | Media

Based upon what cable news has been saying all day, there have been conflicting reports about whether someone was arrested in the Boston Marathon atta...

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Unemployed? Maybe You Should Thank Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics

Are you unemployed? Perhaps you should blame some of America's most celebrated economists, and their troubles with math. Tuesday's big non-Boston n...

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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2013 | Media

Today, it looks like most of the action is centered on the various things that Congress might actually try to pull off -- like, passing laws and stuff. It's been a tricky hang of late, what with all the terrible incompetence.

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Passing The 'Grand Bargain' Voters Don't Care About Will Restore Confidence In Government, Apparently

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics

Time Swampland contributor Joe Klein -- who is confident that Congress will agree to a "grand bargain" -- says that people like me who contend that vo...

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WaPo Editors Super Excited About Cuts To Elderly Benefits, Giving GOP Political Cover

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

If President Barack Obama's budget offer is primarily an attempt to win over members of the Centrist Hack Pundit Community, and perhaps get them to tr...

A Case Study: Social Media Policy, a U.S. Embassy, Egypt and Jon Stewart

Jean Newman Glock | Posted 06.09.2013 | Technology
Jean Newman Glock

As an Embassy sitting smack in the middle of an evolving Twitter revolution, Cairo has become a de facto leader struggling to respond and direct the discussion (or not) in a transparent, universal global forum: social media.