Media Criticism

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Media's Balloon Boy Coverage Filled With More Hot Air Than Actual Balloon

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Richard Heene, Video, Media Criticism, Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene Balloon, Falcon Heene, Media News

As details emerge, we learn more about how Richard Heene has a thing for hoaxes, which raises the specter that it was the media, not a six-year old child, that was taken for a ride. Not that it matters!

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Media Struggles To Reconcile Dow Surge With Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Jobless Recovery, Unemployment, Media Criticism, Dow-10000, Neil Cavuto, Media on Unemployment @Y:Business, Unemployment vs. The Dow, Media News

Hey, kids! Did you get the funny feeling in the past 48 hours that the legal tender in your wallet felt a little more bald-eagley? There's a reason ...

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CNN To Disclose Castellanos's Health Care Industry Ties

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Alex Castellanos, Media Criticism, Health Care Reform, Ahip, Lobbyblog, Health Care Lobbying, Castellanos, Media News

A day after Media Matters revealed that Alex Castellanos' consulting firm is connected to the recent anti-health care reform advertising blitz from America's Health Insurance Plans, CNN has announced that they will disclose Castellanos' ties to the health care industry in future appearances.

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Where's the Reporting On the Fraud That Led to the Economic Collapse?

Barry Sussman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, U.S. Economy, Economic Recovery, Media, Economy, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Media News

Economist James Galbraith says America's economic collapse "was the product of wide-scale criminal fraud" but that the press, instead of investigating it properly, has treated it as a 'boys will be boys" phenomenon.

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Pardon The Interruption: CNN Drops Afghanistan Discussion For Serious Breaking News About Rush Limbaugh

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Rush Limbaugh, War in Afghanistan, Cnn, Rush Limbaugh St Louis Rams, Media Criticism, Joe Biden, Arianna Huffington, Wolf Blitzer, Media News

So, it's half past six or so on a Wednesday evening and I am watching that evening's edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer and the Chamber of Situations, wher...

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MTSU Survey Documents Entrenching Of Falsehoods

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Rumors, Birthers, Media Criticism, Cass Sunstein, Rumors, Media News

Over at the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder digs into a recent survey conducted by Middle Tennessee State University, which demonstrates the extent to which "...

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How Watching Cable News Induces Despair

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable News, 24-Hour-News-Stations, Media Criticism, Inside DC, Media News

What could have possibly reduced Center For American Progress blogger Matt Yglesias to a state of "agitation," "despair," anger, and "helpless[ness]" ...

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Howard Kurtz Slams Letterman, Loses Perspective

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Media Criticism, David Letterman, Media News

The prospect of a defense contractor being blackmailed is of much greater significance than a late-night teevee comedian. The two should not, in any way, be compared.

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Nobel Obama, Noble Gandhi ... and These Ignoble Times

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Nobel Prize Reactions, Obama Nobel, Media Criticism, Nobel Peace Prize, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Media, Media News, Spirituality, Barack Obama, President Obama Nobel, World News

It may be true that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promise rather than achievement, but let us not forget that there is at least one point on which he has already proven himself -- civility.

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DNC Understandably Upset At Politico Piece Linking Obama To Roman Polanski

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Jim VandeHei, Politico, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, Roman Polanski, Media News

The DNC is up in arms at a brief piece in The Politico that linked Barack Obama to Roman Polanski through a scant $34,000 worth of donations that were...

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Enough With the David Letterman Hoopla Already!

Annie Stamell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Billy Crudup, John Edwards, Media Criticism, Stargate Universe, TV News, Roman Polanski, David Letterman, Entertainment News

Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...

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Andrew Sullivan's McCaughey Mea Culpa Hints At Internal Struggle At The New Republic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Marty Peretz, Betsy Mccaughey, Andrew Sullivan, Media Criticism, Andrew Sullivan McCaughey, The Atlantic McCaughey, Media News

Speaking of Betsy McCaughey, her return to the spotlight has prompted a second round of mea culpas from The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, who was the ed...

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Betsy McCaughey Media Obsession: What's The Point?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Betsy Mccaughey, Dylan Ratigan, Jon Stewart, Media Criticism, Media News

Columbia Journalism Review's Greg Marx will have to be a little bit more specific on what "concerns" of mine he feels I am "overstating," but beyond t...

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Anonymous White House Sources Praise White House In Important Journalistic Scoop

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: National Security, Media Criticism, Glenn Greenwald, Unnamed-Sources, Washington Post, Anonymous Sources, Media News

Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald tore apart a piece of stenographic PR that ran in the Washington Post. Titled "Obama Team Says Zazi Case Illustrates Balan...

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A Media Failure Compounds Our Financial Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Media Criticism, Peter Schiff, Max Wolff, Wall Street, Recovery, Media News

We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up ...

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Fox News Ignores White House Afghanistan Meeting To Obsess Over Czars

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Fox News, Cnn, Media Criticism, Afghanistan, Pay Czar, Czars, Media News

Lawmakers met at the White House to have a discussion on the war in Afghanistan. But Fox News' Neil Cavuto chose to spend his time fearmongering about the White House's Special Master for Compensation.

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Media Pimping Mythical Obama-McChrystal Rift

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Media Criticism, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, Media News

The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman doesn't go for a whole lot of media scolding -- a point he reiterates today in a related blog post, sayi...

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Columnist Defames Dead Man Wrongly Called Child Molester By Her Paper

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Canada, Media Criticism, Media News

Jonathan Turley flags an absolutely appalling column in the Toronto Star written by Rosie DiManno, concerning the suicide of a Toronto teacher named D...

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Hollywood And Washington, D.C. Are Very Much Alike

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Roman Polanski, Washington DC, Hollywood, Torture, Media News

In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, John Horn and Tina Daunt wrote about the extent to which the Hollywood community is terribly out of touch with the ...

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WSJ's Thomas Frank Assails WaPo's Coverage Of Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Frank, Lobbying, Media Criticism, Lobbyists, Whore, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Lobbyblog, Washington Post Salons, Thomas Frank Washington Post, Thomas Frank Lobbyists, Inside DC, Politics News

In today's Wall Street Journal, columnist Thomas Frank calls out the Washington Post at length for its fawning, frolicsome coverage of the way lobbyists infect every single corner of Capitol Hill like a lycanthropic plague.

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Obama Trip To Copenhagen Sparks Olympic-Sized Derangement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Chicago Olympic Bid, Media Criticism, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Obama Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Obama Copenhagen, Politics News

Of course, if you are not concerned about the awesomely ruinous opportunity cost to safety and prosperity that a brief jaunt to Denmark represents, surely you are worried about all the Chicago Machine Olympic corruption.

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Has Iran Already Nuked Us!?

John Knefel | Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Iran Media, Thomas Friedman, Iran Sanctions, Media Criticism, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, New York Times Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Comedy News

It sure sounds like the media is congealing around a new meme like the unthinking wad of lard that they are.

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This Day In Newspapers And Their Pointless Journalistic Endeavors

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Washington Post, Media Criticism, Media News

Print media: It's totally dying! And what can be done about it? The moment seems to call for a re-arrangement of journalistic priorities in the serv...

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Polanski Arrest Causes Mass Dementia Among Apologists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, Media Criticism, Roman Polanski, Media News

Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland and is facing extradition to the United States because he was convicted of having unlawful sex with a ...

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Getting The Detroit Story Right

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Unemployment, Time Magazine, Economic Crisis, Detroit, Media News, Media Criticism, Detroit-Michigan, Poverty, Financial Crisis, Thomas Morton, Dale Maharidge, Media News

My recent interview with Dale Maharidge provided the occasion to bring up one of my favorite recent pieces of downturn-era media criticism, Vice Magazine's "Something Something Something Detroit", in which Thomas Morton described how the recession had sparked a "gold rush mentality" among journalists, looking to document some desolation on the cheap.

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