June 20, 2013

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Media Criticism

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CNBC, A Financial News Network, Is Pretty Sure That A Brief Appearance From Raul Grijalva Devastated The Dow Jones Yesterday, For Some Reason

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.28.2012 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Video, Raul Grijalva, Cnbc, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Fiscal Cliff, Media Criticism, Superstitions, Politics News

The biggest one-day drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average occurred Sept. 29, 2008, when Congress ganked on its first attempt to pass...

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Thomas Friedman Has Some Dumb Ideas About Who Should Be Secretary Of State

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.28.2012 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Thomas Friedman, Secretary of State, Susan Rice, Arne Duncan, Bad Ideas, Media Criticism, Hillary Clinton, Idiots, Video, Politics News

As most of you may know, Hillary Clinton will be stepping down from her current position as the U.S. Secretary of State, and the reelected President B...

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Will MSNBC Hold Obama Accountable In Second Term?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.06.2012 | Media

Read More: MSNBC Obama, The Backstory, Fox News Obama, Al Sharpton, Msnbc, Chris Hayes, Cenk Uygur, Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC Ratings, Phil Griffin, Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Glenn Greenwald, Msnbc Obama Coverage, Media Criticism, MSNBC Fox News, Martin Bashir, Media News

NEW YORK –- MSNBC President Phil Griffin labels his network's sensibility as progressive, but the cable news channel could also be described these d...

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Why Facts Are Not Enough

Lee LeFever | Posted 01.21.2013 | Media

Read More: Media, Electoral College, Media Criticism, Voters, Voting, Media News

It's easy to assume that facts can stand on their own, that the mere existence of fact will win any argument or change someone's mind. But facts need help. If we want facts to be more powerful and effective, we need to consider how we package and explain them.

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GOP Looking For Sweet '16 Solutions: HuffPost List

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.21.2012 | Politics

It’s been just two weeks since The Most Important Election In Our Lifetime, and the side that lost is gearing up to be a better competitor by th...

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New York Times Reporters Do Not Understand How Marginal Tax Rates Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2012 | Media

Read More: Eat the Press, Preventable Diseases, Media Criticism, New York Times, Marginal Tax Rates, Innumeracy, Math, New York Times Tax Rates, Media News

For whatever reason, an article titled "Investors Rush to Beat Threat of Higher Taxes" was published by The New York Times despite the fact that it c...

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Fiscal Cliff Primer: Should America Dread A Downgrade?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2012 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Credit Ratings, Politics News, Debt, Deficit, Video, Metaphors, Media Criticism, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Credit Downgrade, Credit Ratings Agencies, Politics News

No.* *We explain this in the video above....

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Marco Rubio's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2012 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Politics News, Video, Marco Rubio, Hip Hop, Rap, Common, Cultural-Criticism, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, Politics News

I think it's pretty great that Marco Rubio took the opportunity to talk about hip-hop in his interview with GQ. He doesn't come off as a dilettante, e...

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Fiscal Cliff Primer: Is The Nation Really Facing a 'Fiscal Cliff'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2012 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Deficit, Debt, Video, Metaphors, Media Criticism, Fiscal Cliff, Ben Bernanke, Politics News

No. (We explain this in the video above.)...

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Monaco Media Forum: The WayBack Machine

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 01.14.2013 | Media

Read More: Mathias Dorpfner, Link Economy, Arianna Huffington, Monaco Media Forum, Curation, Monaco Media Forum 2012, Media Criticism, Media News

As I land in Monaco for this years Monaco Media Forum, I find myself thinking back to 2009 -- the first year of the now annual event, and the panel that I witnessed that began a journey.

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Media Nostalgia, For What It's Worth

D. Robert Worley | Posted 01.14.2013 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Media, Media News

The old approach was to check facts before reporting them. The new approach is to allow advocates to say what they wish and check facts afterward.

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Here Is The Dumbest Possible Article About The Petraeus Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2012 | Politics

Folks, if you had the ambition to pen the dumbest possible story on the ongoing and unfolding sex scandal that has taken Gen. David Petraeus from his ...

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The Worst Predictions Of The 2012 Election Season

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.07.2012 | Politics

Tonight, barring some unforeseen horrible event (or a completely foreseen Ohio outcome that puts the fate of the presidency into some sort of weeks-lo...

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Chris Kluwe Quits Newspaper Over Marriage Equality Editorial

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.04.2012 | Media

Chris Kluwe, Minnesota Vikings punter and outspoken proponent of marriage equality, has resigned as a contributor to the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the...

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WaPo's Downie Blasts Tomorrow Morning's Sunday Show Line Up, But Misses A Larger Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics

Over at the Washington Post's "Post Partisan" blog, James Downie takes issue with the line-ups of this Sunday morning's political chat-shows, calling ...

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Then We Came To The End: The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Nov. 2

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics

Read More: Polls, 2012 Speculatron, 2012 Speculation, Electoral College Projection, Video, Polling, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Media Criticism, Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama, 2012, Politics News

And so it has come to this, our final dispatch before Election Day, and the nagging obligation to "sum it all up" and "bring it all back home." The 20...

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Connection Between Obama's Honorary Degree, Rolling Papers Confirmed By Multiple Sources

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Daily Caller broke the news Friday that a single anonymous source is pretty sure he heard correctly when another guy told him that P...

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News Outlets Didn't Publish Benghazi Detail At CIA's Request

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.02.2012 | Media

Read More: The Backstory, Libya Media, Cia Benghazi, Benghazi Media, Associated Press, Benghazi, Glen Doherty, Wall Street Journal, Ambassador Chris Stevens, Media Benghazi, Cia, New York Times, Media Criticism, Tyrone Woods, Washington Post, ABC News, Libya Attack, Media News

NEW YORK -- U.S. intelligence officials, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis, provided reporters Thursday with the most detailed explanation yet o...

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Game-Changed! Daily Caller Has A Random Guy Who Thinks He Knows Obama's GPA

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.02.2012 | Politics

Go ahead and give Mitt Romney all of your unskewed Electoral College votes, folks, because The Daily Caller has done changed the game with their recen...

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David Brooks and Charles Lane: Wrong on Al Gore, Wrong on Renewables

Elliott Negin | Posted 01.01.2013 | Green

Read More: Energy, Coal Industry, Renewable Energy, Media, Green Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Oil Industry, Hurricane Sandy, David Brooks, Media Criticism, New York Times, Climate Change, Washington Post, Al Gore, Government Subsidies, Global Warming, Green News

Maligning Al Gore for making shrewd investments is silly. But trying to poison public opinion about the need to promote clean energy alternatives with what we know about climate change? That's irresponsible.

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Political Reporters, Pundits Unmoored By The Uncertain Election They Wanted Yielding So Much Uncertainty, According To Politico

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.31.2012 | Media

WASHINGTON -- Politico has figured it all out. There is an election happening, and it could result in one guy being elected president, unless it doesn...

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National Review Still Trying To Make Bayonets Happen

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2012 | Politics

When yesterday's social media coverage of Hurricane Sandy accidentally dredged up an old photo of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment's Tomb Sentinels ...

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Don't Believe the Violent Crime Hype

Inimai Chettiar | Posted 12.30.2012 | Politics

Read More: Media Criticism, Department of Justice, Media, Doj, Crime Rates, Crime, Violent Crime, Politics News

It's that time of year again. No, not carving pumpkins, watching college football, or biting nails over the Presidential election. This month is when the government releases the two most widely cited annual reports about crime.

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Politico Wimps Out On Response To Romney's Fraudulent Jeep Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.29.2012 | Media

In case you missed me banging on about this on Twitter, here's an example of how not even Hurricane Sandy's fury can completely blow away "the stupid....

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Our Ever-Loosening Grip On The Commonest Courtesies Slipped: The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Oct. 26

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2012 | Politics

At about this time in the 2008 presidential election season, a young woman named Ashley Todd went crazy in Pittsburgh. Todd, a volunteer for John McCa...

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