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Willie Geist's Week in Review: Reality TV, Mrs. Blago, Potato Chip Prostitute and Sanford

Peter Drivas | Posted 07.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Mark Sanford, Willie Geist, Media News, Mark Sanford Affair, John-and-Kate-Plus-8, Morning Joe, Media News

As the world remains captivated by the death of pop legend Michael Jackson, "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist turned his attention to "some utter non...

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Jackson, Fawcett Specials Score Big Ratings, ABC's Fawcett Special Wins

Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Media News, TV Ratings, Abc, Farrah Fawcett, Media News

At 9, the ABC News 20/20 and NBC News Dateline specials both drew a 1.7 rating/5 share in the 18-49 demo. At 10 p.m., the CBS news Michael Jackson spe...

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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.25.2009 | 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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Campbell Brown Ratings Hit 2009 Low

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Campbell Brown Ratings, Campbell Brown No Bias No Bull, Media News, TV Ratings, Forbes, CNN Ratings, Campbell Brown, Media News

CNN's "Campbell Brown" hit a new ratings low for 2009 on Friday, June 19, when she averaged just 516,000 total viewers. Brown's previous 2009 low had...

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CNN Praises a Dictator

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Kerry, Media, Sanjeev Bery, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Election, Khomeini, Bery, Media News, Shah of Iran, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah, Iran, Savak, Cnn, cnn.com, Iranian Democracy, John Kerry, Mossadegh, Cia, Operation Ajax, Media Bias, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.

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Jason Linkins

National Review Cover Story On "The Beauty Of Drilling" To Be A Disappointment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: National Review, Sotomayor Racism, Wtf, Sonia Sotomayor, Drilling, Magazine Covers, Media News, Jonah Goldberg, Media News

Oh, the delights of the National Review's cover stories! Earlier this month, I think we all enjoyed ourselves immensely when the magazine, in their r...

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World Association of Newspapers' President Slams Aggregators and Reveals Merger With IFRA

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Old Media vs. New Media, Independent News and Media, Advertising, The Independent, Rocky Mountain News Closing, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Media, Christian Science Monitor, Gavin O'Reilly, Irish, World News, Newspaper Industry, Google, Google News, Media News
Faisal J. Abbas

Even if the recession is over, what are newspapers going to do with the ever growing competition coming from their online counterparts?

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Media Literacy 101: Cloak-and-Dagger News

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abc, Islam, Bbc, Voa, Twitter, Technology, Iran, Mcclatchy, Media News, Media Literacy, Facebook, Tiananmen Square, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Channel 4, Youtube, Cnn, Youtube Diplomacy, New York Times, Washington Post, Vietnam, Censor, Terrorism, World News
Susan Moeller

It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.

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Media Literacy 101: "Allah O Akbar!" has become a cry for freedom

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Terrorism, Technology, Twitter, Media News, Facebook, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Youtube, Youtube Diplomacy, Media Literacy, Iranian Revolution, Abc, Ayatollah Khomeini, Allah O Akbar, Media News
Susan Moeller

The pictures from Tehran are showing that Iranians are not monolithic in their beliefs. Demonstrably they can be both committed to God and to free and fair elections.

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New Apple iPhone, OS Available; Tethering Not: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer June 18, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Games, Atas, Local Ads, Major League Baseball, Ipodtouch, Cbs, Mediabytes, Iphone, Broadband, Apple, 3.0 Os, Emmy Awards, Mtv, Shelly Palmer, Mlbtv, Invidi, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Live Streaming Video, 3gs, Media News, Directv, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Apple released the new iPhone 3GS, as well as the iPhone 3.0 OS, yesterday afternoon. While the new iPhone did not receive the same of pre-sale hype...

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Twitter Essential Tool for Iranian Election News: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer June 17, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Twitter, President Obama, Martha University, Charlie Gibson, Iran, Mediabytes, Election, Senate, Shelly Palmer, Fcc, State Department, Hand Set, Wireless, Exclusivity, Tehran, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Media News, Owen Van Natta, Abc, Health Reform, News, Myspace, Media News
Shelly Palmer

The State Department asked Twitter to delay a "critical network upgrade" scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use th...

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Jason Linkins

Obama FCC Nominee Comes Out Against Fairness Doctrine (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Julius Genachowski, Fairness Doctrine, Right Wing Radio, Media News, Media News

The paranoia that Obama would be getting all up in the radio tubes and force talk radio to start presenting an equal array of opposing viewpoints, thus destroying America, has persisted.

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Willie Geist's Week In Review: Tasered Granny, Dethroned Miss Cali & An Irascible Palin

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Willie Geist, Video, Media News, Morning Joe, Miss California, Sarah Palin, Tasered Grandma, Week in Review, Media News

'Morning Joe' co-host Willie Geist presented his usual, always-amusing Friday run-down of the week's top stories. There were only three, but they are ...

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Why This Recession Is No Different From All The Others (VIDEO)

Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

Read More: History, Recession History, Economy, Business News, Media News, Economy History, Recession, Business News

Check out this video, produced by Dent Asset Management, that posits this recession is no different from the many others America has experienced over ...

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R.I.P. Analog Television, Hello Digital: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: going.com, Analog Television, Tim Armstrong, France, Timothy Morse, Iab, Digital Television, Mediabytes, Yahoo, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Piracy, Aol, Shelly Palmer, Carol Bartz, Three Strikes, Media News, Blake Jorgensen, Patch, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Today marks the end of Analog Television; AOL acquires local news site Patch and events site Going.com; Yahoo announces that Timothy Morse will serve as the company's new CFO.

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Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch

Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NY Times, Boston Globe, Newspapers, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Unions, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Charles Warner

People will act against their own best interests when they think they are being treated unfairly. They may go down, but they're going to take the greedy bastards down with them.

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Seeds of Hatred---Reaping the Harvest

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, Mark Levin, Tiller, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, President Obama, G. Gordon Liddy, Obama, Pro-Life, Tom Tancredo, Barack Obama, Dr. George Tiller, Talk Radio, Conservatives, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Fox News, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Media News, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Republicans, Israel, Media News
Larry Gellman

We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.

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Paper of Record Is No Longer Interesting

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Papers of Record, Style, Jon Stewart, Writing, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Media News, Strunk and White, Journalism, Media News
Richard Laermer

Newspapers strive to be viewed as the defenders of society -- holding government and industry accountable for their actions in instances where the eve...

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Google's Android to Run on Acer Netbooks

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Conan O'Brien, Bing, Twitter, Android, Operating System, Chinese Government, Mediabytes, App Store, Jimmy Fallon, Shelly Palmer, Notebooks, Youtube, Media News, Verizon Wireless, Hotmail, Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, China, Acer, Flickr, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Acer is set to be the first PC manufacturer to package its netbooks with Google's Android operating system. One of the finest selling points about Google's OS is that its free.

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Jason Linkins

NYT Edits 'Sharp Tongue' Sotomayor Headline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, New York Times, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Media News, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Media News

As you may have heard, there was this one time that Judge Sonia Sotomayor totally interrupted a government lawyer, for the first time ever in the hist...

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The Right's Supremely Flawed Opening Argument Against Sotomayor

Karl Frisch | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Ed Schultz, Supreme Court, Msnbc, Concerned Women for America, Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh, Antonin Scalia, Media, Lou Dobbs, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Cnn, George H.W. Bush, Media Matters, Sean Hannity, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media News, Media News
Karl Frisch

The Right's reaction to Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment shows that numerous conservatives in the media have savaged her as a racist and a bigot.

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Jason Linkins

Trent Reznor Helps Save Life On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Veronica De La Cruz, Eric Heart Transplant, Twitter, The Giving Life, Media News, Health Care Reform, Eric, Eric De La Cruz, Save Eric, #Eric, Media News

Two weeks ago, Eat The Press' founder/blogmother Rachel Sklar took to these pages to describe the ongoing effort to procure a much needed heart transp...

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At Stake: The Future of Getting News to Americans

Alberto Ibargüen | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Senate Commerce Committee, Media News, Information Technology, Media, Technology, Journalism, Employment, Media News
Alberto Ibargüen

If the future of democracy's news and information is online, then we must ensure everyone is online, and bring technology training, digital literacy and higher quality networks to our local communities.

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Prairie Home Torture Companion

Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media News, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Torture, Garrison Keillor, Bush Administration Torture, Democratic Congress, Crime, Terror-Criminal-Prosecution, CIA Torture, Politics News
Rory O'Connor

Keillor called for a fair and thorough congressional investigation that would "lay the whole wretched business out on the public record".

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Jason Linkins

Diane Wood, Supreme Court Prospect: A Definitive Take

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Media News, Media Criticism, David Souter Retires, Diane Wood, Barack Obama, Judge Wood, Justice Wood, Diane Wood Supreme Court, Media News

About two weeks ago, I criticized Jeffrey Rosen for a profile of potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Purporting to be "The Case Against ...

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