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Amusing Ourselves to Death -- How to Waste Our Last (Obama) Chance

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Neil Postman, Obama, News Cycle, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Enetertainment, Mainstream Media, Msm, Media, Media News

President Obama is a serious man trying to rescue a frivolous trivialized nation with the attention span of an inebriated jellyfish.

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Yes, the Media Helped Elect Obama, But...

Greg Mitchell | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Media, Sarah Palin, Msm, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Media News

The preposterous media coverage of the (few) unhappy Hillary-ites is what inspired McCain to select as his running mate someone who would virtually destroy his campaign.

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Fear and Envy of Black Masculinity: How Politico's Jonathan Martin Mugged President Obama and Got Away With It

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media

Read More: April Ryan, Aggresive, Meltdown, Emotional, Implict Cognition, Obama, Media, Black, White Male Workers, Race, Ashley Todd, Bush, Msnbc, History, Press Room, Male, Agitated, Conservatives, Envy, Implicit Bias, African Americans, Racism, Masculinity, Whiteness, Meme, Rove, Fear, Carrie Budoff Brown, White House Press Corp, Rush Limbaugh, Irritated, Msm, Black Male, Lou Dobbs, Jonathan Martin, Association, White Male, Cnn, White, Politico, Press Corps, Barack Obama, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Fox, Politics, Rnc, Michael Steele, Republican Chair, Media News

Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.

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Sarah, We'd Like to Miss You, but You Won't Go Away

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Msm, Sarah Palin, Mainstream Media, Politics News, Sarah Palin Press Conference, Financial Crisis, Media, Media News

I mean, I like watching Republicans make fools of themselves as much as the next guy, something they have, thankfully, not ceased even for a split second, but why is it that all I see is Sarah Palin?

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Liberal Media to Blame? Not This Time: Apostate Conservatives Nail Coffin Shut

Brian Normoyle | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell Endorses Obama, National Review, Andrew Bacevich, John McCain, Endorsements, Colin Powell, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, Andrew Sullivan, Mccain, Obama, Conservatism, Conservative Endorsements Obama, Barack Obama William Kristol, Barack Obama, Colin Powell Endorsement, Christopher Hitchins, Mainstream Media, John McCain 2008, Chicago-Tribune, Conservatives, Wick Allison, Liberal Media Bias, Colin Powell Obama, William F. Buckley, Msm, Christopher Buckley, Politics News

Nearly two years of presidential politics are finally coming to an end and it appears John McCain--out of "gimmicks du jour"--has decided to spend muc...

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Would Obama's Victory Hurt Obama?

Ari Melber | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Obama Bias, Cnbc, Msm, Chris Bowers, Media Prediction, Barack Obama, Blog Msm, Open Left, Media Bias, Politics News

As everyone prematurely obsesses over a massive Democratic sweep -- which has not happened yet and may not happen -- we'll hear even more contrarian craziness.

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Obama's Inverted Media Strategy Upends Homestretch Hierarchy

Ari Melber | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jake Tapper, John McCain Press, Obama Marxism, Press, Mario Lopez, Cbs, Extra, Barack Obama, Interview, Saved by the Bell, MSM Flaws, Msm, Press Conference, Marxism, Abc, Biden Marxism, Politics News

It is a new, inverted media pyramid: local TV people suddenly make national news, and national TV people are irrelevant, at least momentarily.

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The Big Lie At The Heart Of McCain's Ayers Campaign

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

In a deep sense, this election really is about turning the page on the thinking that would divide us by whether we have regrets about Vietnam. Or Iraq. Or war period.

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7 Questions for Interviewers of McCain and Obama

Erica Jong | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msm, Iraq War, Financial Crisis, Education, Wall Street Crisis, Presidential Debates, 2008 Election, Recession, Politics News

What is the problem with a mixed economy: part capitalist, part socialist? We have had such an economy since the Great Depression and World War II. Why does the word "socialist" make us quake?

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Mainstream Media Pretending Barack Obama Is Racist, Too

236.com | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Obama, Media, Barack Obama, Msm, 236.Com, Politics News

Some stories just have one side. Like the McCain campaign's attempts to smear Barack Obama as a terrorist sympathizer, a man of questionable character...

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How News Outlets Should Maximize Youth Post-Election Civic Engagement

Maegan Carberry | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Campain 2008, Millennial Generation, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Journalism, Msm, Media News

In most social networks - online and offline - there is typically a handful of influencers who lead their peers in suggesting valuable news bits and facilitating activism.

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The Surge "Success" Debunked

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Refugee International, General Petraeus Surge, Shi'a Truce, Iraqi Benchmarks, United Nations, Internally Displaced Persons, US Congress, Sunni Ethnic Cleansing, Department of State, Ngo, Muqtada Al Sadr, The Surge, Unhcr, Justice and Accountability Law, Iraqi Refugees, Ehtno-Sectarian Violence, Sadrist Shi'A, Department of Defense, Siic, Kurds, Constitutional Review Committee, Abdul Al-Hakim, Baghdad, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, John McCain, Government Accountability Office, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Basra, Kirkuk, Ethnic Cleansing, Badr Corps, Marine Corps General Jones, Population Shifts Baghdad, Ucla, Kenneth Katzman, Congressional Research Service Report, Second Largest Refugee Crisis, Shi'a Militias, Center for American Progress, War on Terror, De-Baathification Law, Sons of Iraq, Second Presidential Debate, Transparency International, Crc, 2008 Presidential Race, War in Iraq, International Crisis Group, Sigir, Msm, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Peshmerga, Maliki, Sectarian Violence, Dr. John Agnew, General Petraeus, Sunni Awakening, Icg, Krg, Igos, Isf, Idp, Politics News

Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.

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Joe Klein's "Embarracuda" -- The Hopeless Descent of The McCain Campaign

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Alaska Independence Party, John McCain, Time, Joe Klein, Attack, Mccain, Msm, Media, Time Magazine Mccain, Attack Politics, Politics of Distraction, Silly Season, Media News

By Stephen C. Rose Somebody had to say it in the MSM. And Joe Klein of TIME has done the honor. Read the whole Klein piece here.On PalinOver the wee...

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Sarah Palin -- Two More Days on the Down Slope

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.29.2008 | Media

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By Stephen C. Rose SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 11:09 AM EASTERN Today's Palin links carry nothing reflecting yesterday's affair allegation. I have seen no...

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Two More Days of Sarah Palin on The Down Slope

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 8:00 AM EASTERN TIME I have maintained a Sarah Palin Breaking News and Information page from Day One. Had she been a consistent...

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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The Raw Model Diet: A Day in the Life

Anthony Anderson | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living

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I have always been a fan of common sense, and when I stepped back and looked at the whole picture, being a raw vegan was the only option.

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Memo to McCain: Be Afraid, Very Afraid

Michael Carmichael | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msm, Karl Rove, John McCain, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Here are the hard cold facts. Even with an effective negative campaign and a post convention bounce, you are still well below the level that George Bush occupied four years ago.

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Pot Versus 'The Superbug'

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.27.2008 | Living

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According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, colloquially known as MRSA or 'the s...

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And The Talking Heads Run On, Gavel To Gavel

Beverly Davis | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

Stay tuned! Rest assured there's more "election coverage" coming at you from one of the many "best political teams" on television. My advice: Switch to C-Span.

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Help! My BFF Obama Isn't Following Me On Twitter

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama Vice President, Barack Obama 2008, Blackberry, John McCain, Twitter, John McCain 2008, Email, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Obama Text Message, Msm, New Media, Lol, Home News

John McCain invited me to a convention-watching party! I think I'll go. What will my BFF Obama think? Who cares? I haven't received a single text or email from him during the month of August. Not one!

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Obama Nation An Abomination

Paul Peete | Posted 09.15.2008 | Home

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Corsi's New York Times bestseller status is mentioned like some imprimatur to the book's veracity rather than introducing his book as the right wing tactic, Swiftboating.

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McCain's "Celebrity" Ads Succeed -- In Distracting

Shawn M. Henderson | Posted 09.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Paris Hilton, John McCain, Moses, Britney Spears, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Celebrities, Advertising, 2008 Presidential Race, Msm, Election 2008, Obama Celebrity, Offthebus, Home News

Talking about Paris and Britney is not talking about healthcare and Iraq. There were 85 million potential voters who didn't vote in the last election. Obama needs to let them know what he can do for them.

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Reluctance Of MSM To Cover Edwards Affair Becomes A Story Itself

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and BILL CARTER | Posted 09.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage of Edwards Affair, John Edwards Story, John Edwards Affair, National Enquirer, Msm, Late Night Shows, Media News

For almost 10 months, the story of John Edwards's affair remained the nearly exclusive province of the National Enquirer -- through reports, denials, ...

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Rachel Maddow Wrestles The Pundit Class

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.07.2008 | Home

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Rachel Maddow can no more restore reason to the Mainstream media pundit class than Barack Obama can remake Washington politics. They might push some a...

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