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All the News That's Fit to Print

Michael Jones | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago

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Michael Jones

By reporting the facts, we can, as a society, stop what is really causing young inner city girls to believe that their economic worth extends no further than child assistance checks.

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Obama and the Cowardly Goons; or, Politico's Incorrect and Appallingly Stupid "Analysis" of the President's Response to his Critics

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: News Media, Conservatives, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei, US Chamber of Commerce, Politics News
Michael J.W. Stickings

Obama is fighting back only because Republicans have so far spent his entire presidency trying to obstruct his every move.

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Alert The TV News Media: Obamanomics Isn't Working

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media

Read More: John Cassidy, Job Losses, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Unemployment Rate, New Deal, Fdr-New-Deal, Jobs, News Media, Media, Franklin Roosevelt, Diane Tucker, Barack Obama, Recession, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Cnn, Unemployed, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Fox News, Unemployment Benefits, Work Projects Administration, Charles Gibson, Banks, NBC News, Layoffs, Msnbc, Bank of America, Aig, Cnbc, Citibank, Bankruptcy, Timothy Geithner, Financial Crisis, The Recession, The Bailouts, Careers, Labor, CBS Evening News, ABC News, Small Business, Economy, Michelle Obama, Capitalism: A Love Story, Media News
Diane Tucker

Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.

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Young Voices in The Future of News -- Connection, Conversation, Community

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Bob Woodward, Craig Newmark, Jay Rosen, Tina Brown, Sam Donaldson, Ann Curry, Newseum, Mark Zuckerberg, News Media, Facebook, Online News, Everyblock, Jav on Tech, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

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Politics, in Ebony and Ivory

Brian Palmer | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fox, News Media, President Barack Obama, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Brian Palmer

It's a commonplace that Social Security is the third rail of politics. For the first black president, however, it's clearly race.

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Remember What Civility Was? A Book to Remind Us

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civility, News Media, Cable Tv, President Obama, Urban Worrier, Frank Gruber, Santa Monica-California, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Urban Worrier is an extraordinary book about an ordinary life as lived in extraordinary times. How I wish voices like Frank Gruber's were the voices of politics and argument we were hearing on cable TV!

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The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public

Norman Solomon | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Escalation, Vietnam War, New York Times, Iraq, Afghanistan, Washington Post, News Media, Lyndon Johnson, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, World News
Norman Solomon

Increasingly, public opinion is not cooperating. While the media establishment and the political establishment appear to belong to the same pro-war affinity group, the public is shifting to the other side of a widening credibility gap.

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Revolting Revelation: Michael Jackson Still Not Allowed Burial

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fallen King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Precription Drugs, Neverland Ranch, Closure, Wacko Jacko, Burial, Barry Gordy, Black Entertainment Awards, Papparazzi, News Media, Smoky Robinson, Motown Records, Child Molestation, Jermaine Jackson, TV Ratings, Guiness Book of World Records, Journalism, Joe Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Sensationalism, Peter Pan, The King of Pop, Los Angeles Coroner, Toxicoloy Reports, Entertainment News
Francesca Biller-Safran

It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.

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Media Feeding Frenzy Cheats Viewers

Saul Segan | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, News Coverage, Farah Fawcett, News Media, Ed McMahon, Iran, Media Bias, Journalism, Media News
Saul Segan

While it was understandable that Jackson's death merited considerable coverage, the disgraceful monopoly of the topic on the television screens and neglect of any other news story were not.

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Sam Stein

RNC Fundraising Off Of ABC Broadcast From Obama White House

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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The Republican National Committee is now fundraising off of ABC News' decision to host an hour-long special on health care reform from the Obama White...

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Lenin Rules!

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Google, Wikipedia, Karl Rove, Teabagging, Scott Mcclellan, Rush Limbaugh, Plamegate, George W. Bush, Right Wing, News Media, Valerie Plame, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates, Internet, Smears, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Religious Right, Fox News, Gop, Youtube, Lenin, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party, Scott McClellan Karl Rove, Republican Party, Politics News
Larry Gellman

It was Lenin, after all, who almost 100 years ago stated what has become the mantra of the angry Right and the deluded media nearly a century later: A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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Captive in Transit

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media

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<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

When I get to the office, I will ride an elevator up to my floor. In the elevator, there will be a television. On the television, there will be news. I actually spend a fair amount of time these days avoiding the news.

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Colorado Congressman: Demise Of Old Media Mostly For The Better

AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Old Media, News Media, Rocky Mountain News, Jared Polis, Media News

DENVER — A Colorado congressman told bloggers that they and other new media are responsible for the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and other ...

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FDR, Obama and Their Enemies

Caryl Rivers | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

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Caryl Rivers

Could FDR have succeeded with the New Deal if he had been operating in a 24-hour continuous news cycle? The answer is probably not.

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Journalist Calls on News Media to Stop Giving it Away for Free - UnPlug News Sites for a Week, Starting July 4

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Media, Journalism, News Media, Newspapers, How-to-Save-Newspapers, Media News
Naazish YarKhan

Whether we get our news from the net, the papers or TV, journalist T. J. Sullivan says if you want facts and hard investigative reporting, it's time to save journalists and news-gathering organizations.

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The Husband Did It! The Wife Did It!

Judy Wieder | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Unplug and Recharge, Gay Marriage, Media, Spouse, A&e, Wives, Husbands, California, 48 Hour Mystery, Prop 8, Nielsen Ratings, Court Cases, News Media, Cbs, Defense of Marriage Act, California Gay Marriage, Television, Dateline NBC, Nielsen, Cable News, Nbc, Entertainment News
Judy Wieder

As a non-straight woman living in California, currently married to my partner, but living in fear of Prop 8's outcome, it kills me to see married couples slaughtering each other on a weekly basis.

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Madoff's Chosen People -- What Can and Can't Be Said Out Loud

Larry Gellman | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Clal, Judaism, News Media, Media, Bernie Madoff, Joseph Epstein, Philanthropy, Jerusalem Post, Anti Semitism, Madoff, Jewish Federation, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, Yeshiva University, Bernard Madoff, Rabbi Marc Gellman, Israel, Newsweek, Business News
Larry Gellman

Is there any non-Jew in America who was thinking about marrying or doing business with a Jew that is now reconsidering that decision because Bernie Madoff was Jewish?

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How To Fell the News Media

Libby Mitchell | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living

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Libby Mitchell

There is a secret weapon that could be utilized to bring down every news organization in the world. Brilliant in simplicity, relatively easy to make, ...

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Obama, Bill Clinton and the Media "Center"

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

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Norman Solomon

The fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Obama must hew to "the center" if he knows what's good for his presidency.

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Cable News Networks Ban Actual News

William Klein | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

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William Klein

Just off their mostly news-free coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, the major news networks have directed their correspondents to refrain from traditional news and stick to glitz.

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Sitting on Polls

Sean Hartofilis | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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Sean Hartofilis

Stop polling! Or, at least, stop telling us about the polls. Pundits (where do they all go, by the way, after the election?) should be debating the issues, not predicting the outcome.

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Requiem for the Bailout Storyline

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: James K. Galbraith, Robert Reich, Wall Street Crisis, McClatchy Newspapers, Economy, David Brooks, New York Times, Institute for Policy Studies, $700 Billion Bailout, Congress, News Media, Economic Stimulus, Center for Economic and Policy Research, President Bush, Dow, Dean Baker, Media News
Norman Solomon

Recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.

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Get Sleep, Get Smart, Get Sane

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Economy, Health, How to Sleep Better, Insomnia, News Media, Anxiety, Sleep, Retirement, Deprivation, Wall Street, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

It's hard not to comment on the financial doom surrounding us this week like a darkening tunnel, but I want to point something out that's very positiv...

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Less Outrage -- More Repentance Please

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, John McCain, Greenwich, Judaism, Jewish Culture, News Media, Bailout, Democratic Party, Catholic Church, Religion, Aig, Synagogue, Henry Paulson, Religion and Politics, Warren Buffett, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Jewish Voters, Politics News
Larry Gellman

It was appropriate that outrage be expressed during those hearings, but the criticism should have been directed from Paulson to the members of Congress.

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Journalists of America--Your Country Needs You Now!

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media

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Larry Gellman

You remember journalists. They were the reporters and analysts who used to make sure that stories were true before they published or went on the air with them.

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