Op Ed

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Wanted: Free-Market Mouthpieces

Rob Warmowski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Heritage Foundation, Free Market Capitalism, Economics, Laissez-Faire, Public Relations, Economic Crisis, Free Market, Washington D.C., United States, Op-Ed, Newspaper Op-Eds, Business, Politics News

For my entire adult life, I have watched free-market fundamentalists do their thing. They demonize government, run for government, capture government, then dismantle and privatize government.

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Media Literacy 101: The Doritos Challenge

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Knight News Challenge, Hunger, Knight Foundation, Eric Newton, Washington Post, Op-Ed, Hunger in the United States, Caption Contest, Leslie Walker, Doritos, Media News, Media, Thanksgiving, Media News

Today's digital-media-enabled contests, perhaps even the most familiar reality-TV, American Idol-type kind, are popular because they promise a rags-to-riches success for at least one contestant.

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Washington Post Looking for "America's Next Great Pundit" -- Could It Be You?

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Op-Ed Page, Newspapers, Washpost, Bloggers, Writing, Msm, Pundit Contest, Newspaper, Opinion, Froomkin, Media, Journalism, Prize, Blogs, Mainstream Media, Politics, Contest, Wapo, Chris Weigant, Blog, Essay, Newspaper Industry, Post, Washington Post, America's Next Great Pundit, Editorial, Op-Ed, Huffington Post, Pundit, Dan Froomkin, Media News

Newspapers seem to be clinging to blandness as a viable business model in an exciting new world of opinions available to their potential customers -- to their detriment. And then they wonder why they're failing.

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Sarah Palin's Washington Post Op-Ed: The First Draft

Jesse Berney | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Energy, Washington Post, Op-Ed, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Sarah Palin published an op-ed in the Washington Post today. I received a package this morning, wrapped in plain brown paper with no return address, i...

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Man the Barricades, Men! The Gays Are at the Gates!

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Flag-Officers, Naval Academy, Elaine Donnelly, Liberal Media, Cia, Phyllis-Schlafly, President Obama, President Truman, Fbi, Washington Post, Op-Ed, Politics News

Their warning of the "grave harm" that will ensue if gays and lesbians are allowed to serve openly in our all-volunteer military was essentially that volunteers will leave in droves.

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G-20 Reactions Roundup: Op-Eds Around The World

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: G20 Summit, G-20 Summit, G-20 Reactions, g20 Reactions, Op-Ed, Newspaper Op-Eds, g20, G-20, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

There have been mixed reviews around the world following the G-20 economic summit in London Thursday. While op-eds and editorials in some papers laud...

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Why I Have No Sympathy for Jake DeSantis

Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Rescue Plan, 60 Minutes, Aig Outrage, Aig Bonuses, New York Times, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, A.I.G., Real Estate Bubble, Op-Ed, Jake DeSantis, Barack Obama, Edward Liddy, Aig Resignation, Aig Resigns, AIG and TARP, Resignation Letter Aig, Ed Liddy, Jake Desantis Aig, Jake De Santis, Jake Desantis Letter, AIG NY Times Resignation Letter, Jake Desantis Resignation Letter, AIG CEO, Aig, AIG Resignation Letter, Business News

You would think that those who created the financial mess would have some humility. But you would be wrong. DeSantis's letter is just one example.

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Top Ten Alternate Punishments for the Iraqi Shoe Thrower

Warren Holstein | Posted 04.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Nike, Martin Scorsese, George W. Bush, Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, Nobel Peace Prize, Facebook, Depleted Uranium, Anger Management, Man Throws Shoes at Bush, Politics, Bush Shoe, Middle East, Daniel Day-Lewis, Op-Ed, Muntazer Al-Zaidi Throws Shoes at Bush, Iraq, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sweatshops, Comedy News

5. Obliged to lend his tootsies, at will, to any charitable Foot Fetish Galas (expected to show up in formal leather choker, spiked armlets and chain-link leash).

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Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Editorials, Tribune Company, Chicago Tribune Bankruptcy, Political Debates, Old Media Death Watch, Magazines, Technology, Reporting, Media News, The Internet, Wall Street Journal, Old Media, Old Media vs. New Media, Micropayments, Journalism, Television, Websites, Political Writing, Trivia, Op-Ed, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, World Wide Web, Walter Isaacson, Economy, Newspapers, Saving Journalism, Media News

I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.

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Bush's Past Op-Ed Appearances

CBS | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Obama Op-Ed, Op-Ed, Bush Op-Eds, Newspaper Op-Eds, George Bush Legacy, Barack Obama, Politics News

As part of his continuing quest to sell lawmakers and the American people on his stimulus plan, President Obama penned an op-ed for the Washington Pos...

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How to Get an Op-Ed Published in The New York Times

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

Read More: The New York Times Op-Ed, Muammar El-Qaddafi, The New York Times, Op-Ed, Munich Massacre, Pan Am 103, Libya, Senator John McCain, Newspaper Op-Eds, Berlin Disco Bombing, Media News

Last week, the New York Times published an op-ed by Muammar el-Qaddafi, leader of Libya. Perhaps soon we will read Times op-eds penned by Blagojevich, Madoff, and Ahmadinejad.

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Friday Talking Points [54] -- Republican Fossilization

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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Welcome back to Friday Talking Points. Of course, the big question on everyone's mind right now is: What is going on up in Minnesota? Al Franken is t...

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NY Times Blows It On McCain Op-Ed

Lester Feder | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home

Read More: David Shipley, John McCain, 2008, Timetable, New York Post, Op-Ed, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, New York Times, Iraq, Barack Obama, Home News

The whole point of McCain's rejected op-ed, published Tuesday in the New York Post, is that he doesn't think it is wise to offer the kind of Iraq statement that would satisfy the Times.

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Op-Ed Writing Tips For Senator McCain

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, John McCain, Mccain, Obama, Op-Ed, Iraq, John McCain Op-Ed, Politics News

What would you do differently in Iraq? Say it up top and be specific. Get readers and morning commuters to spill their coffee, what I call the "shock and awe" lede. Ok, maybe a bad pun.

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Extremist Makeover

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Glbt, Proposition 8, Right Wing Extremism, David Benkof, David Bianco, Ex-Gay, Gay, Gay Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Op-Ed, Politics News

In 2001, David Bianco was at the pinnacle of his career in GLBT journalism. Then he started reinventing his personal history, giving up sex with men and moving towards Orthodox Judaism.

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