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Democrats Should Stay Off Fox Until It Confesses

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Partisan Press, White House, Conservative Propaganda, Republican, Conservative, Media, Press, Fox News Channel, Barack Obama, Journalism, Media News
Cenk Uygur

Does anyone really believe that ACORN is the top story? Every day? Or is it possible that is Fox's obvious, ham-handed way of attacking the president daily? I can't believe we're having this argument.

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Close Gitmo, End Torture

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Advertisement, Advertising, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Press, Malta, Home News

Inspired by sustained support for an end to torture from the world community and a clear majority of Americans, Avaaz.org launched a metro billboa...

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The Future of the Press

Laura Kiss | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Italy, Press, Media Online, Paied Content, Media News
Laura Kiss

He was five years old when he first started to play with the metal letters of a rotary press. His father was a printer in a small town of Calabria, So...

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American In Worldland: Have-It-Your-Way Truth

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Associated Press, Obama, Hannah Arendt, Media, Al Jazeera, Press, Truth, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Torture, World News
Mort Rosenblum

Our blindness is voluntary. In an overheating world, literally and figuratively, complacent citizens shape whatever reality suits them best.

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Media Barred From Palin's Hong Kong Speech

CNN Political Ticker | Alexander Mooney | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Hong Kong Speech, Media, Press, Hong Kong, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Sarah Palin's speech to investors in China later this month will be closed to the media, organizers of the event confirmed to CNN Monday....

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Anti-Venezuela Spokespeople Misrepresent Reality of Press Freedom in Venezuela

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Press Freedom, Venezuela, Media, Press, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, World News
Mark Weisbrot

The Venezuelan media is not so restricted as in the U.S. Venezuela is not Colombia, where journalists have to flee the country in fear of their lives when the President denounces them.

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"Victims" of Infidelity?

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Silda Spitzer, Marriage, Jenny Sanford, Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Press, Media, Infidelity, Deception, Journalism, Sex Scandal, Extramarital Affair, Victims, Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Politics News
Ruth Bettelheim

In the news articles and op-ed pieces about extramarital affairs, there is always a perpetrator and a victim. These are stories about Good and Evil, the righteous and the sinner.

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Gibbs: We Don't Have The Votes For Immigration Reform

The Hill | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Senate, Congress, White House, Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary, Obama Administration, Obama, Immigration, Immigrant, Press, Votes, Politics News

The votes aren't there for the Obama administration to achieve its desired immigration reform, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday....

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Love or Lust, Obama and the Fawning Press Need to Get a Room

Phil Bronstein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Press, Phil Bronstein, Barack Obama, Politics, Media, Media News
Phil Bronstein

You can't blame powerful people for wanting to play the press to peddle self-perpetuating mythology. But you can blame the press for being played.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Obama Makes Terrible Mistake by Not Releasing Pictures

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dilawar, Bagram Air Base, Barack Obama, Detainee Abuse Pictures, General David Petraeus, Abuse Pictures, Dick Cheney, Televison, Detainee Abuse, General Ray Odierno, Media, Democratic Party, Press, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Obama has not just protected the torturers, but empowered them. They now get to claim they tried to protect America and that anyone who tries to show their misdeeds endangers America.

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Empathy Fatigue and What the Press Can Do About It

Jamil Zaki | Posted 06.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Neuroscience, Empathy, Susan Sontag, Psychology, Hurricane Katrina, Media, Press, Prejudice, Barack Obama, Media News
Jamil Zaki

The "CNN effect" describes how, by airing images of suffering, news outlets can create enormous pressure for governments to intervene, fueled by public outcry over the suffering of others.

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Sam Stein

Press Reduces Torture Investigations Into Partisan Warfare

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Prosecution, MoveOn.Org, Obama MoveOn, Obama Torture Investigations, Press, Obama Torture, Press Obama, Obama Investigate, Politics News

News that President Obama is open to having an independent commission investigate the use of torture during the Bush years is undoubtedly the story of...

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Who Is Pressing The Pressmen?

Emily Bracken | Posted 04.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Journalists, The Press, Politicians, Fourth-Branch-of-Government, Cnbc, Media Coverage, Comedy Writing, Vigilantes, Jon Stewart Jim Cramer, Media, Press, The Daily Show, Journalism, Edward R. Murrow, Jim Cramer, Checks and Balances, Comedians, Irony, Jon Stewart, Satire, Daily Show CNBC, Political Satire, Ombudsman, Media News, Idealism, Humor and Satire, Jim Cramer Daily Show, Comedy News
Emily Bracken

Humorists and comedians are a curious bunch. Quixotic by nature, they want so desperately to live in a world of decency, fairness and goodness, and in Stewart's case, in a world where the media grew some cajones.

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Big Questions for President Obama's Big Press Conference

Ari Melber | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Chuck Todd, Press, Barack Obama Press Conference, Obama Press, Obama Press Conference, Politics News
Ari Melber

Tuesday, Obama is holding the second prime time press conference of his first 100 days. Here are just a few questions for the big event.

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The Horror and Hope of Zimbabwe: Roy Bennett Jailed, Released, and Forgives

Joe Trippi | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Roy Bennett, Mdc, Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Human Rights, Media, Press, Robert Mugabe, World News
Joe Trippi

I want to thank those who helped put a spotlight on Roy's arrest and helped keep the story alive when so many in the press couldn't be bothered with something happening in Africa.

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What the Media Really Killed

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Post, Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, Racism, Chimp, Obama, Media, Press, Cartoon, Monkeys, New York Daily News, Media News
Ashley Rindsberg

Did the New York Post simply screw up, fail to take into account possible perceptions, and then get clubbed by a few shrewd competitors who saw a good opportunity? We'll never know.

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Bad Press Is a Sign of Bad Leadership

Penny Herscher | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Automaker Bailout, Crisis Management, Jnj, Press, Tim Geithner, Clif, Business News
Penny Herscher

Good CEOs earn their pay by creating jobs and shareholder value -- and as importantly they get good press for their companies.

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If We Fly Blind, Geese Are the Least of It

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

Read More: France, Globalpost, Iraq, Newspapers, Media, Press, Foreign Affairs, Media News
Mort Rosenblum

Look anywhere, nationwide, at blood on newsroom floors and shrinking stacks at newsstands. This is beyond dangerous.

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President Obama Meets the Press

Ankush Khardori | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Media, Barack Obama, George Bush, President Obama Administration, Press, White House Press Corps, Media News
Ankush Khardori

Well, that certainly didn't take long. Roughly a week into the presidency, Barack Obama and his team already find themselves at odds with the White House press corps.

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The Honeymo Is Over

Will Durst | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama and the Press, Media, Barack Obama Inauguration Speech, Barack Obama Inauguration, Press, Barack Obama, Politics News
Will Durst

It might have been the shortest honeymoon this side of a drunken Britney Spears careening off of quarter poker video games in Vegas. I'm talking about Barack Obama's relationship with the press after his Inauguration.

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Bush Drops Fake Cowboy Shtick

Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Fred Thompson, Mainstream Media, Little Red Truck, Andover Cheerleader, George W. Bush, Press, Cowboy, Fake Cowboy, Crawford Ranch, Traditional Media, Media News
Cenk Uygur

When did the press come to think their job was to reinforce the fake images and storylines of politicians rather than to challenge them?

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Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Net Erodes the Authority of the Press

Jay Rosen | Posted 04.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Meet the Press, Single Payer, Press, Atrios, Big Media, Bloggers, Media News
Jay Rosen

Sometimes the people the press thinks of as deviant types are closer to the sphere of consensus than the journalists who are classifying those same people as "fringe."

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Bush's Final Press Conference

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Europe, Social Security, Pardons, Gop, Pardon, Mission Accomplished, Economy, Guantanamo, Gitmo, Bush Fatigue, Obama, Immigration, White House, Media, America, President, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Republican, Bush, Bailout, Katrina, Reporters, American Ideals, Press Conference, Moral Standing, Republican Party, Worst President Ever, Coast Guard, Press, Recession, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Mistakes, Abu Graib, Bubble, Press Corps, Mistake, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Lest I be accused of "Bush Derangement Syndrome," I'm reproducing some of the most interesting answers Bush gave today, with a minimum of snarky commentary.

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Obama's Victory Prompts Major Changes In Black Press

Politico | NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON | Posted 02.03.2009 | Media

Read More: African American Press, Obama, Black Press, Media, Press, Obama Victory, Media News

Barack Obama's election as president is prompting major changes in the nation's black press, ushering in a series of firsts that editors say will resh...

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