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Media Downplays News About 'Troubled' Banks, According To Columbia Journalism Review

Columbia Journalism Review | Ryan Chittum | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Fdic, The New York Times, Financial TImes, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Banks, Troubled Banks, Lenders, Small Banks, Financial Crisis, Medium Size Banks, Media News

The major business press underplays news from the FDIC that its troubled-banks list soared to more than 550 in the third quarter. The FDIC now conside...

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Goldman Sachs Responds To The New York Times

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Socgen, President of the New York Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, TARP Watchdog, Calyon, Backdoor Bailout, Cdos, The New York Times, Sigtarp, A.I.G., Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Wachovia, Neil Barofsky, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, David Viniar, Bank of Montreal, Gretchen Morgenson, Credit Derivatives, Lehman, Timothy Geithner, A.I.G. Bailout, Frbny, Lucas Van Praag, Tarp, Lloyd Blankfein Apology, Business News

Did Goldman Sachs dissemble and equivocate in its responses to the New York Times?

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Why We Dream And How To Rewrite Nightmares

Anne Hill | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Rem Sleep, Dreams, The New Yorker, Dr. Allan Hobson, Nightmares, The New York Times, Margaret Talbot, Media News, Consciousness, Imagery-Rehearsal Therapy, Sleep Research, Sleep, Living News

Brain wave patterns during lucid dreaming show a typical REM sleep pattern associated with dreaming, mixed in with patterns associated with waking awareness.

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The Art of Rewriting The Holidays

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: The Third Chapter, Featured-Contributor, 5 Actions for Rewriting, The New York Times, Tips for Holiday Season, Jim Loehr, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Dr.Gene Cohen, Holiday Stress, The Washington Post, The Power of Story, Thanksgiving, Grief, Death and Dying, Living News

"'Tis' the Season." The question is, for what? With all the stressors around, what might help this year as we launch?

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How Budget Cuts at the Times Helped Give NYC Bloomberg III

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Comptroller Bill Thompson, Bloomberg, Newspapers, Election Day, Bloomberg Third Term, The New York Times, Mike Bloomberg, Poll, Bill Thompson, Bill Thompson Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, New York News

Why weren't Bloomberg's well-known plans for global business news domination a bigger issue in the recent mayoral race? There was a failure of reporting at the Times caused by budget cuts.

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Our Public Advocate's Public A**-Kissing and Other Tales of Disappoinment

Will Schwartz | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, New York Daily News, Bill De Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, The New York Times, Bloomberg, John Liu, Media, Bill Thompson, New York City, New York News

Within hours of winning their elections, Bill De Blasio, our future public advocate, and John Liu, our comptroller-elect, each demonstrated their own distinct styles of ineptitude.

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Broadway Revivals Founder on Brighton Beach

David Finkle | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Too often the only review that counts is the Times pronouncement via Ben Brantley or Charles Isherwood. This time Brantley's response was not what's known as "a money notice."

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7 Huge Corporations That Have Seen Their Valuations Plummet (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Market Capitalization, General Motors, The New York Times, Slidepoll, Gm, Palm, Company Valuations, Facebook, Businessweek, Citigroup, Business News

A little more than a year after the financial crisis took hold, most of our 401Ks are still reeling. Since its peak in 2007, the Dow Jones Index is do...

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AOL's Army of 3,000 Journalists

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Aol, Online Advertising, Internet Advertising, The New York Times, Media News

The news last week that AOL has grown the number of journalists it employs - inclusive of full and part time, or freelance - to 3,000 from 500 since T...

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So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Communion, King-Henry-Viii, Rome, Horses, Racehorse-Names, Italy, Anglican Communion, Converting, Mac-Osx, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Apple Computers, Beethoven, Immortal Soul, Jesus, Pc, The Tudors, Peter Gallagher, The Pope, Mac, The Reformation, Roman Catholic Church, The New York Times, Microsoft, Catholic, Apple, Global Anglicanism, The Vatican, Jesus Christ, Autobiography, Anglican Church, Vatican City, Frank Mccourt, Archbishop of Canterbury, Comedy News

In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).

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Internal WaPo Newsletter With Charles Pelton Interview Disappears From Web

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Charles Pelton, Media Criticism, The New York Times, Salons, Brauchli, Bill Keller, Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post, Media News, Media Ethics, Media News

Apparently, WaPo editor Marcus Brauchli was lying "when he told the NYT that he didn't know the paper's controversial corporate-sponsored dinner parties would be off-the-record." And guess what else?

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What Did Washington Post Editor Know About Salons -- and When Did He Know It?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Ethics, Salons, Bill Keller, The New York Times, Washington Post, Brauchli, Media News

The New York Times carried a rare Postscript in Saturday's paper, raising questions about whether it is charging the top Washington Post editor, Marcus Brauchli, with not telling the truth.

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Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Prize, Obama, Vietnamese Victims, Agent Orange, Vietnam War, War Crime, War Crimes, War Crimes Vietnam, The New York Times, NY Times, War Crimes Agent Orange, World News

Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.

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The Proof of the Pudding is in the ... Performing?

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Hillary Clinton, US-Cuba Relations, Joseph Biden, Cuba, The New York Times, World News

Cubans in favor of a path to greater understanding and engagement will have have to welcome the New York Philharmonic on another date.

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News Viewers: Fox -- News Users: CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Internet News, Digg, The New York Times, Quantcast, Cbs, Yahoo, Time Warner, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, New York Times, Cable News, Jeff Bewkes, Fox News, Media News

The full third quarter cable news ratings are in, and nothing has changed very much. Fox News still has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.

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A List In Response To A News Story: Take my Cats, Please...Seriously. I Want to Freak Out.

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Diapers, Grapes, Cats, Judgement, Best Friend Lindsey, Brain, Poop, Baby, Marble-Floors, The New York Times, Vomit, The Future, Kim Kardashian, Barf, Comedy News

My cats or my future baby?: Barf on the floor; Pee on the floor; Has a brain larger than a handful of grapes; Not freak out when I want to dress it in a cute outfit; Not be covered in hair; Love me back.

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Older Entrepreneurs and the Great Recession

Mark Miller | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Ageism, David Leonhardt, Baby Boomers, Entrepreneurship, The New York Times, Business News

Many boomers are burned out on big companies and want to try their hand running their own show before they hang it up for good.

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New York Times Malware: Bad Ad On NYTimes.com

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Online News, Virus, Scam, Computer Virus, The New York Times, New York Times, NYTimes.Com, Malware, Hacker, Web Site, Media News

Here's a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its ...

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Eat Now, Pay Later. But Who Is Paying and for What? Police the Potato Chips!

Helene Pavlov | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Obese Children, Dr Helene Pavlov, Obesity, Hospital for Special Surgery, Journal of Health Affairs, The New York Times, Living News

Why, in a time when all we hear is news about the trouble with obesity, are people NOT eating healthy?

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The New York Times on Peak Oil - Don't Worry, Be Happy

Gabriel Rotello | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fatih Birol, Peak Oil, Global Warming, The New York Times, Climate Change, Michael Lynch, Green News

If the Peak Oil proponents are correct, it amounts to one of the biggest stories of our time, right up there with global warming

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Peak Oil Agonistes: The New York Times Finally Comes Around to Where HuffPost Never Feared to Tread

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, The Huffington Post, President Obama, The New York Times, Oil, Fatih Birol, Michael Lynch, Abiotic-Oil, International Energy Agency, Business News

At last, one of the great misnomers of public disinformation bordering closer to brainwashing has been brought to heel.

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Palin Supports Corsi: District 9 Is a Documentary

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Charles Grassley, Death Panels, The Rapture, Immigration, Iran, Obama, Media, Facebook, Civil Rights, The Washington Post, South Africa, Politics, Liz Cheney, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, Illegal Immigrants, Gop, Washington Post, Health Care, Sharia, Abortion, Birthers, Twitter, Food Stamps, Books, The New York Times, Lou Dobbs, Aliens, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Illegal Aliens, Tom Coburn, District 9, Jerome Corsi, Todd Palin, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Return-of-Shantytowns, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alaska, NY Times, Metacritic, Comedy News

An indignant Palin immediately released a series of searing Facebook status updates denouncing the impending alien immigrant infestation as "icky" and "un-American,"

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New Study Confirms Water Is Wet

David Finkle | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: New Studies, The New York Times, Pets Resembling Dog Owners, Scientific Studies, Common Sense, Truckers, Texting, American Obesity, Truckers Texting, The Beatles, New Studies Coverage, New Study Expenditures, Battlefield Hunches, Generation Gap Eased, Dog Owners Resembling Pets, Health Care, Media News

Money is being spent on these evidently endless studies--perhaps lots and lots and lots of money. For what? For news as old as recorded time and maybe older.

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