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The Mainstream Media: In a Horse Race to Irrelevancy?

Patrick Maines | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Associated Press, The Washington Post, Health Care Reform, Global Warming, The New York Times, Media News
Patrick Maines

Hardly a day goes by without someone, somewhere, lamenting the prospective demise of journalism. But as shown by MSM coverage of major issues lately, that noble tradition is already long gone.

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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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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
Dr. Cara Barker

"'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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The Gardasil Vaccine Series - An Interview with Merck & Co., Inc.

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Merck & Co, Living News, Genital Warts, Vaccine Side Effects, Medical News Today, Pap Test, Cdc, Gardasil, Health News, Vaccines, Jama, Cervical Cancer, Pharmaceutical Industry, Women in Government, Pharmaceutical Lobby, Human Papillomavirus, Girls's Health, Fda, Health Care, Women's Health, The Washington Post, Source Watch, Vaers, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

I recently spoke with a Media Relations person at Merck regarding the efficacy and side effects of Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine. Here's what she had to say.

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Is The Washington Post Liable For False Advertising?

James Boyce | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Clean Energy, Washington Post, American Petroleum Institute, Newspapers, Future of Journalism, The Washington Post, Media News
James Boyce

Recently, we saw a full page ad in The Washington Post that showcased the problem with the newspapers themselves.

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The News Big Media Won't Report

Mike Lux | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, 2009 Obama Administration, August 2009 Town Hall Meetings, The Washington Post, Corporate Media, Organizing for America, Media News
Mike Lux

The future of health care reform hangs in the balance. We are in the fight of our lives -- but if you listen to the traditional media, you would think it is all over.

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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
Warren Holstein

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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The NY Times Made Me Do It

Charles Warner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media

Read More: NY Times, Merck, Stanford Law School, George Bush, The Washington Post, Katharine Weymouth, Grey Lady, Bloggers, Ad Age, Vioxx, Oxford University, New York Times, Blogging Heads, Judith Miller Iraq, Frank Rich, Judith Miller, David Carr, Harvard College, Media News
Charles Warner

The nation's journal of record; America's first draft of history; the Grey Lady, -- the New York Times -- got it wrong and that the crowd-sourced, open-source, oft-criticized Wikipedia got it right.

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Who Delivers the News?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cnn, Bbc, The Chicago Tribune, Ieds, The New York Times, Afghanistan, Media, Mraps, The Los Angeles Times, Iraq, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops' equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn't any.

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President Obama Hits All the Right Notes in Cairo

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Apartheid Wall, Israeli Settlements, Torture, John Bolton, Palestinian Lands, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, The New York Times, President Obama in Egypt, Palestinians, Dick Cheney, Muslim World, Cairo Speech, Ethan Bronner, Obama's Cairo Speech, Middle East, Elliot Abrams, The Washington Post, Islamic World, Michael Ledeen, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

President Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo hit all of the right notes and was exactly what he needed to say after eight years of saber rattling, r...

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The GOP & Jack Kemp's Example: Inclusion Matters or the Party of Lincoln Will Perish

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Washington Post, Jack Kemp, National Cathedral, Hud, Theroot.com, Sophia Nelson, Rep. Eric Cantor, Politics News
Sophia A. Nelson

Jack Kemp was everybody's favorite Republican/Conservative. The GOP leadership would do well to model itself after him in class, temperament and substance.

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Caught in the Act: The Washington Post Swallows Bush's Latest Spin

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

The Washington Post is helping George Bush polish his flaccid legacy. Let's hope it's just a sympathetic one-off between two ex-lovers.

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Prosecutorial Misconduct

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Scanlon, Sen. Ted Stevens, President Obama, Col. Oliver North, Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, Honest-Services Fraud, Justice Department, Sen. John McCain, The Washington Post, Suborning Perjury, Brendan Sullivan Jr., Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

After the dark days at the Department of Justice under President Bush, not surprisingly integrity seems to have returned under President Obama and Eric Holder. But how far will that integrity go?

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Washington Post Validates Played-Out Sophistry

Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Palin Creationism, Darwinism, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Evolution Creationism, Barack Obama, The Washington Post, Creationism, Darwin, Falwell Liberty University, Charles Darwin, David DeWitt, Evolution, Washington Post, Liberty University, Religion, Education, Religion and Politics, Higher Education, Education Reform, Politics News
Stuart Whatley

The Washington Post chose to run a suspiciously laudatory front-page story today on creationist field trips to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

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WashPost Ombudsman Steps up and Steps in it -- Plus Another Will Fabrication

A. Siegel | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Media Criticism, George Will, Media, The Washington Post, Andrew Alexander, Journalism, George Will Climate Change, George Will Global Warming, Green News
A. Siegel

It might be quite interesting to see what George Will and the Washington Post see as legitimate sources for information about climate change.

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It's Time to Resuscitate the FCC

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Television Licenses, Bill Clinton, Bernie Goldberg, Ronald Reagan, Fairness Doctrine, Clear Channel Radio, The New York Times, Lou Dobbs, Media Power, FCC Chair Mark Fowler, Federal Communications Commission, Fox News, Public Airwaves, The Washington Post, Bill O'Reilly, Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, Media Consolidation, Media Corporations, President Barack Obama, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Why do all the right-wing television personalities fear the Fairness Doctrine so much? Could it be because if it were reinstated they would have to enter into a real public debate?

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Russ Baker

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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The Media's Liberal Reverse Bias

J. L. Ballinger | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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J. L. Ballinger

Obama could pick almost anybody for his cabinet and it would represent something new from the current lame ducks.

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Did You Hear The One About Barack Obama And.....

Mark Joseph | Posted 12.09.2008 | Media

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Mark Joseph

The media's collective failure means that for the next four years we will have a cottage industry of Obama rumormongering that will make Bill Clinton and Vince Foster look like child's play.

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

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Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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Women Get Respect - Part 1

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, Rita Jensen, Anucha Browne Sanders, Women's E-News, Daisy Khan, Liz Abzug, The Washington Post, Doris Buffet, Women, Women Voters, Women and Politics, Muslim Womens Rights, Isaiah Thomas, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

On the evening of May 21st, women in New York City had the opportunity to come out and support two events that proved achievers of the female gender were getting their due.

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Surprise: New York Times Circulation Plunges, Wall Street Journal Gains

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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Greg Mitchell

One victim of decreased circulation -- thanks partly to popular websites like Huffington Post -- is the New York Times, which reports a whopping 9.2% decline on Sundays and 3.8% daily.

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