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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Slate Trawls Facebook to Find Anti-Giuliani Scoop From Ex-Mayor's Daughter |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 2:56 pm |
| Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Lucy Morrow Caldwell, Rudy Giuliani, Online Media, Facebook, Slate, Journalistic Issues |
| Slate magazine found out that Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline has a crush on Obama. Well, maybe not a crush, but she had joined a pro-Obama Facebook group and describes herself as "liberal" (but then that's also how many Republican voters would describe Caroline's father). The article, complete with evidentiary screen grab, was written |
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| Palm Beach Post: Using Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 2:39 am |
| Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Media Bias Debate, Palm Beach Post, Journalistic Issues |
| The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. At issue was another globaloney alarmist story the paper printed on July 25th, titled "This century hotter than last, group finds," supposedly by Post writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article" was |
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| ABC Republican Debate |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 8:51 am |
| Tags: Right Wing Propaganda, Power Games, Gop Presidential Candidates, Gop Presidential Debate, Political Expediency, Embracing Wingnuttia, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gop Wedge Issues, John Mccain, 2008, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Politics |
| one of their unforgetable debates yesterday morning on This Week with Georgie the Greek. On display was the full panoply of GOP wingnuttia and delusional posturing on abortion, immigration, and the War in Iraq. It was truly not worth watching except that the applause of partisans cheering for their guy was totally unexpected. The |
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| Jesse Jackson's Anti-Gun Claims Unchallenged by the AP |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 10:15 am |
| Tags: Guns, Media Bias Debate, Jesse Jackson, Chicago, Journalistic Issues |
| advocating for Jackson's issues, nor does it absolve them from trying harder to present both sides. Where is a "fairness doctrine" when you need one? The worst quote of the piece, however, is that of an aggrieved and ill informed parent of one of Chicago's children lost to gun violence. Holt's mother stood with Jackson after Monday's |
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| Obama Calls Canadian Prime Minister a 'President' - Where is Media Ridicule? |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 5:43 am |
| Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Media Bias Debate, Barack Obama, Canada, Cnn, Journalistic Issues |
| Democrat Party presidential debates last Tuesday, Barack Obama revealed that he didn't know that our Canadian neighbors to the north had a prime minister instead of a president leading them. Yet the MSM has practically ignored this obvious gaffe, with few of them making much of the incident. This is a far cry from how Bush was so virulently |
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| NY Post: Comparisons to Genocidal Tyrant' Almost Killed Dow Jones Deal |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 4:35 pm |
| Tags: Media Bias Debate, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Journalistic Issues |
| The call from the Ivory Tower just wasn't strong enough to stop media mogul Rupert Murdoch from buying Dow Jones & Company. But, it came really close. "Murdoch also said the media's harsh coverage of him during negotiations with the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones, almost squashed the deal," wrote New York Post reporter |
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| Reuters: Fooled by Another Fake Iraq 'Massacre' |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 1:21 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, Media Bias Debate, War On Terrorism, Reuters, Government Amp Amp Press, Journalistic Issues |
| How many times do we have to see the MSM reporting on a "massacre of Iraqi civilians" that turns out to be a false story planted by our enemies before we can definitively say that the MSM is purposefully aiding and abetting the terrorists? How ever many that may be, the tally is certainly on its way to overflowing and here we have another galling |
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| LAT: 'Suggestions by U.S. Politicians' That Pakistan Be Attacked Has No Mention of Obama |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 3:50 am |
| Tags: 2008 Presidential, Foreign Policy, Media Bias Debate, War On Terrorism, Musharraf, L Times, Journalistic Issues |
| The L.A. Times has morphed Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's over-the-top campaign rhetoric that he would attack Pakistan into "suggestions by U.S. politicians that American forces unilaterally strike" that country. But, no where did the story mention Obama, nor that no Administration officials are advocating such a move. |
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| Hackers Crow about "Downing" Feminist Websites; Image Raeping (explicit language) |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 6:08 am |
| Tags: Feminist Perspective, What You Can Do, Debate On The Issues, First Amendment |
| minutes:"Sex-Positive" Debate-Killing Tactics Stretch into Their Fifth DecadeOur opponents profess extreme devotion to free speech, yet in reality many of them freely employ debate-killing tactics such as disrespect, ridicule, misrepresentation and intimidation. Tactics like these have a history in this debate that stretches back for nearly |
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| Top 100 Anti-Porn Videos as Compiled by Anti-Pornography Activist Blog |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 7:31 am |
| Tags: Impact Of Porn, First Amendment, Child Porn, Porn Industry, Business Ethics, Feminist Perspective, Child Molestation, Porn Addiction, Porn Examples Judge For Yourself, Debate On The Issues, Media Ethics |
| & Porn Connection (15+)Debates and Panel Discussions about Pornography (5+)Documentaries, Movies, and TV Shows about Pornography (35+)Faith-Based Anti-Pornography Activism (20+)Feminism, Feminists, and Pornography & Sex-Trade Issues (40+)Funny Anti-Porn Videos (10+)Girls Gone Wild and Joe Francis Videos (3+)History of Pornography |
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| Georgia Porn Merchant: "I chew up and spit out local municipalities like Popeye chewed spinach" |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 9:53 am |
| Tags: Sexual Education, Porn Industry, Debate On The Issues |
| Most businesses give at least lip service to the idea of respecting the communities in which they operate and the citizens who live there, particularly when they're trying to get permits to operate. Time and again, however, examples keep popping up of adult businessmen who can't even muster this minimal level of politeness.John |
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| Hampshire College Thesis Explores Northampton Porn Debate; Our Comments |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 4:42 am |
| Tags: Npn In The News, Sexual Education, Debate On The Issues |
| on the Northampton Porn debate. It was an impressive ethnographic study from a unique perspective. She provides context and analysis we're not used to in our cranky municipal debates. She's Gr-r-r-eat! We agree with Barkley-Aylmer on some important issues: The movement towards greater sexual liberation has led to increased rights and |
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| Media Influence: The Case of ADHD Drugs |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 4:27 am |
| Tags: Business Ethics, First Amendment, Media Ethics, Debate On The Issues, Legal Ethics |
| An argument frequently employed by our detractors is that people are not affected by the media they consume (example: Bastante Already). A good example of just how influential media can be is provided by the American experience with ADHD drugs. Usage in this decade has soared along with advertising. And once again we see lawyers employing the |
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| Moving from Shrill Debates to Consensus: "Political Charity" |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 5:05 am |
| Tags: Media Ethics, Debate On The Issues |
| a strong interest in how debates are evolving in new media. He observes that people frequently separate themselves into distinct online camps, drive off people who don't conform, and vilify the opposition. This is a poor way to achieve a broadly satisfactory consensus. Alan Jacobs discusses Sunstein's ideas in Books & Culture: The |
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| USA Today: Forced Military Training for Chinese Kids is 'Camp' to 'Inspire Patriotism, Teamwork and Sacrifice' |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 5:10 am |
| Tags: Chidren, Media Bias Debate, Military, China, Usa Today, Journalistic Issues |
| USA Today lends a big assist in promulgating Chinese propaganda as the paper helps explain away the nature of the forced military training that Chinese children undergo. Calling the compulsory training a benign sounding "camp" and presenting the children's training as if it is a mere Summer excursion, USA Today soft sells China's militarization of |
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