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• Gamerdad Founder Profiled

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Columbus Alive, Columbus Parent, Game Politics, Gamepolitics Com, Gamerdad, Mainstream Media, The Columbus Dispatch, The Hartford Courant

  by what I saw in the mainstream press and media about games - so much so I began writing game oriented technology pieces for The Columbus Dispatch to offset the hype and work to inform the paper’s readers that while the games often contained questionable content for youngsters that they needed to be informed consumers and not be

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• The Muslim Mafia — A Spreading Concept

  Published: August 15, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Muslim Advocates, Islamic World Domination, Terrorist Front Groups, Muslim Mafia, Tmq2 Blog, Holy Land Foundation, Mainstream Media, Cair, Lance, Muslim Brotherhood, United States

  I’ve long considered some of the so-called Muslim Advocacy Groups such as CAIR and the Holy Land Foundation akin to the mafia. After all, they’re intercontinental, secretive, neck deep in conspiracies, and carry on with illegal activities while hiding behind proprietary fronts. On August 9th, I wrote a short, satirical piece called

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• Time Gushes Over Ahmadinejad

  Published: September 26, 2007, 12:54 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Anti Iraq War Bias, Anti Semitism, Iran, Iraq, Israel Palestine, Christiane Amanpour, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Richard Stengel, Cnn, Mainstream Media, Newsbusters, Time Magazine

  to a group of American media sheep, and knew that he would receive valuable media time for his propaganda. The American media should be ashamed of themselves. Once, this kind of thing would have been unthinkable. Would the U.S. press have interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1943? Or Tojo Hideki in 1942? Of course not. Why then are the U.S. media so

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• Couric Bloviates on Iraq

  Published: September 26, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Exclusive, Media, Middle, Politics, Us News, Cbs, Katie Couric, Media, Mainstream Media, Celebrity, National Press Club

  PJM ROUNDUP: Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric stated, Everyone in this room would agree that people in this country were misled in terms of the rationale of this war, adding that it is pretty much accepted that the war in Iraq was a mistake. Blog reactions follow:

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• Will MSM Ignore John Edwards Racial Gaffe?

  Published: September 30, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, John Edwards, Mainstream Media, Video

  MSM coverage over the non-racist statements of right-of-center pundit Bill O'Reilly has been trumpeted loudly and lots. But when John Edwards says to a group of kids on MTV that young black men will soon either be in prison or dead, there is barely a blip on the radar. If a Republican cadidate would have said this, the MSM would have made

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• Violent Games: The Morning Show's Other Gaming Expert

  Published: October 16, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Cleveland, Halo 3, Jack Thompson, Mainstream Media, Sensationalism, Violent Games

  Leave it to Jack to steal the anti-Halo 3 spotlight from someone even more deserving of our scrutiny. During JT's appearance on The Morning Show that Crecente picked over last week, Dr. Susan Bartel also appeared on the show to condemn violent games using the amazingly technical explanation that "When kids play violent video games, we can see

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• Manhunt 2 On CBS News Tonight [Mainstream Media]

  Published: October 30, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Cbs, Katie Couric, Mainstream Media, Manhunt 2, Rockstar Games

  look forward to the mainstream news coverage in light of this revelation about the kids. Thanks for the tips, Brandon, Michael and Andrew.

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• CNN Enters Second Life [Virtual Worlds]

  Published: November 12, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Cnn, Furries, Mainstream Media, Second Life, Virtual Worlds

  Eventually there will more companies in Second Life than their are in real life. Now CNN is setting up an I-Report hub in the virtual world, in a double-effort to learn about life in a computer-created environment while discovering what constitutes news in such a foreign environment. "The thing we most hope to gain by having a CNN presence in

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• RSS in the Mainstream Media

  Published: December 6, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Articles, Prevention, Punditry, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Feedburner, Fox News, Mainstream Media, Msm, Msnbc, New York Times, Plagiarism, Reuiters, Rss, Scraping, Washington Post

  is even more heated in the mainstream media. With millions of dollars invested in content creation and a root that is still firmly in the print and broadcast world, the traditional purveyors of news have far more to weigh when creating their RSS strategies. So what decisions have they made? How have they decided to use RSS to distribute their

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• Poisoning the well

  Published: December 14, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Media Matters, Mainstream Media, Media, Media Bias

  by this ostensibly unbiased media will have a greater effect on my mother and people similarly situated than any rational understand of and approach to those policy issues that affect their day-to-day lives.

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• Child's Play Makes A Difference In Atlanta [Mainstream Media]

  Published: December 18, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Charity, Child S Play, Clips, Mainstream Media, Media, Penny Arcade

  but it's nice to see the mainstream media in a tiny town like Atlanta pick up on the gist of what Child's Play is all about. Charity Gives Children Something To Play [CBS 46]

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• Do Heather Havrilesky & David Brooks Regret The Errors? [Corrections]

  Published: December 26, 2007, 9:42 am

  Tags: Corrections, David Brooks, Heather Havrilesky, Mainstream Media, New York Times, Salon

  I'm no cheerleader for this here website—after all, I quit! Monday is my last day! Even so, I can't help but be irritated when Real Media Outlets write total lies about Gawker—because...

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• Viewers are tuning in...

  Published: January 11, 2008, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Election Coverage, Mainstream Media, 2008 Presidential Race

  ...and we must assume also paying attention. The healthy spike in cable television ratings -- linked to the presidential campaigns -- is a good sign for the media, the political process and the country.

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• The media turned around Clinton's fortunes?

  Published: January 10, 2008, 9:33 pm

  Tags: Election Coverage, Mainstream Media

  which suggests that the media's chronic bashing of Clinton led many women in New Hampshire to vote for her. I think there are multiple strands of conversation we can have in our classrooms about Clinton's win in the Granite State. The "flawed" polls are obvious. But so too are the unique character of the state (people are independent from

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• The day after the night before

  Published: January 9, 2008, 9:40 am

  Tags: Election Coverage, Mainstream Media, New Hampshire Primary

  to the political system. The media had it wrong; The pollsters had it wrong. But these errors ensure that the primary season will be extended just a bit further than anticipated. That is a good thing for the political process.John Edwards said something last night during his speech that I completely agreed with: Yes, voters in Iowa and New

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