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• Why TV and Radio Journalists Can't Be Like Murrow Anymore

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Journalism, Media Criticism

  It’s a fact: Media conglomerates’ labor practices are harming the quality of TV and radio news. A CBS television newswriter says: “We take a lot of stuff from ‘Entertainment Tonight.’ We watch it at 6:30 and decide what to use.” Most Americans still get their news from “old media” like

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• A final word on the Debate

  Published: July 24, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Racial Profiling, Bill Bradley, Political Expediency, Cnn Presidential Debates, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, 2008, Race, Fundraising, Hillary, Al Gore, Politics

  Having won both High School and College Student Government elections, I am struck by the unoriginal observation that running for President these days bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the shallow preening and empty symbolism employed by children trying to impress and influence each other. The so-called mainstream press has labeled

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• More Michael Gordon Propaganda

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:37 am

  Tags: Iran, Iraq, Media Criticism, War Coverage

  It’s sickening. His articles with Judy Miller helped us get into the Iraq war, but he’s not done screwing with our country. Atrios: Leaked to Drudge early, of course. BAGHDAD, Aug. 7 Attacks on American-led forces using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the American

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• The New Republic Can't Confirm Weekly Standard Report Of Beauchamp Recant

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:37 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Military, War, Iraq, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, News, Internet

  denigrated mainstream media to sort out. And us? We’ll refrain from any blow-by-blow posts on this until this is resolved. Remember that The Weekly Standard enjoys high-level Bush administration sources. Will their report prove to be factual, or inaccurate? Stay tuned.. NOTE: The headline on this post has been changed. Actually, TNR

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• Beauchamp Reportedly Recants Controversial TNR Articles (UPDATED)

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Blogging, Military, War, Iraq, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Internet

  no scramble by mainstream media (which are dismissed as The Liberal Media or The Conservative Media depending on where someone is coming from) to try and match the stories. As anyone who ever worked in journalism knows, career advancement often is the result of clips or videos of “good stuff.” (3) The ante was upped in this case,

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• Giuliani’s Whore does damage control

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Gop Presidential Candidates, Power Games, Judith Giuliani, Family Values Hypocrisy, Homewrecking Whore, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gold Digger, New York Times, 2008, Family Dysfunction, Media Criticism, Rudy Giuliani, Politics

  The New York Times, in further proof that it is nothing more than an establishment mouthpiece, has done what amounts to a fluff piece with a light treatment of Judi Giuliani’s homewrecking.

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• The Beauchamp Controversy Under The Microscope

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Military, War, Iraq, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Internet

  meme: it’s a liberal media conspiracy to besmirch the war effort by encouraging a leftist literary poseur to publish fictional or embellished stories painting soldiers as depraved sociopaths. Left meme: it’s a right-wing cyber-lynching of a soldier telling the ugly truth about the war. TNR’s announcement that it has confirmed

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• Stu Bykofsky hopes for another terrorist attack on America to bring back the good old days

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:36 am

  Tags: Media Criticism, Right Wing Stupidity, Terrorism

  And all the war hawks in our media propped up as much terror as they could articulate so that the country feared a nuclear attack by Saddam more than life itself and we just had no choice but to invade a country that never attacked us. The right wing blogs try to perpetuate this fear every chance they get and like Malkin, they get upset when a

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• US Attorney Christie Lies, Media Yawns

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Liars, Media Criticism

  by the blogosphere holding media accountable that they asked me to pass on this action alert: Blue Jersey: Last week we caught Chris Christie in a pretty blatant contradiction in stories he’s told to reporters, so blatant that we feel comfortable calling it a lie. No one we’ve contacted — reporters, editors, columnists,

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• An Unamusing Musing On Stu Oops! I've Done It Again' Bykofsky

  Published: August 10, 2007, 6:47 am

  Tags: Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Msm, Internet, Newspapers

  Stu Bykofsky, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News (note to copy editors: only Daily News is italicized) has set off a sh*tstorm by writing that he is hoping for another 9/11 terrorist attack because it would bring Americans together again. Before I address the particulars of Stu's column, which as Joe notes in a post below is beyond the

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• This Is Not About Scott Beauchamp

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:22 am

  Tags: Blogging, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Msm, Internet, Newspapers

  try to confine their new media ventures to the tightly edited and carefully modulated conventions of their existing brands. “If they want to be serious about the new media businesses, the Large Ones are going to have to establish skunkworks where people who really get the new media are given the resources and support necessary to

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• Columnist Wishes For Another 911

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:11 am

  Tags: War On Terror, Media Criticism, Media, 9 11, Terrorism, Msm, Newspapers

  Yes, someone has finally written it. And we just KNEW this day would come…didn’t we? A columnist is opening wishing for another 911 to unite Americans (what about the innocent lives that would cost). The link is HERE. And yes, yours truly agrees with the column writer that it is indeed a “sick” sentiment — no

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• Poll: U.S. Public Distrusts Mainstream News Media More Than Ever

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:08 am

  Tags: Blogging, Polls, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, News, Msm, Progressives, Newspapers

  newspapers and television, criticism of the news organizations was up to 20 percentage points lower than among Internet news audiences, who tend to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole, according to Pew. The poll indicates an across the board fall in the public’s opinion on the news media since 1985, when a similar

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• Comparisons Are Important

  Published: September 3, 2007, 12:12 pm

  Tags: Media Criticism, Israel, Guantanamo Bay, Anti Americanism, Hezbollah, Hamas, Human Rights, Torture, Gwot

  Lebanon, the international media, led by human rights watchdogs at Amnesty International, put a scorching hot spotlight on every attack where they could obtain pictures. The carnage, be it real or staged by Hezbollah [...]

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• Daily Kos Exonerated by FEC: So Far, Political Blogs Exempt from Campaign Finance Rules

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:38 am

  Tags: Blogging, Politics, 2008 Elections, Media Criticism, Internet News Media, Media, Freedom Of The Press, Internet, Journalism

  FEC reaffirmed ” Media Exemption” is to be granted to political blogs. This means the political blogs may operate under all usual laws, but are NOT under the regulatory thumb of the FEC and are exempt from campaign finance laws… and therefore, from any additional prying [...]

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