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• Lowe's pulls advertising from O'Reilly show

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:59 pm

  Tags: Lowe S, Bill O Reilly, Fox News, Media

  A reader emailed Lowes about their ads on O'Reilly's show. They got this response: Replied On 07/27/07 15:41:09 Dear Lowe's Customer, Thank you for your comments regarding the program, The O'Reilly Factor. Lowe's has strict guidelines that govern the placement of our advertising. Our company advertises primarily in national, network

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• Falafel Day

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:31 pm

  Tags: Bill O Reilly, Fox News, Media

  Atrios is having great fun at O'Reilly's expense here, here, here, and here. An example of O'Reilly at his best: If any woman ever breathed a word I'll make her pay so dearly that she'll wish she'd never been born. I'll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she'll be destroyed. And besides, she

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• Countdown: Cenk Uygur on Opinion Media

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:03 pm

  Tags: Journalism, Fox News, Media Bias, Countdown Keith Olbermann

  Download (210)   Play (265)  Download (97)   Play (146) (h/t Heather) Keith talks to our buddy Cenk Uygur about the dishonesty of FOXNews billing themselves as “fair and balanced news”…

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• Original Net Reporting: An Interview With Pete Hamill

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: Blogging, Books, Original Reporting, Internet News Media, Media

  Pete Hamill, a reporter, newspaper editor, and fiction writer. But, before we delve into the recesses of your mind and memory, there will be people who stumble upon this website and page, and click to check out what you have to say. Could you please give a brief syllabus of who you are, what you do, and what your goals as an artist and

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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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• It's About Times (Select)

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:14 pm

  Tags: Internet News Media

  While the matter of whether newspapers and other media outlets should charge for Internet content will never be settled, I’ve always found TimesSelect, the paywall that allows only paid online or print subscribers to access certain New York Times content, to be a penny-wise-pound-foolish affront. While I have continued to buy the dead-tree

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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

  largely limited to Internet news media and some talk radio. If you do a Google News check, you’ll see very few links to mainstream news sources under Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp or Beauchamp. The controversy has raged mostly on weblogs, blasting TNR or defending it and usually (but not always) in highly predictable fashion since the

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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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• Antiwar.com is #10!

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: News, Media

  Among the top political sites on the Web last week, according to HitWise, one of the top Internet rating services.

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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

  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 pale, I would like to

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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

  Business Week each quoted Newsosaur on their websites, and those links resulted in a single, solitary hit from a Business Week reader. “So, there you have it: Small Dead Animals top Large Ones by 1,000 to 1. “One event, of course, doesn't prove much. But here's what happened next: “Newsosaur's comments last week on the

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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

  Among those who get their news from 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

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• Attack Of The Political Attack Websites

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:07 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Original Reporting, Internet News Media, Media, Fred Thompson

  No, we’re not talking about weblogs (although they do qualify at times). We’re talking about a website that pops up and makes a statement about a candidate. Sometime it can be an intelligent one. But sometimes a website is so off the wall that it’s out of the house. Read Ed Morrissey HERE who not only writes about one but he did

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• Moving Up: Antiwar.com is #7!

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:37 am

  Tags: News, Media

  Last week Hitwise, a leading Internet traffic-rating service, announced their new rankings for political sites. Under the overall category of political websites, Antiwar.com was ranked #10 for the week ending August 4. This morning, Hitwise announced their rankings for the week ending August 11, and Antiwar.com has moved up to #7! Please help

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• Journalists First Debunk Republican Attack on Obama, and Now Debunk Attack on Kerry

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:36 pm

  Tags: John Kerry, Blogosphere, Iraq, News Media, Barack Obama, John Mccain

  on the war. Maybe the media has really learned that reporting the news does not meaning repeating every untrue statement from the right without fact checking. After quoting an interview with John McCain they write: McCain was talking of course about Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.,) the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. If you give McCain the

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