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• Another Instance of Media Coverup?

  Published: July 22, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Media Bias

  started questioning the media's coverage of Iraq, you have to start seriously questioning them now. I'll bet you didn't read that reconciliation talks were held in Taji in the NY Times lately. Sunni and Shia tribal sheiks from the Iraqi villages of Aqar Qaf, Bassam, Salamiyat and Fira Shia moved closer to reconciliation July 16 here during a

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• Right On Time

  Published: July 22, 2007, 10:40 am

  Tags: Media Bias

  A day after the Strib ran an article saying that DFLers were nervous about their senatorial candidates, Nick Coleman has penned a column saying that he was wrong for earlier writing a column praising Norm Coleman. Now Nick is saying that Iraq will become an albatross around Sen. Coleman's neck, among other things: Norm is hoping to win a second

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• Editing 'The Big Lebowski' for TV

  Published: June 27, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Media

  The movie The Big Lebowski is known for its profanity -- reportedly the "f-word" alone is uttered 260 times. So it took a lot of work to edit it for TV. Here are some examples of actual, redone lines for the TV version. (And if you can't stand reading the "f-word", move on to another item, eh?)

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• Carroll And Harbaugh Make Nicey Nice

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:27 pm

  Tags: Jim Harbaugh, Jimharbaugh, Media Day, Mediaday, Pete Carroll, Petecarroll

  FootballToday is Pac-10 media day. The arrest of a UCLA assistant provided much of the day's drama, but Daily News reporter Scott Wolf made sure to follow up on the tension between the Stanford and USC head coaches.Pete Carroll on Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh saying USC is one of the best teams ever:"I love Jim," Carroll said. "I'm glad he

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• ZE BIG TWELEVEN DETESTS YOUR FEEBLE MATH

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:21 pm

  Tags: Media Whoring, Excellence Is The Product Of Managerial Synergies Flowi, Blog Buddies, Big 10 Conference, Coaches The Bcs Scandals Arrests And Other Eccentri, College Football, Southeastern Conference

  damn right I will. (Goes, immediately writes letter and mails.) And this exchange from hundreds of miles south: CCS: Hello? Angry LSU fan: GODDAMN I CAIN’T GET DA GAME ON HYAH!!! CCS: Sir, please calm down. ALSUF: I WILL SET YOUR CAT ON FIRE AND THROW IT INTO A VAT OF KEROSENE I HAVE IMMERSED YOUR ENTIRE DAMN HOUSE INTO WOMAN GIMME MAH

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• DAY 2 AT THE LIARS' CLUB: SEC MEDIA DAYS SCHEDULE

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: I Don T Have Time For This Shit, Media Whoring, Blog Buddies, College Football, Southeastern Conference

  Media Days, the rootin’-est, tootin’-est, shootin’-est conflagration of 400 pound sportswriters and the coaches who loathe them in the nation. The updates from the boots on the ground: Chris Vernon says…”elastic waistbands are in at media days, in fact, I feel weird that I have a belt on. A conservative estimate

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• SEC MEDIA DAYS: HIGHLIGHTS

  Published: July 25, 2007, 5:24 pm

  Tags: Media Whoring, Click Clack, Blog Buddies, College Football, Coaches The Bcs Scandals Arrests And Other Eccentri, Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference

  building to SEC Media days, blogging and flogging the shit out of the proceedings with a pretty manic pace for journos, what with all the “fact checking” and “not using profanity” they have to do over there. A few of the highlights, since it is OBC’s day to crow over there. (BTW: the best part about

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• EDSBS LIVE! UNDERDOG EDITION

  Published: July 24, 2007, 5:05 pm

  Tags: Media Whoring, Edsbs Socializin, College Football, Coaches The Bcs Scandals Arrests And Other Eccentri

  What: EDSBS Live! online radio, presenting the Underdog Edition. When: 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 for all you angels on the West Coast. Where: At NowLive, where you can chat with each other and the show hosts throughout the broadcast in the online forum, where underdogs from around the world flock to nip and bark at will. To phone in to the show, just

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• Farish Ahmad-Noor on TV

  Published: March 29, 2006, 1:31 pm

  Tags: Media

  Farish Ahmad-Noor is a Muslim academic and and activist in Europe, and a great friend of MWU!. Here is a link to a documentary about his work. Don't worry if you do not understand the introduction. Farish speaks in English.

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• Paradise lost for LA Times religion reporter

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:43 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Grief, Theodicy, God, Christianity, Media

  William Lobdell's story about losing his faith while covering the Catholic sex scandal for the Los Angeles Times has gotten a lot of play.The 3,272-word piece, which ran Saturday in the Times' coveted Column One slot, recounted Lobdell's born-again moment, his praying and pleading to cover religion (for the same reason I got on the beat: because

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• Gawker: Jews will do anything for a dollar

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:54 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Anti Semitism, Harry Potter, Politics, Israel, Media

  So I was hip to the Harry Potter Shabbat crisis (actually my GeekHeeb colleague was and I poached). Gawker's super-hipness regarding Harry manifested itself last week in the from of age-old anti-Semitism.The post -- dealing with the same story that though Israeli bookstores were legally barred from selling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

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• Cardinal Mahony as the serpent and the mayor as Adam

  Published: July 23, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Roger Mahony, Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Christianity, Media

  I'm been writing of late about Cardinal Roger Mahony and the LA Archdiocese's massive settlement with 508 alleged victims of clergy sex abuse and about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's philandering ways.Well, the LA Daily News put the two together in this cover for the Sunday Viewpoint section. That's Mahony as the serpent and the mayor chasing his

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• It's official: the LA Times hates Israel

  Published: July 23, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Judaism, Islam, Los Angeles, Jihad, Israel, Middle East, Media

  a rest. Our nation's leading media outlets are making an offer you can't refuse: If you can keep it to 1,250 words, the next time you want to communicate directly to the American people, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and New York Times want your byline.Inconceivable? Consider Hamas' summer hot streak. Not only has it driven Palestinian

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• Don't touch that dial -- you'll miss Jesus

  Published: July 22, 2007, 8:49 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Jesus, Unusual, Christianity, Media

  Did you hear Jesus Christ on the radio this morning. I swear, on 640 KFI, "morrrrrrrre stimulating talk radio," as they say.Now, of course, this voice wasn't that Jesus. It was KFI Jesus -- also known as Neil Saavedra, who is not the redeemer of man but pretends to speak as him every Sunday from 6 a.m to 9. Here's part of the profile I wrote

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• Israeli cable wants to yank Christian station

  Published: July 22, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: Judaism, Israel, Entertainment, Christianity, Media

  Israel's Hot Cable TV is planning on pulling a Christian station that runs 15-minute infomercials that try to reach Jews with the message of Jesus, causing, of course, an international brouhaha. Jerusalem city councilwoman Mina Fenton, an anti-missionary activist, told the Jerusalem Post:"The State of Israel must safeguard its Jewish existence

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