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• Unmasked & Anonymous: Answering Ethical Questions About a Blogger Named Eklund

  Published: August 1, 2007, 7:26 am

  Tags: Eklund, Gary Bettman, Garybettman, Sports 2 0, Sports2 0, Usa Today, Usatoday

  according to Kevin Allen, USA TODAY hockey writer and president of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, who said Eklund has "made it clear he would like to be included" in the organization. The question is whether the PHWA is willing to overlook serious questions about his ethics, tactics and candor in accepting him; and whether Eklund

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• Can't Make This Up: 'Left-Leaning' Bloggers Trying to Unionize

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Economy, Associated Press, Usa Today

  the Associated Press via USA Today ("Bloggers consider forming labor union"): CHICAGO Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae? In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health

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• Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  objections. An August 6 USA Today article reported that "Romney and Giuliani criticized Democratic contender Barack Obama for publicly threatening to take unilateral military action in Pakistan against al-Qaeda targets if the Musharraf regime refused to act." The article quoted Romney's attack, but omitted his and Giuliani's

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• USA Today editorial failed to identify jailed members of Congress as Republicans

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Usa Today, Ethics, Government Elections

  August 6 USA Today editorial called the recently passed congressional ethics bill "the most far-reaching since Watergate" but claimed that the bill fell short in "two major areas": that earmarks would be disclosed "[b]ut they wouldn't necessarily be easy to find and connect to sponsors," and that "Congress failed to add independent

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• AP Brief Leaves Out Romney Questioner's Anti-war Activism

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Mitt Romney, Wire Services, Associated Press, Blogs, Iowa, Politico Com, Usa Today

  presidency. The Politico and USA Today have picked up on the item. USA Today's "On Politics" blog noted in an entry posted at 11:45 Eastern that: The questioner, 41-year-old Rachel Griffiths of Milan, Ill., told Susan later that she is not a Republican and is in fact a member of a "Progressive Action for the Common Good."

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• Just Like Paris Hilton, USA Today Loves Hybrids

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:40 pm

  Tags: Global Warming, Wages Amp Amp Prices, Paris Hilton, Usa Today

  Chris Woodyard's August 8 USA Today story. It's not just good public relations, wrote Woodyard. Since the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the EPA can regulate greenhouse gases, General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler have joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of corporate executives calling for CO2

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• 'Please Don't Read This' Headline Leads Incomplete AP Beauchamp Story

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Iraq, Media Bias Debate, Middle East, Military, Michael Goldfarb, Scott Beauchamp, Associated Press, New Republic, Usa Today, Yahoo

  the deceptive headline in USA Today is not being universally used, it is at multiple places. The following shows Google News results as of about 2PM on a search for the words in the USAT headline ("Army Denounces Articles Written by GI," without quotes): Note the use of an old picture of someone not at all related to the story --

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• Dexter promo to die for

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:21 am

  Tags: Michael C Hall, Michaelc Hall, Popcandy, Promo, Showtime, Usa Today, Usatoday, Viral Marketing, Viralmarketing, Website

  Filed under: Industry, DexterIcetruck.tv looks like a normal Youtube knockoff at first glance. It has friendly soft blue icons with rounded edges that just scream, "let's watch dramatic chipmunks all day long." But beneath the unsuspecting veneer lies one of the greatest viral marketing campaigns to hit the internet since Al Gore invented it so

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• NY Times, USA Today repeated Bush attack on Dems without noting bipartisan criticism of Gonzales

  Published: August 10, 2007, 8:29 pm

  Tags: The New York Times, Usa Today, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine

  with your resignation." As USA Today reported on March 15, Sens. John E. Sununu (R-NH) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) have advocated that Gonzales step down or be fired. In addition to repeating Bush's criticism of Democrats over the investigations of Gonzales, USA Today uncritically repeated Bush's criticism of Democrats for not

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• USA Today editorial suggested Bush's Social Security plan would have defused "underfunding time bomb"

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:46 pm

  Tags: Usa Today, Economic Issues, Social Security

  an August 14 editorial, USA Today falsely suggested that President Bush's proposal to "partially privatize Social Security" would have addressed the program's "underfunding time bomb, set to detonate in about a decade." The editorial was commenting on the "divisive legacy" of White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, who had

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• CLIPS: USA Today: Giuliani is "half Woody Allen, half Rambo and 100% cerebral"

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine, Rudy Giuliani

  through New Hampshire, USA Today reporter Jill Lawrence wrote: "Suffice it to say Republicans have never had a presidential candidate like this -- half Woody Allen, half Rambo and 100% cerebral." This is the first time Media Matters for America has documented a news outlet comparing Giuliani to the fictional character John

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• Reporting on Bush's VFW speech, media failed to note his previous disavowal of Iraq-Vietnam parallels

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:53 pm

  Tags: Bill Plante, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, Wall Street Journal, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  statements. USA Today: The August 23 USA Today report noted criticism by Johns and Kennedy. By contrast, both NBC and ABC noted that Bush had previously criticized the Iraq-Vietnam analogy: NBC's Nightly News: Introducing a report on the speech, anchor Brian Williams asserted, "And after years of rejecting

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• Media failed to resolve question of which members of Congress Freedom's Watch ads are targeting

  Published: August 24, 2007, 8:51 pm

  Tags: Jessica Yellin, Karen Tumulty, Kelly O Donnell, Cnn, Mcclatchy Newspapers, Nbc, The New York Times, The Situation Room, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Today Show, Usa Today, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  reports, including those on Today and the Situation Room, did not mention that two of Freedom's Watch's ads attempt to link the Iraq war to 9-11. From the August 22 USA Today article: Freedom's Watch, a conservative group, plans to launch a $15 million advertising campaign in 20 states

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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

  that it really is. USA Today is sure to have done this for a reason. Should the paper have reported this as the aggression it really is, it is sure that the Chinese government would take revenge on USA Today's capabilities to report from the Communist nation in the future. The result is that USA Today soft peddles the story so that they

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• ABC Looks at Media Bias in Duke Rape Case; Ignores Example From Own Network

  Published: September 4, 2007, 3:46 pm

  Tags: Crime, Duke Lacrosse, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Chris Cuomo, Dan Abrams, Nancy Grace, Cnn, Good Morning America, New York Times, Usa Today, Video

  the New York Times loved it. USA Today loved it. Nancy Grace on CNN loved it." However, while Cuomo did engage Taylor and his co-author K.C. Johnson on the subject of the media's failing, the GMA anchor ignored an example from his own network. In April of 2007, ABC reporter Terry Moran blogged on the network's official site that Americans

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