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Election Day
P.O.V. / PBS - By Katy Chevigny - Jul. 2 (Special Report)
(VIDEO - 74 minutes) Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of... More »
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Fox News Airs Revised Photos of 'NYT' Staffers -- Sifton Calls It 'Disgusting'
Editor & Publisher - By Joe Strupp, Greg Mitchell - Jul. 2 (News Report)
The Fox News channel has gained wide attention today in the blogosphere for airing photos of two New York Times staffers that appear to have been doctored to portray the Timesmen... More »
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Some on left target McCain's war record
The Politico - By Ben Smith - Jun. 30 (News Report)
The highest-voltage third rail of this presidential campaign may not be race, sex or age, but John McCain's military service. McCain's campaign on Sunday issued a pair of outraged... More »
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Crisis in Zimbabwe
LinkTV - Jul. 4 (News Analysis)
Robert Mugabe wins reelection as president of Zimbabwe in a campaign of violence and intimidation. Activists fight back, with new media as their weapon... More »
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Loving John McCain
The Nation - By Eric Alterman, George Zornick - Jul. 2 (News Analysis)
In light of this evidence--as well as much, much more that space does not permit discussion of here--it is difficult not to conclude that the figure with whom so many mainstream... More »
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Real change happens off-line
Christian Science Monitor - Jul. 1 (Opinion)
By contrast, Internet activism is individualistic. It's great for a sense of interconnectedness, but the Internet does not bind individuals in shared struggle the same as the... More »
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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers
New York Times - By Miguel Helft - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after... More »
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Bogus narratives
San Francisco Chronicle - By Jon Carroll - Jun. 19 (Opinion)
The political media, particularly the national political media, particularly the national electronic political media, exist in a vast echo chamber... More »
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Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend
The Carpetbagger Report - By Steve Benen - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
But the American Family Association's OneNewsNow website takes the phenomenon one step further with its AP articles. The far-right fundamentalist group replaces the word... More »
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O's got a TV eye on you
Boston Phoenix - By Steven Stark - Jun. 29 (Opinion)
With his decision to forgo public funding, Barack Obama can raise as much as he wants, giving him a huge financial advantage in the fall campaign... More »
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An Attack That Came Out of the Ether
Washington Post - By Matthew Mosk - Jun. 28 (News Report)
(A) biographical sketch of Barack Obama that has become one of the most effective -- and baseless -- Internet attacks of the 2008 presidential season... More »
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Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive
Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - Jun. 24 (Special Report)
The war against terrorism has evolved into a war of ideas and propaganda, a struggle for hearts and minds fought on television and the Internet... More »
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One Angry Man
New Yorker - By Peter J. Boyer - Jun. 16 (Special Report)
In cable news, the dominant personality puts an identifying stamp on the entire organization. The stamp at MSNBC is indisputably that of Keith Olbermann... More »
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McClatchy Washington bureau shines as bright example for online journalism
Online Journalism Review - By Robert Niles - Jun. 17 (Interview)
From providing one of the few domestic voices to consistently challenge the Bush administration's bogus claims before the Iraq War (The New Yorker being another), to dogging the... More »
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Lost in Translation: Alhurra--America's Troubled Effort to Win Middle East Hearts and Minds
ProPublica / CBS News - By Dafna Linzer - Jun. 23 (News Analysis)
An Arab-language television network and radio station, founded by the Bush administration to promote a positive image of the United States, has aired anti-American and... More »
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The media overdo the death of Tim Russert
Slate - By Jack Shafer - Jun. 16 (Opinion)
So Russert's death at 58 is a sad occasion. Yet is it of such importance and momentum that his network, the other networks, and newspapers should continue to salute, remember, and... More »
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Tim Russert's death is a huge loss for American journalism
The Guardian - By Dan Kennedy - Jun. 15 (Opinion)
at a time when the instinct among US television news executives is toward lite, young and cheap, Russert's death creates a target of opportunity for those who would like to dumb... More »
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Bogus narratives
San Francisco Chronicle - By Jon Carroll - Jun. 19 (Opinion)
The political media, particularly the national political media, particularly the national electronic political media, exist in a vast echo chamber... More »
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The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards
Boston Phoenix - By Dan Kennedy - Jun. 26 (Opinion)
The great civil libertarian Nat Hentoff once said that our sex drive pales in comparison with our urge to censor. It's an urge that is played out in places high and low,... More »
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O's got a TV eye on you
Boston Phoenix - By Steven Stark - Jun. 29 (Opinion)
With his decision to forgo public funding, Barack Obama can raise as much as he wants, giving him a huge financial advantage in the fall campaign... More »
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Fox News Airs Revised Photos of 'NYT' Staffers -- Sifton Calls It 'Disgusting'
Editor & Publisher - Jul. 2 (News Report)
The Fox News channel has gained wide attention today in the blogosphere for airing photos of two New York Times staffers that appear to have been doctored to portray the Timesmen... More »
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Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack
New York Times - Jun. 29 (News Report)
The video blasted across the Internet, drawing political blood from Senator John McCain within a matter of days. Produced here in a cluttered former motel behind the Sony Pictures... More »
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Islam's Advance: Afghan journalists under fire
Washington Post - Jun. 28 (Special Report)
The often surprising frankness of political debate conceals a deep and abiding crisis within Afghan journalism: The bedrock values of the society, which include religion, sex, and... More »
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Crisis in Zimbabwe
LinkTV - Jul. 4 (News Analysis)
Robert Mugabe wins reelection as president of Zimbabwe in a campaign of violence and intimidation. Activists fight back, with new media as their weapon... More »
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Loving John McCain
The Nation - Jul. 2 (News Analysis)
In light of this evidence--as well as much, much more that space does not permit discussion of here--it is difficult not to conclude that the figure with whom so many mainstream... More »
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Real change happens off-line
Christian Science Monitor - Jul. 1 (Opinion)
By contrast, Internet activism is individualistic. It's great for a sense of interconnectedness, but the Internet does not bind individuals in shared struggle the same as the... More »
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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers
New York Times - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after... More »
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Let McCain Be McCain
Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Jun. 27 (Opinion)
The most interesting thing about Mr. McCain has always been the delight he takes in a certain unblinkered candor. There is also the antic part of his nature, his natural wit, his... More »
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Rove Tapdances On Subject Of Involvement In McCain Campaign Shake-Up
News Hounds - Jul. 4 (Blog Post)
On last night's (7/3/08) Hannity & Colmes, Karl Rove was once again brought on to serve as the sole analyst of the Barack Obama campaign... More »
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Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend
The Carpetbagger Report - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
But the American Family Association's OneNewsNow website takes the phenomenon one step further with its AP articles. The far-right fundamentalist group replaces the word... More »