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Journalists and their good friends in the White House

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - It's actually difficult to find a news story of any significance that isn't shaped at its core by the incestuous, deeply affectionate relationship between the Government and the establishment media.

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Ambushed

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - After Jenna Kern, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, decided to write an Op-Ed piece for Newsday questioning whether shock jocks and hate speech contributed to the recent murderous shooting spree in a U-U church in Tennessee, the haters started to come after her as well.

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Format change will take Cullen off WPTT

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By By Mark Roth - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Even though Serena said politics had nothing to do with the decision, the demise of Cullen's show fits into a larger national picture in which politically liberal talk radio has struggled. As Cullen put it, "You could drive from the East Coast to the West Coast and never hear anything other than a right-wing point of view."

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How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

AlterNet - By Terrence McNally, Susan Jacoby - Aug. 18 (Interview) - "It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." Barack Obama finally said it. Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them -- and us -- unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a society.

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NBC coverage gives a narrow view of China

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

USA Today - By Robert Bianco - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Many journalists in China, including USA TODAY's Christine Brennan, have written about the sterile atmosphere on the Olympic Green in the first week caused by the Chinese government's aggressive security measures. That's something a viewer would have known only by omission. Gone were the Sydney pans of happy crowds, replaced by tight shots designed to hide their absence.

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Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media -

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 18 (Blog Post) - That's because The Post's role here has been and continues to be what the establishment media's role generally is -- to serve government sources and amplify their claims, not to investigate their veracity. That's how it was Saddam Hussein who was the original anthrax culprit, followed by Steven Hatfill, and now Bruce Ivins...

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Citing convention negotiations, Fox News Sunday 's Wallace asked if President Obama would negotiate by "caving in"

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Media Matters - By Media Matters - Aug. 17 (News Analysis) - On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said that "after giving Hillary Clinton a speaking role on Tuesday night and Bill Clinton a speaking role on Wednesday night, now Hillary Clinton's going to get her name placed in nomination and to have a roll call. Question: Is that the way President Obama would negotiate, to just keep caving in?" Wallace also asked if placing Clinton's name in nomination was "[s]mart politics or a show of weakness."

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Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Michiko Kakutani - Aug. 17 (News Report) - IT'S been more than eight years since "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show's approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show's striking evolution. Jon Stewart describes the morning meeting as "a gathering of curmudgeons expressing frustration and upset...

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Ban media cross-ownership

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Seattle Times - Aug. 16 (Editorial) - The U.S. House of Representatives has a chance to do what it would not in 2003: take a stand against media consolidation, which is one of the greatest threats to democracy. The resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island, and Dave Reichert, R-Auburn. The resolution currently has 45 sponsors, of which Reichert is the only Republican.

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Obama and the Politics of 'Presumptuousness'

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Nation - By eric alterman - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - in fact it is the Post's white house columnist who is the symbol:a symbol of a press core that has become almost as corrupted--morally and intellectually by Bush and company, as the government. in media as well as politics, americans need a change we can believe in

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