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This is Your Brain On Fox

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By David Frum - May. 22 (News Analysis) - when quizzed on current affairs, people who watched only Fox scored worse than people who watched no news at all.

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PBS Responds on Dow-Funded Series

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - May. 01 (News Report) - PBS ombud Michael Getler (4/27/12) agrees that the Dow Chemical Corporation's sponsorship of a PBS series violates PBS underwriting guidelines. PBS, unfortunately, stands by its show.

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Is 'America Revealed'--or PBS?: Dow-sponsored public TV series tracks Dow's product lines

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - Action Alert 4/23/12 The four-part series , airing on PBS stations this month, looks at big-picture economic issues, from agriculture to transportation to manufacturing. The series underwriter? The Dow Chemical Company, whose commercial interests closely

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Corporate Media Hypocrisy: Ted Nugent's Death Wish for Obama v. Hilary Rosen's Work Jab at Ann Romney

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Apr. 19 (News Analysis) - Ever since the election of the nation's first African-American president, the media seem to have become acclimated to a right-wing rhetorical landscape so fraught with racism and violence that words once unthinkable as public utterances by supporters of a Republican candidate barely register as such. Yet, cowed as they are by the right-wing message machine, media figures often feel that they dare not ignore even the most ridiculous of right-wing talking points.

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"Fox Mole," We Hardly Knew Ye! In One Day, Fox Finds Employee Hired by Gawker, Fires Him, Threatens Legal Action

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lauren Kelley - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The post neatly summed up everything that had been troubling me about my employer: Non sequitur, ad hominem attacks on the president; gleeful race baiting; a willful disregard for facts; and so on....

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National Review Tries To Distance Itself From Derbyshire For Racist Column, But Silent On Calls For Firing Him

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - After the National Review’s John Derbyshire penned an unbelievably offensive and racist screed in Taki’s Magazine advising white Americans to stay away from black Americans, a firestorm has predictably erupted over whether his views will be sanctioned by the larger conservative movement. Derbyshire told ThinkProgress that his column urging the majority of Americans to “avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally” was not satire, but in fact a “social commentary.”

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Rupert Murdoch's American Media Immunity

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Michael Wolff - Apr. 04 (News Analysis) - Here's the thing: Murdoch's empire may be under siege in one of the most riveting business tales of our time – featuring wounded celebrities, a dynastic family drama, and toadying at the highest levels of government – but American journalism has been mostly absent from the story. At best, it has been a sidelined presence, late to the game, and generally confused about how to get ahead of events happening in another country. This is, arguably, the best thing Murdoch has going for him: in the US, the seat of his company and the main motor of his fortunes, he has been able to hide in plain sight.

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Does Fact-Checking Work? False Statements are Wrong Metric

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Brendan Nyhan - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - Politics today seemingly has more fact-checking than ever before. As a result, reporters are asking a new question: Does fact-checking work? At the national level, USA Today's Martha T. Moore described it as "an article of faith" among fact-checkers that "factually accurate information is something voters want and need, and they provide plenty of it." Unfortunately, she...

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Wall Street Journal Claims War on Women a "Myth"

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Robin Marty - Mar. 27 (Fact Check) - in essence, what Eberstadt really wants to talk about is whether women are “happier” now than they were back when you only had sex while married and for the purpose of making babies. And, in case you didn’t know this, you aren’t.

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4 important truths about Mike Daisey’s lies & the way ‘This American Life’ told them

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Poynter Institute - By Craig Silverman - Mar. 19 (News Analysis) - Fact checking is a real process, but what “This America Life” did wasn’t fact checking. The press release about the retraction show referenced the “fact checking before the broadcast of Daisey’s story” and the original show included this from Glass: This

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Are Voters Stupid, Or Are They Just Routinely Subjected To Terrible Political Reporting?

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Mar. 16 (News Analysis) - Did it not occur to any of the authors or editors of this piece that terrible, stupid news coverage leads to confusion, which in turn impacts public opinion? All Politico has done, on the issue of gas prices, is again and again fail to note that "every policy expert in both parties says there’s little a president can do to affect the day-to-day price of fuel in a global market." And now, it has shown up, holding you responsible for not knowing that all along! Who's the stupid one, here? I'm going to go with the website that's routinely asserted that the incorrect point of view on gas prices was perfectly valid, until it became necessary to insult its readership.

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Rush Limbaugh Scandal Proves Contagious for Talk-Radio Advertisers

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By John Avlon - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on “programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).”

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Fox News Shamelessly Smears Group That Exposed Network's Sordid History

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Mark Howard - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Media Matters' new book has been met by shameless propaganda by Fox news. ...the authors introduce what they call the "Six Steps” that Fox employs to create national controversies: STEP 1: Conservative activists introduce the lie.

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At GOP Debate, CNN Sucks Up to Candidates, Letting Racism and Misogyny Slide

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Feb. 26 (News Analysis) - moderator CNN moderator John King apparently thought it his job not to challenge the candidates too terribly hard, lest he be derided as a member of the media elite. So "elite" was one thing King proved he certainly was not -- at least not in the realm of debate moderators.

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NPR Introduces New Ethics Handbook, Appoints Standards and Practices Editor

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Poynter Institute - By Mallary Jean Tenore - Feb. 24 (News Report) - Today, NPR is introducing staffers to a new Ethics Handbook that has been in the works for more than a year and illustrates how the organization is taking steps to safeguard against some of the ethical dilemmas it’s faced in the past. NPR began working on the 72-page handbook shortly after Ellen Weiss, vice president of news, fired news analyst Juan Williams for remarks he made about Muslims on “The O’Reilly Factor.” The October 2010 dismissal led NPR’s Board of Directors to conduct a formal review of what happened. A couple months after the incident, which generated widespread criticism, Weiss resigned.

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Anthony Shadid (1968-2012): Incomparable, Pulitzer-Winning Middle East Correspondent Dies in Syria

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Feb. 17 (Special Report) - The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid has died at the age of 43. Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack on Thursday while covering the conflict in Syria. An American of Lebanese descent who spoke fluent Arabic, Shadid captured dimensions of life in the Middle East that many others failed to see. His exceptional coverage won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2010 for international reporting while covering the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Shadid has been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the past decade reporting on Libya, Tunisia, Iraq and Lebanon. We air excerpts from our last interview with Shadid in April 2011, just after he returned home following his six-day capture in Libya by Col. Muammar Gaddafi's forces. [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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10 Repulsive Fox News Employees Who Should Be Fired

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Mark Howard - Feb. 16 (News Analysis) - This past week presented a revealing lesson in contrast as to how different media enterprises deal differently with anchors and other editorial personnel who fail the test of principles that ought to govern all journalists.

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Why Americans Are Stupid: Part II

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - Feb. 14 (News Analysis) - See if you can guess which cover TIME presented to US readers and which was presented to European readers?

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New Report Shows Big-Money Politics and Broadcast Media Are Undermining Democracy

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FreePress.net - Jan. 26 (Special Report) - On Thursday, Free Press released Citizens Inundated, a report that follows the money trail from big-spending political donors to the bank accounts of the nation's largest broadcast companies.

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Maddow Explodes At PolitiFact

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - Jan. 26 (News Analysis) - Rachel Maddow lit into controversial fact-checking outfit PolitiFact with notable fury on her Wednesday show, hammering the organization for a series of statements it made...

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GOP Debates Let Loose The Roar Of The Crowd

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Howard Fineman - Jan. 20 (News Analysis) - Candidates' attacks, gaffes and memory lapses have dominated coverage of the 21 Republican debates so far, but reporters are covering the wrong people. The real story isn't on the stage; it's in the audience.

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SHOCK: Meet The New Face Of San Francisco's Most Liberal Talk Radio Station

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Jan. 06 (News Report) - When listeners of Bay Area progressive talk radio station Green 960 tuned into to host Stephanie Miller's weekday morning drive-time radio program on Wednesday, they...

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Politifact Has Decided That A Totally True Thing Is The "Lie Of The Year," For Some Reason

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - So, you know, go form an organization called WordTweaker and commit yourself to advocating for the most civil sounding adjectives, if that's what you want to do! But let's recall, Politifact, that your lie of the year is "Republicans voted to end Medicare." And end it, they did vote to do! Now, if the Democrats had said, "Republicans take Medicare out behind the Cannon Office Building and horsewhip it," that's a different story. But you've decided -- incorrectly -- that the most vanilla way of the describing what happened is a deception. And "privatizing" Medicare ends Medicare, as Medicare is a public entitlement program.

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5 of the Biggest Hacks in American Media

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Alex Pareene - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - Excerpted from Alex Pareene and Salon's 2011 Hack List, here are five of the worst, most predictable and least interesting pundits in America.

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Paul Ryan’s Undeserved Awards

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Ari Berman - Dec. 06 (News Analysis) - Tonight in Washington Rep. Paul Ryan will receive Politico ’s “ Health Care Policymaker of the Year ” award. Washington Monthly blogger Steve Benen deftly summarizes the many reasons why Ryan is so undeserving of said award. It’s been several months sinc

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