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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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Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - May. 17 (News) - New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events, something that used to take place behind closed doors.

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Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - May. 13 (News Report) - In an interview about the future of the media industry, Google's head of news products Richard Gingras said that newspapers are like old-fashioned internet portals such as AOL and Yahoo, and that unless they can adapt to the web instead of fighting it they are doomed.

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Fox News Contributor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gene Demby - May. 09 (News) - Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women the right to vote.

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New Legislation Would Give Power to Keyboard Cops

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Naomi Wolf - May. 07 (Special Report) - The respected Internet technology site Techdirt has called the bill "insanity." It has written that "CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information ... for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as [it] can claim someone committed a ‘cybersecurity crime.'"

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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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What’s Happening in Syria?

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By William Blum - Apr. 08 (News Analysis) - It’s difficult to know what’s happening in Syria not only because of the confusing violence but because the Western news media has lost nearly all credibility when it comes to reporting on Muslim countries, at least those on America’s and Israel’s enemies lists.

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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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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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The AP's Weak Coverage of Its New Boss

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Ryan Chittum - Mar. 24 (News Analysis) - The Associated Press has a new CEO. So how does the AP cover it? Not very well. AP hired McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt to be its new CEO, which raises a couple of obvious questions. First: The AP hired an old-line newspaper executive to be their digital-age CEO? Second: They hired McClatchy's longtime CEO? If you're reporting on this,...

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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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Discussing the Motives of the Afghan Shooter

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

readersupportednews.org - By Gelnn Greenwald - Mar. 19 (News Analysis) - There is, quite obviously, a desperate need to believe that when an American engages in acts of violence of this type (meaning: as a deviation from formal American policy), there must be some underlying mental or emotional cause that makes it sensible, something other than an act of pure hatred or Evil.' Glenn Greenwald, Salon

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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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Jeremy Scahill: Why is President Obama Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison?

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jeremy Scahill - Mar. 15 (News Analysis) - The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed the U.S. role in a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. In January 2011, a Yemeni state security court gave the journalist, Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a five-year jail sentence on terrorism-related charges following a disputed trial that was condemned by several human rights and press freedom groups. Within a month of Shaye's sentencing, then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced he was going to pardon the journalist. But Saleh changed his mind after a phone call from President Obama. Thirteen months later, Shaye remains behind bars. We speak award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill and Mohamed Abdel Dayem of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Papers Refuse to Run 'Doonesbury' Abortion Law Strip

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Bill Draper - Mar. 13 (News Report) - The comic strips feature a woman who goes to an abortion clinic and is confronted by several people who suggest she should be ashamed. Among them is a doctor who reads a script on behalf of Texas Gov. Rick Perry welcoming her to a "compulsory transvaginal exam," and a middle-aged legislator who calls her a "slut." One panel equates the invasive procedure to rape and describes the device used to perform it as a "10-inch shaming wand."

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Hypothes.is Reputation Workshop

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wikipedia - By Dario Taraborelli - Mar. 04 (Special Report) - Hypothes.is founder Dan Whaley invited us to participate in the workshop to contribute to the design of this service with input from Wikimedia and to help them make design decisions for a suitable reputation model to be used by the service. Other prominent Wikipedia researchers (GroupLens founder John Riedl, and WikiTrust creator Luca de Alfaro) were among the participants.

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Why More Brands Should Copy the New York Times’ Facebook Timeline

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Journalism.org - By Keith Wagstaff - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - "Why More Brands Should Copy the New York Times’ Facebook Timeline "

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Photojournalists Debate Ethics of Instagram, Hipstamatic

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Journalism.org - By Steve Myers - Mar. 01 (News Report) - "Photojournalists Debate Ethics of Instagram, Hipstamatic"

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Wikileaks Publishes Millions Of Confidential Emails From Security Firm

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 27 (News Report) - The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA.

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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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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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Keystone Pipeline Facts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Redford - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - 'Joe Nocera's op-ed in the New York Times yesterday deserves a response and a reiteration of the facts surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ...Let's put the rhetoric aside, and simply focus on the facts. Nocera wants us to believe that approving this pipeline is a matter of national security. ... The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not make the United States of America safer. Why? It would not make us safer, because the majority of the processed oil was already scheduled for export to foreign countries. That's right, this Keystone XL pipeline's Canadian tar sands oil would have

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