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What's Inside Glenn Beck's Brain?

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - Apr. 06 (Cartoon) - A map of all the obsessions and conspiracies that fueled his soon-to-be-gone Fox News show.

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At OpEdNews: My Letter to Joe Scarborough on 4/13/07

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By R. Francis Rubio - Sep. 07 (Opinion) - I wrote this letter to MSNBC two years ago about the coverage of the derogatory remarks (nappy haired comment among others) Don Imus made on his radio show about young African American women on a college basketball team. Now after the election of our new President in large part due to the youth vote finally we may be starting to get it.

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The Sarcastic Times

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Alissa Quart - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - ... what really makes the show special is how it embodies the rise of what I think of as sarcasm news. More and more news programs are likely to go absurdist in the coming months and years. As faith in and loyalty to traditional anchors wither, one can even hear ironic Maddowian intonations creeping into the delivery of CNN’s not-so-funny anchor Campbell Brown on her new show.

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President Bush Speech At White House Correspondent's Dinner

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - President Bush poked fun at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner. "Senator McCain's not here," Bush said of GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain. "He probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. You know, he's not alone. Jenna's moving out.

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"Today's Decision Would Make George Orwell Proud"--FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on the FCC's Vote to Rewrite the Nation's Media Ownership Rules

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Michael Copps - Dec. 26 (Speech) - So now it's up to the rest of us. The situation isn't going to repair itself. Big media is not going to repair it. This Commission is apparently not going to repair it. But the people and their elected representatives and attentive courts can repair it. Last time the Commission went down this road, the majority heard and felt the outrage of millions of citizens and Congress and then the court. Today's decision is just as dismissive of good process as that earlier one, just as unconcerned with what people have said, just as heedless of the advice of our oversight committees and many other members of Congress, and just as stubborn

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WGA - Why We Fight

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:47:55 -0800

Our Family Blog - Nov. 07 (Advocacy) - Here is a video explaining in simple terms why the Writers Guild is going on strike.

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The Prince of Poets: Arab Poetry's Answer to American Idol

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:48:14 -0700

3 Quarks Daily - By Saifedean Ammous - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - Imagine an American TV network deciding to take the American Idol format and apply it to poetry; lining up poets to read their poems in front of temperamental judges while the nation gets out its mobile phones to vote for its favorite poet. One can be sure the show would not survive the first commercial break before the chastened executives pull the plug on it and replace it with yet another series on the Life and Times of Nicole Ritchie. Yet, that was exactly the formula for the latest TV sensation to take Arab countries by storm.

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Moguls Feel the Pull of Web Television

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:40:58 -0700

Huffington Post - By David McCourt - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - Until internet television, Hollywood never faced genuine competition. The enduring success of the leading entertainment companies has been largely due to their stranglehold on distribution. Without access to thousands of screens, few outsiders stood a chance. The emergence of DVD technology did little to loosen this grip on distribution. Video readily downloaded over the internet has cracked the cartel. The death of the Hollywood distribution model could be vividly seen when, a year ago, DreamWorks, once the most talked-about Hollywood studio, was quietly sold for $1.6bn. Within a few months, that same $1.6bn is what it cost Google to buy YouTube.

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Online Video, lifting all boats

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:42:55 -0800

GigaOM - By Om Malik - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - YouTube, Joost and dozens of online video start-ups have done something many thought impossible: they have gotten the telecom executives excited. So excited that some of them are sponsoring Web 2.0 cocktail parties and cutting deals with little companies, hoping that Internet video will keep pushing the demand for bandwidth, and bring in some much needed relief.

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Exclusive Interview: Derrek Kosinski (MTV's Road Rules X-Treme)

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:02:39 -0800

RoadRules Revenge.com - Feb. 08 (Entertainment) - Interview with Derrek Kosinski of MTV's Road Rules X-Treme on the new season of Road Rules.

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Road Rules Episode 14.2 Recap: High Noon?

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:21:59 -0800

roadrulesrevenge.com - Feb. 07 (Entertainment) - The Roadies take on a swift water rescue challenge, Tori adjusts to life in the RV and Abram & Adam come to blows.

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Exclusive Interview: David Leech (Road Rules Viewers Revenge)

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:43:32 -0800

Road Rules Revenge - By Jeff Zercie - Feb. 03 (Entertainment) - "Just like most of us, I have grown up watching Real World and Road Rules, and the people grow close to your heart, and from the first time I seen Road Rules when I was 14 yrs old, I always said I will be on that show, and there has never been a personality on there like mine, so when I seen real world and road rules was casting back in August 06, I sent in over 46 audition tapes in one month, everyday a different tape, till finally the producers told me to stop!"

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Road Rules Episode 14.1 Recap: I've got a semi-chubby!

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:28:01 -0800

Website - By Zersman - Jan. 30 (Entertainment) - To set the mood, Abram shouts to Kina, "I just wanna let you know that I have a semi-chubby, because this is one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life."

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Which SNL Stars Are About To Be Fired?

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:38:36 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Sklar - Aug. 23 (Opinion) - SNL is suddenly a hot topic of conversation -- between the departure of Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch and the debut of not one but two behind-the-scenes shows based on it ("Studio 360" and "30 Rock") -- plus sudden competition on the funny front from Comedy Central, blogs and websites -- the future of the 31-year old sketch comedy institution is of particular interest. The New York Post's Don Kaplan has some inside scoop today, reporting that "four cast members are about to be fired -- they know who they are, but the public doesn't" (does Don? He doesn't say).

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