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People don’t get news from ‘Daily Show’
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
"They're not making jokes about Dan Quayle is dumb or Gerald Ford is clumsy," he said. "They're not making jokes that you could get if you live in the country but don't read the news ... . You can't get the jokes if you're not watching the news. The jokes are designed to make you think more about the news." While Stewart aims most of his firepower at Republicans, the show is actually pretty balanced in its bookings, the study noted. Of the clearly partisan, 15 guests were conservative and 18 were liberal.
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Beth Arnold: On The Road Again (How The Press Led Us Astray) on The Huffington Post
Posted by Damianmann from Huffington Post
Why were we so surprised by Barack Obama's clear ring of a victory on Tuesday? The short answer is that the media had been leading us down the path marked Hillary Momentum--the path on which she could possibly snatch victory, however it was achieved, out of the jaws of defeat--while Obama was losing his. Obviously, this was wrong and had been for some time.
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Journalists Continue to Be Killed With Impunity Across the Globe
Posted by Jeff from Alternet
Murder is the ultimate form of censorship. The more killings of media workers go unpunished, the more the press is silenced.
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Christopher Kuttruff | Net Neutrality
Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner
Christopher Kuttruff, Truthout, reports: "The Federal Communications Commission has recently encountered mounting scrutiny in response to its broad deregulatory practices. Public frustration regarding the FCC has peaked at a time of fierce debate on net neutrality."
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Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo after six years
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests. Sami al-Haj arrived at the airport in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, on a U.S. military plane along with two other Sudanese released from Guantanamo. Mr. al-Haj was the only journalist from a major international news organization held at Guantanamo and many of his supporters saw his detention as punishment for a network whose broadcasts angered U.S. officials. The military alleged he was a courier for a militant Muslim organization, an allegation his lawyers denied.
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Matt Taibbi questions America's sanity
Posted by VincebusEruptum from Jazz-from-hell.blogspot
Writer Taibbi's new book 'The Great Derangement' goes on sale May 6 and he's put out a promotional video for it that roasts a corrupt White House and an acquiescent corporate media for eight years of greed, terror and blatant, murderous lies. His fellow citizens aren't exactly spared, either...
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Tania Says: Have Sex With Me & Save The Internet! « Seriously McMillan’s “She So Ghetto”
Posted by seriouslymcmillan from
She will "make love" to every (honest & true) virgin that defends the internet regarding Net Neutrality.
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Free and friendly Craigslist has its dark side
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Local paper harmed by impact of Craigslist looks at dark side of Craigslist.
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Josh Silver: TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened - Media on The Huffington Post
Posted by jcstearns from Huffington Post
The quest for quality journalism and for the truth about the fast sell on the Iraq war just hit a new low. And today, in the ensuing days, our loyal Bush lapdog news outlets are either dismissing the damning revelation or pretending it never happened.
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The BRAD BLOG : Hillary Clinton: The Luckiest Woman in the World
Posted by Damianmann from Brad Blog
With 99.51% of the vote reportedly counted as of this moment, according to the PA Dept. of State s own numbers, it s Clinton s 54.6% to Obama s 45.4%. So, in truth, that s actually just a 9.2-point difference, but, as luck would have it for the New York Senator, rounding each of those numbers to their nearest percent, as the bulk of the media were happy to do today, allows for a nice, easily-trumpeted, double-digit, 55% to 45% number that can be reported far and wide!
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Brenda Martin’s Mother Reacts To Guilty Verdict
Posted by robynoratocom from
Today Brenda Martin was found guilty in a court in Guadalajara, Mexico, after enduring over two years of incarceration without a verdict. Brenda, whose ordeal has captured the attention of millions, was accused of being part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by her former employer, Alyn Richard Waage, even though Waage himself insisted she was innocent. Here, Marjorie Bletcher, Brenda's mother, speaks of her devastation over this outcome.
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Rupert Murdoch's Newspaper War: WSJ vs. NYT
Posted by Jeff from newsweek.com
When readers open their newspapers Monday morning, they will discover a Wall Street Journal fashioned to the tastes of the man who revolutionized media markets from Australia to North America. With its increased focus on politics, international news, culture and sports, Murdoch's reconceived Journal represents nothing short of a formal declaration of war on that most venerable of journalistic institutions, The New York Times.
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