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Bloggers Say DNC List Lacks Racial Diversity
Posted by Shemuses from Washington Post
Forget the row over RFK, the latest superdelegate tally or Saturday's sure-to-be contentious meeting of the Rules and Bylaws Committee. With the Democratic National Convention less than three months away, and with Web pundits playing an even bigger role during the four-day event, a whole other drama is chewing up the blogosphere -- and the often unmentioned Afrosphere.
Is the Secret Service Investigating Liz Trotta and Fox News?
Posted by Damianmann from Huffington Post
FOX News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had first "mistakenly" referred to Obama as "Osama" while discussing theories that Hillary Clinton's recent comments about the RFK assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone "knock off Osama." When she was corrected and reminded that she meant "Obama," she then said, "Well, both if we could."
Fox News Jokes About Obama Assassination
Posted by theangryindian
You can bet that if this same joke were made about Bush, conservative bloggers would be screaming high treason and demanding that the offending individual be publicly executed.
Publius Project - Dan Gillmor: Principles of a New Media Literacy
Posted by Damianmann
The democratization of media is no longer in doubt. Digital media tools, increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, have spawned a massive amount of media creation at all levels, most notably from the edges of networks. These networks have provided vast access to what people have created - potentially a global audience for anyone's creation. But the expanding and more diverse media ecosystem, which includes various kinds of citizen media alongside traditional forms, poses some difficult challenges alongside the unquestioned benefits. A key question: In this emergent global conversation, which has created a tsunami of information, what can we trust?
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.
Journalists Continue to Be Killed With Impunity Across the Globe
Posted by Jeff from Alternet
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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