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      Miami Herald Publisher Resigns

      Posted by Billbar from ABC News

      Jesus Diaz Jr., the papers' publisher since July 2005, had dismissed two El Nuevo Herald reporters and a freelance contributor who had been paid by Radio Marti and TV Marti. Diaz said the company offered to rehire the three and would not discipline six others it recently discovered also took payments. Diaz said he believed the journalists' acceptance of payments "was a breach of widely accepted principles of journalistic ethics." But he added "our policies prohibiting such behavior may have been ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years in the El Nuevo Herald newsroom." He said no one would be allowed in the future to accept money from the U.S. government-run broadcasters, and conflict-of-interest policies would be strengthened.

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      THE LOW POST: How the Media Lies About China

      Posted by Billbar from Rolling Stone

      In fact, "When it comes to China, we just need to try harder" has to be among the most pervasive and universally-held lies in the American press these days, right up there with, "In elections, any candidate, no matter how poor, has a chance" and "The networks are just giving the people the news they want." One of the biggest purveyors of this dreck is arch-capitalist spokesmodel Thomas Friedman, who has spent the last ten years trying to talk himself into the position that having to compete with Chinese and Indian industrial slaves is somehow a good thing for America.

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    • Spinning the Unspinnable

      Posted by Billbar

      You've got to hand it to the Wall Street Journal editorial staff. They take their partisanship seriously. While fair weather Republicans like Michelle Malkin, Bay Buchanan, and the folks at the Washington Times are distancing themselves from the House Republican leadership in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, the diehard partisans at the Journal continue onward, undeterred. To them, nothing is unspinnable, even a scandal in which House Republican leaders appear to have turned a blind eye to a sexual predator in their midst in order to retain control of a contested congressional seat. These guys live for the challenge of defending the indefensible.

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    • Press downplays Iraq during campaign season. Again.

      Posted by Billbar from Media Matters

      There is, however, ample evidence that the American media, on the eve of the crucial midterm elections, have lost interest in the chaotic saga, with network news coverage in recent weeks plummeting and Page One newspaper dispatches from Iraq growing sparse. The media fade has come at a perfect time for the White House as it attempts to shift voters' attention away from Iraq and move it over to the war on terror. What's so startling is that we've seen this exact media retreat before -- during the fall of the 2004 campaign. Back then, when sustained, aggressive coverage of the unfolding chaos inside Iraq could have done real damage to the Bush/Cheney ticket, the press shifted its attention away from Baghdad. Instead of a summer of tenacious war coverage, Bush was blessed with a cable news agenda that focused on endless hurricane updates, Martha Stewart's legal woes, and the tawdry Laci Peterson trial.

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    • Lawyer Says FCC Ordered Study Destroyed

      Posted by Billbar from American Free Press

      The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says. The report, written in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

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    nathalie comments on:

    Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour

    Of COURSE the show has more Rs than Ds—they control the government, for heaven’s sake!

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    8:12 am 10/14/06
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    nathalie comments on:

    Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour

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    8:10 am 10/14/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour

    This is the only TV news show I watch and I completely agree that it’s biased, but I can’t abide the alternatives.

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    6:06 am 10/07/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Miami Herald Publisher Resigns

    Ethics aren’t a priority when it comes to Castro in Miami.

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    5:12 am 10/05/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Fake e-mail publisher defended in Boston Globe

    I was kind of surprised that the Globe would do this, but on thinking further, no. Blogs, especially blogs with large followings, are seen as a threat by the main stream media. Still, a hatchet job like that??

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    1:31 pm 7/07/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    What happened to the media's love of sex scandals?

    I watched the NewsHour on PBS Friday hoping for something in-depth. Nope. Heck, they barely even mentioned that Goss resigned without a replacement ready for him. Helen Thomas has a new book out about the MSM. It's mentioned at Crooks and Liars: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/06.html#a8186

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    7:49 am 5/07/06
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