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 James Murdoch's speech to investors in Barcelona yesterday revealed the direction that News Corporation plans to take in the coming years. His key quote: In the business of ideas, which is the business that we are in, we do think journalism plays a role, and we do [...]
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 Daily and weekly newspapers in South Africa have just suffered some of the worst circulation figures in living memory. With the exceptions of the Afrikaans daily Die Son and the Zulu daily Isolezwe, all titles reported third-quarter year-on-year losses. Witwatersrand j-school professor Anton Harber said the country's newspapers [...]
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 Joanna Geary, web development editor for The Times and one of the most thoughtful of journalistic bloggers, has an interesting take on Twitter storm controversies. Stimulated by Stephen Fry's defence of his own so-called influence during the Jan Moir episode, Geary raises a couple [...]
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 The Cumberland News and its sister papers are rising (please forgive pun) to the occasion today in their online reportage of the floods in Cockermouth. Its live webchat service, Cumbria under water, is keeping everyone informed about developments with minute-by-minute updates from readers, police and reporters. It [...]
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 Congratulations to Michael Heath, who last night won a lifetime achievement award at the Cartoon Art Trust awards. It is well deserved. Throughout his lengthy career, which stretches back to the early 1950s, he has been entertaining newspaper and magazine readers with brilliantly funny cartoons. His success [...]
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 Monkey reports that movie director Edgar Wright is unhappy that The Times ran his blogged tribute to the actor Edward Woodward without his permission as if it were an article written for the paper. How dos this square with Rupert Murdoch's intense dislike for [...]
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 Those incorrigible Corrigan Brothers, the Irish band that composed and sang the memorable international hit There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama, have turned their musical attention to the handball by Thierry Henry that cheated Ireland out of a place in the world cup finals. So [...]
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 The bidding process for regional TV news pilot schemes has proved to be somewhat tortuous. But today's news of the Trinity Mirror/Press Association/Ten Alps joint bid shows that they have not been put off by the lengthy procedure. After all, there's the lure of public money, which [...]
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 I have written several times over the past couple of years about murderous attacks on journalists in Mexico. Now the human rights group Article 19,
in conjunction with its Mexican partner Cencos, has produced a report about the continuing deterioration of freedom of expression in [...]
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 Following Baroness Buscombe's pre-emptive response to a letter of complaint by bloggers - organised through the website LiberalConspiracy.org - the site's editor, Sunny Hundal, offers "a series of thoughts." You'll find them here. But the blogging attack on the Press Complaints Commission is only part [...]
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 Two journalists have been shot at and wounded in the last two days in Somalia. On Tuesday, Voice of America reporter Mohammed Yasin Isak was shot in the shoulder by a police officer just after being stopped at a police checkpoint. And yesterday, Abdirahman Warsame of Xinhua [...]
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 PCC chairman Peta Buscombe has said she does not want to regulate bloggers after all unless they sign up for it Further to the earlier posting about the bloggers' response to Baroness Buscombe, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission... Buscombe has pre-empted the sending of a letter by [...]
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 I am no supporter of the Conservative party. But, aside from worrying about its intentions towards the BBC, I think its shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, may be on the right track in terms of changing the rules over localised cross-media ownership, as I write today in [...]
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 Hardly a day goes by without a poll saying how many people will or will not pay for access to online news. Today's survey, courtesy of Forrester Research polled 4,000 people in the US and found that 80% will not pay for online newspapers or magazines. [...]
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 Just a week after the launch of a campaign to reform Britain's iniquitous libel law comes heartening news of judicial good sense over two libel actions. Nigel Hanson, a lawyer with Foot Anstey, reports that judges have given "short shrift to two weak defamation [...]
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In an interview with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, in Hannity's words, "favored his point of view" was "absolutely false."
From the November 20 edition of [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:12pm EST
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You've got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]
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Sean Hannity responded to a statement by Democratic strategist Jacques DeGraff that "We're on the threshold of taking care of 31 million Americans who don't have health insurance" by claiming that "It's actually 12 million" who would get insurance.
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November 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
FORMER MD GOV. ROBERT ERLICH: [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:47pm EST
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On Friday night's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, MSNBC host Matthews took a page out of Dick Cheney's book and accused the president of "dithering" over Afghanistan.
"President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there. Health care. Terror trials. Job losses." Matthews began. He [...]
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Analysts and executives are wondering if the economic model of broadcast television, which is more heavily reliant on advertising than cable, is irreparably broken.
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The sides appear to be at least $500 million apart on how to value NBC Universal, which G.E. is hoping to sell to Comcast, the big cable television company.
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Bill Clinton told FDL's Eve Gittelson that it would be problematic for him to attend a free medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had "politicized" the event." He indicated that some were turning the event into a primary kickoff against Arkansas Sen. [...]
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Special Report host Bret Baier falsely claimed that recently released cervical cancer screening guidelines were promulgated by a "federal panel," adding that those guidelines "open the door to this conversation about rationing." Additionally, Mara Liasson suggested that that the Senate health care reform bill would implement a task force's recommendations [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:53pm EST
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 Cam Edwards giggled as he shared his "Headline of the Week" with his audience Friday night at NRANews.com. It comes from Indianapolis: "Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage."
Understandably, while that headline remains on Google, WXIN (Fox 59) has changed the headline now to the more appropriate "Homeowner holds burglar [...]
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 Let us give New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin credit. He is one of the few in the mainstream media reporting on the hacked global warming e-mails story which has gone viral in the blogosphere and was covered in-depth by NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard. If you [...]
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 On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips went after the kids who supposedly bully a 10-year-old boy who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because homosexual marriage isn't widely accepted. Some of his classmates allegedly call him names. Phillips's weapon of choice was name calling:
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It was all too
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From the moment Sarah Palin was
airlifted out of the Alaska hinterlands by John McCain and plopped onto the
national stage, she's been telling anyone who will listen how poorly she's been
treated by the media, the Democrats, the blogosphere, etc. After she did her
part [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:02pm EST
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Once upon a time, Rush Limbaugh
would profess how conservative thinkers like Charles Krauthammer were the bee's
knees. He even said, on more than one occasion, that he would consider trading brains with Krauthammer:
LIMBAUGH: As
you may remember my having said -- and I'll say it again -- I [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:44pm EST
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Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, [...]
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Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow.
Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her criticisms of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Maddow [...]
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The authorities are expanding access to journalists who don?t belong to cartel-like media groups that analysts say have produced a relatively spineless press.
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Number of comments: 9 Actually, this Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation passenger plane yesterday missed the runway in eastern Congo. But it's Friday afternoon. And this is what the CAA jet would probably look like. I'm no comedian. What's your best caption? [...]
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Rush Limbaugh -- who had previously condemned the "thugs" who hacked then-Gov. Sarah Palin's email account -- joined right-wing bloggers in touting a series of emails that were apparently stolen from the UK's Climate Research Unit [CRU]. Limbaugh proceeded to distort at least one of the emails in order to [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:04pm EST
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In a live broadcast from Chicago, a tearful Oprah Winfrey announced that she's leaving her long-running program "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:42pm EST
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No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein?s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned that Lachlan Murdoch—yes, that [...]
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MySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin, according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major sticking point related to equity. MySpace [...]
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Beverly Hills, CA ? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their [...]
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At the top of Friday?s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews discovered the reason for President Obama?s political difficulties in recent months: ?President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there....He?s exposed and vulnerable. His poll numbers are dropping. Is he just too darned intellectual? [...]
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Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.
The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen reports that the PBS newscaster is retiring from his Friday night program, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010.
"Bill Moyers Journal" launched in April 2007.
Jensen reports that it was Moyers' intention to retire at Christmas this [...]
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.
The Rockland County district attorney's office issued a one-sentence statement Friday saying Carter, 46, was found guilty of third-degree attempted assault.
The maximum sentence [...]
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ESPN has punished Bill Simmons for writing tweets critical of Boston sports radio station WEEI. ESPN.com editor-in-chief Rob King wrote a blog post to confirm the news, writing that "we've taken appropriate measures."
ESPN Radio and WEEI announced a partnership on October 7, and Simmons has criticized the [...]
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In making public a video he withheld for more than two months, right-wing activist James O'Keefe finally acknowledged that a Los Angeles ACORN employee "would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities" -- an admission that directly contradicts claims by his colleague Hannah Giles that no ACORN [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:18pm EST
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In case you have been stuck on no-journalism-allowed island recently: Past undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University working on the famed Innocence Project have been accused of bribing witnesses and acting somewhat inappropriately while investigating a murder case that eventually set a wrongfully-convicted man free. As the New York Times reports: Illinois prosecutors “said that [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:05pm EST by Dan
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Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was splashed on C1 of The Wall Street Journal and A1 of The New York Times, which wrote that "the bank said Tuesday that it would spend $500 million ? [...]
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Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that the Federal Reserve is apparently worried about the new bubble it's inflating. Federal Reserve officials are stepping up scrutiny of the biggest U.S. banks to ensure the lenders can withstand a reversal of soaring global-asset prices, according to people with knowledge of the [...]
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St. Petersburg Times | The Hollywood Reporter e.Republic was chosen from among six bidders for the magazine. Several of the principals of the California media company are members of the Church of Scientology, and the St. Petersburg Times has been running stories critical of the church. "It's a business [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:15pm EST
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Following up his hit impression of a junior Glenn Beck, Cartman returns with a lament that his America is gone--there are too many "minorities at my water park." And "even the authorities are minorities."  [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:08pm EST
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Friday?s front-page ?news analysis? by New York Times health care reporter Kevin Sack, ?Culture Clash in Medicine,? dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for breast cancer and cervical cancer. The recommendations have caused some outcry as a possible prelude to Obama-care rationing, concerns Sack [...]
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In the annals of stupid drug reporting, a special commendation must be reserved for NBC's Today show, which on Nov. 19 aired (video) one the stupidest drug stories in broadcast news. The program, which specializes in terrorizing mothers with sensationalist stories, discovered that today's kids are "huffing" inhalants from hair [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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Earlier this week, the USC student-run online publication Neon Tommy published a profile of LA Weekly editor Drex Heikes. The story was not unflattering, and I was impressed by Heikes' candor about many of the issues facing the paper. He openly acknowledged how grim things had become:
"Sometime in [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:48pm EST
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NBC's "Meet the Press" held on to its first place crown in total viewers and the A25-54 demo last Sunday. ABC's "This Week" was second in total viewers while CBS' "Face the Nation" took the #2 spot in demo (age 25-54).
Total Viewers for November 15th
NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 3,110,000 [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:48pm EST
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Unhappy fans of Sarah Palin went rogue on the Alaska Republican during her book tour stop in Noblesville, Indiana on Thursday.
The local Borders outlet had handed out 1,000 wristbands to book purchasers; the wristbands were supposed to procure fans Palin's signature on their hardback copies of "Going Rogue." But [...]
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Time?s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There?s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote. In essence, the article lays out how Craig, who thought that both the [...]
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Talk show host Dick Cavett, whose TV show went off the air in 1982, appeared on MSNBC, Friday, to trash Sarah Palin as a "know nothing" and someone who has "no first language." Mostly, however, he seemed interested only in talking about himself, prompting News Live host Norah O?Donnell to [...]
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 On Nov. 18, Foreign Policy's Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson wrote an article titled "The Real Shock of Fort Hood." If you thought that the shock of Fort Hood was that an Army Major fired over 100 rounds into a crowded processing center on a military base [...]
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Joel Simon, CPJ Executive Director; Ronnate Tissainayagam, wife of imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam; Naziha Rejiba, Kalima, Tunisia; Mustafa Haji Abinur, Agence France-Presse, Somalia; Matt Frei, Anchor BBC World News America; Rome Hartman, Executive Producer BBC [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:16pm EST
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Times West Virginian publisher Andrew Kniceley (left) used his newspaper to apologize for yelling at a football coach because his son played only three plays in a game. "I regret any embarrassment or discomfort that I have caused FSU [Fairmont State University], my newspaper [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:15pm EST
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 An unsigned CNN.com article on Friday noted that the Senate Ethics Committee had reproved Senator Roland Burris ?for actions and statements reflecting unfavorably upon the Senate,? but did not directly mention the Illinois senator?s affiliation with the Democratic [...]
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At the end of the Charles Bronson film, 10 to Midnight, a serial killer, who has just been apprehended, reverts to a variation of the same plea uttered by Andy Robinson's psychopath in Dirty Harry and Leo Gorcey's punk in Dead End: "society made me do it."
Like Clint Eastwood [...]
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 Yesterday AOL revealed that it was looking to cut one-third of its staff as it heads towards its spin off from parent company Time Warner and looks to trim $300 million from its annual operating costs.
But, as our sister blog WebNewser [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:05pm EST
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The Kojo Nnamdi Listen to Thursday's WAMU discussion of the state of alternative media. The guests: Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff; Richard Karpel of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; and Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:46pm EST
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Right-wing media figures, including Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and The Washington Times' Wesley Pruden, have in recent days attacked President Obama while discussing his mental state. While claiming, "I'm not asking you to psychoanalyze the president," Beck asked psychiatrist and Fox News contributor Keith Ablow, "Are we crazy for saying [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:45pm EST
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As if we needed more proof that Christians are the only group left in America that it?s safe to make fun of. A popular YouTube video purports to be an ad for a Wii-like game system called ?Mass: We Pray,? which will be available at Easter 2010. In reality, [...]
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E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann's "Hockey [...]
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NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard makes note of the curious way that news organizations choose to identify White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whose very name is like a dead fish mailed to everyone's style guide:
...when he's quoted or mentioned on radio, TV, or print, reporters and anchors [...]
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Nieman Journalism Lab | Poynter Online One of the tweaks that Zachary Seward has noticed: Steve Brill used to use the term "wall" to describe subscription content, but he's now abandoned that language. "We're not putting up any kind of a paywall," he's been saying. || Earlier Brill interview [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:25pm EST
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Jessica Taylor is leaving National Journal for a gig as assistant web editor for a new site at Politico called "2010," which will focus on the midterm elections.
See the memo from Jackie Koszczuk that announces Taylor's departure after the jump.
continued...
New Career Opportunities Daily: The [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:19pm EST
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On November 20, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough uncritically repeated Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) claim that "if you look at the campaign last year, the presidential, you can't find a mention of public option. It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:19pm EST
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Oprah's announcement that she will give up her syndicated talk show in 2011 after 25 years on the air leaves an enormous hole: who will be the next king or queen of daytime TV?
Below are some of the names that immediately come to mind as potential heirs to Oprah's [...]
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Number of comments: 9 Yes, she's in the Twilight movies. But right now she's best known within the Industry as the actress who steals the probable Oscar nominated Up In The Air. This is the time of year when the major agencies hunt for awards-touted talent. [...]
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Citing a Democratic congressman who recently proposed a no whining day, on Friday?s Morning Meeting on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan asked: ?...unemployment, health care, a couple of wars, Americans got plenty to be frustrated about these days...But some people say stop the whining....Is ?shut up and deal? the new American [...]
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Obviously, unless sometime between now and 2012 there occurs a rip in the space-time continuum and the country slips into an alternate reality, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will not be running on a joint ticket for the presidency. But let's speculate anyway.
The [...]
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We're pleased to announce a new feature on NewsTrust: Comments.
To make NewsTrust more interactive and engaging for our community, we've just opened comments on all our story pages and a couple topic pages. This is a great way to discuss the news with other members, in addition to our reviewing [...]
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Westword
That's the approach William Breathes takes. He describes the decor ("like that hippie kid's hangout in high school -- complete with a boom box and thrift-store furniture"); the service ("employees didn't seem particularly interested in ... even helping me"); and what he ordered ("I'd settled on a [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:46pm EST
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Bush official Karl Rove criticized the "degree" to which the Obama administration has released "news on contentious issues late on Friday," adding that "such tactics ... can look disingenuous if they undercut public debate on substantive policy changes"; later on Fox & Friends, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:44pm EST
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Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld PSP—comes news [...]
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Time Publishing, former parent company of CQ, will unload Governing magazine, its website and related properties to e.Republic, publisher of Government Technology magazine for an undisclosed price.
FOLIO's Jason Fell says the deal is expected to close before Thanksgiving. Governing was the last of the Florida-based publisher's Washington [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:35pm EST
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On Laura Ingraham's radio show, Sarah Palin linked a task force's recent recommendations on breast cancer screenings to the widely debunked smear -- propagated by Palin -- that health care reform will include "death panels." Palin fearmongered about death panels despite the fact that the recommendations are not legally binding [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:29pm EST
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The movie you've been waiting for arriving: "Sneak peeks" this weekend, they say, web cast on Monday. Official site here. Debut in D.C. on Dec. 2 at, natch, the Reagan Building. Trailer--this is not a parody-- for the "Tea Party Movie" follows.  [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:29pm EST
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In a live broadcast from Chicago, a tearful Oprah Winfrey announced that she's leaving her long-running program "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:28pm EST
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In a live broadcast from Chicago, a tearful Oprah Winfrey announced that she's leaving her long-running program "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011.
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:28pm EST
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Trumpeting a Drudge Report headline, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft claimed that Senate Democrats "will only deliberate 10 hourson [sic] SATURDAY before they vote to nationalize one-sixth of the US economy." In fact, the Senate vote scheduled for Saturday is a vote on a cloture motion -- which would allow the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:22pm EST
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» The NYSE has formally alerted Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) that it has six months to get its stock price back above $1, or face being de-listed. [MarketWatch]
» Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will [...]
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Memo to Sean Hannity, who is calling for James O?Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart to get a ?journalism award? for their video sting of ACORN: Generally, when in possession of what one believes to be newsworthy information, the journalistic thing to do is get it out to the [...]
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NPR.org "I've even talked to writers who've told me that it's an obsession," says editor Joe Randazzo. "Nearly everything that they see, think or do gets instantly reframed into this kind of headline." Re the staff's political leanings: "I would not say that we are a group of Republicans, but I [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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 The scandal surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has provided a number of case studies in liberal media bias. The initial silence of the vast majority of media outlets on the story, the attempts by leftist commentators to excuse ACORN and discredit the group's critics, [...]
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The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis. And they enjoy using it, mainly to make strategic truncations in a piece of text to make it look as if it says something completely different from its author's original intent. [...]
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 MSNBC publicized Ebony magazine's ?Power 150? picks by bringing aboard two left-wing honorees, Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson, during Friday's 11 AM EST hour.
?To be on any list with Al Sharpton,? Dyson, an author and sociology professor at Georgetown University glowed, ?is extraordinarily beautiful.? [...]
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Fox News' Dr. Marc Siegel fearmongered that recent recommendations that younger women get fewer cervical cancer screenings represented a precursor of government rationing under health care reform. In fact, the guidelines, issued by a nongovernment medical organization, are the result of a medical review process reportedly initiated prior to the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:43pm EST
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In a November 19 New York Post column, Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel cited task force recommendations against regular mammograms for some women to fearmonger that "under ObamaCare, guidelines will quickly become mandates" and that "[a]ll the major 'reform' bills create lots of new panels and other bureaucrats empowered [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:36pm EST
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Cox, Hovell, Summers, Aigner-Treworgy and Memoli. Photo courtesy of Campus Progress.
Ana Marie Cox moderated a panel discussion with former 2008 presidential campaign embed reporters at GWU this week, in conjunction with Campus Progress and the Institute for Politics.
The first panel was made up of ABC's [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:26pm EST
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Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing. His base salary [...]
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Washington City Paper Erik Wemple reports several WashingtonPost.com editorial staffers as well as some non-editorial workers are among those who've gotten the ax as the website merges with the main Post newsroom. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:15pm EST
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The business channel, which News Corp started to compete with General Electric's (GE.N) CNBC, will start appearing on Nov. 19 on channel 106 for Cablevision subscribers, Fox Business said in a statement.
Fox Business Network will be available to about 3 million Cablevision customers, a Cablevision spokesman said. [...]
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Seems like only weeks ago that CNN was parting ways with former anchor Lou Dobbs because everyone was yelling at Dobbs to stop saying crazy birther and anti-immigrant nonsense on the teevee. Despite all that negative attention, Dobbs is setting his post-CNN job-seeking hopes very high, telling reporters [...]
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Sony and Barnes & Noble may be launching two of the most high-profile challengers to Amazon’s Kindle, but supply chain challenges could keep both companies from denting Kindle’s popularity this holiday season. (Then again, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has had its [...]
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Tampa Bay Business Journal 83 Degrees, which launched this week, is getting money from the Tampa Downtown Partnership, Pinellas County Economic Development, and city leaders in Tampa, Largo and Clearwater. A critic of the venture has already launched a parody site. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:06pm EST
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It's a potent combination: Steven + Stephen.
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released supernatural thriller "Under the Dome." DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. [...]
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The term "idiocracy" means a nation run by idiots - and the term idiot is defined as "an utterly foolish or senseless person" and/or a "person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old." There [...]
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What was with last night's Season 6 finale of Project Runway? It was as if a bolt of bad news had been delivered backstage to which the audience wasn't privy but which left the judges lachrymose and shaken. First Coach Ryan weeping in the Jets locker room, and now this. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:43pm EST
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Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games—and social network users, in general—that standard banner ads couldn’t provide. But amid ongoing accusations that the ads actually “scammed” users into paying for things they didn’t want and giving [...]
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Martha Stewart told Cynthia McFadden that while Rachael Ray may be popular, her style is "not good enough" for the domestic diva.
"She professed that she cannot bake," Stewart told "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden. "She just did a new cookbook which is just a re-edit of a lot of [...]
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