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SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Working the Refs
Hillary won this week by working the refs.
By constantly complaining about coverage, and relentlessly focusing on charges that the news media has favored Barack Obama and treated him far more gently than herself, Hillary was finally able to staunch the bleeding and stage a desperately needed, last minute comeback that will keep her in the game
SHARE Saturday, February 2, 2008 The Not-So-Great Debate
Hillary won by not losing – and Obama lost by not winning. Simply appearing presidential-he certainly has grown into at least looking the part - wasn't, and isn't, enough to put him over the top. In order to continue his momentum and vault into the lead, he needed to show that there are large differences between him and Hillary on crucial issues – and other than on Iraq, he failed to do so.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2008 First Black President?
Remember back in the last century, when Toni Morrison playfully dubbed Bill Clinton our first "Black President?" Back then, it was considered cool to have a "black president" - as long as he was really white, of course! But how will the race card play in the high stakes presidential poker game now doubling down, when hidden decisions taken in darkness center on the real possibility of a real "first black president?"
SHARE Friday, January 4, 2008 They Report, They Decide?
Should Big Media decide for the rest of us who is - and more importantly who is not - a viable candidate for president? It's bad enough that thus far the reporting of this year's quadrennial presidential pursuit has been even more insubstantial than ever, focused on the horse race, the fundraising, the polls, the pundits, the haircuts and assorted other bits of silliness –- anything other than actual issues...
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 21, 2007 Time to Cover Up?
Is Time magazine's "full" and "complete" transcript of its "Person of the Year" interview with Vladimir Putin a fraudulent cover up? It appears so. A glaring factual error was apparently edited out of the transcript in an attempt to spare top executives embarrassment over an exchange at the beginning of the recent chat between the Russian leader and Time.Inc editor in chief John Huey, Time managing editor Richard Stengel and d
SHARE Thursday, December 20, 2007 Good News, Bad News
In this age of media scams and scandals, of paid opinion and information warfare, of partisan power plays and the corrupt nexus of Big Media and Big Politics, how and where can we find quality news and information we can trust?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 17, 2007 The Imus Enablers Are Back
It didn't take long for the Don Imus enablers to re-emerge. Just months after the racist, sexist and homophobic shock jock was fired for his on-air characterization of the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed ho's" - and less than two weeks after Citadel Broadcasting announced his return to radio -– the Big Media and Big Politics elite are crawling out of the woodwork to embrace Imus all over again.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 3, 2007 Imus Returns
Now, to no one's surprise, the self-styled "I-Man" is back, courtesy of the Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, which has announced that Imus will return to radio December 3 during morning drive time on WABC-AM in New York -- the same city where he was unceremoniously banished from the airwaves last spring.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 17, 2007 The Media Conscience of a Liberal
Rory O'Connor sits down with one of America's top economists, Paul Krugman, who also happens to be one of the country's leading opinion columnists. Krugman's opinions about the media may surprise you..
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 3, 2007 OhourNews
Can citizen journalism really change the world? Many skeptics still doubt it can even change the news industry, and still question, despite much evidence, whether ordinary citizens can really function as journalists. But why not?
SHARE Saturday, June 16, 2007 Mirror, Mirror
It may sound like a fairy tale, but it's true: when reporters and editors at a small Idaho newspaper held a mirror up to their community and exposed rampant pedophilia, they paid a heavy price at first. But their courageous journalism eventually paid off, as circulation skyrocketed, and their paper is now among the nation's faster growing dailies.
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 17, 2007 How to End the Reign of Shock Jocks
Those who would like to see an end to racist, sexist and homophobic remarks by so-called 'shock jocks" such as Don Imus or Opie and Anthony should pressure the mainstream media corporations that hire and promote them, as well as the sponsors who advertise on the programs.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 1, 2007 The Price of Press Freedom
Thursday is World Press Freedom Day, a day when all of us – citizens, media professionals, governments, non-governmental organizations and what has come to be known as "civil society" - should remember and celebrate the crucial role a free press plays in democracy and development.
SHARE Thursday, April 12, 2007 Buy Bigelow, Fight Bigotry
The corporate overlords at CBS and NBC won't fire Imus unless they have to for financial reasons. So let's support the sponsors who have pulled out, and lean on the ones who haven't ... yet.
SHARE Friday, April 6, 2007 Ken Burns, You're Better Than That!
How did Ken Burns and PBS manage to construct a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series of public television about World War II without including any interviews with Hispanic American veterans?
SHARE Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Time to Change The Back Channel
Sunday's NY Times Magazine cover story by Max Frankel is the most recent and stunning example of the Times' weird worldview. The paper's former executive editor concludes that "the real lesson" of the recent Scooter Libby trial is that Washington's "black market in information" is an evil necessary for democracy.
SHARE Friday, March 23, 2007 Twenty Questions with Conde Nast Chief Tom Wallace
What is reclusive billionaire Si Newhouse really like? Is Vogue's Anna Wintour really the devil? Can the Web save print? The last of the multi-million dollar magazine launches? One of Big Publishing's big players tells all
SHARE Friday, March 9, 2007 The Fall Guy
But before the rest of us join in the jurors' "tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby," let's remember that the sword Libby has fallen on to protect his higher-ups will likely yet prove to be a blunt one.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2007 Libby Trial Principals Should "Stop Hurting America"
Whatever the confusing, calamitous and corrosive perjury and
obstruction of justice felony trial of Scooter Libby may be about –- war,
power, death, destruction, lies, manipulation, you-name-it –- it's first and foremost a trial of the media, by the media and for the media...or to be more precise, the mainstream media in the world's most powerful democracy.
SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2007 Helping Lara Logan
An unusual plea from CBS News Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan highlights the fact that the network television's coverage of the Iraq war still leaves something to be desired.