Tag: culture
member name: Rory O'Connor
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March 05, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
I know it isn’t fashionable, but I feel sorry for Ann Coulter.
While it would no doubt prove eminently, if only momentarily, satisfying to denounce Coulter in terms familiar to her and similar to . . .
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April 11, 2007 03:45 PM EDT --
No, product placement hasn’t gotten to me at last. And if the truth be told, I’m a coffee man… several large cups of java just to get me going every morning. Tea just doesn’t do . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
The following is an excerpt from Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio by Rory O'Connor with Aaron Cutler (AlterNet Books, 2008).
Laura Ingraham is … different. Not only is Ingraham younger . . .
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May 01, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
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” . . .
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April 10, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
Please forgive me for weighing in late to the latest Don Imus hate speech controversy, but frankly, if I raced to my computer to post every time the self-styled “I-Man” said something stupidly . . .
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November 02, 2007 01:39 PM EDT --
Has it really only been six months? It seems like just yesterday that we had Don Imus to kick around...and his racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team seem as . . .
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May 23, 2008 12:36 PM EDT --
Who is Michael Savage? On its surface the answer seems obvious: he's a 66-year-old nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host whose program, The Savage Nation, airs five days a week from its . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
"If your readers would take a few seconds to consider the things they enjoy by virtue of being in this country, the depth of their anger would dissipate," says John Moody. "We're not . . .
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June 12, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
The email alert read "Breaking from Newsmax.com," the conservative online news site that also publishes Newsmax Magazine. One item in particular caught my attention: Special: Will President Obama . . .
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June 20, 2006 12:51 PM EDT --
It's hardly news to the technically savvy that emails written and sent while at work are about as private as Paris Hilton's sex life. In fact, nearly half of all large corporations actually employ . . .
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July 20, 2006 03:59 PM EDT --
The Defense Department is seeking to create a powerful and sophisticated new weapon to help win the Global War on Terror -- a blog search engine. "We're out to make a machine that will analyze . . .
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April 02, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
Imagine making a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series for public television about baseball – but never mentioning Roberto Clemente. Or a multi-hour, nationally broadcast series for public television . . .
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November 16, 2007 02:49 PM EST --
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 . . .
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August 23, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Despite the best efforts of the Pentagon to keep the lid on, the story of Able Danger -- the controversial secret military intelligence program that purportedly identified five active al-Qaeda cells and . . .
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June 23, 2006 05:33 PM EDT --
While channel surfing the other day, I stumbled across two titans of the mainstream media – Jim Lehrer and Ben Bradlee – chatting on pubic television about such weighty topics as "free . . .
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July 12, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
Tired of the incessant, highly partisan bash fest that has poisoned America's political process and media ecology for most of this century?
Surprisingly, so are some of the most prominent practitioners . . .
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August 02, 2006 04:30 PM EDT --
"I've seen things like this happen once or twice before," says Mitch Kapor, software pioneer and head of the Open Source Foundation. "We're at the Big Bang of the next information . . .
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August 16, 2006 09:53 AM EDT --
Wherever you are, death will find you/even in the looming tower."
--The Holy Q'ran
Was 9/11 preventable? Add New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:57 PM EDT --
I wasn't aware that this is Advertising Week (I thought every week was Advertising Week!) until I received an invitation from Mark McKinnon to attend a panel discussion on "The Evolution . . .
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October 17, 2006 04:02 PM EDT --
Do you ever wonder why our media devote so much time and energy to covering those who produce hate crimes — and so little to covering those who reduce them?
Consider the latest case in point: a . . .
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