Tag: journalism
member name: Rory O'Connor
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December 20, 2007 06:37 PM EST --
It's good news, bad news, old news time again, that time of the year when such hoary and perennial journalistic traditions as year-end retrospectives, 'Best of,' 'Worst of,' and 'Top . . .
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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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February 18, 2009 10:25 AM EST --
The severe economic crisis now gripping the United States — and hence the entire world — has been labeled by the Paper of Record as the “ financial equivalent of 9/11.”
In its severity and overall . . .
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January 14, 2009 02:13 PM EST --
I spent much of last fall at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. While there, I researched issues related to journalistic . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
When it comes to the media and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – as in many things – John Lennon put it best :
“I’m sick and tired of hearing things/From . . .
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January 19, 2009 12:18 PM EST --
I spent much of last fall at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. While there, I researched issues related to . . .
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September 05, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
Only in America could a man who has been in office for decades run as an “outsider” against the entrenched interests in Washington
Only in America could a man who is a longtime Republican stalwart . . .
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February 12, 2009 10:45 AM EST --
(I spent much of last fall at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. While there, I researched issues related to journalism, . . .
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April 14, 2008 10:24 AM EDT --
As the seemingly endless Democratic presidential primary slog enters its second spring, one amazing woman has managed – by relentless dint of hard work, long experience, sharp intelligence, quick . . .
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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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May 12, 2009 05:54 PM EDT --
What is it about torture that is so seductive to our mainstream media?
First, our leading (and often “liberal”) commentators and analysts, writing in supposedly respectable publications such as Newsweek . . .
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June 01, 2009 10:11 AM EDT --
“I’m a liberal — and I’m not running from that word!” exclaims Ed Schultz, the latest lefty star in the cable television news-and-opinion firmament. Schultz, America’s . . .
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April 09, 2009 12:02 PM EDT --
Eileen McNamara had it right. McNamara, a Pulitzer Prize winning former columnist for the increasingly beleaguered Boston Globe, wrote a recent Op-Ed in the rival Boston Herald wherein she noted, “From . . .
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January 28, 2009 10:12 AM EST --
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could instantly access all the richness and multi-dimensionality of the Internet – any relevant digital media concerning any subject you’re interested in, including text, stills, . . .
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June 11, 2009 03:08 PM EDT --
Okay, so he’s one of the “ sexiest men alive ” — but what does Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago and Special Counsel in the CIA leak case, have against us poor, . . .
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February 24, 2009 02:22 PM EST --
I spent much of last fall at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. While there, I researched issues related to . . .
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March 04, 2009 10:26 AM EST --
For media makers and consumers alike, the game changing power of online social networks is simply this: they greatly decrease the cost of creating so-called “bridging social capital.” By facilitating . . .
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March 10, 2009 10:09 AM EDT --
Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes the Internet is a “cesspool” of false information, and that filters are needed to help sort through the muck and mire. Most observers agree that some sort of credibility/trust . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
As the war in Iraq marked its fifth anniversary, thirteen Iraqis were killed as dozens of mortar shells were fired at the "heavily fortified Green Zone" in what the New York Times called "one . . .
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September 16, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
What happens when America’s airwaves fill with hate? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a tough look at the hostile industry of “Shock Jock” media with a hard-hitting examination of its effects on . . .
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