Tag: mainstream media
member name: Rory O'Connor
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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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May 21, 2009 10:26 AM EDT --
Garrison Keillor claims to be a liberal. He – and we — should know better. Keillor has just joined the already large and ever-growing list of allegedly ‘liberal’ media figures . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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October 21, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
In the fall of 2002 --- little more than a year after the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States set off a chain of events that soon toppled the brutal, misogynistic Taliban regime in Kabul, and . . .
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April 29, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
Ever wake up in a funk, just spoiling for a fight?
Me too – and when I do (despite my best Buddhist intentions) I invariably reach for the New York Times and turn to the latest column by Tom Friedman, . . .
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March 25, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
With mainstream media brands in tatters, a tsunami of information inundating us online, and “quality journalism” in decline (at least as defined by legacy media executives such as New York Times editor . . .
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June 01, 2009 11:27 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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