Tag: media
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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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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October 17, 2007 03:06 PM EDT --
I had the opportunity to sit down this week with one of America’s top economists, Paul Krugman, who of course doubles as an influential op-ed columnist for the New York Times. It’s more than . . .
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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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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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December 21, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
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 . . .
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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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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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January 28, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Remember back in the last century, when Toni Morrison playfully dubbed Bill Clinton our first "Black President," adding that Clinton "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent . . .
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June 20, 2008 09:50 AM EDT --
Conservative fears of an impending Democratic attack on talk radio - dubbed the "Hush Rush" effort in an homage to top-rated radio talker Rush Limbaugh -- continue to escalate, despite ample . . .
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January 03, 2008 10:44 AM EST --
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 . . .
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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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March 26, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
Leave it to the New York Times to pronounce something “corrupt” and then wholeheartedly embrace it as “crucial.”
This week’s Sunday magazine piece by Max Frankel is the most . . .
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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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March 20, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
Thomas J. Wallace is Editorial Director of Conde Nast Publications, responsible for overseeing eighteen (Allure, Bon Appetit, Brides, Cookie, Conde Nast Portfolio, Conde Nast Traveler, Details, Domino, . . .
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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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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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