Tag: news
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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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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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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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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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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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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December 07, 2009 03:14 PM EST --
In my last post on President Obama’s Afghan escalation speech I noted,
“Anyone who believes (the troops) will leave in eighteen months is a fool.” I also referenced “a . . .
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January 25, 2007 09:51 AM EST --
Sometimes it’s hard to swim in the mainstream.
There has been much heated debate over the past few years over media coverage of the Iraq War. The Bush administration has repeatedly attacked the . . .
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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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March 08, 2007 10:21 AM EST --
’It was said a number of times, what are we doing with this guy here?” Denis Collins recalled his fellow jurors asking, as he spoke to the press immediately following the pronouncement that . . .
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September 20, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter – and a lasting lesson -- from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser . . .
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February 06, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
Remember way back in 2004— those halcyon days before thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars were poured down the ruinous . . .
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July 03, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, to mountaintops . . .
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February 06, 2008 11:17 AM EST --
The horse race just turned into a marathon. The big Super Tuesday surprise was that Super Tuesday really wasn't so super. And the winners so far are… the voters and the media.
Those are . . .
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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 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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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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