Tag Archives: media

NY Times Rejects McCain Op-Ed

July 22, 2008 – 10:21 am

From the Drudge Report’s DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2008®: “An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama… [The Times' Op-Ed editor said] ‘The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information; while [...]

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This Pajama ‘Blogster’ Knows A Quotable Quote When He Sees It.

July 3, 2008 – 12:39 pm

From a comment that someone named Drew Fetherston left on Timothy Egan’s NY Times Op-Ed Save the Press: “During the several decades I spent in newspapers, my favorite quote was the one the Scripps-Howard papers used (and still use) as a motto: ‘Give light, and the people will find their own way.’ Give heat, as [...]

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Skimming The Surface

June 16, 2008 – 03:08 pm

From the Atlantic’s Is Google Making Us Stupid?: “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of [...]

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Honest Anger. Honestly Served.

June 15, 2008 – 04:27 pm

From Bill Moyer’s Interview with Keith Olberman: “When I get angry on the air, it’s because I’m angry about that particular subject and because of the revision of this country that has been done under our noses for the last seven years against the will of the people. And when something happens that touches into [...]

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Bill Kristol Sucks Ass Cooties

June 2, 2008 – 10:08 pm

This guy can piss me off like no other.
Take a look at an excerpt from Bill Kristol’s recent Op-Ed What Obama Left Out, which is about Sen. Obama’s commencement speech at Wesleyan this weekend:
“Obama chooses to introduce the notion of public service…but there’s one obvious path of service Obama doesn’t recommend — or even mention: [...]

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Add This To Your Explanation of The Mayan Calendar

June 1, 2008 – 10:41 pm

From I Power’s 2012: The Year The Internet Ends: “Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you’ll have to pay for seperate [...]

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A Chance To See Where McCain Stands on Media Consolidation?

May 16, 2008 – 02:18 pm

From Ars Technica’s Senate slams FCC newspaper/TV cross-ownership rule: “This is one of those very rare moments when a question of broadcast regulation has a shot of becoming a national election issue. It almost never happens. But it could now, if the House passes Inslee’s resolution and Bush vetoes the law. No doubt Democratic Presidential [...]

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Going After Gore

September 5, 2007 – 11:20 am

From Vanity Fair’s article, Going After Gore: “For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his [2000] campaign—and about his future plans—to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage.”

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Links for May 18, 2007

May 18, 2007 – 10:33 am

Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?, by Chalmers Johnson: “I believe that there is only one solution to the crisis we face. The American people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name and the huge (still growing) military establishment that undergirds it. [...]

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STUDY: Bill O’Reilly Uses Derogatory Names ‘More Than Once Every Seven Seconds’

May 2, 2007 – 02:51 pm

From STUDY: Bill O’Reilly Uses Derogatory Names ‘More Than Once Every Seven Seconds’: “A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls ‘a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his [...]

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