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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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Major Media Begins to Think for Itself

December 1, 2006 – 11:44 am

From Major Media Begins to Think for Itself: “Something important in the overall scheme of the American experiment happened this week….For the first time since the debate about Iraq began, some–though certainly not all–major media outlets in the United States are making their own judgments based on developments in the Middle East. Up until now…it [...]

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Censored Stories

October 13, 2006 – 11:41 am

In Censored Stories, The Tucson Weekly reports on Project Censorship, a media-research project at Sonoma State University that publicizes the Top 25 big stories the media had censored, ignored or underreported in the previous year. It also presents “the 10 stories the nation’s mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year.”

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The Foley Case

October 4, 2006 – 02:05 pm

I have a question for you. How many of you actually care about the Foley thing that is on the front page of every newspaper? I mean, sure, yeah, if the guy’s sexually harassing someone (regardless of that someone’s age and/or gender), then he should be gone. And yeah, okay, if the G.O.P.’s party leaders [...]

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A Marshall Plan for Newspapers

September 7, 2006 – 01:37 pm

In “Winning Online” — A Manifesto, the former president of Knight Ridder digital puts forward a Marshall Plan for newspapers to conquer the online world. “Newspapers must win online,” he writes, “or face a future of painful contraction. To win…the independent companies of a proud industry must aggregate into an industry-wide network. In this network, [...]

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What I Learned During the Week of January 22-28

January 27, 2006 – 09:41 pm

Last Friday, I introduced a new feature here on Fluid Imagination called Gobbledygook. The Gobbledygook posts are a catch-all for the things I’ve learned over the past week. So, why don’t we get started?
Here’s what I learned this week…

…from moving pictures:

That the tragedy of Malcolm X is not that he was killed, but that he [...]

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Jobs at Disney

January 20, 2006 – 04:27 pm

The NY Times is reporting that Steve Jobs may be selling Pixar to Disney for $6.8 billion, a majority of stock, and a directorship at Disney. This would probably be the first step to Jobs eventually becoming CEO of Disney. Not sure how I feel about that. On one side, it might be the closest [...]

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A new beginning

January 10, 2006 – 12:41 am

There’s going to be an awful lot of talk going around this week about Apple Computers. On Tuesday, the company’s annual Macworld starts off with a Steve Jobs keynote, in which one of the last superstar CEOs is expected to announce the first Apple computer ever to use the Intel processor. No one knows exactly [...]

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Music That Intrigued Me in 2005

January 4, 2006 – 05:34 pm

I absolutely love music, but at the same time, I’m pretty lazy and forgetful. Which is why, ever since its debut, I’ve been a massive fan of the iTunes Music Store. Whenever I’m in the mood to hear a song I don’t have, I click on over to the iTMS, drop 99 cents, and start [...]

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For shame

November 10, 2005 – 11:32 am

Michael Ratner, a human rights lawyer and president of the Center for Human Rights, has an article on Salon today, titled, Wrong about rights.
He writes:
The idea that torture could be so publicly defensible — and the news that the United States is maintaining secret facilities in former Soviet-era prisons for torturing nameless and disappeared people [...]

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