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Gov. Blagojevich Learns The Hard Way That Censorship Does Not Work

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 12.14.2008 | Home

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Arlene M. Roberts

Gov. Blagojevich had been illegally threatening the Chicago Tribune. He wanted the writers who had criticized him and called for his impeachment to be fired. They were not.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House-- Not

Sara Catania | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

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Sara Catania

Comedy's Obama Problem It's been more than a week now since our historic presidential election, and comedians are suffering a serious case of Republi...

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Jason Linkins

Jon Stewart Clarifies Palin Remarks, Expands To 'F%ck All Y'All'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.21.2008 | Media

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Earlier this week, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, performing at Northeastern University in Boston, criticized Governor and vice-presidential candida...

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Pro-McCain Group Dumping 28 Million Terror Scare DVDs in Swing States

Erik Ose | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.

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John McCain Blames Rise of Internet on New York Times Editorial Board

Alex Leo | Posted 08.02.2008 | Media

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Alex Leo

Saying the NYT's revenue is down because of their editorials is kind of like saying the price of oil is on the rise because people like the smell of gasoline.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Joyce Carol Oates' new novel is a full-throated critique of the late Baby-boom culture of celebrity, social-climbing, psycho-speak, "cybercesspoolspace," and "heaven scent" spirituality.

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Joe Scarborough Disses Rachel Maddow

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media

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Marcia G. Yerman

Scarborough epitomized every boorish, condescending male that ever tried to diminish a woman... whether it be a family member, a co-worker, or a presidential candidate.

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Artificial Dissemination

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.

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Obama, McCain, and Gershon Agree: The Press Needs To Get Off The Stage

Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Over the past 12 months, the increasingly self-absorbed Beltway press corps has shown that it's no longer up to the job, that it cannot be trusted to oversee this election.

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Russert Watch: 5-25-08: In Which Tim's Round Table Considers Gender and Race

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media

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Todd Gitlin

The significant question Russert raised for his amiable bull session this week was: "What role did race, gender, and religion play in this campaign?"

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Karl Rove's Pundit Problem

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?

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The Press Polishes the McCain "Brand"

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

By discussing McCain in terms of a formal brand, the press suggests that McCain's reputation as a maverick has become so embedded, so ingrained, that it has transcended into a formal trademark.

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Russert Watch 5-11-08: In Which Hillary Surrogates Get Got

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

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Todd Gitlin

What's a Sunday morning show to do when it specializes in political prophecy and the expectation is a foregone conclusion? Bring some players on, ask them routine questions, register their spin, try to trip them up when the spin is ridiculous, and move on.

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NBC News' Bad Week: Russert, Williams, and Huffington

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

By so obviously snubbing Huffington, NBC looked petty. By stubbornly refusing to acknowledge its role in the Pentagon propaganda program, NBC looked weak.Behold your liberal media at work.

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Russert Watch: 5-4-08: In Which we Propose a New Name for Meet the Press

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

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Todd Gitlin

Russert construes his role as channeling, compressing, and summarizing the state of play in the media, volunteering to serve as an echo chamber. In which case the show might be renamed: The Press Meets the Press.

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Judging a Book By Its Cover - Literally

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living

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Greg Lukianoff

Never mind what's actually inside the book -- Keith John Sampson's book cover had a picture of hooded Klansmen burning a cross on the cover! So his workmates freaked out.

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Johnny Come Late-Nightly

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment

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Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.

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So Now The Press Tells Candidates When To Quit?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Until this election cycle, journalists simply did not consider it to be their job to tell a contender when he or she should stop campaigning.

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TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened

Josh Silver | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

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Josh Silver

In the ensuing days of the revelations of pro-war propaganda on our major TV news outlets, these same outlets are either dismissing the damning revelations or pretending they never happened.

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Michelle Malkin And The Warbloggers Get Everything Wrong -- Again

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Two colossal, Iraq-based media embarrassments in just over one year. Michelle, you're en fuego!

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For Chris Matthews, misogyny pays

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Misogyny, Msnbc, Daily Show, Media Criticism, Hardball, David Gregory, New York Times, Neil Cavuto, Hillary Clinton, Keith Olbermann, Colbert Report, Sid Blumenthal, Mike Barnicle, Tucker Carlson, Chris Matthews, Richard Ben Cramer, Breaking Media News, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Question: Is Chris Matthews the Michael Scott of political talk show hosts? And if so, does that make MSNBC the Dunder Mifflin of cable news? Rememb...

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Goodbye to the Eye? Why This Couric Flap May Be The Beginning of the End For CBS News

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

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We know that CBS News is a distant third in the ratings, we know that newsgathering is expensive -- and we know that Katie Couric is, too. All of this suggests why, amidst the mutterings about how the evening news is doomed, CBS will clearly be the first to go.

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Katie Couric: The Anachronistic Anchor

Andrew Tyndall | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media

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Andrew Tyndall

CBS News never needed an anchor to increase its audience; instead it needed an aggressive online strategy. The last type of anchor it needed was an expensive celebrity.

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Jake Tapper's Smoke Detector Goes Off at ABC News

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.09.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Did Obama fib about smoking as Tapper claimed? I have no idea. Does it matter in terms of Obama's White House run? I can't imagine how it would. I d...

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Myth: Americans Tuned Out Iraq Fact: The Press Tuned Out Iraq

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

In the wake of disturbing new violence in Baghdad, it's important to understand that American news consumers did not walk away from Iraq. The press did.

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