New Study of Talk Show Host Brains Calls for Compassion Not Scorn
While the normal brain is the site of reason and intelligence, the talk show host brain, dependent on bias and fanaticism to filter information, cannot distinguish rumor from fact.
While the normal brain is the site of reason and intelligence, the talk show host brain, dependent on bias and fanaticism to filter information, cannot distinguish rumor from fact.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
If you don't happen to be a fan of toxic attack ads, especially ones directed at ancillary campaign figures, today's Los Angeles Times holds some depr...
Huffington Post via Media Matters | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media
On his Fox News Radio show Friday, John Gibson told a caller — who had not identified himself as an African American — that he only liked ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
On his radio show yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson made fun of Air America host/MSNBC analyst Rachel Maddow, playing a clip that says "Ooh, lesbia...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Colbert spoke earlier this week of how he was in the middle of a "Spitzer Sandwich" owing to the fact that he'd hosted the officially-former-on-Monday...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
John Gibson, host of Fox News "The Big Story" (and perhaps best known of late for mocking actor Heath Ledger shortly after his death) has been strippe...
MediaMatters | Eric Boehlert | Posted 01.29.2008 | Media
My guess is that Fox News guru Roger Ailes has been reaching for the Tums more often than usual early in the New Year, and there are lots of reasons f...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media
UPDATE: John Gibson has "apologized" for his distasteful comments on Heath Ledger's death. Though he first defended his statements on his radio show ...
Steve Young | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media
"You Wouldn't Ridicule Someone With Parkinson's*, Then Why Mock Anyone With A Brain Disease." A new study released by Bio-psychological Medicine (BM)...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.21.2007 | Media
Why did O'Reilly refuse to report on the heroic, fallen soldier who gave his life in Iraq and was posthumously awarded the national highest combat award, the Medal of Honor?
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"As Sarah Palin settles back into her job as the state's chief executive, a new...
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WASHINGTON — The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought...
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Steve Young | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media