Mainstream Media

Can Obama Really Deliver on World 2.0 Promise?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 11.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, John Battelle, Web 2.0, Politics, Obama Transition, Tech Czar, Technology, Tim O'Reilly, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

If the new president goes straight to the people with his talking points, will the Obama administration even need the elite mainstream media to get his message out?

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Is this 1988 or 2008?

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Newspapers, Newscycle, Sarah Palin, Media, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

The world does not know what to do with its primed intellect, having just covered the election of a lifetime. What now?

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Crime of the Century

Steven Weber | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, George Bush, Npr, Bush Administration, Bailout, America, Pundits, George W. Bush, Uncle Sam, Left Right and Center, Barack Obama, Bushco, Politics News
Steven Weber

Has anything BushCo's ever done benefitted the people or the country? Just admit it: we've been robbed, beaten and stabbed. Those are just the facts, Detective Obama.

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Journalists Spin for Republicans on the New "60-Vote" Senate Regime

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Mainstream Media, Political Reporting, Vice-President, Senate, Senate Majority, Nuclear Option, Filibuster, Media, Party Divide, Democrats, Partisan Politics, Republicans, David Herszenhorn, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

The "60 vote" threshold is an artificial obstructionist creation of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the Senate Republicans.

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Sarah, We'd Like to Miss You, but You Won't Go Away

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Msm, Sarah Palin, Mainstream Media, Politics News, Sarah Palin Press Conference, Financial Crisis, Media, Media News
Tom D'Antoni

I mean, I like watching Republicans make fools of themselves as much as the next guy, something they have, thankfully, not ceased even for a split second, but why is it that all I see is Sarah Palin?

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Obama, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News: A Look at Media in 2009

Josh Silver | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, News Coverage, Rush Limbaugh, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Obama Transition, Obama, Media, Media News
Josh Silver

As Obama inherits a severe economic crisis, two wars, and myriad other problems, it will be too easy for media issues to get pushed down the to-do list.

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More Shameful "False Equivalence" By The Traditional Media To Annoy You

Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Dave Wedge, False Equivalence, Media Coverage, Media Criticism, False Balance, Boston Herald, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Cadillac, Media News
Mark Nickolas

Case-in-point is today's Boston Herald story by Dave Wedge on the custom-made armor-laden presidential limo that is being assembled to protect America's first black president.

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American Press Institute: Read This Before Your Secret 'Crisis' Meeting

Maegan Carberry | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Web 2.0, Internet, Newspapers, Tim O'Reilly, American Press Institute, New Media, Media, Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Maegan Carberry

The American Press Institute is huddled behind closed doors this week in crisis mode discussing how to save the deadwood editions that still turn a profit.

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Name Your Kool Aid

Sam Greenfield | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Red Barber, Mainstream Media, News Channel, Liberal, Conservative, Media, Right Wing, Shows, Entertainment News
Sam Greenfield

All I want is for real news people to speak about the news. I want them to be like Red Barber, the great sports announcer.

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Liberal Media to Blame? Not This Time: Apostate Conservatives Nail Coffin Shut

Brian Normoyle | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Brian Normoyle

Nearly two years of presidential politics are finally coming to an end and it appears John McCain--out of "gimmicks du jour"--has decided to spend muc...

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Amid New Media Landscape, Rachel Maddow Manages to Succeed in Old School Medium

Steve Miller | Posted 10.22.2008 | Home

Read More: New Technology, Msnbc, Rachel Maddow, Media, Mainstream Media, Barack Obama, The Rachel Maddow Show, Traditional Media, New Media Election 2008, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, John McCain, Home News
Steve Miller

In an ever diminishing television world, Maddow has taken a large chunk out of the millennial generation and thrust them back in front of the tube. The combination of her intelligent approach and the most exciting presidential campaign in generations has produced a phenomenom.

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Ayers and the McCain-G. Gordon Liddy Symbiosis

Carl Bernstein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, John McCain, Watergate, Bill Ayers, Terrorism, Palling Around With Terrorists, G. Gordon Liddy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Carl Bernstein

There has been virtually nothing on the Liddy-McCain relationship in the major newspapers and broadcast networks -- is Liddy any less a domestic terrorist than Bill Ayers?

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Mainstream Media Pretending Barack Obama Is Racist, Too

236.com | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Obama, Media, Barack Obama, Msm, 236.Com, Politics News

Some stories just have one side. Like the McCain campaign's attempts to smear Barack Obama as a terrorist sympathizer, a man of questionable character...

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Dems Roll Over, Mainstream Media Falls for GOP "Voter Fraud" Scam -- Again

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Voter Fraud, Mccain, Acorn, Department of Justice Scandal, Mainstream Media, Cnn, Ayers, Palin, Home News
Tom D'Antoni

While Democrats, most progressive bloggers and Obama supporters stand by idly, the GOP is once again ramping up the primary engine of the De...

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McCain, Media & Meltdown: A Witches' Brew for Election Violence

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, John McCain, Race, Brain's Hardwiring, Meltdown, Barack Obama, Foreign, Politics, 2008 Election, Politics News
Paul Abrams

When people leave a McCain rally telling reporters that Obama is a terrorist because "it's in his blood", the potential for violence is real.

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SSM (Sewage Stream Media) Intimidate MSM on Palin

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Palin-Biden Debate, Will Rogers, Gwen Ifill, Sewage Stream Media, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Media News
Robert S. McElvaine

Here's my message to the Mainstream Media -- Get some ovaries! Tell it like it is, so the American public won't be misled into thinking that Palin demonstrated that she is qualified for national office.

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What Would Broder Do?

John McQuaid | Posted 09.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Banking Crisis, John McCain, Bipartisanship, Bailout, 2008 Election, David Broder, Media News
John McQuaid

McCain's move doesn't make much logical sense coming on the heels of nearly six weeks of divisive culture war politics. But it amounts to an appeal to one of the most dearly-held big media assumptions.

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Financial Bailout = Patriot Act Redux: Under Cover of Crisis, the Republic is Lost

Pete Cenedella | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Chuck Schumer, 2008 Elections, No Blank Check, Depression, Usa Patriot Act, Paulson, The New York Times, Economic Crisis, Obama, Chris Dodd, Democratic Party, Democrats, 2008 Election, Recession, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Henry Paulson Plan, Mainstream Media, Patriot Act, Bailout, FInancial Markets, Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Ben Bernanke, John Ashcroft, Bear Stearns Bailout, Treasury Secretary, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Business News
Pete Cenedella

Forgive me if I smell a similar attempt by the Republicans to ram a lopsided, ready-made and offensive prescription down the throats of the American people under the cover of crisis.

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Foreign Media Use Professional Journos To Blog

Jillian York | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Journalists, Sarah Palin Reaction, Political Journalism, Journalism, Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy, Mainstream Media, Blog Election, Foreign Blogs, Home News
Jillian York

Blogging projects created by established publications that use trained foreign journalists lend a certain credibility to blogging the elections.

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"The Media," Now Perpetually in Scare Quotes

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Sarah Palin Vice President, Media, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Media News
Andrew Sargus Klein

If influential blogs -- say, Drudge, Daily Kos, National Review Online or Talking Points Memo -- go out and say "X, Y and Z," it's now assumed then "the media" is saying "X, Y and Z".

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The Outrage Campaign

John McQuaid | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, News Cycle, John McCain, Media, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Media News
John McQuaid

The McCain campaign is violating what were considered immutable political laws, and it amounts to a giant and risky bet that those laws are no longer operative.

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You Can't Fool All the People All the Time

Jared Bernstein | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, John McCain Lies, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

What's the best strategy when your opponent lies? The obvious move is to call them on it, but analyses of viewers reveals that "he said, she said" arguments leave observers confused and apathetic.

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Palin's Lip Synching Will Soon Have To End

Charles Kozierok | Posted 09.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, Hype, Psychology, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin; Palin Mccain; Milli Vanilli; Palin Mccain; John Mccain; Palin Interviews; Palin Press; Palin Charlie Gibson, Home News
Charles Kozierok

Like Milli Vanilli, Sarah Palin's candidacy and current image is built entirely on marketing, media manipulation, performance and deceit. Palin has done little more than the political version of lip-synching: reading someone else's speeches over and over again.

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An Expat's View of the Conventions: End of Summer in America and Back "Home" to Europe

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Europe, Alaska, Democratic Convention, Gustav, Secede, Expat, Mccain, Obama, Billionaires, Republican Convention, Election, Biden, Mainstream Media, Michelle Shocked, Politics, Education, Summer, Hillary, Palin, Protests, Martial Law, Health Care, Democracy Now, John McCain, Expats, United States, Politics News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?

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Close Presidential Race? Don't Blame the Media, Blame the Voters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin Qualifications, Iraq Surge, Success in Iraq, John McCain, Bush Surge, Obama Muslim, Success of the Surge, Palin Investigation, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Independent Voters, Michael Dukakis, McCain Offshore Drilling, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, 2008 Presidential Election, Mainstream Media, Al Gore 2008, 2006 Election, Palin Independence Party, 60 Minutes, Palin National Guard, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, John Kerry, Sarah Palin, Willie Horton Dukakis, Proximate Cause, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

Voters have (or could have) all the information they need to make a choice this year. They're just making a choice that those on the left would consider a bad one.

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