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The Game Is Over--The Media and Rick Warren Can't Protect McCain Anymore

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Foreign Policy, Barack Obama Rick Warren, John McCain, Success of the Surge, Media Coverage of the Surge, Cindy McCain, John McCain Rick Warren, Mccain Houses, Media, Barack Obama, McCain Iraq, 2008 Presidential Election, Carol Mccain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Cnn, Daily Mail, John McCain Media Darling, Rick Warren, 2008 Presidential Race, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias, Politics News
Larry Gellman

When it comes to Barack Obama, the news media does its job with a vengeance. When Obama goes to Germany and draws a crowd of 200,000 they ask if he's ...

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Kvetching and Convening

Will Durst | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, The Conventions, Politics, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Dem Disaster, Hillary Clinton, Media, Barack Obama, Democratic Implosion, 236.Com, Campbell Brown, Politics News
Will Durst

It's time for America's most athletically dexterous mutants to stash their red white and blue togs and head home as the national spotlight turns to the political conventions featuring our most ethically dexterous mutants.

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Announcing Equality and the Celebration of Our Stories

Rashad Robinson | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Marriage, LGBT Issues, Media, Glaad, Marriage for Same-Sex Couples, Relationships, Media News
Rashad Robinson

When weddings and celebrations pages in our local newspapers become inclusive by including the milestones of LGBT Americans alongside their straight families, friends and neighbors, it breaks down barriers.

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Mr. Bill: "Oh No, Fix the Coast you Broke, Shell Oil!"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.21.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Gulf Restoration, Public Relations, Message, Oil, Katrina, Wetlands, Green Living, Media, Mr. Bill, Shell Oil, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Meanwhile: Conspiracy Rumors Swirl Around Photo Op An ominous email came in to the sluggo.com listserv, and writers for independent media knew it...

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McCain Campaign Strategy Working: Media Reporting "No Difference" on Global Warming

A. Siegel | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Energy, Npr, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Media, Global Warming, Journalism, John McCain, Media News
A. Siegel

There are fundamental differences between McCain's and Obama's positions and fundamental differences about the prospects for the future between President McSame and President Obama.

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McCain Thinks the Media is Out to Get Him...Try Not to Laugh

Paul Waldman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Andrea Mitchell, John McCain 2008, Media Matters, Mccain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media, Campaign 2008, Press, Media News
Paul Waldman

Many journalists decided long ago that McCain is just different from other politicians. They declare McCain innocent of all sins associated with other members of his profession, no matter how often he commits them.

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McCain In His Memoirs: "It Had Become My Ambition To Be President"

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ambition, John McCain Hypocrisy, John McCain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Hypocrisy, Media, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

McCain's self-confessed "ambition to be president" isn't part of any media analysis when it comes to his own attacks against Obama on the same issue.

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John McCain as a Hood Ornament

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Good Government, Cronyism, Ronald Reagan, Liberals, George W. Bush, Marital Status, Bullies, Iraq, 2008 Presidential Election, Media, Michelle Malkin, Maggie Gallagher, Wall Street Journal, Michael McManus, Conservatives, Ceos, Pat Roberson, Katrina, George Allen, Wrecking Crew, John McCain, Regulatory Agencies, Rush Limbaugh, Brownie, Science, Fema, Gipper, Monica Goodling, Mary Matalin, Gangsters, Barack Obama, Thomas Frank, Armstrong Williams, Gingrich Revolution, Baghdad, New York Times, Lobbying Reform, William Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Bella DePaulo

The New York Times has William Kristol on its opinion page, and the Wall Street Journal now has Thomas Frank. What Kristol writes could be called scho...

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"Why Canadian Football Is Better Than American Football?

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Media, Entertainment, Football, Canadian Football, Entertainment News
Earl Pomerantz

I know the Americans out there aren't going to agree with me. Americans are resistant to admitting that another country does anything better -- Health Care -- than they do.

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Pew Survey Reveals Sadly Uninformed Public -- And 5% Say Rupert Murdoch is British Prime Minister

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Opinion, Media, Surveys, Pew, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

I posted here yesterday about the in-depth new Pew Survey which, among many other things, gave respondents a three-question current events test. The...

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Pew Survey: Viewers of Colbert and Stewart Score High on News Test (See Who Didn't!)

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Fox News, Media, Bill O'Reilly, Pew, Jon Stewart, Media News
Greg Mitchell

While consumers of most news outlets scored poorly on the test, a separate question revealed that a vast majority believe they follow national news closely.

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True or False: Married People Healthiest, but Singles Catching Up

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Methodological Issues, Singled Out, Single Men, Widowhood, Divorce, Matrimania, Marriage Movement, Bogus Media Reports, Media, Singles, Income, Stress, Soul Mate, Marriage, Singlism, Health, Loss Hypothesis, Crisis, Marital Mythology, Washington Post, Longitudinal Research, Black Singles, Marital Status, Single Women, Living News
Bella DePaulo

Even allowing for the approach that makes marriage look better than it really is, the differences in health between the currently-married and the always-single are tiny.

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Rory Kennedy, RFK's Daughter, Chats About Her HBO Film on Helen Thomas

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, George Bush, Iraq, Warwire, Media, Helen Thomas, Kennedy, Entertainment News
Greg Mitchell

The HBO doc about journalism legend Helen Thomas, Thank you, Mr. President, is now slated for is first airing next Monday. Joe Strupp of E&P interviewed the director, Rory Kennedy.

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When You Act Like a Jerk, You're Gonna Be Treated Like a Jerk

Mary Lyon | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Media, Politics News
Mary Lyon

Does the MSM feel as though it has to make up for the months it avoided the Edwards story and left the National Enquirer to go for the gold alone? Edwards acted like a bigtime jerk, but do the rest of us have to also?

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Chicago Tribune's Social Media Evolution

Todd Andrlik | Posted 08.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Social Media, Colonel Tribune, New Media, Twitter, O'Hare, Media, Chicago Tribune, Daley Center, chicagotribune.com, Facebook, Chicago News
Todd Andrlik

Just as beer is a social lubricant in real life, Twitter and Facebook are social lubricants online and have made the 160-year-old newspaper more approachable than ever.

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Swiftboating Sells -- But Only if We're Buying

Marie Wilson | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Swiftboating, Obama, Media, Mccain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marie Wilson

Obama Nation is the latest offering by Jerome R. Corsi, the infamous quasi-journalist who caused irrevocable damage to Kerry's 2004 campaign with his widely-discredited Unfit for Command.

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FCC Commissioner's Scare Tactics Reach New Low

Josh Silver | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Fcc, Internet Politics, Comcast Net Neutrality, Internet Censorship, New Media, Media, Comcast, Comcast Interfering, Net Neutrality, FCC Comcast Hearing, Media News
Josh Silver

FCC Commissioner McDowell suggests that any FCC decision that supports Net Neutrality -- the idea that the Internet must be free and open -- is somehow tantamount to government regulation of content.

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Traditional Media Uses Bullying Legal Tactics: Scrabble vs. Scrabulous and Hulu vs. Redlasso

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Electronic Arts, Mattel, Redlasso Lawsuit, Traditional Media, Hasbro, Media, Hulu, Scrabulous, Facebook, Home News
Jerry Weinstein

In 2005 Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla created Scrabulous; by 2007 it went nuclear as a Facebook app. The social networking aspect of Facebook brought it ...

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Looking Past the Numbers

Rashad Robinson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Hiv, Glaad, Media, Media News
Rashad Robinson

Things have changed quite a bit when it comes to media coverage of HIV and AIDS since 1985, but there's still a lack of representation in media coverage of the impact of HIV and AIDS on real people.

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The Media's Problem Of "False Balance" Showing Itself In Electoral Map Analyses

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Marc Ambinder, Msnbc, Karl Rove, John McCain, Pollster.com, Media Coverage, Media, Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, Real Clear Politics, Mainstream Media, Pollsters, The Atlantic Monthly, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Cnn, The Atlantic, False Balance, Media Bias, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).

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Markos, John, & Elizabeth: How Daily Kos Keeps Swallowing The Kool-Aid

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Liberal Blogosphere, Markous Moulitsas Newsweek, Elizabeth Edwards, Markos Moulitsas, John Edwards, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Rielle Hunter, Media, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Media News
Lee Stranahan

I think I know why I'm still banned. Markos got this story totally wrong and his wrongness set the tone over at Daily Kos for everyone who attacked me and who continue to attack me to this day.

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The Chris Matthews Roast

Mike Birbiglia | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Hardball, Chris Matthews Roast, Media, Chris Matthews Hardball, Chris Matthews, 236.Com, Media News
Mike Birbiglia

I'd like to clarify that it was a plastic bottle and it was empty, but it was still a bottle and it allows me to say the phrase, "Chris Matthews threw a bottle at me."

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Evil Internets Trying to Hook Your Kids on Digital Drugs: Either that, or the MSM is Dead

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 08.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Internet, Stupid News, Danger, Crack Cocaine, Teens, Drugs, Media, Heroin, Music, Cocaine, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

A radio host claims that "websites are targeting your children with so-called digital drugs. These are audio files designed to induce drug-like effects."

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John Edwards, Change Your Media Strategy NOW! (Ask Me How!)

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, John Edwards, Media, Sex, Rielle Hunter and John Edwards, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

Did you think this was going to be over on the weekend? You thought the story would just run on a Friday and people would kind of shrug it off because the Olympics were on and it's only a tabloid story?

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Meet the Bloggers: Darcy Burner Can End the Iraq War Responsibly

ZP Heller | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cenk Uygur, David Goldstein, Congress, Brave New Foundation, Time Horizon, Timetable, Meet the Bloggers, George Bush, Media, Diplomacy, 2008 Election, Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Surge, Iraq War, Oil, Joan Mccarter, Darcy Burner, Iraq, Matt Stoller, John McCain, Warwire, Iraq Warwire, Politics News
ZP Heller

When it comes to the Iraq war, the question is no longer whether the U.S. should end it, but how.  On yesterday's Meet the Bloggers, special guest Darcy Burner made the case for A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which she co-authored earlier this year. 

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