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New Study of Talk Show Host Brains Calls for Compassion Not Scorn

Steve Young | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Sean Hannity, Pundits, Fox News, Michael Savage, 236.Com, Wall Street Jorunal, Brain Disorders, Washington Times, John Gibson, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Oreilly, Media, William Kristol, Talk Show Host, Media News
Steve Young

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.

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The Crying Season in Football

Andrew Brandt | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Sports, Nfl, Athletes, Sports Agents, Football, Sports Business, Media, Business, Player Contracts, Business News
Andrew Brandt

In the NFL, free agency raised the bar at the top of the pay scale and created long-term ramifications for players watching the marketplace race past the contracts they signed in recent years.

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How Too Many Legal Contracts Are Costing Business

Charles H. Green | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Work for Hire Contracts, Production Costs, Spam, Warren Buffett, Luddites, Email Disclaimers, Communications, Media, Commercial Contracts, Contracts, Business News
Charles H. Green

What do work-for-hire contracts, email disclaimers and spam have in common? They are all getting ubiquitous, annoying -- and ineffective.

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Retiring Wash Post Editor's Record Stained By Failure on Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Reporters, Washington Post, Iraq, Media, Wmd, Leonard Downie, Runup, Media News
Greg Mitchell

Downie's paper stands out as a "complicit enabler." The Post had a tragically poor performance in the run-up to the Iraq war, and Downie has failed (as far as I've seen) to fully admit that.

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McCain's Personal Notes on the USA Today Poll Leaked to Press

Lee Camp | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, John McCain, Election 2008, Media, USA Today Poll, McCain USA Today Poll, 236.Com, Politics News
Lee Camp

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My Swimsuit Issue

Lloyd Garver | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Media, Sexploitation, Humor, Advertising, Home News
Lloyd Garver

It's finally summer, the living is easy, and sex in the media is even easier. As you read this, you are participating in history. This is the first sw...

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The Seven Dirty Words You'd Never Hear Today

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Media, George Carlin, Censorship, George Carlin Died, George Carlin Seven Words, George Carlin Dies, Entertainment News
Allison Kilkenny

Every flattering statement, every overzealous compliment about George Carlin will still be too few for one of the greatest comedians ever to shout his fearlessness into a microphone.

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The Case for Hillary Clinton

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Politics, Gender, Vice-President, Media, Mike Bonifer, Campaign, Democrats, Sasha Obama, Barack Obama, Obama-Clinton, Malia Obama, Ticket, Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Bonifer, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

As a believer that Barack Obama is the presidential candidate most likely to pilot the mothership that is the U.S. government away from the black hole...

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Exposed: Military Lied About Murder of U.S. Soldier in Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Military, Pentagon, Troops, Vets, War, Iraq, Media, Casualties, Veterans, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

A horrible truth has emerged: It turns out that Spc. Kamisha Block was actually murdered, and the killer, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Brandon Norris, then turned the gun on himself.

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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Chris Weigant

McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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FOX Brainwashes Rep. Fred Hobbs (D-TN)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Media, Lincoln Davis, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Fred Hobbs, Barack Obama Fox News, Obama Fox News, Obama Terrorism, Media News
Jonathan Kim

FOX's powers of misinformation are so powerful and insidious that they could even cause a member of Tennessee's Democratic party to believe that Obama might have ties to terrorism.

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Tomorrow's TIME Magazine: Are Bloggers 'Killing' Old Media in Campaign Coverage?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Obama, Media, Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Bloggers, Campaign 2008, Media News
Greg Mitchell

James Poniewozik of TIME concludes, "Maybe we'll remember this election as the one when we stopped talking about 'the old media' and 'the new media' and, simply, met the press."

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It's Official: HuffPost Is Fastest Growing News Site in America!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Web, Drudge Report, Drudge, Media, Huffington Post, News, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The new numbers are out from Nielsen Online and now there can be no doubt: The Huffington Post is currently the fastest growing major news site in the U.S.

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Russert's Most Important Legacy

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Television News, Tim Russert, Politics, Media, Russert Death, Tim Russert Dead, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Partisan Media, Journalism, Tim Russert Death, Media News
Julian E. Zelizer

Tim Russert was one of the few remaining reporters who adhered to the norms of adversarial journalism without resorting to partisan journalism.

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Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage

Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Des Moines Register, Iowa, Midwest Politics, Newspapers, California, St. Louis, Ohio, Media, Journalism, California Supreme Court, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Des Moines, Gay Rights, Chicago Tribune, Midwest, Cleveland, Chicago, Missouri, Supreme Court, Illinois, Michigan, Media Trends, Gay Marriage, Advocacy, Midwest Conservativism, Midwest Gay Rights, Gay Midwest, Home News
Dan Treul

In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.

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Barack Obama: "Black" Or "Biracial"?

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home

Read More: America, African, Political Language, White, Media Coverage, Obama, Media, Campaign, Race, African American, Culture, Politics, Barack, United States, Black, Biracial, Society, American, News, Home News
BlackAndBrownNews

There is discussion now taking place between mostly white editors and producers in newsrooms on how to identify Senator Barack Obama now that he is the Democratic nominee.

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Does Obama have a thing for Michigan?

Dan Treul | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Politics, Midwest Politics, Political Advertising, Battleground States, Barack Obama, Midwest, Presidential Election, John Edwards, Media, Election 2008, Al Gore, Campaign Strategy, Vote 08, Michigan, John McCain, Mccain Michigan, Obama Michigan, Obama Mccain Michigan, Home News
Dan Treul

If Obama aims to win without having to carry Florida and Ohio, then Michigan and its 17 electoral votes will be critical, which explains the campaign's preference for staging big announcements there.

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Why is Everything Obama Does Considered so, well, Exotic?

Eric Deggans | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fist Bump, Obama's Fist Dap, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Presidential Election, Fox News, Media, Time Magazine, Dap, Race, Washinton Post, Politics News
Eric Deggans

When Obama exchanged a a fist bump with Michelle, he did more than prove he's hipper than most of the political class -- he also inspired an explosion of mindless explanatory news stories.

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Was The Media Unfair To Clinton?

Talking Points Memo | Greg Sargent | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton Media, Media Treatment of Hillary Clinton, Media, Hillary Clinton Treated Unfairly, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Just what you all have been waiting for: Our long and detailed rundown on the coverage of Hillary during 2008. This is being endlessly debated right ...

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Giving the "Daughter Test" to Mainstream Media

Marie Wilson | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Media, Race, Clinton, Presidential Politics, Gender, Mainstream Media, Sexism in Media, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Marie Wilson

We lost something for our nation's daughters who were sent a strong message about fairness during the primary season -- you can play, but it won't be a fair fight.

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He Shot Himself In Front of His Men in Iraq -- Full Story Finally Emerges

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Suicides, Warwire, Vets, War, Iraq Casualties, V.A., Media, Veterans, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

Jeffrey McKinney's family believes that if his chain of command had paid closer attention to the symptoms, his death might have been avoided.

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Oh My Blog: What's The Big Deal About "New Media" Influence?

Richard Laermer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Web 2.0, Blogs, Friday Night Lights, New Media, Blogosphere, Media, Old Media, Media News
Richard Laermer

Sometimes blogs elevate the dialogue, sometimes they're clutter. The nature of the blog itself is that there is no nature. It's like the Bush Administration's risible War on Terrorism: terrorism is not warring with us.

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I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It Any More

Norman Horowitz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Big Brother, Media Consolidation, Radio, The Fairness Doctrine, Media, Censorship, Media News
Norman Horowitz

Certainly I do not want the government defining "fairness". What could be more frightening then the government trying to impose their definition of "fairness" on America's radio stations?

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Media Under Intense Scrutiny During Campaign

Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Presidential Election, Msnbc, Fox News, Cnn, News and 2008 Election, Media, Media News

The media is taking a real beating today from... the media. Below are two reports. The Wall Street Journal reports on the increased scrutiny towards...

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Vietnamese Community Tests Free Speech

Peter Scheer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Editorial Independence, Footbath, Ethnic Media, Vietnam, Flag Desecration, Free Speech, Little Saigon, Newspaper, First Amendment, Media, Journalism, Diaspora, Media News
Peter Scheer

When the biggest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the country, gave offense to its readers in an obscure but controversial article about a work of art, it triggered an explosion of protests among readers.

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