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Tina Dupuy – Net Neutrality: A Crucial Issue With a Lame Name
A funny essay by humorist and journalist Tina Dupuy about Net Neutrality: The term “net neutrality” has the magical property of making most people’s eyes glaze over. First, it sounds like a gambling...
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Waxman Compromise on Net Neutrality DOA
When word leaked a few days ago that House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman had drafted compromise legislation that would effectively neuter strong net neutrality rules, media reformers...
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Is the Enthusiasm Gap Overblown?
I’ve always believed that the so-called “enthusiasm gap” among progressives was a media creation. It’s all part of the corporate media’s love affair with horserace political reporting. So Long...
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Big Media-One, The People-Zero
Well, last Tuesday’s elections went almost as predicted by Big Media. I say “almost,” in that even though the Democrats got creamed in the House races, they managed to barely hold onto the Senate. All...
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Comedian Bill Maher Takes Down False Equivalency
In my last post, I took a stand against mainstream news organizations’ custom of giving equal weight to opposing views on an issue, even when one side is complete nonsense. The mainstream media calls...
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Jon Stewart Answers His Critics
Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted her entire show to an interview with comedian and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who explained what he was trying to accomplish with last month’s Rally to Restore...
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How Many More Have to Die Before Big Media Stops Peddling Hate?
Last Saturday, when I saw the headlines blaring from Internet that a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, had been nearly assassinated in Tucson, my blood ran cold. My...
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Broadcast Blues’ Sue Wilson Talks About Hate Speech
How did so much of American radio and television turn from a marketplace of diverse political ideas into a cesspool of Wall Street propaganda and violent-tinged ranting? In the aftermath of the deadly...
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I Want My A-J-E (Al Jazeera English)!
If you want the best, most comprehensive coverage of the uprising in Egypt, Al Jazeera English (AJE) is the place to tune in. The images and reporting have been nothing short of riveting. But most...
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Media fail on Wisconsin and public employee pensions
David Cay Johnston, columnist for the Tax Analysts web site and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the New York Times, calls out the mainstream press’ inaccurate reporting on public worker...
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