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Infographic: Value Of The Word ‘Horrific’

February 4, 2011 By shiltone

*Fort Worth Telegram via Kansas City Star … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: horrific, journalism, language, normalization

A “PS” on AmberPaw vs. Howie Carr

July 18, 2008 By AmberPaw

Here is my original "Open Letter to Howie Carr"  http://bluemassgroup.com/s...  with all of your comments. I note that the "Brave Howie Carr" never to this day has contacted me, asked permission to quote me, or checked any of his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: failure-to-site-sources, howie-carr, journalism, radio-hall-of-fame

Associated Pric – I Mean Press

June 17, 2008 By Ryan

The AP's clamping down on writers using AP content on their blogs. Well, "clamping down" is putting it conservatively, I'd go as far as to say they're trying to stop  blog quoting altogether. Basically, they're trying to bully blogs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ap, blogging, blogosphere, blogs, journalism, media, national

Op Ed by Elizabeth Edwards calling for real coverage by the MSM in the NYT #6 on the hits parade

April 29, 2008 By AmberPaw

As Elizabeth herself says: FOR the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn? Well, the rancor of the campaign was covered. The amount of money … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-coverage, dumbing-down-of-america, elizabeth-edwards, health-care, internet, journalism, main-stream-media

Big Democrats & The National Media

March 3, 2008 By joeltpatterson

See also Greg Sargent. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, bias, journalism, media

Keller: If it’s not true, at least it’s a good story

October 19, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

If you can't check Keller's work, how do you know you can trust him? The absence of annotation unfortunately and perhaps unnecessarily puts the whole book straight into the category of "Bullshit", as defined by Harry … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: journalism, keller, massachusetts, the-bluest-state

The money *is* the story.

August 24, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

Now, I think any sensible reading of any poll or any financial report in the MA-05 race would say that Tsongas will be very tough to beat. That being said, what was up with 'BUR's Fred Thys' report for All Things Considered on the race? It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance, journalism, ma-05, massachusetts, tsongas, wbur

Journalists Lean Left

June 21, 2007 By demolisher

I've always known that the vast majority of mass media tilts decidedly to the left.  Sort of like university professors.  But people on the left will claim the opposite, esp. regarding Iraq war coverage.  And the absolutely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: journalism, media-bias

Battenfeld’s hackery

April 24, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

Get ready for the faked-up backlash to Patrick's decision to refuse "abstinence only" education funds: Fox25's Joe Battenfeld just did an absolute hatchet-job on the Governor, deliberately conflating teaching "abstinence" in a comprehensive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abstinence-only, battenfeld, fox25, journalism, patrick

Reporters blowing smoke

March 11, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

For your consideration, a quote:The Globe reporter, in short, saw something that did arguably raise questions. She looked into it. She found nothing. Then rather than printing nothing -- since, after all, that's what she found -- she … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: buckley, dia, globe, journalism, journamalism, massachusetts, patrick

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