Media
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Stewart v. Maddow
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we
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For the Record
. . . about the paper of record Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, said the newspaper has written so much about the issue of water-boarding that "I think this Kennedy School study — by focusing on whether we have embraced the politically correct term of art in our news stories — is
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The “Lost” Sensibility
Heather Havrileski at Salon doesn't have it: Damn you, "Lost"! We went and jumped on your bandwagon way back in the first season, got sucked into your endless jungley maze and suspenseful chords, and waited breathlessly for the next shoe to drop, over and over again. Remember when that was still fun? Remember? Henry Gale's
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Greenwald’s Response to the “Citizen’s United” ruling
Greenwald is making the Libertarian defense of this ruling arguing that money is, in fact, speech, and he's being, IMO, absolutist about the First Amendment. No constitutional right is an absolute, and it's one thing to defend a principle; it's another to go rigidly fundamentalist about it. So again, no value, no matter how sacred,
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Disease in Remission
For the life of me I don't know why anybody serious is obsessing so much about Sarah Palin this week. This piece by Sullivan is simply silly. As if the future of the nation hinges on exposing what everybody with half a brain already knows.Honestly, who cares and why feed this media frenzy with a
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The FOX Brouhaha
I'm just trying to understand the administration's calculation in using this attack tactic to deal with right-wing media. Clearly right wing media are never going away. Clearly, while they get a big media share of the news pie, they still only reach a relatively small number of people. And the number of people who identify
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Greenwald/Todd Post Postscript
(h/t Matt Z.) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – A Perfect World www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Mark Sanford The lesson, of course to be drawn from this, if you are a Beltway media person, is never ever talk to Glenn Greenwald on his radio blog. You'll
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Media Neutrality = Media Nihilism (Postscript added)
I like Chuck Todd, and I admire that he has enough integrity to submit to aggressive questioning by Glenn Greenwald about comments he made on "Morning Joe" earlier in the week regarding whether Bush administration war crimes ought to be investigated and prosecuted. But his answers to GG's questions reveal the underlying nihilism of the
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“Manufacturing Consent” and Obama’s X-Factor (Updates 1 & 2)
Walter Lippmann coined the term "manufacture of consent" back in the WWI era, and Chomsky wrote a book about it. Lippmann thought that the mass electorate had to be governed by experts or elites who understood the issues in a way that ordinary citizens could not. And he thought that the mass public, because it
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Quote of the Day: Jon Swift (Updated)
Regarding the now notorious New Yorker cover: Although liberals are often unfairly accused of being humorless, the truth is that they are so knowledgable about what makes something funny that they rarely find humor that meets their very tough standards. They are like connoisseurs of fine wine who are unable to drink anything that is