What's the difference between an American politician and an American talk-show host? Right now the answer is, to all intents and purposes, almost none. In the US especially, politics and the media have always been joined at the hip.

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Why Fox Ratings Are Higher

Rupert Murdoch is shrewd. He came to America with his Australian "take no prisoners" business model. He went for the lowest common denominator approach to news. He bought up everything and parlayed it into an empire. Fox has business ties that CNN and MSNBC do not have.

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The "mourning" News

I have been watching the slow rot of television news for sometime now. It has gone from bad to a total waste of my time. Michael Jackson dies and the television news programs forget that there is a great big world out there with tons of news that we are looking for.

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Women:being Future Perfect-They Don't Believe Is Resting On Past Laurels But Creating New Frontier

nternational Women's Day (IWD) has been celebrated since the early 1900's in recognition of the economic, social, cultural and political achievements made by women over the years.

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Communities across America are suffering through a crisis that could leave a dramatically diminished version of democracy in its wake. It is not the economic meltdown, although the crisis is related to the broader day of reckoning that appears to have arrived.

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Talk show hosts, hyper-partisan bloggers, and shock-value writers and filmmakers all have a legitimate place in the realm of the political, and perhaps rightly are paid tremendous amounts of money to fill that place.

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The filmmaker Peter Watkins is legendarily unknown. His movies are virtually never shown, except at rare cine­phile screenings, museum retro­spectives, and lefty campus events.

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A Documentary Movie Marathon To Get You In The Mood For Election Day

Everyone is planning their parties for Election Night, but why not also dig in and get some good old-fashioned knowledge under belt on the preceding weekend? Here's what I would recommend as a two-day, six movie marathon.

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Our conduits of information have been hijacked; a man, acting like a dictator, is in the White House; the town criers of democracy are getting arrested, and Americans' heads are so full of infotainment, Prozac and Zoloft that getting off the couch seems like a real inconvenience.

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mega star chiranjeevi launches new political party in andhra pradesh. The party is against corruption in politics to bring good governance.

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Microsoft is expected to announce Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, that it will develop a version of its Microsoft Auto software for the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, the world's fifth-largest automaker.

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John Henry Faulk never forgot that lesson. I'm always ashamed when I do. Temptation to co-option is the original sin of journalism, and we're always finding fig leaves to cover it: economics, ideology, awe of authority, secrecy, the claims of empire.

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This electronics industry analyst says Ford's Sync voice-activated infotainment system provides a lot of bang for the buck.

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Why im wary of commenting. And why i would be criticized for that.

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Summary: "Although people are going to school more and more years, there's no evidence that they know more," says Susan Jacoby, author of "The Age of American Unreason. In part, she lays the blame on a failing educational system.

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And with each episode in the long-running Saga of Race in America, a string of characters lines up to react to the latest eruption. The media records them as they take up positions in the Great Race Debate.

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None of the pyrotechnic, Globollywood ultraviolence in the film — which was actually extremely modest by Die Hard or 007 standards — is nearly as emotionally devastating as that climactic moment in which the camera just focuses wordlessly on the killer's naked face and refu …

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Review - Dropping a Bombadil on Fox News

I'm really ticked off at Fox News. Across the leftist blogosphere, I can hear many teeth dropping already. "What? Tom Bombadil, THE Infamous Tom Bombadil of Newsvine isn't kow-towing to the Murdoch company talking points? Whassup with that?"

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Most cats do not like getting wet - as anyone who has tried to bathe a moggie will know. But as these pictures show, there's always the exception to the rule. For the cat in question is a large male white Bengal tiger called Odin.

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The La República newspaper, of Lima, Peru — which until 2000 was also in the Lacerdist of situation of being owned by a sitting elected official, albeit in opposition at the time — recently had to defend itself against allegations that its own coverage was "owned" by a  …

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Short Attention Span Theater For The Attention Deficit Nation

The Trend

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Bias in the Media - A Defense of FOX News

The accusations against FOX and other news outlets of being biased are not without good evidence. Ardith recently sparked my idea for this topic in her article Will Fox News, CNN, or Any Media Outlet Host Fair Presidential Debates? which touches on bias in the media.

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Infotainment ruins Journalism

I understand that there are times when entertainment based stories have a newsworthy element that makes it more important than say real, hard news. That being said, with broadcast media in particular, I have to say that the title of journalist is becoming abhorrent and shameful.

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He should start his "no-spin zone" show with this line - "Welcome, this is Bill O'Reilly - Professional Jackass, your in the all-spin zone." He's a conservative puppet, he is their @!$%#, and he is a right wing cheerleader.

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Mostly, though, the arrival of cheap digital equipment has not been reflected in wider, or deeper, news content, because the industry still insists on measuring itself by the ratings system that was created for the entertainment side of media.

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