3,000 people attended a rally for health care reform in Seattle, WA. So why was there no media coverage?

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excerpt: It's the Faux Outrage of the Week -- cooked up, as always, by the right-wingers and Media Villagers: President Obama's laugh on 60 Minutes.

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Excerpt: "Bowtie Guy thought he was the only one man enough to criticize Jon Stewart in the media, but now his old boss is taking up the slack and going on the offensive, attacking Stewart for having the audacity to tell the truth about CNBC's coverage of the financial sector.

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The list of journalists making campaign donations, and their explanations.

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Since McCain-Palin declared war on the media, some pundits have said running against the press is a loser's strategy. In fact, it would be malpractice not to. Even leaving aside the success of Nixon-Agnew vs. the "nattering nabobs of negativism" and of Bush-Cheney vs.

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Msnbc.com identified more than 140 journalists who have made campaign contributions since 2004 - mostly to Democrats. Apparently none of the journalists disclosed the donations to their readers, viewers or listeners. Few told their bosses, either. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.

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Television news' royalty will fly in to meet Barack Obama during this week's overseas trip: CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday.

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Television news' royalty will fly in to meet Barack Obama during this week's overseas trip: CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday.

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One of the problems with contemporary media is it's without context. In the eternal now of 24-seven, there is no past and no future. The news comes in short phrases or paragraphs, and it's without the backstory. Without that, how can you write the front story?

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Excerpt from AJR: Admittedly, it's not the most airtight piece ever published. There's no smoking gun. There are no documents. There are enough anonymous sources to make Bob Woodward happy. And both the senator and the lobbyist deny that they had an affair.

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A three-year study by FAIR reveals that ABC, CBS and NBC consider the plight of tens of millions of poor Americans to be less newsworthy than Michael Jackson's legal troubles.

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Now imagine those same editorial standards applied in the event that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. acquires Dow Jones. The humongous boilerplate would go a little like this:

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When establishment journalists speak of the liberal blogosphere, it is virtually an article of faith that it represents the “far left,” that it is composed of the radical and fringe elements of liberalism.

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Where do you find official info on this Iraq war?

Where do you find official info on this Iraqi war? This afternoon I find myself reading an article - by Oakland blogger Kenneth Thiesen where he referred to a press release by Colonel W. Blake Crowe, U.S.M.C, the U.S.

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What a riot. My favorite line: Gary Thorne overheard something and then misreported what he overheard. Not only did he misreport it, he misinterpreted what he misreported. And who knew? Schilling is actually a pretty fine writer when he''s pissed off.

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The Sticking Points: The Media Bias Challenge

You say toe-may-toe, I say no fair! Melody: I hope I get this right this time. The last time I tried, I think I might have put a kink in Spooky Boyfriend's neurons.

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Jay Rosen, one of my favorite media critics, writes approvingly of Firedoglak'e coverage in an interesting analysis piece.

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Interview with David Plotz, deputy editor of Slate, on The Best of Slate

During the last 10 years many good online publications have come and gone. Throughout that time there is one site which I have visited more than any other sites when looking for interesting takes on world news, explanations of issues or just plain fun essays.

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Packs of right-wing bloggers spent the last several weeks trying to destroy the credibility of Associated Press's war reporting by claiming that one of its sources, an Iraqi policeman named Jamil Hussein, does not exist, that AP simply invented him.

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I'm seeding this for completion sake. It's a follow-up on Jay Brooks's ribbing of Len Boselovic's article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Stan also cites a list of other stories in the beer news.

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Norm Geras comments on the Western discourse surrounding the Middle East crisis: These are only the views of two journalists, of course, but the two of them express those views in the major newspaper of British left-liberalism and on its website, one openly commending an anti-Sem …

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Describes Feb 1 forum in Qatar at the Aljazeera conference being held. Forum was on the new media and participatory journalism. It would be good to know more of what went on at the forum and to hear more discussion on participatory journalism.

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