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On Jane Hamsher And Our Fact-Free Media: It’s Not Just For Fox News Anymore

By Shoq, on January 29, 2011, at 3:16 pm

As you may have heard…

I wrote a blog post last week… and Jane Hamsher, founder and lead blogger at Firedoglake.com (FDL), and often considered to be a leading progressive voice got rather upset with me.  It was a level of anger that led her to make a rather ugly spectacle of herself, and one

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January 29th, 2011 | Category: bradley manning, CNN, glenn greenwald, jane hamsher, Journalism, Politics, Shoq Value | 142 comments

The Death Of Accountability in America

By Shoq, on April 28, 2010, at 11:55 am

The death of American accountability – John McQuaid

But it’s increasingly clear that our “systems” are simultaneously both too complex and not sophisticated enough to deal with the problems at hand. The disappearance of clear-cut mechanisms of accountability is just the most obvious sign.

I have been railing about the collapse of accountability for years. This

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April 28th, 2010 | Category: Accountability, CNN, Journalism, Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Rumors With a View About David Shuster

By Shoq, on April 2, 2010, at 8:21 pm

UPDATE1 (4/4/2010):  I have it from a pretty reliable source that David Shuster has NOT been fired (as of this writing, anyway).  And his bio has NOT been removed, as some had claimed. His "blog" may have been removed, but that could have been due to some unrelated issue.  His MSNBC bio page

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April 2nd, 2010 | Category: CNN, David Shuster, Media, MSNBC, Politics, Progressives, Social Media, Twitter | One comment

Teahadists: “The rest of us have reason to fear them too.”

By Shoq, on March 28, 2010, at 10:35 am

Frank Rich Writes in today's NY Times:

Are these politicians so frightened of offending anyone in the Tea Party-Glenn Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist elements and their enablers? Seemingly so, and if G.O.P. leaders of all stripes, from Romney to Mitch McConnell to Olympia

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March 28th, 2010 | Category: Accountability, CNN, Conservative Bias, Culture War, Fox News, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Politics, Republicans | One comment

New VIDEO: CNN Joins The Tea Party

By Shoq, on March 27, 2010, at 2:12 pm

In March, CNN made stunning announcement that Erick Erickson, editor of the ultra-right Tea Party screed Redstate.com (owned by Eagle Publishing, owner of malodorous HumanEvents.com) would be a regular panelist on the new "John King's USA" program.  We get the media we deserve, and I was loath to roll over for one more indignity. I

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March 27th, 2010 | Category: Accountability, CNN, Conservatism, Eric Erickson, Internet, Journalism, Media, People, Politics, Uncategorized | 134 comments