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It’s Time We Turn Off Fox News

Shoq — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:47:25 +0000

Enough is Enough

We have endured this pretense that Fox News is a legitimate news organization for too long. It's not. It's the 24 hour propaganda channel of the Republican party, and Washington should marginalize and stigmatize it until it withers and dies. (More on this in a later post).

The first step is for all real

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Integrity Tests Should Apply To Information, Too.

Shoq — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:25:02 +0000

On July 14th, on an MSNBC Countdown segment about the pending well bore pressure tests of the Macondo well, an oil industry MBA named Bob Cavnar was "confused," saying this was the first he'd heard of an "integrity test," then suggesting that something was "not making any sense," as if some other agenda might

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The Death Of Accountability in America

Shoq — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:55:46 +0000

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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Fox is the Lupus Of News ~ Jon Stewart Takes Down Bernie Goldberg

Shoq — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:03:53 +0000

"Bernie Goldberg Fires Back"

The Daily Show 4/20/2010 — Length: 11:54

Jon "apologizes" for criticizing Bernie Goldberg and Fox News, but it's only because they're a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization. Do NOT shut this off half way thru. The real punchline comes after the lengthy setup.

Please retweet this with the green

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About Comcast & The New “RightNetwork”

Shoq — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:15:13 +0000

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This issue has been mostly concluded for dozens of news organizations and Keith Olbermann. So who am I to wonder why no one is now interested in this "Ed Snider" person who makes big investments in right wing networks, allowing them to borrow his parent company (Comcast)'s name for their
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ABC to Test Drive Near Real-Time Fact-Checking

Shoq — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:27:45 +0000

Of all the great ideas Jay Rosen has had, I never really understood what made this one anything but self-evident. Fact-checking the news in real, or-near real-time, has been an obvious need for over 20 years, and the technology to do it was old school even before blogging, Twitter and Facebook. It's just that no

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Glenn Beck Admits He’s Just An Entertainer

Shoq — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:38:53 +0000

In the new issue, Forbes reports that Glenn Beck admits:

"I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says.

The article is a pretty fun ride, with a few Beck bombshells

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MediaBistro: “MSNBC Could Keep David Shuster Off the Air Indefinitely.”

Shoq — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:33:13 +0000

Mediabistro reports "MSNBC Could Keep David Shuster Off the Air Indefinitely."

MSNBC bad boy David Shuster may be on his third strike.

Shuster won't be on the air today for his 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. shows, according to MSNBC insiders. Whether he returns before his contract expires in December is up for debate.

Shuster's last appearance
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Punish @DavidShuster with his own show!

Shoq — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:47:54 +0000

A New Facebook Site

Punish David Shuster with his own show!

We agree that David Shuster must be punished for being one of the most dogged and honorable journalists working in cable news. After taking away his Tweeting privileges, the only way to make sure he learns his lesson is GIVE HIM HIS OWN DAMNED SHOW.

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Rumors With a View About David Shuster

Shoq — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:21:05 +0000

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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