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Award Winning Story About Gitmo Torture Doesn’t Hold Water

Shoq — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:10:23 +0000

I get asked a lot why I persist in relentlessly calling on serious journalists to investigate the outrageous hyperbole and egregiously distorted facts about accused Wikileaks source, Bradley Manning.

Well, perhaps we now have a good example of why it mattered so much to me. It seems that a famous story about Gitmo torture deaths

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

Shoq — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:16:28 +0000

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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Keith Olbermann’s Farewell Address

Shoq — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:43:28 +0000

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I am still too angry to blog this. So for now, just watch Keith's final moments on MSNBC. Then get angry too. We're going to need a lot of that anger in the coming years. This is just the beginning of a long and bloody war for the future of media,

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Colorforms History: How George Bush Will Soon Become A Great President

Shoq — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:09:24 +0000

"There you go again!"

Once more, as they have so often done, the right wing is going to try to rewrite history, methodically reconstructing 8 horrendous years of the Bush administration, replacing a systemic pattern of crimes, malfeasance, and incompetence with glowing portraits of another unsung American hero who exists only in their minds, and the

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Money, chatter, and optimism for a new journalism. All good, but it had better hurry

Shoq — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:51:50 +0000

Ed Wasserman, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University finds cause for optimism in all the venture capital, conferences and media experiments. But he also, rightly, questions whether it's too little, too late. The entire business model of media now seems to revolve around

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

Shoq — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:35:20 +0000

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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New VIDEO: CNN Joins The Tea Party

Shoq — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:12:43 +0000

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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