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Huffington Post
McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way?
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 24, 2008 - 8:50pmThe mainstream media's overheated response to Sen Barack Obama's decision to opt out of the public campaign finance system is a textbook example of journalists protecting Sen John Mccain (R-AZ) and his bald-faced hypocrisy.
FCC Endorses Junk News, Calls Fox's TMZ and 700 Club 'Bona fide Newscasts'
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 7, 2008 - 7:49amHard-hitting journalism is nearing extinction on television, and the Federal Communications Commission just threw another shovelful of dirt on its grave when it recently ruled that Rupert Murdoch's broadcast of TMZ and Pat Robertson's 700 Club meet the test for "a bona fide newscast." Bona fide newscast? Here's why the FCC decision matters.
Online Moguls To Feast on $42 Billion Newspaper Ad Pie
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 2, 2008 - 7:03amPrint-paper circulation will drop to about 50 million this year -- the lowest level since 1946 (62 years ago). That's during a period in which the US population has doubled, meaning that per-capita newspaper consumption has been cut in half.
Media Matters
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 29, 2008 - 7:41pmCarrigan wishes the media was capable of covering election stories with some element of intelligent and reasonable analysis and discourse. We are, as a nation, worse-off because it can't seem to.
Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 26, 2008 - 3:51pmIn a blink of an eye, the media has jumped ship from the Obama campaign and become a crucial Clinton ally, pressing just the message -- that Sen Barack Obama (D-IL) is a likely loser in the general election -- that Sen Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and her allies have been promoting for the past six weeks.
The Self-Loathing
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 25, 2008 - 8:32amHuffington has been thinking some more about CNN hiring Tony Snow as a commentator. Coming in the wake of Newsweek's hiring of Karl Rove, and the New York Times' hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media's embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile wide.
The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 23, 2008 - 7:14amHuffington's new book discusses the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party -- the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy.
Comcast Wants to Be the Net's Judge, Jury and Executioner
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 16, 2008 - 7:31amComcast has just rolled out plans to draft a "bill of rights and responsibilities" for ISPs and Internet users. But the cable giant has forgotten one thing: to invite Internet users, policymakers and advocates to the table.
Iger on ABC News
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 8, 2008 - 8:08pmDisney President and CEO Bob Iger said this morning that ABC News decided against partnering with CNN years ago because they were interested in a "true joint venture," and not "outsourcing" their newsgathering, as CBS may do.
