The No News News Media
There was a lot of news this past week. Some of it was even reported by the news media. First, there was a football player from Notre Dame who either…
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The Fluff Factor: Today’s Journalism
Will someone please buy gags for Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford? It makes no difference what the color is. Plain or polka-dotted. Painted or sequined. Scented silk, Egyptian cotton,…
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Marcellus Shale Exposed: A Symposium for Truth and Action – Register Today!
The natural gas industry has spent millions of dollars promoting natural gas drilling as a safe process that has been around for decades. In Pennsylvania, the industry has promised that…
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Former Editor Sues Philadelphia Police for Constitutional Violations in Her Arrest
A former managing editor for the online newspaper, OpEdNews, has sued the city of Philadelphia and eight of its police officers for violating her Constitutional rights. Cheryl Biren-Wright, Pennsauken, N.J.,…
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Blood on the Lens
”If it bleeds, it leads” is local TV’s aphorism that dictates its belief that fires, car crashes, and shootings lead off the nightly newscast. These stories, of course, are more…
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The News, It Is a-changin’
t is still be the responsibility of the mass media–of radio, television, newspapers, and magazines–to give in-depth coverage and analysis of the events. But, for millions worldwide, it is no longer the mass media that establishes the first alerts.
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Late Breaking—Sometimes Broken—News
Unless you’re a TV network desperate to score points by being the first to broadcast what it thought was news, you’re as likely to think there was actual gunfire as you are likely to hear someone say “arf, arf, arf” and think a real dog was barking.
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Toothless:
The president of the Associated Press (AP) was spewing venom at the Bush-Cheney administration for having turned the Department of Defense into a propaganda machine.
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America’s Buddy-Buddy Campaign Press Corps
It’s a little more than a week before the presidential election, and I’m worried about what happens afterwards. I’m not worried about the candidates, the people, or the country. I’m worried about the media.
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