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Eric Holder holds secret meeting with press about secret guidelines for prosecuting journalists who reveal secret human rights abuses
by Gerry Bello
After two days of wrangling, several major mainstream media organizations agreed to meet Friday, May 31 with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the circumstances under which the Justice Department would imprison journalists for reporting on human rights abuses if that reporting is deemed to be damaging to national security. Neither the Columbus Free Press nor Wikileaks was invited to attend or offer comment.
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Chris Hayes, heroes, and morons
by David Swanson
Chris Hayes was driving me crazy, because I was beginning to think I'd need to start watching television. Luckily I've been saved from that fate, it seems. Hayes' comments on MSNBC, for which he has now absurdly apologized, were the type of basic honesty -- or, better, truth telling as revolutionary act -- that was tempting me.
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Sensationalist media miss the mark
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March Madness comes once a year. Media Madness is year-round. What the mass media choose to cover and feature try to turn the priorities of any sane society upside down.
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2011 P.U.-litzers: Journalism that doesn't pass the smell test
by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
It's that time of year again--when FAIR goes through the year's archives to collect a sampling of the worst moments of corporate media spin and malfeasance.
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Obama signs into law the Local Community Radio Act: FCC Chairman pledges “Swift action to open the dial”
by Prometheus Radio
WASHINGTON, DC – This week President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act, the most recent victory in a ten-year grassroots effort to open up the airwaves to new community radio stations. At the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Genachowski promised swift action to open the dial to these new stations.
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Facebook and Muslim outrage: gleaning the wrong lesson, again
by Ramzy Baroud
“Any depictions of the prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims,” wrote Agencies, as reported readily by Aljazeera.net English. The above statement is meant to fully summarize the reason behind the outrage that arises in Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world whenever some provocative ‘artist’ decides to express his freedom of expression and ‘expose’ Muslims as anti-democratic.
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Air American rip
by Danny Goldberg
I think that the New York Times got it exactly wrong on Monday in declaring that “the enduring legacy of Air America’s failure is that political media from either side of the aisle is more successful when run as a business instead of a crusade”
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"The Internet is a Game Changer" - a paperless world
by Ramzy Baroud
The debate is no longer confined to a few academics in distant universities. It is now a widely prevalent, mainstream topic of discussion.
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Scratching the itch
by Robert C. Koehler
The whole point of so much of what we do seems to be to weed people out. We do it for fun, and without awareness.
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Media vultures are coming: freedom of expression at risk
by Ramzy Baroud
As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a plethora of viewpoints is available. It might also seem that the apparent increase in media choices also increases the chances for the public interest to be understood and served fairly. Unfortunately, this is far from the case. The media world is shrinking by the day.
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