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May 6, 2008
Arianna Huffington, a pioneer of and cheerleader for the new media has abandoned traditional media standards.
Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The HuffingtonPost Web site, said that listening to both sides for a story isn’t…
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May 14, 2008
Media pundits still haven’t learned their lesson about the law of unintended consequences when it comes to government mandating energy sources.
Federally mandated ethanol production has been blamed for food price inflation, which has led…
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May 2, 2008
The landscape of the American media is weakening because of a stronger international media, according to Newsweek’s senior Washington correspondent Howard Fineman.
“What’s happening in the media is that it’s being globalized,” Fineman…
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May 1, 2008
Think traffic in southern California is bad now? We haven’t seen anything yet, according to National Public Radio President Kevin Klose.
Klose was a panelist at the forum “Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge” held at Harvard…
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April 29, 2008
After lobbying hard for the government to intervene in an economic slowdown, some in the media are now questioning whether the federal economic stimulus package is enough.
“CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric warned viewers on April 28…
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April 25, 2008
The current food shortage is going to get worse before it gets better – at least that’s the way the founder of CNN sees it.
Ted Turner was interviewed by CNBC’s Bob Pisani on the April 25 “Closing Bell.” He addressed the recent food…
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April 25, 2008
In response to the cover of the April 28 issue Time magazine, the Media Research Center (MRC) launched a petition that condemned the use of the iconic Iwo Jima photo as a global warming prop.
More than 33,000 signatures were collected for…
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April 24, 2008
The April 23 "CBS Evening News" blamed turmoil in the housing markets for another crisis: a rise in the homeless population.
"The Anticos are leaving their Bradenton, Fla., home because they have to," CBS correspondent Kelly Cobiella said…
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April 23, 2008
It was a night filled with anti-corporate protests, anti-Bush comments, folk songs and the president of the Hip-Hop Caucus bellowing about America’s “illegal war” in Iraq. Welcome to the 2nd Annual “Climate Super Rally” featuring NASA’s Dr.…
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April 22, 2008
Looking forward to “An Inconvenient Truth, Part II,” this time perhaps with a happier ending? Don’t get your hopes up.
Alison Lehrer, a spokeswoman for Paramount, the production company behind Al Gore’s Oscar-winning 2006 film, told the…