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The 24/7 Sneeze Factor
Walter Brasch: The 24/7 news media, desperate to fill time and pretending to be investigative journalists, have spent more time in the past decade peeling away layers of presidential candidate health histories than they have spent in asking tough policy questions.
Colin Powell Hacked: Thought Crimes
Mario Solis-Marich: In recent months the use of stolen emails—the product of illegal cyber breaking and entering—have been used far and wide by the esteemed Fourth Estate to enhance their ratings and web click rates. Click rates and ratings are the news media’s bread and butter.
Writing About the War on Terror: Essay Contest
Beyond remembrance and looking backward, we need reflection on the present and future – reflection on the human and social cost of the “War on Terror,” reflection on how this host of horrors can come to an end.
War vs. Democracy
Robert Koehler: Bernie Sanders and the progressive revolution were neatly, efficiently stiffed by the Democrats, but the “alt-right” nationalists and white supremacists surprised the hell out of the Republicans
Donald Trump TV
Peter Dreier: Together, Trump, Ailes and Bannon would run their media empire to advance their common goals: gaining political influence, massaging their massive egos, moving the Republican Party further to the right, attacking Democrats and liberal ideas, and promoting a neo-fascist agenda combining xenophobia, racism, sexism, government-bashing, and anti-immigrant nativism.
Talking About Clinton v. Trump the Day of the First Bomb Dropped
Paul Haeder: Let us write about us, and let us get the platforms that these vaunted few seem to be wresting from the very people they think they are caring about and concerned with.
Why Plagarism Matters
Edward Wasserman: Although the sentiments of working hard and keeping promises are commonplace, the disputed wordings are practically identical, and any claim that the similarities are accidental is the kind of thing a fourth-grade teacher would laugh out of class.
The Young Turks: What’s in a Name
Sharon Kyle: As an African-American who is the direct descendant of American chattel slaves whose labor built this country, I understand Maria Armoudian’s proposition about “The Young Turks.”
Standing Up for Bernie
Stephen Fox: The worst of the worst of the mainstream full-scale articles in my estimation was Nate Cohn’s recent one in the New York Times, which I roundly and acerbically condemned on many many Facebook group pages.
Touré Calls Security on Me for Requesting Q & A
Lauren Steiner: I sat through the 45 minute panel growing increasingly more infuriated by inaccurate comments by the moderator and the panel and lack of rebuttal.
Walter Cronkite Opposed the Vietnam War Because It Was Unwinnable
John Marciano: In reality, Cronkite never opposed the war itself; rather, he only came to question it after the Tet Offensive made it clear that the U.S. policy in Vietnam was not working.
Fact-Checking a Selective Exercise
Larry Wines: Where were their fact-checkers when the networks took their morning leads from an H-arrow campaign press release falsely claiming Sanders supporters had “thrown tantrums” and “thrown chairs” at the Nevada Democratic Convention?
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