Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean called the Fox News coverage of Shirley Sherrod “absolutely racist” in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “They had an obligation to find out what was really in the clip,” Dean said. “They had been pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap...
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Today in Moronia
- ‘I’m Voting Tea Party’ t-shirts that liberals can wear to annoy teabaggers
- Liberal media again caught using religious nuts’ own actions to enrage public
- Foxhole atheist is a chaplain’s bodyguard
- Alan Grayson: Let’s make the USA number one in happiness
- Cop tasers man trying to save his burning house with a garden hose
- Psilocybin benefits cancer patients, report says
- Petraeus condemns Florida church’s plan to burn Korans
- Owner of car that broke 39-story suicidal fall, cries: “Why my car?”
- New study shows immigrants boost wages and productivity
- From Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel
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Dean unloads on Fox for Sherrod coverage
The Journolist ‘controversy’
As it happens, this awesome controversy was discussed for about 30 seconds on newsroom-l (new window) when one of the list’s few conservatives (not a journalist, but some guy...
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Google China ploy is more about business than thwarting evil
By Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch.com) I’ll give Google this much: They’re taking a bad situation and making something good out of it, both from a human and business point of...
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Rabbit ear antenna come back in digital TV era
By David Sarno (LATimes) In the wake of the transition to digital television, Southland viewers are finding they can get nearly three times as many channels as they once...
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Authors and publishers argue over digital rights to older books
By Motoko Rich (NY Times) William Styron may have been one of the leading literary lions of recent decades, but his books are not selling much these days. Now...
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Newsday Web traffic down 21% since paywall was built
(News Cycle) Nielsen data shows that Newsday.com drew 1.7 million unique visitors in November, well below the 2.1 million total for October. Page views were down to 18.6 million...
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What Google can do to help journalism
By Michael Massing I propose that Google set up a Journalism Innovators’ Fund with an initial annual budget of $100 million—less than 0.5 percent of the more than $20...
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Nielsen kills Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews
Nielsen Business Media Update Message from Greg Farrar Dear Colleagues, Today, we announced that Nielsen Business Media has reached an agreement with e5 Global Media Holdings, LLC, a new...
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How fear, anger and disappointment brought political illustrator Zina Saunders fame, fortune and deep personal satisfaction
Watch this. She is utterly fabulous. Zina Saunders from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
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The No-News No-Column Column
I don’t have a column this week. You see, I analyze and interpret the news, trying to find something that others haven’t touched. When there’s lots of news, I...
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Buying the Powers that Be
Standing in line at the bank I watched battle-weary congresspeople on TV argue for what’s right and decent for an American national health care system. And the opposition argued...
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In Dallas, some editors are reporting to ad executives
Some editors at The Dallas Morning News have started reporting directly to executives outside the newsroom who oversee advertising sales, under a restructuring that overturns longstanding traditions in American...
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Wal-Mart will pay hundreds of millions to workers to settle lawsuits
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 current and former employees in Massachusetts, the largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement...
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