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Reports: Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

A/V Booth: ‘Out and Occupy’ Condemns Corporate ‘Pinkwashing ’

Truthdig Podcast: ‘Out and Occupy’ Condemns Corporate ‘Pinkwashing’

Reports: Politics as Entertainment

Cartoons: State of the Union

Reports: Lessons of JoePa, in Case the Next Witch We Hunt Doesn’t Drop Dead

Cartoons: SOPA

Reports: The Day the Internet Roared

Ear to the Ground: The Internet Fights Back

Ear to the Ground: Google Takes Objection to Murdoch’s Tweets

Ear to the Ground: Zuccotti Park Reoccupied

Ear to the Ground: New York Times ‘Plantation’ Workers Invited to the Independent Wilds

Ear to the Ground: Like, Get Over It

Ear to the Ground: Farewell to a Conservative Gentleman

Cartoons: Bye Bye Bachmann

A/V Booth: Rupert Murdoch’s Cultural Revolution

Ear to the Ground: Rupert Murdoch Is on Twitter and It’s Weird

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Lays It All Out

Cartoons: Luddite Santa

Reports: ’Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Segregation à la Rosa Parks

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: America the Battlefield

Reports: Mass Protests Are Not a Threat to Putin … Yet

Reports: Dugald Stermer Wanted to Change the World

Ear to the Ground: American Media, Stay Away From Me

Reports: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck

Reports: Celebrating the End of Kids’ Wall Street Dreams

Ear to the Ground: Let’s Talk About Inequality, Baby

Ear to the Ground: Dan Rather Says ‘Big Money Owns Everything … Including the News’

Arts and Culture: China Tunes Out TV Commercials

Ear to the Ground: Media Complain of ‘Hostile’ NYPD (Update)

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Reports: It’s Time to Occupy the Majority

Reports: The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street

Reports: Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters

A/V Booth: What Cellphone Taxes Say About Republican Hypocrisy

Truthdig Podcast: What Cellphone Taxes Say About Republican Hypocrisy

Reports: Joe Paterno Gets Due Process of Us

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: Away With Objectivity

Reports: One Nation, Gone Awry

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Wall Street Gets Real on MTV

Reports: TV That Finally Lifts Journalism Back ‘Up’

Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

Reports: Denunciation and Disruption: The Vision That Drives Occupy Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: When Newspapers Act Like Banks, Communities Suffer

Reports: Nice Debates, Guys, but You’re in Trouble

Reports: Let Them Eat Keller

A/V Booth: There’s Something Happening Here

Truthdig Podcast: There’s Something Happening Here

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s Black Sunday

Reports: A New Bush Era or a Push Era?

Reports: Why the Elites Are in Trouble

Ear to the Ground: Does Occupy Wall Street Need a Logo?

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Occupiers Make Gains

Ear to the Ground: There’s a New Newspaper on Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Wall Street Is United in Its Diversity

Reports: The Week Politics Changed

Reports: What Do They Want? Justice

Reports: American Government’s Indifference to Popular Protest

Reports: Policing the Prophets of Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: We Are the 99 Percent—And We’re Not Confused

Ear to the Ground: Amy Goodman Wins Major Settlement Over 2008 Police Abuses

Around the Web: Robert Scheer on Wall Street Protests

Arts and Culture: Facebook Is More Relevant Than Ever

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: Preserving Life (Unless It’s Uninsured)

Ear to the Ground: Concern in New Egypt as Police Raid Al-Jazeera

Reports: A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe

Truthdig Podcast: Agent Orange and Our Legacy of Chemical Warfare

A/V Booth: Agent Orange and Our Legacy of Chemical Warfare

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Tensions Mount in Revolution Central

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Arts and Culture: June Gloom With Lewis Lapham

Reports: A Come-to-Jesus Moment for American Religion

Reports: A Special City Loses Its Voice

Ear to the Ground: PBS Couldn’t Make Time for Bill Moyers’ New Show

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Flagman and ‘Our Martyrs in Sinai’

Reports: Confessions of a Dead Tribune

Reports: The Vegetarian’s Dilemma

Reports: Collateral Damage in the War on Anonymity

Reports: The World Has Been Watching

Arts and Culture: God Bless Cantankerous Old Men

Reports: Yes to Moderation, No to Centrism

Reports: Sam Harris Responds to Chris Hedges’ ‘Fundamentalism Kills’ Column

Reports: Fundamentalism Kills

Reports: Don’t Believe Everything You Read About Michele Bachmann—or Anyone Else

Arts and Culture: The American Scream: Going Hoarse Without Speaking

Ear to the Ground: Sex Ed? Palins Flunk Again

Cartoons: The Adult in the Room

Reports: The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

Reports: Slapstick, Denial Highlight Murdochs’ Testimony

Reports: Murdoch: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Cartoons: Fox News

Reports: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie

Reports: The Phone Hacking Scandal by the Numbers

A/V Booth: Rupert Murdoch Dodges a Pie on ‘the Most Humble Day of My Life’

A/V Booth: Keith Olbermann, John Dean Preview Rupert Murdoch Testimony

Cartoons: Phone Hacking

Ear to the Ground: Murdochs Agree to Testify in U.K., FBI Launches Probe

Reports: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences

Ear to the Ground: Hacking Scandal Leads to British Tabloid’s Demise

Reports: Gone With the Papers

Reports: Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Stinging Mad

Ear to the Ground: Jon Stewart Fails PolitiFact’s ‘Truth-O-Meter’

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Cartoons: Varmint

Cartoons: Tweet for Help

Reports: The Party of Righteous Indignation

Reports: Tweeting Our Way to Oblivion

Reports: Politicians Are Different From You and Me

Reports: Weiner’s No Longfellow

Reports: The Revisionist Ride of Paul Revere

Reports: The Brief on Rep. Weiner

Cartoons: Dennis the Pennis

A/V Booth: The World’s Last Handwritten Newspaper?

Reports: America’s Mermaid

Reports: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

Reports: The Speech Obama Should Have Given to AIPAC

Reports: Boehner’s Catholic Lessons

Truthdig Podcast: Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’

A/V Booth: Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’

Reports: Strauss-Kahn Scandal an Embarrassment for France

Reports: Obama Gets No Credit for Courage

Reports: ‘Electronic Brownshirts’

Reports: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

Ear to the Ground: This Is Why People Hate Washington

Reports: Dispatches From Egypt: Bin Laden News Lands With a Thud

A/V Booth: Trump’s Media Blitz: Cynical PR Stunt for “The Apprentice”?

Reports: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

Arts and Culture: U.S. Media Outstrips U.K. in Royal Wedding Coverage

Cartoons: World Book Day

Reports: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Reports: The Real Madness of March

Arts and Culture: Netflix Gets ‘Mad Men,’ and That Opens Some Big Questions

Ear to the Ground: What The New York Times Doesn’t Understand About Taxes

Arts and Culture: Brits Are Crackers for the American-Style Prom

Reports: Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of Objectivity

Reports: Lessons of Libya

Reports: A New Red Dawn

Ear to the Ground: Making a Case for NPR

Arts and Culture: GLAAD Awards Celebrate Ricky, Anderson and Other Media Friends

Reports: No Laws, No Secrets: The Anarchist Creed of Julian Assange

Cartoons: NPR Left Turn

Reports: Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox

Reports: What’s So Scary About NPR?

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on the ‘Disintegrated’ Media, Cultural Illiteracy

Reports: A Warning to the World

Reports: American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check

Ear to the Ground: Cable News Takes a Hit in 2010

Ear to the Ground: NPR Controversy Fueled by Dishonest Editing

Ear to the Ground: Whose Side Is The New York Times On?

Reports: The High Cost of a Broken Metaphor

Reports: The Latest From Japan’s Nuclear Disaster

Reports: The Hooey King

Reports: Don’t Ice Out Public Media

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Reports: Don’t Believe the (Union-Busting) Hype

Reports: Sheen Madness

Cartoons: Celebrity Obsessed Culture

Reports: The FCC, Net Neutrality and the Future Enrons of the Internet

Reports: Betting on Arianna

Reports: Huffington’s Plunder

Reports: The Tea Party Is Winning

Reports: Why Do They Hate Social Security?

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Reports: Fight for a World Without Coal

Reports: ‘The Misfits’ at 50: Honoring the Horse and an Iconic Western

Reports: Getting Under Your ‘Skins’

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges: ‘Death of the Liberal Class’ on Book TV

Ear to the Ground: You’ve Got Merger: AOL Buys Huffington Post

Ear to the Ground: Egypt Veep Agrees to Some Concessions

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Reports: Who, Us Bloodthirsty?

Reports: Media Marvel at Obama’s Move to the Right

Reports: Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated

Ear to the Ground: Happy Birthday to the Brad Blog

Reports: Where Liberals Go to Feel Good

Ear to the Ground: Al Franken Blasts the FCC

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Has a Point

Ear to the Ground: The Gulag Prisoners of Pennsylvania

Reports: The Lives of Dictators

Arts and Culture: Hollywood Can’t Take a Joke

Reports: Fox News Reports No Link Between Matches, Gasoline and Fire

Reports: Finding the Forgotten Majority

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Waits for the Grey Ladies

Ear to the Ground: What Is the Meaning of This ‘Blood Libel’?

A/V Booth: Fox Appears to Censor Vigil in Order to Protect Palin

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

A/V Booth: Gibbs to Sign Off as Press Secretary

Ear to the Ground: The Information Technology Roller Coaster

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Arts and Culture: Is Congress More Progressive Than Hollywood?

Reports: ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t

Reports: Faces of Economic Death

A/V Booth: WikiLeaks the Rap Musical

Reports: ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing

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