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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Supreme Court Warning

The Terror Con

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The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa

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Immigration: Time to Choose Sides
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Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
By Marjorie Cohn

Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch

Ear to the ground

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Wall Street Doesn’t Like What Fed Chairman Has to Say

Serena Williams Walks Back ‘Insensitive’ Steubenville Rape Comments

FBI Confirms Drone Use Over U.S. Soil

What Snowden Told Us This Week

Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Supreme Court Warning

Rachel Maddow Gives Emotional Tribute to Michael Hastings

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

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Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

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Tag: Media Bias

Media Matters

Media Matters turned its bias detectors on the corporate media’s coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil way that the Obama administration put on hold last week. The analysis found that in all mediums, pipeline supporters got more talk time than their opponents, and counted the ways reporters parroted industry’s talking points.

Posted on Jan 28, 2012 READ MORE | 8 COMMENTS

‘Daily Show’: Is MSNBC the New Fox News?

As the current president and president-elect prepare for a major baton-passing on Jan. 20, cable TV is undergoing its own changing of the guard. How will Fox News handle the transition? Is MSNBC taking its place?

Posted on Dec 2, 2008 READ MORE | 11 COMMENTS

New McCain Gaffes on Iraq

Sen. John McCain didn’t just get his cause-and-effect order wrong on the so-called surge strategy in Iraq, he also claimed in a CBS interview that the increased troop deployment and associated change in tactics protected a key Sunni sheik who helped lead the “Anbar Awakening.” Problem? Said sheik was actually assassinated during the surge. Meanwhile, CBS is under fire for editing out these gaffes in its on-air presentation of the interview.

Posted on Jul 23, 2008 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

AP photo / Jae C. Hong

Philly Debate Maligned by Pro-Obama Media?

Why were so many journalists so aggravated by the latest presidential debate? According to Politico scribes John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei, it wasn’t about George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson’s less substantive questions—instead, the problem was that “this time there were more hard questions for Obama than for Clinton.”