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

A/V Booth: Rupert Murdoch’s Cultural Revolution

Cartoons: Luddite Santa

Reports: Dugald Stermer Wanted to Change the World

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

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

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

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

Reports: TV That Finally Lifts Journalism Back ‘Up’

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

Ear to the Ground: Sex Ed? Palins Flunk Again

Reports: Slapstick, Denial Highlight Murdochs’ Testimony

Reports: Murdoch: The Emperor Has No Clothes

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

Cartoons: London Papers Falling Down

Reports: I Missed My Chance to Pee on Rupert Murdoch

Reports: Gone With the Papers

Cartoons: Newstritional Chart

Reports: Weiner’s No Longfellow

Ear to the Ground: Obama Faked It for the Cameras

Ear to the Ground: The New Story: Bin Laden Was Unarmed, Was Shot Quickly

Reports: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

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

Reports: Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of Objectivity

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

Ear to the Ground: NYT Puts Up a Paywall

Cartoons: Celebrity Obsessed Culture

Reports: Huffington’s Plunder

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Has a Point

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

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

Reports: The Game-Changer List

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Scoops the World

Ear to the Ground: And Now for Another MSNBC Suspension

Cartoons: Chasers

Reports: The Earth Loses a Force of Nature

Ear to the Ground: Wolf Blitzer’s Panic Room

Reports: News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Much Media Ado About Chelsea’s Wedding

Ear to the Ground: Newsweek Is Sold to 91-Year-Old Stereo Magnate

Cartoons: Anything for Ratings

Reports: The Supreme Court’s Audio Anxiety

Reports: The Future of Journalism Is Written in Neon

Cartoons: Dog’s Best Friend

Ear to the Ground: Pew Report Says Americans Are News Grazers

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on ‘The Death and Life of American Journalism’

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Calls Thomas Paine the Glenn Beck of Revolutionary America

A/V Booth: VP Fight: Biden vs. Cheney

Ear to the Ground: Luge Snuff Video: What Were the Networks Thinking?

Reports: Our Addiction to Disaster Porn

A/V Booth: Teleprompter Malfunction Leaves Obama Speechless

Ear to the Ground: Welcome Back, da Vinci Edition

A/V Booth: How to Report the News

Cartoons: God Is Watching

A/V Booth: Haiti: A View From the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: All the News That’s Fit to Charge For

Arts and Culture: Freeman Replacing Cronkite in CBS News Intro

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ on the Folksy, Factless News Channels

Ear to the Ground: Google Can Help Newspapers, Says Google CEO

Reports: Addicted to Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Murdoch, Microsoft May Team Up to Challenge Google

Ear to the Ground: Lou Dobbs for President?

Ear to the Ground: Dobbs Blames It on Obama

Ear to the Ground: Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN

Ear to the Ground: Rupert Murdoch vs. Google (and Reality)

Reports: Keep the Government Out of the News Business

Ear to the Ground: Is CNN the Least Trusted Name in News?

Cartoons: Balloon Boy

Ear to the Ground: Israel Furious at Organ Harvesting Accusation

Ear to the Ground: Afghan News Outlets to Be Censored on Election Day

A/V Booth: CNN Falsely Labels Public Option ‘Unpopular’

Arts and Culture: Corporate Parents Agreed to Censor Olbermann and O’Reilly

Ear to the Ground: American News Ticker Goes Dark in Havana

Reports: When Trust and Media Were One

Reports: Opinions Walter Cronkite Never Aired

Arts and Culture: Walter Cronkite, TV’s First Anchor, Dies at 92

Cartoons: 24-Week News Cycle

Arts and Culture: Newsweeklies on the Brink

Ear to the Ground: Obama Overload?

Reports: Journalism in the Twitter Era

Arts and Culture: Dobbs Takes a Dive

Arts and Culture: NPR Is Booming

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

A/V Booth: Bill O’Reilly Gets Nasty

Truthdig Podcast: Coping With Corporate Media

Reports: Addicted to Fake Outrage

Reports: Stronger, Please, Mr. President

Ear to the Ground: TV News Makes TV Look Bad

A/V Booth: Colbert Turns O’Reilly Against Himself

Ear to the Ground: Gaza Ad Stirs Controversy Across the Pond

Reports: We Told You So

Reports: The New Longevity

Reports: A Wal-Mart Christmas for a Wal-Mart Country

Arts and Culture: Nicholas von Hoffman on Kevin Phillips’ ‘Bad Money’

Ear to the Ground: McCain, Palin Fume at Obama’s ‘Pet Newspaper’

Ear to the Ground: Christian Science Monitor Will Go Paperless

Arts and Culture: MSNBC Slammed by Media Execs

Reports: Life After November 4th

Reports: Weapons of Mass Distraction

A/V Booth: Couric Stumps Palin With Question About Reading

Ear to the Ground: Couric Grills Palin on McCain’s Economic Record

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Ear to the Ground: ABC Spreads Palin Around

Ear to the Ground: McCain Cries Bias, Forgets About Fox

Ear to the Ground: MSNBC Revises Roles of Olbermann, Matthews

Cartoons: Pathetic News

A/V Booth: ‘F—- Fox News!’

Ear to the Ground: Pravda Online Perfects Art of Messianic Headline Composition

A/V Booth: BBC Crew Survives Russian Rockets

Arts and Culture: Kasia Anderson on Barbara Walters

Reports: Ray Bradbury on Literature and Love

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ and Colbert on ‘Obama Quest’

Reports: Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy

Cartoons: Insta-Scandal!

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart: ‘It’s Just a F—-ing Cartoon’

Ear to the Ground: Photoshopping Military Might

Ear to the Ground: Networks Might Slim Down Convention Coverage

Ear to the Ground: The Real Operation to ‘Rescue’ Ingrid Betancourt

A/V Booth: News for Dummies

Reports: Snapshots of Life and Death in Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: Fox Sinks to New Lows

Reports: A Teachable Moment for Teen Pregnancy

Ear to the Ground: What War?

Arts and Culture: Williams to Step In for Russert on ‘Meet the Press’

A/V Booth: ‘Baracknophobia’

Reports: Weather Reports Are Missing the Story

Ear to the Ground: ‘Meet the Press’ Anchor Tim Russert Dies at 58

Ear to the Ground: Lights, Camera, Huckabee

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Tycoon to Slash and Burn

A/V Booth: Worst Fox News Comment Ever?

Reports: The U.S. War on Journalists

Reports: Culture of Misogyny

Ear to the Ground: The Other Campaign

Cartoons: TV News

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Edwards Takes On the Media

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Pundits Perturbed by Pennsylvania Primary

Ear to the Ground: The Return of the Snow Job

Ear to the Ground: Murdoch Buys Another Trophy

Reports: How Can We Miss Him if He Won’t Go Away?

Ear to the Ground: Journal: Couric Likely to Leave CBS

Ear to the Ground: Olympic Committee Warns China

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Journalists Enter Tibet

Cartoons: Time for an Update

Ear to the Ground: Up for Debate

Ear to the Ground: China Cries Foul Over Tibet Coverage

A/V Booth: ?Bring Your Daughter to War? Day

Ear to the Ground: Death by a Thousand Memos

A/V Booth: Speaking Truth to Fox News

Cartoons: Up for a Debate

Reports: Hope in the Time of NAFTA

Reports: A Royal Blunder

Reports: A Kind Word for the Media

Ear to the Ground: Rather’s $70M Suit Still On

A/V Booth: Olbermann Slams New York Times

Cartoons: Sensational Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants to Go Live

Ear to the Ground: FCC Sells Out

Reports: The Dubious Mr. Dobbs

Reports: Making a Case for the Long View

Ear to the Ground: Thompson Accuses Fox of Bias

Ear to the Ground: Poking Holes in Fox News’ Mythology of Objectivity

Ear to the Ground: CBS Strikes Back at Rather

Arts and Culture: Mark Sarvas on ‘The Hot Zone’

Reports: For Whom the Bell’s Palsy Tolls

Reports: Public Relations Disaster Management

Ear to the Ground: Where Were You When ...

Ear to the Ground: FEMA Apologizes for Make-Believe Press Conference

A/V Booth: Fox Links Al-Qaida to Calif. Wildfires

Ear to the Ground: Bush Planted Canned ‘News’ Spots on U.S. Stations

Cartoons: The Agony

A/V Booth: Talking Empty Heads

Ear to the Ground: Rather Slaps CBS With $70M Suit

A/V Booth: Fox News Sets Sights on Iran

Cartoons: CNN’s Cave Tick

A/V Booth: Hurricane Ka…Uh…Whatever

Reports: Murdoch May Be What’s Best for Wall Street Journal

Ear to the Ground: BBC Reporter Freed

A/V Booth: MSNBC Anchor Refuses to Cover Paris Hilton

Reports: CBS Silences General Dissent

A/V Booth: ‘Simpsons’ Sticks It to Fox

Ear to the Ground: Kidnapped BBC Reporter Spends Birthday in Captivity

Cartoons: The Evening Snooze

Ear to the Ground: ‘Daily Show’ Viewers Know More

A/V Booth: Something Happened in Haiti

Ear to the Ground: Police ‘Regret’ Airing of Shooter’s Video

Reports: Lonely Planet

A/V Booth: What We Call the News

Cartoons: Luckovich: The Fourth Estate Sale

Ear to the Ground: MSNBC Re-Signs Keith Olbermann

Reports: Experts Go on Strike—Could Last Months, Non-Experts Say

Ear to the Ground: Fox News Plays the Name Game

Ear to the Ground: O’Reilly and Colbert Face to Face

A/V Booth: ABC’s Halperin Woos Conservatives

A/V Booth: Virtual News at Seven

A/V Booth: Arianna on Election Fear Factor

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