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Politico:JournoList: Inside the echo chamber

JournoList: Inside the echo chamber By MICHAEL CALDERONE | 3/17/09 3:59 AM EDT Updated: 3/17/09 11:55 AM EDT Illustration by Matt Wuerker For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList. Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy? Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind wh… Continue

Added by Watchdog on March 17, 2009 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Whats the difference?

What is the difference between Barack Obama and Michael Phelps? Both of these men are the hero of millions around the world. Both of these men admit to "youthful indiscretion" Time will tell, but this photo could cost Michael Phelps a hundred million dollars. The photo of Barack… Continue

Added by Watchdog on February 2, 2009 at 7:28pm — No Comments

CyberAlert: Top 10 Media Obama moments

CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 7:50am EST, Tuesday January 20, 2009 (Vol. Fourteen; No. 13) 1. 'Honor of Our Lifetimes' for All Left-Wing MSNBC Anchor Team Abandoning any pretense of balance, MSNBC's Inauguration coverage will be quad-anchored by four left-wingers: the network's three night time hosts -- Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow -- plus regular analyst Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. has finaPlugging the team at the end of the 7 PM EST Hardba… Continue

Added by Watchdog on January 21, 2009 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Salon 2005: Huge cost [of Bush inauguration]

Giving Bush a pass -- again The D.C. press corps failed to ask hard questions about the inauguration's huge cost and its unprecedented security. By Eric Boehlert Jan 20, 2005 | In Sunday's New York Times, John Tierney examined the delicate balancing act administrations face when throwing a lavish inauguration celebration against the backdrop of unsettling world events. Tierney wrote that inaugurations "become even trickier during times of war, particularly when television images of dancers in… Continue

Added by Watchdog on January 14, 2009 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Newsbusters.org: Name That Party Parade: ABC's 'Faces of Political Scandal' Labels Most GOP Faces, Few Dems

Name That Party Parade: ABC's 'Faces of Political Scandal' Labels Most GOP Faces, Few Dems By Tom Blumer December 11, 2008 - 09:04 ET A collection of "The Faces of Political Scandal," assembled by ABC News yesterday (HT to an e-mailer), once again demonstrates the media's relative reluctance to identify the membership of Democrats involved in scandal. Of the 14 politicians identified, seven are Democrats and seven are Republicans. Five of the seven GOP members are identified as such, w… Continue

Added by Watchdog on December 11, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

CNBC: US newspaper ad sales fall a record $2B in 3Q

US newspaper ad sales fall a record $2B in 3Q By The Associated Press | 01 Dec 2008 | 08:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES - U.S. newspaper advertising revenue collapsed by nearly $2 billion, or 18 percent, in the third quarter, according to the Newspaper Association of America, an industry group. Even online ad revenue made a small U-turn for the second quarter in a row. The year-on-year quarterly percentage decline is the worst since since the NAA has been keeping such records and represents an i… Continue

Added by Watchdog on December 2, 2008 at 11:07am — No Comments

Neilsen: Election Gives Online News Sites Major Traffic Boost

Election Gives Online News Sites Major Traffic Boost

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Added by Watchdog on November 24, 2008 at 10:57pm — No Comments

Mediabistro: Most Consider The Web Most Reliable Source of News

Friday, Nov 21 Most Consider The Web Most Reliable Source of News Well, this says something. A Zogby Poll, commissioned by IFC, found 37.6% of those asked consider the Internets the most reliable source of news. 20.3% consider national TV news most reliable and 16% say radio is the most reliable source. Also revealed: • 39.3% of those surveyed trust FOX News most for the issues they consider most important, followed by CNN with 16% and MSNBC with 15%. • 72.6% believe the news they r… Continue

Added by Watchdog on November 24, 2008 at 10:44pm — No Comments

Redstate: Lifferth: Now is finally the time for vetting our new president

Now is finally the time for vetting our new president Does "better late than never" apply? Posted by: DLiff Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 08:44PM CST The accurate and thorough vetting of our new president elect did not occur before the November 4th election. The press, or their modern incarnation “the media”, who are granted important and broad freedoms in the first amendment, did not do their job. There are any number of excuses, but the reason may be that a full vetting of each of the can… Continue

Added by Watchdog on November 19, 2008 at 11:46am — No Comments

Information Week: Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Tied To Tennessee Democrat

Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Tied To Tennessee Democrat Department of Justice investigators have declined to comment on the status of the Palin e-mail investigation. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Sept. 19, 2008 David Kernell, 20, son of Tennessee Democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell, may soon be speaking with the FBI and the Secret Service about whether he played a role in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account. According to The Tennessean, th… Continue

Added by Watchdog on November 18, 2008 at 2:47pm — No Comments

WashingtonPost.com: A Giddy Sense of Boosterism

A Giddy Sense of Boosterism By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 17, 2008; C01 Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled "Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story." Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama's campaign. Perhaps it was the Newsweek commemorative issue -- "Obama's American Dream" -- filled with so many iconic images and such stirring prose that… Continue

Added by Watchdog on November 17, 2008 at 8:39pm — No Comments

cnet news: Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole

[Great article on reasons why the media has lost credibility and how they can gain it back.] http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-10098194-60.html November 16, 2008 6:01 PM PST Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole Posted by Charles Cooper With newspapers cutting back and predictions of even worse times ahead, Rupert Murdoch said the profession may still have a bright future if it can shake free of reporters and editors who he said have forfeited the trust and loyalty of their rea… Continue

Added by Watchdog on November 17, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

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