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1. January 27, 2011 02:34 PM

   A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN

   Network to codify its standards and practices

   By Craig Silverman

   In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football coach and current ESPN contributor Lou Holtz. “My friend, YOU, are the NRCC’s 12th man and they urgently need your help to win every U.S. House seat possible, fire Nancy Pelosi, and elect a Republican to the Speaker’s chair this...

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2. May 2, 2012 07:20 PM

   Audit notes: Murdoch and the Conservatives, M&A, ESPN fail

   Tantalizing but thinly sourced info on Rebekah Brooks's texts to David Cameron

   By Ryan Chittum

   Peter Oborne writes a must-read column for The Telegraph on how the Murdoch scandal is threatening, unnecessarily, to bring down David Cameron's government. The Conservatives don't fully realize that Murdoch's vice grip has been loosened, that for the few officials like Tom Watson and Vince Cable who refused to be corrupted, it looks like "their integrity has paid off and...

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3. December 30, 2011 01:36 AM

   Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum

   The Audit's deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year

   By Ryan Chittum

   Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a part of the corrupt culture at News Corporation, I wrote that Murdoch is the culture. Nodding to Jay Rosen, I posited that its entire reason for being is to reflect, imitate, and amplify Murdoch himself, which is how a single...

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4. September 22, 2011 06:34 PM

   ESPN Obscures Its Own Role in the Conference Realignment Mess

   The network's $300 million deal with Texas, at the heart of the news, goes almost unmentioned

   By Ryan Chittum

   If you cover college sports for ESPN, you've got a real problem right now. The biggest story these days is the conference realignment that's bringing tectonic shifts to the NCAA landscape, ending century-old rivalries, and setting longtime partners at each others' throats. Problem is, ESPN itself is at the heart of why this is happening. Its Longhorn Network deal with...

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5. November 16, 2012 10:40 AM

   ESPN’s unreality-based coverage

   Karl Rove's got nothing on the boys from Bristol

   By Robert Weintraub

   One of the main takeaways from last week’s election was that conservatives were living in a bubble of delusion, convinced right up until the returns started coming in that Mitt Romney would swamp President Obama in the electoral college. The candidate himself was said to be gobsmacked that he lost, and so decisively. This detachment from reality was mainly the...

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6. June 10, 2011 01:19 PM

   Grantland Rises

   An initial review of Bill Simmons’s sports site

   By Sam Eifling

   As a journalist it’s impossible not to root for Grantland, the long-form ESPN spinoff site captained by logorrheic NBA junkie Bill Simmons. Three cheers for any venture that begins by throwing money at Writers, by gum, actual Writers, those miserable lickspittles who have been search-engine-optimized into near-oblivion in the past decade. Simmons wouldn’t be my first pick to lead a...

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