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1. November 11, 2010 04:06 PM

   MSNBC’s Ratigan Goes Way Off the Deep End

   Discussing violent revolution as if it's just another policy option

   By Ryan Chittum

   MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan not only decided it was a good idea to have on far-left cartoonist Ted Rall to discuss his new book The Anti-American Manifesto, which calls for the left to consider violent revolution if its aims aren't met, but Ratigan overtly endorsed revolution and implicitly endorsed considering violence. If this were on Fox News, the media would...

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2. November 30, 2012 03:00 PM

   Must-reads of the week

   A day without violence in New York, an immortal jellyfish in Shirahama, the last bookstore in Nashville

   By The Editors

   Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week: Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women — Saudi women's male guardians now receive text messages informing them when women under their custody leave the...

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3. June 3, 2011 12:51 PM

   Q&A: Joel Simon On CPJ’s “Impunity Index” and Violence Against Journalists

   “For a long time, the threat was sort of a badge of honor. ‘Yeah, I got a threat, I must be getting to them.’”

   By Joel Meares

   On Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its fourth annual Impunity Index—a ranking of countries determined by the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of the population. Counting murders from January 2001 to December 2010, Iraq was ranked at the top of the Index for the fourth straight year, with ninety-three murders unsolved. Somalia came next,...

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4. October 26, 2011 05:35 PM

   Soda Scare

   Association, causation confused in news about pop and violence

   By David Ropeik

   Here we go again. A study finds an association between A and B, but some news reports say that A causes B. The public is misled, and trust is further eroded—not just in science, but also in journalism. The study, “The ‘Twinkie Defense’: the relationship between carbonated non-diet soft drinks and violence perpetration among Boston high school students,” certainly merits...

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5. June 10, 2011 11:41 AM

   Writing The War On Drugs

   Why do so few American papers report on the trade in their backyard?

   By Javier Garza Ramos

   What if American law enforcement agents arrested more than six hundred drug dealing suspects in more than twenty cities across the country in just two days and nobody noticed? On February 24, that’s exactly what happened as raids targeted drug gangs in cities all over the United States. In two days, 676 people were arrested and authorities confiscated $12 million,...

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