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  1. May 5, 2011 10:05 AM

    How State-Funded TV Stations Covered the Osama News

    A look at Russia Today, Press TV, France 24, and others

    By Linette Lopez

    Around the world, state-funded satellite TV stations—like Russia Today (RT), Iran’s Press TV, China’s CCTV, France 24 and Al Jazeera—are broadcasting world news as they see it. That means that millions are hearing stories from new perspectives, and stories like the death of Osama Bin Laden can vary dramatically, depending on which channel you’re watching.

    So let’s say that, on...

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  2. May 19, 2010 04:07 PM

    Border Patrol

    Remapping Arizona’s immigration coverage

    By Stefanos Chen

    It has been nearly a month since Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law Senate Bill 1070, the strictest anti-illegal immigration legislation in U.S. history. The law caught fire with the press, instantly drawing national attention to an issue that had all but been snuffed out since healthcare reform passed earlier this year—and, as such, providing a rare...

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  3. May 18, 2010 10:34 AM

    Rhymes with ‘Truck’

    Profanity in the press: Why is it such a big fucking deal?

    By Clare O'Connor

    There’s nothing the media like more than a politician’s blunder, especially if a video clip means that the gaffe goes viral. And that’s particularly so when the blunder comes courtesy of Joe Biden, who puts his foot in his mouth with remarkable frequency. When Biden was caught whispering to President Obama that the recent health care bill passage was a...

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  4. May 17, 2010 04:58 PM

    Everyone’s the Wine Expert

    Wine critics and bloggers, professional and amateur, are mixed up in a social media web

    By Spencer Bailey

    In late 2003, just as wine blogging was starting up on the Internet, Eric Arnold, currently the editorial director of BottleNotes.com, had never written a word about wine. “At least nothing professionally or intelligently,” he says. But he was interested in breaking into what was, at that point, the small, niche world of wine writing. So rather than go the...

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  5. April 13, 2010 10:40 AM

    Hearts and Minds in Marja

    If the Marja offensive was a performance as much as anything else, then where was the skepticism from the media?

    By Jack Mirkinson

    About two months ago, thousands of NATO and Afghan troops rolled into Marja, a town in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province, and began what was called the largest operation in the Afghan war's nearly nine-year history. The offensive was trumpeted as a turning point by the military, which called it essential to Obama's handling of the war. It also drew the...

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  6. April 12, 2010 12:30 PM

    Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Georgia House Bill 1332 and the crime-scene censorship debate

    By Spencer Bailey

    Last month, lawmakers in Georgia swiftly approved House Bill 1332—called the “Meredith Emerson Privacy Act.” The bill aims to limit media access to the state’s most gruesome crime-scene and autopsy photographs. In that, it raises anew a question that has become increasingly relevant in the digital age: How do we balance individual privacy with the public’s right to...

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  7. April 12, 2010 11:47 AM

    Good Sports?

    TMZ Sports: ESPN’s newest competition, or athlete upskirt shots?

    By Clare O'Connor

    When TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin announced plans last December to launch a sports offshoot of the notorious gossip site, the reaction in the sports blogosphere was an unusual combination of amusement and fear. “Hide the baby mamas! TMZSports.com is coming,” proclaimed a headline on the popular blog Sports by Brooks. The post later admitted that TMZ’s sports...

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