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Those Obama “Concerns”
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 15 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, 08 Election
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By Clint Hendler, Columbia Journalism Review What’s talked about when we don’t talk about race. |
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The Media Hear The Fat Lady Humming
Posted by Project for Excellence in Journalism on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Obama, Hillary, Media Analysis, McCain
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By Mark Jurkowitz, PEJ From Tim Russert to Time magazine, the news industry last week declared Barack Obama the winner. |
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Clinton and Obama on Al-Jazeera
Posted by Salon on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, Hillary, Al-Jazeera, Agenda Setting
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By Juan Cole, Salon The Arab network has followed the Democratic race closely. Inside its studios, I discover how Clinton’s “obliterate Iran” comment played, and much more. |
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Obama now faces his biggest media challenge
Posted by MarketWatch on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, 08 Election, McCain
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By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch To win the election, he must find a way to trump McCain. |
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Election Mania in Europe
Posted by Columbia Journalism Review on 09 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, Hillary, 08 Election, McCain
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By Lynn Berger, Columbia Journalism Review European media and their audiences catch the U.S.’s Election Fever |
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Obama’s Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall
Posted by Norman Solomon on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Commentary, Obama, 08 Election
Barack Obama’s triumph on Tuesday night was a victory over a wall that pretends to be a fly on the wall. For a long time, the nation’s body politic has been shoved up against that wall — known as the news media.
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The Pastor’s Press Tour is the Week’s Big Newsmaker
Posted by Project for Excellence in Journalism on 06 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, Hillary, 08 Election, Media Analysis, McCain
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By Mark Jurkowitz, PEJ Jeremiah Wright’s media tour drove the campaign narrative last week, no story line has had as much staying power as the minister and the candidate. |
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Straight shooters: The commentators that have shaped public opinion on Iraq?
Posted by The Independent on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, Hillary, Iraq War, McCain
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By The Independent Ahead of its report on The Power of the Commentariat, Charles Burgess and Stephen Fleming of Editorial Intelligence look at the national UK newspaper commentators who have shaped public opinion on the biggest question of all - Iraq |
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Fox trumps Netroots; bloggers rebel
Posted by Politico on 02 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, USDemocrats, Obama, Hillary, 08 Election
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By Mike Allen, Politico.com The nation’s top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers. |
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The Listening Post - Clinton vs Obama
Posted by MediaChannel on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: USDemocrats, VIDEO, Obama, Hillary, 08 Election
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post takes a look at how the US media has been covering the Democratic nomination race.
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Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?
Posted by Huffington Post on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, CNN, Obama, CNBC, McCain
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By Bob Cesca, Huffington Post If the corporate media had been as diligent about watchdogging President Bush as they have been about watchdogging Reverend Wright, it’s very likely we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq. |
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Hispanic Congressmen Demand Corporate Action Against CNN Host
Posted by guardian.co.uk on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Free Speech, Politics, Hillary, Media Freedom, Policy, 08 Election, Latin America
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By Elana Schor, guardian.co.uk Latino members of Congress condemned the TV network for failing to recognise the “potentially dangerous” consequences of Dobbs’s “divisive commentary”. |
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Media Matters
Posted by Huffington Post on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Obama, 08 Election
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By Lucy Carrigan, Huffington Post There are very few journalists on cable news anymore. I see a lot of pundits putting forward disingenuous arguments - i.e. arguments they know to be false, in an effort to support their candidate. |
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Post-Pennsylvania Spin Drowns Out McCain
Posted by Project for Excellence in Journalism on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Commentary, Obama, Hillary, 08 Election, Media Analysis, McCain
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton generated a huge portion of the headlines last week as Pennsylvanians finally went to the polls. The issue of race re-emerged to play a substantial role in the media’s Democratic campaign narrative. And Republican John McCain struggled to be heard through the din.
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Bill Moyers Journal: Rev. Jeremiah Wright - Clip #1
Posted by MediaChannel on 28 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Obama, 08 Election
Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama. Click here for Part II
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