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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "news"

Feds Wanted Private Data on All Visitors to Liberal News Site

Feds Wanted Private Data on All Visitors to Liberal News Site

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. November 11, 2009.
A Justice Department subpoena requesting information on visitors to an independent news site is raising serious privacy concerns.

Note to Media Critics: Fox is the Only Entire News Network with a Blatantly Partisan Agenda

Note to Media Critics: Fox is the Only Entire News Network with a Blatantly Partisan Agenda

Thers, Whiskey Fire AlterNet: Politics. November 3, 2009.
The false equivalencies are coming fast an furious.

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization

Adele Stan, AlterNet. October 24, 2009.
PR for the GOP? Yes. Platform for right-wing hatemongers? Definitely. But a news organization? Definitely not.

Obama: Fox More Talk Radio Than News

Obama: Fox More Talk Radio Than News

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 22, 2009.
When pressed, Obama slapped down Fox.

Diane Sawyer's Promotion to Evening News Chair: A Watershed Moment for Media?

Diane Sawyer's Promotion to Evening News Chair: A Watershed Moment for Media?

Michele Filgate, The Women's Media Center. September 8, 2009.
Women will now lead two of the three network shows.

Mitchell & Jessen - The Guys Who Came Up With The Torture Program: The Young Turks

Mitchell & Jessen - The Guys Who Came Up With The Torture Program: The Young Turks

Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 13, 2009.
Surprise! Behind the torture program, a shocking story of profit and scandal.

Palinsanity - Obama Wants to Kill My Baby

Palinsanity - Obama Wants to Kill My Baby

Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 9, 2009.
Palin feeds the Republican disinformation machine with batshit crazy accusations towards the current health care proposal.

The Future of News Is Nonprofit

The Future of News Is Nonprofit

Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. June 4, 2009.
There is no future for profit-maximizing news outlets. None.

The 13 Bush Officials Who Made Torture Possible

The 13 Bush Officials Who Made Torture Possible

Marcy Wheeler, Salon. May 22, 2009.
The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.

When News Goes Totally Digital, How Do You Create Trust?

When News Goes Totally Digital, How Do You Create Trust?

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. March 12, 2009.
Is brand power the best way to keep the news trustworthy?

Will Your Hometown Newspaper Still Be Around in 6 Months?

Will Your Hometown Newspaper Still Be Around in 6 Months?

Chad Rubel, BuzzFlash. March 1, 2009.
Newspapers have multiple problems, but the economic downturn is only a small part of it.

Election Day: Hot News, Emerging Trends, Juicy Rumors

Election Day: Hot News, Emerging Trends, Juicy Rumors

AlterNetNovember 4, 2008.
NC Sen: GOP Strategist Says Dem Hagan Will Win ... Rahm Emanuel to be Obama's chief of staff? ... Beware of turnout reports

News Media Propaganda Helped Push Through Failed Bailout

News Media Propaganda Helped Push Through Failed Bailout

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. October 14, 2008.
The news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.

Guess Who Pays for Mainstream Media Political News?

Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. August 14, 2008.
From the you-can't-be-serious file.

Obama's Triumph Over Media Frivolity

Obama's Triumph Over Media Frivolity

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. May 7, 2008.
Obama's Tuesday win represents a victory over a press corps fixated on fluff over substance.

Missing: Minorities in Media

Missing: Minorities in Media

Laura S. Washington, In These Times. February 26, 2008.
In the wake of racial upheaval, the 1968 "Riot Report" concluded the media had to improve its coverage of Black America. Has it?

20 Annoying Things About 2007

20 Annoying Things About 2007

Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. January 1, 2008.
Whew, has this been an irritating year, or what!

The Funniest Stories of 2007

The Funniest Stories of 2007

Will Durst, AlterNet. December 27, 2007.
What's the difference between Paris Hilton and Scooter Libby? Twenty-three days.

Tom Brokaw's Boom!: Voices of the Sixties

Tom Brokaw's Boom!: Voices of the Sixties

Tom Brokaw, Random House Publishing Group. December 5, 2007.
Journalism icon Tom Brokaw reflects on his Midwestern roots, 1960s gender politics and the death of JFK.

What Kind of News Do People Really Want?

What Kind of News Do People Really Want?

Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review. September 6, 2007.
A Pew report studies twenty years of American preferences.

Your Local News -- Dateline New Delhi

Your Local News -- Dateline New Delhi

Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. May 16, 2007.
With a local news outlet in California recruiting reporters in India, no one can pretend any longer that we have a global monopoly on intellect and innovation.

MySpace to enter news business

MySpace to enter news business

Heather Gehlert, AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2007.
Heather Gehlert: A Google-Digg hybrid ...

Who Controls the News?

Who Controls the News?

Gemma Puglisi, Women's Media Center. March 27, 2007.
For the third time in history, a woman has been hired as a nightly news executive. That's a sorry commentary in 2007 considering the first network newscast aired sometime just after Adam and Eve.

Five Hours Watching Al Jazeera's New International Channel

Five Hours Watching Al Jazeera's New International Channel

Dante Chinni, Christian Science Monitor. December 9, 2006.
Al Jazeera's new English-language channel offers controversial opinions and a lot more in-depth Middle East coverage than Americans are used to.

Don't Trust the News?

Don't Trust the News?

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. November 27, 2006.
A new community of expert and amateur readers grades the news as it happens...