Rachel Maddow: New Queen of Cable
The Colbert Report
Stephen Colbert teases his new, popular MSNBC competition, 'How many Peabodys do you have?'
Media
Subsections:
2008
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Rocking the Black Vote
Amy Alexander : Radio
Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners to engage in electoral politics.
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The Cold War That Wasn't
Mark Ames : New York Times
Deconstructing the New York Times fairy tale about how nasty Russia invaded innocent Georgia.
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Bush Declares America Has No Problems
YouTube
President Bush blows and Bob Costas shines during a revealing interview at the Beijing Olympics.
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Mad for Rachel Maddow
Rebecca Traister : Television
The Air America host is this election season's breakout star.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
Bob McChesney on media justice, Esther Kaplan on the future of labor, David Sirota on The Uprising.
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Let Them Eat Waffles
Patricia J. Williams : Media Analysis
How can Barack Obama--or any candidate--overcome the sad hypocrisy of our public discourse?
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Our Lapdog Media
The Editors
What should we do when Big Media fails democracy? First, don't let it get any bigger.
2007
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Political Punk: Rage Against the Band
Now with a major label, political punk rockers Against Me! have released what may be the year's best album. But have they sold out?
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Sun-rise in New York
Scott Sherman : Journalists & Journalism
How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.
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The Ho Industry
Alexander Cockburn : Racism & Discrimination
In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus's racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.
2005
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Pat Tillman, Our Hero
War hero and former NFL star Pat Tillman was not the GI Joe icon created by Pentagon spinmeisters. He was a fiercely independent thinker convinced that the war in Iraq was illegal. Bereaved military families, also angered at Pentagon exploitation of their loved ones, are joining the critical chorus.
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The Strategic Class
Behind Capitol Hill's Democratic war hawks stands an army of 'enablers' - foreign policy advisors, think-tank specialists and pundits.
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MIA: News of Prison Toll
Todd Gitlin : George W. Bush Administration
The media has ignored prisoner deaths suffered at American hands.
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Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
Robert Scheer : War on Terrorism
Is it possible that a vast and well-organized terrorist conspiracy does not exist?
2004
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Our Debt to Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers did his best to arm the people with the power knowledge gives.
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Money for Nothing
Eric Alterman : Campaign Finance
Rich liberals get nothing from the national treasury or tax code for their activism.
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Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still)
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
CBS's slip-up was such big news because it fit the right-wing script designed to shield the Bush Administration from accountability.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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