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September 14, 2012
Obviously the pain of mourning Mexican mothers was deemed to be just too much for the viewers of US television networks. Read more
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April 25, 2012
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass a reprehensible cyber-security bill this week that seeks to protect online companies-giant social media firms to data-sharing networks controlling utilities-from cyber attack. Read more
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June 25, 2011
Well-known D.C.-based agriculture reporter Philip Brasher was recently let go by the Des Moines Register. Read more
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June 22, 2011
National Public Radio is presently under attack by listeners critical of a May 4 Marketplace report titled "The Non-Organic Future," which featured an interview with Pedro Sanchez of Columbia University. Sanchez's views mirror the corporate... Read more
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June 14, 2011
Last week was a milestone in journalism, as the Huffington Post exceeded the New York Times in Web traffic and cemented its role as a main rival to the Gray Lady. Read more
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May 6, 2011
In a recent report entitled "The Non-Organic Future," public radio's Marketplace program considered the challenge to agriculture of feeding a world population estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050. It was, to be frank, a terrible piece of... Read more
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April 7, 2011
There have been rays of hope for progressives recently, notably in the Wisconsin uprising against Governor Walker's union-busting jihad and in Glenn Beck's impending departure from Fox News, after strong critical campaigns by Color Of Change, the... Read more
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February 24, 2011
Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren't what they seem to be. The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf... Read more
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February 11, 2011
Last week, Aaron Barr, a top executive at computer security firm HB Gary Federal, boasted to the Financial Times that his firm had infiltrated and begun to expose Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers that had launched cyber attacks on... Read more
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February 8, 2011
The Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million yesterday, meaning the site, which was once the darling of independent media, is now clearly positioned as institutionalized media. Read more
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