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September 10, 2008
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Auto Association "Empowers" Consumers
2. Drug Companies Need Reputation Rx
3. Chesapeake's Gas-Powered News
4. Canadian Lobbyists Apply Elbow Grease to U.S. Democrats
5. Weekly Radio Spin: Unprotected Whistleblowing
6. Sorry, Whistleblowers, You're on Your Own
7. They Don't Need No Sponsored Health Education
8. Pfizer to Jarvik: See You Later, Doc
9. Chevron Plays the Victim
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1. Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Auto Association "Empowers" Consumers
2. Drug Companies Need Reputation Rx
3. Chesapeake's Gas-Powered News
4. Canadian Lobbyists Apply Elbow Grease to U.S. Democrats
5. Weekly Radio Spin: Unprotected Whistleblowing
6. Sorry, Whistleblowers, You're on Your Own
7. They Don't Need No Sponsored Health Education
8. Pfizer to Jarvik: See You Later, Doc
9. Chevron Plays the Victim
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News
September 3, 2008
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. Wanted Immediately: An Editor for our Election Protection Work on SourceWatch
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Sears to Start Selling Line of Official U.S. Military Garb
2. Colombia Still Pushing on Trade Agreement
3. Associated Press Responds to Bias Charges
4. Best-Selling Cholesterol Drugs Found Ineffective
5. Weekly Radio Spin: The Early Bird Gets the War
6. Polishing Demand for the iPhone
7. Mixed Signals at the World Bank
8. ICE Wins by Failing with "Scheduled Departure"
9. Read more
1. Wanted Immediately: An Editor for our Election Protection Work on SourceWatch
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Sears to Start Selling Line of Official U.S. Military Garb
2. Colombia Still Pushing on Trade Agreement
3. Associated Press Responds to Bias Charges
4. Best-Selling Cholesterol Drugs Found Ineffective
5. Weekly Radio Spin: The Early Bird Gets the War
6. Polishing Demand for the iPhone
7. Mixed Signals at the World Bank
8. ICE Wins by Failing with "Scheduled Departure"
9. Read more
News
August 27, 2008
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Tobacco Companies Hid Information on Radioactive Polonium
2. Documents Reveal Intelligence "Fixing" Before Iraq War
3. Weekly Radio Spin: IndyMac Staffers Bank on PR
4. NCI: Tobacco Advertising, Smoking in Movies Contribute to Smoking Rates
5. In Iraq, the U.S. Military Needs to Tell Its Story Better
6. Have a Coke and a Greenwash
7. Merck Makes Science Sell
8. Anti-Union Groups Run Orwellian Ads
9. Yet Another Kind of Fake News
10. Former IndyMac Employees Go Swift Boating
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1. Tobacco Companies Hid Information on Radioactive Polonium
2. Documents Reveal Intelligence "Fixing" Before Iraq War
3. Weekly Radio Spin: IndyMac Staffers Bank on PR
4. NCI: Tobacco Advertising, Smoking in Movies Contribute to Smoking Rates
5. In Iraq, the U.S. Military Needs to Tell Its Story Better
6. Have a Coke and a Greenwash
7. Merck Makes Science Sell
8. Anti-Union Groups Run Orwellian Ads
9. Yet Another Kind of Fake News
10. Former IndyMac Employees Go Swift Boating
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News
August 20, 2008
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. Jed Babbin: The Pentagon's Most Prolific Pundit
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. China's Gold Medal Spin
2. Has Fake News Become the Real News?
3. Canada's Oilsands Tarred with the "Greenwash" Brush
4. Foxes Invited to Guard the Endangered Species Coop
5. Medialink's Meltdown
6. Penn's Tentacles
7. The Ghost of Jack Abramoff
8. Weekly Radio Spin: It's Not Easy, Defining "Green"
9. Fridays with Tory
10. Another Ghost-Written Op/ed Traced to LMG
11. Buried Soldiers, Buried Coverage
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1. Jed Babbin: The Pentagon's Most Prolific Pundit
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. China's Gold Medal Spin
2. Has Fake News Become the Real News?
3. Canada's Oilsands Tarred with the "Greenwash" Brush
4. Foxes Invited to Guard the Endangered Species Coop
5. Medialink's Meltdown
6. Penn's Tentacles
7. The Ghost of Jack Abramoff
8. Weekly Radio Spin: It's Not Easy, Defining "Green"
9. Fridays with Tory
10. Another Ghost-Written Op/ed Traced to LMG
11. Buried Soldiers, Buried Coverage
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News
August 18, 2008
New York: The first convention I remember was way back in 1952. I was at a summer colony, and I watched it on a black and white TV in the company of fellow day camper, Jeff Greenfield. It was the year of "I LIKE IKE," and I was not really clued in then about U.S. massacres in the war in Korea or the dangerous rise of Joe McCarthy.
I was mesmerized by that live event, in the same way that those watching their first Olympics are glued to the contests and hyped about the medal count. (If you had thought that NBC would report on the human rights situation or examine the commercial
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August 13, 2008
Guest Blogged by Brad Jacobson of MediaBloodhound... While cable news dutifully devotes nonstop coverage to the latest random criminal cases --- kidnappings, shootouts, murderous love triangles, car chases --- it's telling when a supposed break in one of the biggest manhunts in FBI history, for a terrorist who murdered and poisoned multiple American citizens with anthrax, takes a back seat to nearly every other story. That is, if it's mentioned at all.
Even as details, leaks, and a burgeoning list of questions bubbled to the surface
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August 13, 2008
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. Cracking the Pentagon Pundit Code
== BE A CITIZEN JOURNALIST ==
1. Featured Participatory Project: Probing the Pentagon Pundit Documents
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Ethical News Director Receives Award
2. Weekly Radio Spin: Deportation with a Heart
3. A Modest Proposal: Ban Breastfeeding, Coffee and Exercise
4. Polls, Damn Polls and Offshore Drilling
5. Lincoln Group to Convince Afghans Bombs Are Bad
6. Climate Change Skeptics Found Wrong but not Harmful
7. Help Yourself to Deportation Read more
1. Cracking the Pentagon Pundit Code
== BE A CITIZEN JOURNALIST ==
1. Featured Participatory Project: Probing the Pentagon Pundit Documents
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Ethical News Director Receives Award
2. Weekly Radio Spin: Deportation with a Heart
3. A Modest Proposal: Ban Breastfeeding, Coffee and Exercise
4. Polls, Damn Polls and Offshore Drilling
5. Lincoln Group to Convince Afghans Bombs Are Bad
6. Climate Change Skeptics Found Wrong but not Harmful
7. Help Yourself to Deportation Read more
News
August 6, 2008
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. The Anthrax Cover-up
2. Edelman Likes It Hot
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Big Money Special Interests Fuel Obama's Campaign
2. New Book Claims White House Ordered CIA to Forge Letter Linking Iraq to 911
3. Marketers Admit to Engaging in Media Pay for Play
4. Global Warming's Deadly Denial
5. Lilly's Art of Ignoring Drug's Diabetes Risk
6. Who Is Doing Real Journalism?
7. U.S. Navy to PR Firms: Throw Us a Life Preserver!
8. Weekly Radio Spin: I Spy with My Little Firm
9. Return of the " Read more
1. The Anthrax Cover-up
2. Edelman Likes It Hot
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Big Money Special Interests Fuel Obama's Campaign
2. New Book Claims White House Ordered CIA to Forge Letter Linking Iraq to 911
3. Marketers Admit to Engaging in Media Pay for Play
4. Global Warming's Deadly Denial
5. Lilly's Art of Ignoring Drug's Diabetes Risk
6. Who Is Doing Real Journalism?
7. U.S. Navy to PR Firms: Throw Us a Life Preserver!
8. Weekly Radio Spin: I Spy with My Little Firm
9. Return of the " Read more
News
July 30, 2008
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Having a Blast with the U.S. Army
2. 4,000 U.S. Deaths and a Handful of Images
3. Taking out the Trash
4. A Tank Full of Nonsense
5. Depends Who You Work For: Half Empty or Half Full?
6. Can Junk Mail Go Green?
7. Ethanol Lobby's "Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy" Seeks to Gorge on Tax Subsidies
8. Weekly Radio Spin: Helping Consumers Help the Airlines
9. Another Round of the Best of the Worst
10. Pushing Prescriptions
11. Will Global Warming Revive Good Journalism?
12. If You Can't Read more
1. Having a Blast with the U.S. Army
2. 4,000 U.S. Deaths and a Handful of Images
3. Taking out the Trash
4. A Tank Full of Nonsense
5. Depends Who You Work For: Half Empty or Half Full?
6. Can Junk Mail Go Green?
7. Ethanol Lobby's "Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy" Seeks to Gorge on Tax Subsidies
8. Weekly Radio Spin: Helping Consumers Help the Airlines
9. Another Round of the Best of the Worst
10. Pushing Prescriptions
11. Will Global Warming Revive Good Journalism?
12. If You Can't Read more
News
July 23, 2008
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. Netroots Nation Convenes in Austin, True Blue and On Message
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Drilling Away at Poverty
2. Wake Up and Smell the Product Placement
3. The Air War over the Iraq War Heats Up
4. Nuclear "Renaissance" Dismissed as a "Carefully Fabricated Illusion"
5. Peak Drug Industry Body Sin Bins Roche
6. Prescription Propaganda
7. The Answer to Smokers' Prayers?
8. Time for a Federal Shield Law for Journalists
9. Edelman Gets Called out for Greenwashing
10. Researchers Uncover Read more
1. Netroots Nation Convenes in Austin, True Blue and On Message
== SPIN OF THE DAY POSTINGS ==
1. Drilling Away at Poverty
2. Wake Up and Smell the Product Placement
3. The Air War over the Iraq War Heats Up
4. Nuclear "Renaissance" Dismissed as a "Carefully Fabricated Illusion"
5. Peak Drug Industry Body Sin Bins Roche
6. Prescription Propaganda
7. The Answer to Smokers' Prayers?
8. Time for a Federal Shield Law for Journalists
9. Edelman Gets Called out for Greenwashing
10. Researchers Uncover Read more
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