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To Scott Barker of the KNS: Bravo!

Sunday, August 10, 2008 7:45 PM
Here's something I don't say very often: a story in today's Knoxville News Sentinel is such a masterful example of beautiful storytelling, it brought a tear to my eye. This piece by Scott Barker describes the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's Music And Wellness
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David Neiwert on the TVUUC shooting

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:50 PM
David Neiwert, who has written extensively about eliminationist rhetoric from the right wing against liberals, had this to say about Sunday's tragedy in Knoxville: In reality, of course, rhetoric like this has historically played a critical role in some
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The day after

Monday, July 28, 2008 8:50 PM
Yesterday, a senseless act of non-random violence struck this city. A man, mad at the world and blaming liberals for his personal ills, targeted the innocent congregants of a progressive church in Knoxville, killing two and wounding seven. Like everyone
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The weekly roundup for July 6, 2008

Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:05 PM
This week's roundup of Tennessee liberal bloggers is up. Check it out. The sort-of weekly roundup is also featured in today's paper edition of the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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AP follows RIAA and MPAA into the gutter

Monday, June 16, 2008 9:40 PM
Last week, the Associated Press sent seven DMCA take-down notices to the Drudge Retort (a liberal counterpoint to that other Drudge) based solely on the fact that they had posted short excerpts of AP wire stories. After some pretty significant blowback
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Greenwald on the "liberal media" myth

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:25 PM
Glenn Greenwald has two pieces in Salon on the persistent myth of the "liberal" media. In the first , he notes some comments from Scott McClellan's explosive new book that portray the media as willing lapdogs of the Bush administration in its run-up to
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Quote of the day (on media pundits)

Friday, May 16, 2008 11:30 AM
On the subject of TV pundits, the always-wise Sven had this to say : The real issue is why this doofus was invited in the first place. If a journalist interviewed winos about Federal Reserve policy, our first question probably wouldn't be why winos don't
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All the news that fits (onto a smaller page)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:32 PM
The rapidly shriveling newspaper industry has seen many papers adopt a smaller size to save costs. One Maryville paper has decided to spin the decay of their business model a bit more creatively : Instead of shrinking staff, the Maryville Daily Times
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"Liberal" media? Yeah, right

Monday, April 14, 2008 6:22 PM
Number of Google News hits on Obama's "bitter" remark: 2006 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same remarks: 3757 Number of Google News hits on Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) calling Obama " boy ": 64 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same
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Some thoughts on Rob Curley's presentation

Friday, April 04, 2008 4:50 PM
Last night, I attended a dinner sponsored by the UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media, as part of this week's conference on Web journalism . I felt honored to be invited (since I'm not a journalist); I attended with some friends , and I also had
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Trampling the First Amendment

Monday, March 17, 2008 10:36 PM
A federal judge in DC is holding a reporter for USA Today in contempt of court for refusing to divulge her sources for a series of stories she wrote on the unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks . Toni Locy wrote a series of articles for her paper that were skeptical
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McCain/Iseman furor obscures the real story

Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:21 PM
The New York Times story and this Washington Post story on the cozy relationship between John McCain and the lobbyist Vicki Iseman have resulted in a predictable deluge of manufactured outrage from the right wing noise machine. "Manufactured" is exactly
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9/11 as national myth

Friday, September 07, 2007 11:20 AM
This article in today's NYT draws some interesting parallels between our national response to 9/11 and our collective response to Indian attacks in the 17th century. Although I think the author, Susan Faludi, may be overstating her case a bit, she makes
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The Psychozilla Tribune is now live!

Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:05 AM
Pop open the champagne, folks -- the Psychozilla Tribune has gone live! In the spirit of the late, great Weekly World News (which recently ceased publication of its print edition), the PZT seeks to report news that is ... (ahem) ... "slightly off-center."
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London mayor and Hugo Chavez strike an interesting deal; media bias shows clearly

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:25 PM
London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced a deal today with some interesting terms. Venezuela has agreed to sell a certain quantity of oil to the UK at a 20 percent discount, as long as it's used only for London's public
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