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"I'm not going to pray for his good, I'm going to pray he dies and goes to hell... I'd like him to die of natural causes. I don't want him to be a martyr; we don't need another holiday. I'd like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer."
--Rev. Steven Anderson, from his
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Bill O'Reilly, as Keith Olbermann will tell you, is one of the worst people in the world. He stirs up anger in order to further his career and his agenda. He's met the truth a couple of times, but it's fair to say they're not close friends.
One of O'Reilly's latest tricks is ambush interviews. He sends [...] Read more »

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I already weighed in on Uncle Tom Juan Williams nasty words about First Lady Michelle Obama, but here's more analysis in case you didn't get enough from me.

Williams' statement makes me angry not because it's about Michelle, but because it's so manifestly not about her, but about black women in general. And maybe with some [...] Read more »

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"And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
--Bill O'Reilly
Today's revelations just confirm what I suspected a while ago: NPR's Juan Williams is an eggsucking Uncle Tom.  I held it against him when defended Bill O'Reilly's comments about the manners of black people in a Harlem restaurant, but I attributed it to one conservative friend supporting another.  Williams, I suppose, doesn't have to defend black people because [...] Read more »

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I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting.
--Joe the Plumber
John McCain should have sued his campaign manager for malpractice. Not only did the campaign management run one of the worst campaigns ever, they bequeathed the rest of us both Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber.
Joe the Plumber is now "reporting" from Israel for a [...] Read more »

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Blue Mass Group has been a godsend for news, dialogue, and activism. Today's interview with Gov. Deval Patrick is one of the Editors forays into journalism. Visit BMG here to read some interview highlights. Mark Read more »

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This is us. You and me.

The Internet overtook print newspapers as a news source this year, according to a report by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which asked more than a thousand people where they got “most of” their national and international news. (Respondents were allowed to name more than [...] Read more »

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Most Americans don't need a research organization to tell them their economy is in the tank, but that did not stop Wall Street from sliding Monday after the formal declaration that the U.S. is in a recession.
--Forbes Magazine
During the moronothon which is ABC's This Week, pundit George Will told co-pundit Donna Brazile:
it’s just possible, Donna, that the [...] Read more »

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I watch the Sunday morning talk shows religiously. So religiously that I've stopped going to church. Yet I'm constantly disappointed with the stupidity of pundits and the people who set up their appearances. By far, the worst of these shows is This Week With George Stephanopoulos.
George Will is an aging ideologue who is frequently foiled by the [...] Read more »

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Olly, olly, otsinfree!
--Hide and Go Seek
Gov. Sarah Palin is turning out to be as bad as people expected her to be. Yeah, money has started to come in to the cash-challenged McCain campaign, and the Far Right loves her, but the mainstream media isn't so happy with her inaccessibility. Since they produce the news, that's [...] Read more »

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One of the biggest problems for Democrats running for national office is the fact that the Republicans lie without compunction. Politics is war, and winning is all that matters. And the truth is often the first casualty.
One of the GOP's strategies is to start a rumor and chum the media waters until it gets coverage in the mainstream media. The most recent example: [...] Read more »

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Last night, I sent a complaining letter to the editor mostly about the headline "Granby grad accused of kidnapping, rape."  Beyond the prurient interest, the story, I suppose, has genuine newsworthiness for the area, particularly if the guy had committed crimes here previously. Their headline this morning is more responsible: "Rape suspect advertised criminal intentions online." Granby [...] Read more »

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The Daily Hampshire Gazette has been selling news in an area where an alleged rapist lived.
Derek Bengtsson,  according to the Gazette, "took a 14-year-old girl from her home at gunpoint early Tuesday and raped her at an eastern Pennsylvania motel, where he later opened fire on police before they arrested him." It is not known if Bengtsson actually read the [...] Read more »

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A first year journalism student knows that a reporter is not supposed to print opinion as fact. Unless someone is writing a sports article, opinions are for sources. Reporters can report opinions; they shouldn't offer them as fact. 
It's long been my contention that the editors of the Boston Globe don't like unions. Perhaps that's why the Editors missed [...] Read more »

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