This week's topic links

President Obama's Speech:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/world/africa/29prexy.html

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/03/29/the-new-york-times-praises-obamas-confusing-libyan-speech/


Google:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/google-books-finished_555453.html

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110330/GJLIFESTYLES/110329829/-1/FOSLIFESTYLES

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2038544/google-day-apply-chinese-mapping


Facebook and Depression:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-20048148-238.html


Mike Anderson:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/mar/27/anderson-finds-hog-heaven/

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Covering the "Third War"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Libyan War and the Media's Reaction"

Ed Morrissey, Hot Air blog: "Video: Kurtz wonders where the media skepticism went"

Bill Carter, The New York Times: "CNN Leads in Cable News as MSNBC Loses Ground"

Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks, The New York Times: "4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality"

"Human Shields"

Jennifer Griffin & Justin Fishel, Fox News: "EXCLUSIVE: Libyans Use Journalists as Human Shields"

CNN Wire Staff, CNN: "CNN correspondent rejects Fox report on human shields"

David Folkenflik, NPR: "CNN and Fox Spar Over Choices in Covering Libya"

Jack Mirkinson, Huffington Post: "Fox News' Steve Harrigan Tears Into Nic Robertson: 'Dull,' 'Has a Screw Loose,' Does 'Bullsh-t' Reporting"

Latest Trends on Women in Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly, Ph.D., International Women's Media Foundation: "Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media"

Erik Sass, MediaDailyNews: "WSJ.com Winning Formula: Target Female Readers"

On the Media Takes Glass Challenge

Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: "Science Settles It: NPR's Liberal, But Not Very"

Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo, The Quarterly Journal of Economics: "A Measure of Media Bias"

Yue Tan and David H. Weaver, Mass Communication and Society: "Media Bias, Public Opinion, and Policy Liberalism from 1956 to 2004: A Second-Level, Agenda-Setting Study"

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The Most Documented Event in History?

Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com

Sree Sreenivasan, DNAinfo.com: "Five Things I Am Learning from #JapanQuake, #tsunami, #prayforjapan"

Bill Carter, The New York Times: "Quake Coverage Draws Viewers to CNN"

Gerald Baron, Crisisblogger: "CNN follows its irresponsible pattern with Japan earthquake"

Christine Russell, The Atlantic: "10 Critical Questions About Japan's Nuclear Crisis"

Jim Tankersley, National Journal: "Taxpayer Meltdown? Taxpayers, not the utilities, would be liable for most of the bill."

David Cay Johnston, Nieman Watchdog: "Ask This: Rebuilding after the terrible tragedy in Japan"

NPR: Good Journalism, Bad Management?

David Carr, The New York Times: "Gains for NPR Are Clouded"

Juan Williams, Fox News: "It's Time to Defund NPR"

Stephen Hill's Spatial Relations blog: "Funding the Future of Public Media"

Mark Memmott, NPR: "NPR: O'Keefe 'Inappropriately Edited' Video; Exec's Words Still 'Egregious'"

James Poniewozik, Time: "The Twisty, Bent Truth of the NPR-Sting Video"

Ira Glass, On the Media: "The Bias Bias"

Stoking the Old Media/New Media Fire

Jeff Rosen, PressThink: "The Twisted Psychology of Bloggers vs. Journalists: My Talk at South By Southwest"

Bill Keller, The New York Times Magazine: "All the Aggregation That's Fit to Aggregate"

James Rainey, The Los Angeles Times: "On the Media: Patch.com's Newark plan smells of conflict"

Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr, TechCrunch: "John Motorio Joins HuffPo: Journalism vs. Churnalism Battle Rages On"

Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism: "The State of the News Media 2011"

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Sting Embarrasses NPR, CEO Resigns

Mark Memmott, NPR: "NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns"

Mark Memmott, NPR: "Update: Latest On Aftermath of NPR Exec's Comments" (includes link to Morning Edition story)

Mark Memmott, NPR: "In Video: NPR Exec Slams Tea Party, Questions Need For Federal Funds"

Matthew Boyle, The Daily Caller: "NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals"

Project Veritas: "Judge for Yourself -- NPR's Ron Schiller" (link to reportedly unedited video)

Jack Mirkinson, The Huffington Post: "Juan Williams Tears Into NPR Over Ron Schiller Scandal"

Brian Stelter and Elizabeth Jensen, The New York Times: "Facing Lawmakers' Fire, NPR Sees New Setback"

Jeff Jarvis, The Huffington Post: "NPR's Inevitable Conflict"

Jack Shafer, Slate: "In Defense of Ron Schiller: Let's not get too wigged out about the NPR executive's stupidity"

Ira Stoll, Future of Capitalism blog: "Entrapping NPR"

Trib Goes Both Ways on Hospital Allegations

Jodie Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "Patients in peril?"

Jodie Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "MU Health disputes investigators' findings of dirty instruments"

Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Infection control Q&A"

Jodie Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Careful hand-washing shown to save lives"

Jody Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: 'Superbug' spurs patient's activism"

Jody Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Ex-employee, hospital at odds"

Jody Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Years after surgery, struggle continues"

Jerry B. Rogers, John W. Cowden, James P. St. Annard, J.L. Reeves-Viets and Robert P. Zitsch II, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Articles an affront to dedicated doctors"

Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune: "MU Health: Reports of poor sterilization"

Fallows: Making the Best of New Media

James Fallows, The Atlantic: "Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media"

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Psy-Ops or Anti-Military Bias?

Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone: "Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators"

The Associated Press: "General ordering probe into report of mind tricks"

Tom Andrews, The Huffington Post: "Fire General Caldwell Now and End the 'Psy-Ops' Against Congress"

Noah Shactman and Spencer Ackerman, Wired's Danger Room blog: "'Illegal Psyop' Neither Illegal Nor Psyop, General's Lawyer Ruled"

Jim Lacey, National Review: "The Inquisition of General Caldwell: How a soldier without honor and a sleazy journalist cooked up a story against one of our finest generals."

Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com: "The military/media attacks on the Hastings article"

Megan McArdle, The Atlantic: "Mind Control Is Just Not That Easy"

Islam Tops Religion Coverage

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: "Islam Was No. 1 Topic in 2010"

Women and Opinion Pieces

Mallory Jean Tenore, Poynter.org: "Why women don't contribute to opinion pages as often as men & what we can do about it"

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TBD: The Failure of Hyper-local News?

Alan Mutter, Reflections of a Newsosaur blog: "Hyperlocals like TBD: More hype than hope"

Paul Gillin, Newspaper Death Watch blog: "Hyperventilating over Hyperlocal"

Keeping Track of Churnalism

Paul Lewis, The Guardian: "Churnalism or news? How PRs have taken over the media"

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