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CNN Politics.com: Phone swamped, servers crash as voters slam Congress

Norwegian Terrorism and the Internet

Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider: Stephen Colbert Eviscerates Media's Assumption Norway Killer Was Muslim

Syliva Poggioli, NPR: Norway Questions Its Tolerence Of Extremism

The WSJ Apologizes

Media Monkey, guardian.co.uk: Wall Street Journal issues mea culpa over reporting of phone hacking

Today's Show

2011-07-20T15:41:00.000-07:00

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2011-07-20T05:56:00.000-07:00

Cameron, Murdochs In the Hotseat

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Horrible Bosses

BBC News: "Phone-hacking: Cameron's 'regret' over hiring Coulson"

Cassell Bryan-Low and Paul Sonne, The Wall Street Journal: "Murdochs Are Grilled"

Nick Davies, The Guardian: "Behind Rupert and James Murdoch's gloss, an intensely serious defence"

James Delingpole, The Daily Telegraph: "The Murdochalypse: break and circuses"

NPR: "Tina Brown's Must Reads: Reckoning With Rupert"

Roger Cohen, The New York Times: "In Defense of Murdoch"

Andy fixmer, Ronald Grover and Jeffrey McCracken, Bloomberg: "News Corp. Said to Consider Elevating Chase Carey to CEO"

Murdoch = More Media Regulation?

Mike Collett-White, Reuters: "UK media ponders changes hacking scandal may bring"

Iain Overton, Huffington Post UK: "Analysis: Why Press Reform Could Inhibit Investigative Journalism"

Josh Smith, National Journal: "News Corp. Scandal Adds Fuel To U.S. Media Ownership Debate"

John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable: "News Corp. Fallout: Rep. Bono Mack Seeks Privacy Info From NCTA, Others"

Editorial Board, The Washington Post: "Don't let the response to News of the World go too far"

FreePress.net: "Ownership Chart: The Big Six"

WSJ: Dodging the Hacking Taint

Review & Outlook, The Wall Street Journal: "News and Its Critics: A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands of other journalists."

Robert L. Pollack, The Wall Street Journal: "The Murdoch Empire -- An Inside View"

Joe Nocera, The New York Times: "The Journal Becomes Fox-ified"

Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: "Wall Street Journal Staffers Push Back: We're Not 'Fox-ified'"

Charles M. Madigan, Chicago Tribune: "Can journalism survive Murdoch?"

Today's Show

2011-07-13T14:28:00.000-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-07-13T06:45:00.000-07:00

Hacking Scandal Kills British Tabloid

David Folkenflik, NPR: "Guardian Reporter Rocks Murdoch Empire"

David Carr, The New York TImes: "A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals"

Carl Bernstein, Newsweek: "Murdoch's Watergate?"

Simon Dumenco, Advertising Age: "Life After Rupert's Reign: What Will Happen in a Post-Murdoch World?"

Dana Cimilluca and Alistair MacDonald, The Wall Street Journal: "In Turmoil, News Corp. Pivots on BSkyB"

Sky News: "News Corporation Withdraws Bid for BSkyB"

Christopher Hitchens, Slate: "Scandal Sheets"

Elliot Spitzer, Slate: "Prosecute News Corp."

Dow Jones NewsWire: "UK Cameron: Hacking Inquiry Must Be As Robust As Possible"

Peter Wilby, The Guardian: "We shouldn't rejoice in the death of the News of the World"

Who Needs a Laptop?

Aaron Smith, Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Smartphone Adoption and Usage"

Lucia Moses, Adweek: "Philly Papers to Sell Android Tablets"

Briefly: Photoshopped Out of a Job & Relevance of Race

Steve Myers, Romenesko: "AP drops freelance photographer who Photoshopped his shadow out of image"

Columbia Daily Tribune: "Police say shooting was gang-related"

Today's Show

2011-07-06T14:59:00.001-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-07-06T07:03:00.000-07:00

Casey, Nancy and the Big Surprise

Ellen Gray, Philadelphia Daily News: "Convicted by viewers, not jurors"

Lucas Shaw, Reuters: "Casey Anthony trial turned into media frenzy"

James Poniewozik, Time: "Casey Anthony is Acquitted; the Media Trial Is Just Beginning"

T. J. Stanley, Los Angeles Times: "Cable TV, social media fuel Casey Anthony trial fascination"

Brian Stelter and Jenna Wortham, New York Times: "Watching a Trial on TV, Discussing It on Twitter"

DSK: A Rush to Judgment?

Karen Freifeld, Bloomberg: "Strauss-Kahn Prosecutors to Decide 'Responsible Thing to Do' in Sex Case"

Steven Erlanger, New York Times: "French See Case Against Strauss-Kahn as American Folly"

Maureen Dowd, New York Times: "When a Predator Collides With a Fabricator"

Amy Davidson, The New Yorker: "What Strauss-Kahn And His Accuser Risked"

Dorian Davis, The Daily Caller: "The media blew the Strauss-Kahn story"

Richard Prince, Maynard Institute: "Quiet Issue: Naming the Maid in DSK Case"

Miles Mogulescu, Huffington Post: "Did Strauss-Kahn Sexually Assault the Hotel Maid? Let the Jury Decide"

David Gauthier-Villars, Wall Street Journal: "Attempted Rape Complaint Against Strauss-Kahn Filed in France"

Government Hit on Pakistani Journalist?

Jane Perlez and Eric Schmitt, New York Times: "Pakistan's Spies Tied to Slaying of a Journalist"

Omar Waraich, Time: "Risky Business: When Pakistani Journalists Take On the ISI"

Rahul Jacob, Farhan Bokhari, Matthew Green and Daniel Dombey, The Financial Times: "US urged to reveal details of murder"

News Corp Under Attack

Matthew J. Schwartz, Information Week: "Fox News Twitter Account Hacked, Claims Obama Killed"

Kenyon Wallace, Toronto Star: "Amid shocking new revelations, British PM to order inquiry into phone-hacking scandal"

David Cutler, Reuters: "Timeline: New hacking revelations hit News Corp"

Sky News: "Murdoch: Phone Hacking Claims 'Deplorable'"

Today's Show

2011-06-29T14:20:00.000-07:00

Today's Topic Links

2011-06-29T07:20:00.000-07:00

Speech, Video Games and the Supreme Court

James Vicini, Reuters: Supreme Court strikes down Arizona campaign finance law

Jeff Francis, Online News Website: Supreme Court Sides with Video Games

Journalistic Credibility Re-emerges

Lymari Morales, Gallup: Americans Regain Some Confidence in Newspapers, TV News

Presidential Campaign Coverage: Too Much of the Same

Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post: Why Michele Bachmann is no Sarah Palin

Julian Brookes, Rolling Stone: Matt Taibbi on 'Batshit Crazy' Michele Bachman

Crowd Sourcing History

James Barron and David W. Dunlap, The New York Times: In Hours, Online Readers Identify Nazi Photographer

Today's Show

2011-06-22T12:48:00.001-07:00

Today's Topic Links

2011-06-22T06:54:00.000-07:00

Times promotes woman to top spot

Ed Pilkington, guardian.co.uk: The New York Times appoints woman editor - after 160 years

Tod Linberg, Commentary: Strange Justice, by Jane Meyer and Jill Abramson

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

Kirkus Reviews: Resurrection The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas

Sensationalism or fact?

Rudi Keller, Columbia Daily Tribune: University is punished for tuition hike

and Nixon targets UM for bigger budget cut

Mary Still, Columbia Daily Tribune: Revenue crisis can be solved

Tim Barker, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: University of Missouri curators consider budget cuts

When ideology runs amuck

James Fallows, The Atlantic: More on Stewart v. Wallace

Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly: Jon Stewart to Chris Wallace on 'Fox News Sunday': 'You're insane'

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Breaking the cigarette habit

Ron Scherer, The Christian Science Monitor: Warning labels for cigarette packs take a grisly turn. Will they work?

PBS Newshour

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Today's Show

2011-06-15T14:11:00.001-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-06-15T07:16:00.000-07:00

Weiner: Pay for Play, Sophomoric Headlines & Media Sanctimony

Julie Moos, Poynter.org: "ABC's Chris Cuomo defends checkbook journalism: 'It is the state of play right now'"

The Daily Beast: "The Week's Best Weiner Headlines"

Journalism.org: "Weiner's Bad Week is the No. 1 Story"

Ray Gustini, National Journal: "Anthony Weiner Should Also Apologize to Scott Pelley"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "The Media's Selective Sex Scandal Savagery"

John Hudson, The Atlantic: "Howard Kurtz, Media Critic vs. Howard Kurtz, Bureau Chief"

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: "Anthony Weiner, Anti-Hero"

TMZ: "Rep. Weiner Used Congressional Gym As Backdrop"

Nancy Grace vs. Casey Anthony

Margery Eagan, Boston Herald: "The mother of all lurid trials"

Brian Stelter, New York Times: "Casey Anthony Coverage Gives HLN an Identity"

Sarah Anne Hughes, Washington Post: "Casey Anthony and the media coverage of her appearance"

The Internet and Local News

Federal Communications Commission (FCC.gov): "Information Needs of Communities"

Jeremy W. Peters and Brian Stelter, New York Times: "A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned"

Katy Bachman, AdWeek: "Left Blasts FCC Report While Right Applauds"

Jessica Clark, PBS MediaShift: "FCC Report on Media Offers Strong Diagnosis, Weak Prescriptions"

Wall Street Journal Editorial: "The FCC's Good Deed"

Crowd-sourcing Palin

Mike Baker, Associated Press: "Palin emails let old media test new media methods"

Today's Show

2011-06-08T13:40:00.000-07:00

Today's Topic Links

2011-06-08T13:35:00.000-07:00

Twittergate: Too Much Social Information?

Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post: Anthony Weiner admits he sent photo, but won't resign

Palin's Wild Ride

Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post: Sarah Palin's midnight ride, twice over

Today's Show

2011-06-01T13:27:00.000-07:00

Today's Topic Links

2011-06-01T13:08:00.000-07:00

Should Journalists Follow The Bus?

Dan Balz, Washington Post: Palin rewrites the rules but is that enough?

Indecision 2012 - Driving Miss Crazy

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Colbert Report Full Episodes

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Sarah Palin's Bus Tour

www.colbertnation.com

Video Archive

Insurer Rules: Should The Public Know?

Rudi Keller, Columbia Daily Tribune: MEM falls into legal gray area

The Cell Phone/Brain Cancer Connection

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PBS News Hour: Neurosurgeon: 'Your Cell Phone Is Not Necessarily a Safe Device' (video)

Today's Show

2011-05-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

Today's Show

2011-05-18T14:48:00.000-07:00

Today's Show

2011-04-27T12:52:00.001-07:00

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2011-04-27T07:30:00.000-07:00

WikiLeaks Gitmo Files Expose Media Divisions

The Guardian: "The Guantanamo Files"

The New York Times: "The Guantanamo Files"

London Daily Telegraph: "Guantanamo Files"

Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers: "Guantanamo secret files show U.S. often held innocent Afghans"

Peter Finn, The Washington Post: "WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11"

David Martin, CBS News: "WikiLeaks: al Qaeda watched towers burn"

Glenn Greenwald, Salon: "Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo"

Joe Coscarelli, The Village Voice: "U.S. Media Favoring Scary Side of Guantanamo Detainees Instead of American Screw-Ups"

J.D. Gordon, Fox News: "WikiLeaks Continues Its War on America -- Though Leaks Prove How Valuable Gitmo Is to the United States"

Al Pessin, Voice of America: "WikiLeaks Guantanamo Documents Show Complexity"

Joe Pompeo, Yahoo! News: "News orgs form reports, alliances around latest WikiLeaks docs"

Brian Stelter and Noam Cohen, The New York Times: "In WikiLeaks' Growth, Some Control is Lost"

Mark Thompson, Battleland blog, Time: "Competition Hyping WikiLeaks' Gitmo-Docs Dump?"

Ujala Sehgal, Media Bistro: "How the New York Times Forced Julian Assange to Give Up Guantanamo Bay Files"

Will, Kate and the Media Horde

Mimi Turner, The Hollywood Reporter: "NBC News Exec: Royal Wedding Is 'Biggest International Technical Buildout Ever'"

Peter Kafka, AllThingsDigital: "Sad Chart of the Day: American Web Surfers Care More Than Brits About Royal Wedding"

Husna Haq, Christian Science Monitor: "Will and Kate publishing frenzy. With everything from comic books to bodice rippers, publishers are hoping to cash in on Will and Kate's big day."

Updates, Briefly

Sunlen Miller and Devin Dwyer, ABC News: "President Obama Releases Birth Certificate to End Birther 'Silliness'"

Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times: "'Three Cups of Tea,' Spilled"

Today's Show

2011-04-20T12:30:00.000-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-04-20T03:54:00.000-07:00

2011 Pulitzers Honor Best "Print" Journalism

Pulitzer.org: "2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners"

Eric Ernst, Sarasota Herald-Tribune: "Pulitzer board took notice, not lawmakers"

Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, ProPublica: "The Wall Street Money Machine"

Los Angeles Times: "High salaries stir outrage in Bell"

Los Angeles Times: "California public records: A guide to your rights as a citizen"

Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "One In a Billion: A boy's life, a medical mystery" (Sherwood is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism)

Melissa Bell, The Washington Post: "Pulitzer watch: Is there no more breaking news in newspapers?"

Three Cups of Deception?

Steve Croft, 60 Minutes, CBS News: "Questions over Greg Mortenson's stories"

Jon Krakauer, Byliner Originals: "Three Cups of Deceipt"

Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Daily Chronicle: "Mortenson under fire from '60 Minutes' -- Bozeman philanthopist denies allegations"

Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times: "'Three Cups of Tea,' Spilled"

Koch Uses Google to Refute Story

John Aloysius Farrell, Center for Public Integrity: "Koch's web of influence"

Cole Goins, Center for Public Integrity: "Koch buys online advertising to attack report on its lobbying influence"

Keach Hagey, Politico's On Media blog: "Koch buys ads claiming 'bias' in CPI story"

Koch Industries, Inc., KochFacts.com: "Responding to Slanted Journalism at the Center for Public Integrity" (Readers are taken to this page when they search Google for "Center for Public Integrity" and click on the first, sponsored link.)

U.S. News & World Report, John A. Farrell's opinion pieces for the publication.

Spencer MacColl, Center for Responsive Politics: "Capital Rivals: Koch Brothers vs. George Soros"

HuffPo Lawsuit Rests on Questionable Theory

Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Los Angeles Times: "Arianna Huffington says Huff Po writer's lawsuit is 'utterly without merit'"

Matthew Ingram, GigaOm, Bloomberg Businessweek: "Arianna Huffington: Slave Owner or Crowdsourcing Pioneer?"

Joe Mullin, paidContent.org: "Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have 'All Sorts of Inside Information'"

Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: "Why the Times Pays Writers Even When It Doesn't Have To"

Today's Show

2011-04-13T12:56:00.001-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-04-13T04:13:00.000-07:00

Enabling The Donald's Birther Blather

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James Poniewozik, Time: "Presidential Apprentice: Donald Trump's Birtherism, Sponsored By NBC"

Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider: "Forget News Anchors, Media Genius Donald Trump Is The New 'Voice of God'"

Kevin Dolak and John Berman, ABC News: "Sarah Palin 'Appreciates' Donald Trump's 'Birther' Questions"

Matt Lewis, The Daily Caller: "Rubio's Advice to Donald Trump: Drop the 'Birther' Issue"

Brian Montopoli, CBS News: "Donald Trump tied for first in poll of GOP race"

Open Records Debate: Alleged Intimidation in Wisconsin

Howard Schweber, Huffington Post: "Open Records Laws Go From Sunshine to Sunburn"

Editorial Board, The Washington Post: "Using open-records laws to harass scholars"

Jack Shafer, Slate: "There's No Such Thing as a Bad FOIA Request"

Charles Davis, The Art of Access blog: "See, This is the Kind of Stuff I Was Worried About..."

Innocence Advocate Guilty of Lying?

Dan Hinkel and Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune: "Northwestern says star journalism professor lied"

Brian Rosenthal, Daily Northwestern: "Northwestern explains Protess decision, accuses professor of lying, doctoring emails"

Freedom 43: Social Branding of Local TV News

The Freedom 43 web site, Facebook fan page and Twitter account

Andrew Gauthier, TV Spy: "Rebranding as 'Freedom 43,' Oklahoma City's KAUT Targets Conservative Viewers"

Paul Greeley, The 24/7 Newsroom blog: "Stand up and Salute the News"

Today's Show

2011-04-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-04-06T05:51:00.001-07:00

Tweets Put Sports Reporters On Hot Seat

Bernie Miklasz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I am embarrassed and I apologize"

Eric Blumberg Off the Bench Twitter feed, KOMU-TV: "#Mizzou email I've seen"

David Briggs, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Some reporters burned by itchy Twitter fingers"

Greg Hall, KC Confidential blog: "OTC: Mizzou Gets Whitewashed by Painter & Twitter"

Little Faith in Haith

Columbia Missourian story collection: "Mike Anderson resigns; Missouri hires Frank Haith"

Joe Walljasper, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Alden sees what rest do not"

Jeff Gordon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Tipsheet: Apparently, Frank Haith no chance"

CBS Sports.com: "New Mizzou coach Haith knows he has to win over fans"

Read multiple media reports and fan reaction on Tigerboard.com

Koran Burning and Media Behavior

Greg Allen, NPR: "Florida Pastor Does Not Plan to Burn More Qurans"

Peter Finocchiaro, Slate: "Did a Quran burning really cause Afghan violence?"

Cathy Lynn Grossman, Faith and Reason blog, USA Today: "Should media have reported the Fla. Quran burning?"

Chad Smith, Ocala (FL) Star-Banner: "Media had backed off Dove World, but they returned after Afghan violence"

Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times: "Florida pastor Terry Jones and the far reach of free speech"

Adam Serwer, The Washington Post: "Koran burning may be reprehensible, but it's still free speech"

Group Says TV Journalist an FBI Snitch

John Solomon and Aaron Mehta, The Center For Public Integrity: "Memo suggests FBI had mole inside ABC News in 1990s"

John Cook, Gawker.com: "CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Was an FBI Snitch"

Tanzina Vega, The New York Times: "Center for Public Integrity to Start New Site for Investigative Journalism"

GE Paying No Taxes?

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David Kocieniewski, The New York Times: "G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether"

Allan Sloan and Jeff Gerth, Fortune: "Setting the Record Straight on GE's Taxes"

Felix Salmon, Reuters: "GE and the power of iterative journalism"

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "On NBC, the missing story about parent company General Electric"

This week's topic links

2011-03-30T13:42:00.000-07:00

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/

Today's Show

2011-03-30T13:35:00.001-07:00

Today's Show

2011-03-23T13:00:00.000-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-03-23T04:35:00.000-07:00

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"

Today's Show

2011-03-16T13:00:00.000-07:00

This week's topic links

2011-03-16T04:27:00.000-07:00

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"

Today's Show

2011-03-09T13:00:00.001-08:00

This week's topic links

2011-03-09T04:48:00.002-08:00

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"

This week's topic links

2011-03-09T04:48:00.001-08:00

Today's Show

2011-03-02T12:54:00.000-08:00

This week's topic links

2011-03-02T04:24:00.000-08:00

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"

The Op-Ed Project

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"

Churnalism.com

Today's Show

2011-02-23T12:43:00.000-08:00

This week's topic links

2011-02-23T04:17:00.001-08:00

Journalists Barred/Libyan Death Toll Surges

Ahmed Eleiba, Ahram Online: "Arab League bans Libya"

Josh Halliday, The Guardian: "Libya: journalists prepare for 'floodgates to open'"

Technology blog, Los Angeles Times: "Syrian blogger jailed as social media helps protesters in Middle East"

(NOT) Reporting the CIA Connection

Mark Mazzetti, Ashley Parker, Jane Perlez and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times: "American Held in Pakistan Worked With C.I.A."

Spencer Ackerman, Wired: "U.S. Admits: Jailed 'Diplomat' Actually Works for CIA"

Michael Calderone, Yahoo! News: "U.S. news outlets held back disclosing Davis' CIA ties"

Glenn Greenwald, Salon: "The NYT's journalistic obedience"

Media Labor Bias?

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Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock, Media Research Center: "Wisconsin Unions vs. The Tea Party: A Classic Double Standard"

Media Matters: "Fox Slams WI Protests but Cheered Tea Party Activists"

Andrew Denny, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Wisconsin labor clash ignites debate elsewhere"

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: "Labor Unions Seen as Good for Workers, Not U.S. Competitiveness"

Logan Attack Follow Up

Kim Barker, ProPublica: "Female Foreign Correspondents' Code of Silence, Finally Broken"

Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times: "Lara Logan photo altered on CNN's 'Anderson Cooper 360'"

Alicia Shepard, NPR Ombudsman: "NPR Struggling with Crude Behavior by Some Users of Its Web Site"

Goodbye to Dr. Taft

Ally Appelbaum, Columbia Missourian: "William Taft, historian and journalism educator, dies at 95"

Today's Show

2011-02-16T12:57:00.000-08:00

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2011-02-16T05:37:00.000-08:00

CBS Reporter Sexually Assaulted

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "CBS Says Lara Logan Suffered 'Brutal' Attach in Cairo"

"Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Lara Logan's Egypt Nightmare"

Richard Cohen, The Washington Post: "CBS shouldn't have withheld Lara Logan's story"

Ward Harkavy, The Village Voice: "Lara Logan: Was She Actually Raped? It Makes a Difference."

Suzi Parker, AOL News/Politics Daily: "Lara Logan Assault: For Female Reporters, the Added Peril of Turbulent Places"

Mark Memmott, NPR: "Why Have Many Comments About the Attack on Lara Logan Been Removed?"

Aliyah Shahid, New York Daily News: "Nir Rosen, U.S. journalist trashes CBS' Lara Logan on Twitter after sexual assault in Egypt"

N-Word Rears Its Head Again

Alahandra Jones, Columbia Missourian; "Hate-crime suspect told police he was drunk during incident"

Andrea Braxton, Columbia Missourian: "Faculty Council to consider diversity course proposal"

Steph Hopp, Columbia Missourian: "MU students rally against racial hate incident"

Kyle Deas, KBIA News: "MU Community Responds to Racial Vandalism"

ABC17 News: "Graffiti Suspect Suspended"

Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune: "University suspends graffiti incident suspect"

Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune: "The N-word"

Public Service and Conflicts of Interest

Jake Wright, Open Column, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Pay wall highlights Tribune's priorities"

Rudi Keller, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Public station pleads for listeners to lobby Congress"

Revisiting Heitholt Murder

Anne Christnovich, Columbia Missourian: "Habeas corpus petition filed in Ryan Ferguson case"

Brennan David, Columbia Tribune: "Ferguson petition says key testimony was false"

Today's Show

2011-02-09T13:40:00.000-08:00

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2011-02-09T04:53:00.000-08:00

AOL Buys Arianna

Edmund Lee, Advertising Age: "AOL Bets $315 Million on Arianna, Buys Huffington Post to Build 'New American Media Company'"

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post: "When HuffPost Met AOL: 'A Merger of Visions'"

Jemima Kiss, The Guardian: "AOL buys Huffington Post: the beginning of the end?"

Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times: "AOL Hearts HuffPo. The loser? Journalism"

Olbermann Goes Current

David Bauder, Associated Press: "Ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann heads to Current TV"

Alexandra Petri, The Washington Post: "Olbermann to Current TV? Has he met the neighbors?"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Keith Olbermann's Current TV Job: More Control"

Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, The New York Times: "For Current TV, Adding Olbermann Is Way to Gain an Identity"

The Revolution Will Be Televised

Project for Excellence in Journalism: "Events in Egypt Trigger Record Coverage"

Michael Calderone, Yahoo! News: "ABC's Amanpour returns from Egypt"

John Plunkett and Josh Halliday, The Guardian: "Al-Jazeera's coverage of Egypt protests may hasten revolution in world news"

Steve Myers, Poynter.org: "Attacks on journalists in Egypt abate after 2 days of violence"

Committee to Protect Journalists: "Egypt: New accreditation rules; military obstructs media"

Groupon's Tibetan Goof

Ty McMahan, The Wall Street Journal: "As Groupon Defends Its Super Bowl Ad, HomeAway Apologizes"

Steve Safran, Lost Remote: "How Groupon could have led the social TV ad charge"

Groupon.com: "Donate $15 to Help Jumpstart the Tibet Fund's Youth Employment Program"

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2011-01-26T14:46:00.001-08:00

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2011-01-19T12:44:00.001-08:00

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2011-01-19T04:42:00.000-08:00

State of the Union Civility

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Obama's Next Impossible Speech"

David M. Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse, The New York Times: "Lawmakers Aiming to Increase Civility"

Paul Krugman, The New York Times: "A Tale of Two Moralities"

K.E. Campbell, American Thinker: "Civility claptrap"

T.A. Frank, The New Republic: "How the Media Botched the Arizona Shooting"

NPR's Ethics Re-Write

David Carr, The New York Times: "A Sacrifice to Appease NPR's Gods"

Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter.org: "NPR Board Chair: We did not call for Ellen Weiss' resignation"

Alicia Shepard, NPR Ombudsman: "NPR's Costly Mistake"

The NPR Ethics Code

No More Helen Thomas Award

"Bridget Johnson, The Hill: "Journalism group won't give out award named for Helen Thomas"

Govt OKs TV-Cable Merger

Gautham Nagesh, The Hill: "FCC gives green light to Comcast's merger with NBC Universal"

John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable: "FCC Approves Comcast/NBCU Deal"

Josh Silver, The HuffingtonPost: "Comcastrophe: Comcast/NBC Merger Approved"

Today's Show

2011-01-12T12:45:00.000-08:00

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2011-01-12T05:14:00.000-08:00

Tucson Tragedy: Measuring the Media

Arizona Shootings Reaction

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James Oliphant, Los Angeles Times: "Sarah Palin unapologetic after criticism related to Arizona shootings"

Sam Dolnick and Timothy Williams, The New York Times: "Talk Radio Hosts Reject Blame in Shooting"

Jason Horowitz and Lisa DeMoraes, The Washington Post: "After Giffords tragedy, fingers point to the media model of confrontation"

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "Arresting images"

Lindsey Collom, JJ Hensley and Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic: "'Die, bitch' note found in home of suspect in Giffords shooting"

Rich Noyes, Media Research Center, "While Media Indict Conservative Speech, Left's Lunacy Is Ignored"

Peter Hart, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: "Violent Rhetoric and False Balance"

Daniel Carty, CBS News: "Poll: Most Americans Feel Rhetoric, Tucson Shooting Unrelated"

Joanne Lipman, The Daily Beast: "It's Not too Late to End the Hate"

Ari Berman, The Nation: "After Arizona Shooting, Obama Should Fight Fringe Extremism Like Clinton Did"

Alicia Shepard, NPR Ombudsman: "NPR's Giffords Mistake: Re-Learning the Lesson of Checking Sources"

Today's Show

2011-01-05T12:44:00.000-08:00

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2011-01-05T05:12:00.000-08:00

Lawmakers Back, Media Ready?

Some traditional and non-traditional sources of Missouri legislative news

Missourinet
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Missourian
Missouri Digital News
Stateline.org
Missouri News Horizon
Missouri Watchdog

Craig Fehrman, Boston Globe: "The incredible shrinking sound bite"

David Folkenflik, NPR: "In London, A Case Study In Opinionated Press" (part 1 of two-part series)

David Folkenflik, NPR: "American Media's True Ideology? Avoiding One" (part 2 of series)

Jon Stewart the New Murrow?

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Worst Responders

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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Ari Shapiro, NPR: "Jon Stewart's Latest Act: Sept. 11 Responders Bill"

Bill Carter and Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "In 'Daily Show' Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow"

Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic: "He's No Murrow, He's Stewart, and That's Plenty"

Assange Getting Little Love from American Media

Ben Adler, Newsweek: "Why Journalists Aren't Standing Up for WikiLeaks"

C. W. Anderson, Council on Foreign Relations: "How WikiLeaks Affects Journalism"

Bjorn Granberg: "WikiRebels -- The Documentary"

Behind the KOMU/Mediacom Dustup

Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Mediacom removes KOMU, The CW from lineup"

Jefferson City News Tribune: "Negotiations break down; Mediacom drops KOMU from lineup"

Mediacom Cable: "Important Notice for Mediacom Customers in Columbia/Jefferson City, MO"

KOMU.com: "Mediacom FAQs"

Ryan Lawler, Business Week: "Could Retransmission Fees Save the Broadcasters?"

Juliana Gruenwald, National Journal: "Groups Gearing Up For Possible Retransmission Dispute Changes"

Tom Jicha, South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Cable TV a la carte would be tasty for viewers"

Listener Comment: Kahler IS a Monster

Brennan David, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Kraig Kahler 'not a monster,' lawyer says"

Today's Show

2010-12-15T14:18:00.000-08:00

Views of the News, Dec. 15, 2010

2010-12-15T14:13:00.001-08:00

Coverage of the Obama tax-cut compromise, and of the personal life of Wikileaks' Julian Assange ... Fox News appears to sow doubt about climate change ... and, some media predictions for 2011. Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Charles Davis.

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2010-12-15T05:19:00.000-08:00

Week's Top Story (Mostly) NOT Celebrity Driven

Project for Excellence in Journalism: "PEJ News Coverage Index: December 6-12. A Taxing Week Fuels Economic Coverage"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Bill Schools Barack"

Lincoln Mitchell, The Huffington Post: "Obama, Clinton and Selling the Tax Deal"

Investor's Business Daily: "Obama's Stunt-Double Presidency"

The Dating Habits of Julian Assange

Jon Swaine, The Daily Telegraph: "WikiLeaks: Julian Assange's online dating profile: 'I am danger, acthung'"

Jen Doll, The Village Voice: "OKCupid Says Julian Assange Dating Profile 'Certainly Not a PR Stunt'"

Brian Braiker, ABC News: "Julian Assange: Activist, Outlaw...Sex Symbol?"

Tracy Quan, The Daily Beast: "Julian Assange, Chick Magnet?"

Michael Calderone, Yahoo! News: "Time's Readers Think Julian Assange Should Have Been Person of the Year"

David Carr, The New York Times: "WikiLeaks Taps Power of the Press"

Mole Leaks Embarrassing Fox News Memos

Ben Dimiero, Media Matters For America: "FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science"

Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider: "Leaked Fox News Memo Reveals News Division Told to Echo GOP Talking Point"

News in the New Year

Nieman Journalism Lab: "Series: Predictions for Journalism 2011"

Twitter.com: "Twitter 2010: Year in Review"

Today's Show

2010-12-08T13:36:00.000-08:00

Views of the News, Dec. 8, 2010

2010-12-08T13:09:00.000-08:00

Is WikiLeaks "winning the infowar," and what's next? ... Should the FTC seek to restrict online consumer tracking? ... and, a "Kung Pao Kitten" recipe in a university newsletter causes a stir. Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Charles Davis.

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2010-12-08T05:10:00.000-08:00

Assange Jailed, WikiLeaks Scrambling

Clive Coleman, BBC: "Q&A: Arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange"

Massimo Calabresi, Time: "Why WikiLeaks Is Winning Its Info War"

Daily Mail: "WikiLeaks hails 'cyberwar' after hackers bring down MasterCard over donations ban"

Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "From Jefferson to Assange"

Matthew Ingram, Giga Om: "Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity"

Michael Calderone, The Cutline Blog, Yahoo! News: "Some news outlets stop calling WikiLeaks a 'whistle-blower'"

Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast: "What Does Julian Assange Want?"

Senator Diane Feinstein, Wall Street Journal: "Prosecute Assange Under the Espionage Act"

Lee Smith, The Weekly Standard: "Deadly Gossip: The culture of leaking grows to ominous proportions"

Julian Assange, The Australian: "Don't shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths"

Do Not Track: Should DC Intervene?

Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post: "FTC pitches do-not-track system to let consumers opt out of Web data collection"

Room For Debate, The New York Times: "A 'Do Not Call' Registry for the Web?"

Recipe Worthy of Diversity Complaint?

Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune: "'Kung Pao Kitten' recipe deemed inappropriate"

Aimee Levitt, Riverfront Times: "Apropos of Nothing: Mizzou Med School Docs Don't Really Eat Kung Pao Kitten"

Today's Show

2010-12-01T15:36:00.000-08:00

Views of the News, Dec. 1, 2010

2010-12-01T14:28:00.001-08:00

Missouri Gov. Nixon opens a briefing only to pre-selected reporters ... the mainstream media deal with another round of WikiLeaks ... and, was the TSA pat-down story a media false alarm? Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Rod Gelatt, Bob Priddy.

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2010-12-01T04:29:00.000-08:00

Governor's "Information Ministry"

Missouri Digital News: "Governor blocks reporters from higher education discussion"

Missouri Digital News: "A message from Phill Brooks on this week's situation"

Bob Priddy, Missourinet: "Nixon to Capitol press corps: No Admittance"

Dave Lieb, Associated Press: "Nixon against tuition hikes at Missouri colleges"

Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Puzzling agenda: Governor calls on colleges to do more with less"

WikiLeaks: Round Three

Keach Hagey, Politico: "WikiLeaks a media game changer"

Paul Farhi, Washington Post: "WikiLeaks spurned New York Times, but Guardian leaked State Department cables"

New York Times: "A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents"

New York Times: "Answers to Readers' Questions About State's Secrets"

Russell Adams and Jessica E. Vascellaro, The Wall Street Journal: "To Publish Leaks Or Not to Publish?"

Associated Press: "WikiLeaks: Espionage? Journalism? Something else?"

Timothy J. McNulty, CNN: "Real danger of WikiLeaks dump: curtailed rights"

TSA Pat-downs: the Perfect Media Storm

David Carr, New York Times: "A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A."

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "The Media's Pat-Down Frenzy"

Marc Ambinder, National Journal: "White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash"

Amanda Marcotte, The Guardian: "Who benefits over the TSA controversy?"

Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American: "What is the Best Approach to Aviation Security?"

Today's Show

2010-11-17T14:17:00.000-08:00

Views of the News, Nov. 17, 2010

2010-11-17T13:27:00.000-08:00

The Obama Administration takes on online privacy ... Facebook launches a controversial email system ... and, people take to social media to protest TSA screenings. Panelists: Lee Wilkins, Charles Davis, Amy Simons.

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2010-11-10T14:04:00.000-08:00

Views of the News, Nov. 10, 2010

2010-11-10T13:26:00.000-08:00

Keith Olbermann, campaign donations, and conflict of interest ... the dangers of reporting in Russia ... and, a would-be president launches a reality show. Panelists: Lee Wilkins, Lynda Kraxberger, Charles Davis.

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Views of the News, Nov. 3, 2010

2010-11-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

"Nationalizing" media coverage of midterm elections ... and, Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" speech attacks cable news. Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Charles Davis.

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2010-11-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

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2010-11-03T05:31:00.000-07:00

Missouri Follows National GOP Trend

Joe Yerardi and Scott Kanowsky, Columbia Missourian: "Blunt rides Republican wave to victory in U.S. Senate race"

Kiki Schmitz and Michael Langenberg, Columbia Missourian: "Skelton concedes defeat in 4th District upset"

Will Guldin, Columbia Missourian: "Robb edges Christianson for Boone County presiding commissioner"

Associated Press (via STLToday): "GOP expands majority in Mo. Legislature"

Tasers and Puppy Mills

Dan Claxton, Columbia Missourian: "Taser issue voted down"

Jason Noble, Kansas City Star: "Limit on dog breeders narrowly passes"

Virginia Young, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Prop A winning handily; dog breeder regulations passing, but close"

National Media Focus on Tea Party

Brian Stelter, New York Times: "In News Coverage, Tea Party and Its 'New Personalities' Hold the Spotlight"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "A Democratic Bloodbath"

Columbia Journalism Review: "Election Night Coverage Roundup"

James Poniewozik, Time: "Midterm Media Do the Wave"

Impact of 'Big Money'

Wall Street Journal Opinion: "Campaign-Finance Reform, RIP"

Zach Carter, AlterNet: "Campaign Cash: Citizens United Becomes Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Corporate Criminals"

Stewart's "Flaming Ants" Critique of Cable News

Jon Stewart - Moment of Sincerity

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Rally to Restore Sainty and/or Fear

The Daily Show

The Colbert Report

Alex Pareene, Salon.com: "Jon Stewart's media critique annoys the media"

Rich Lowry, National Review: "Keep Smug Alive"

David Carr, New York Times: "Rally to Shift the Blame"

Alex Weprin, TV Newser: "Keith Olbermann Benches 'Worst Person in the World' Segment after 'Sanity' Rally Speech"

True Crime & False Facts from CBS News

Kevin Hayes, CBS News Crimesider (from the producers of 48 Hours Mystery): "Missouri Hospital Shooting: Police Search for Gunman, Hospital Locked Down" -- story still uncorrected online one week after original post.

Today's Show

2010-10-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

Views of the News, Oct. 27, 2010

2010-10-27T13:38:00.000-07:00

Media coverage of Wikileaks' latest leaks, and its founder ... the many angles of NPR's firing of Juan Williams ... and, President Obama appears on The Daily Show. Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Charles Davis.

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2010-10-27T06:12:00.000-07:00

The 'Imperious' Julian Assange

Assange walks out of CNN interview

John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times: "WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety"

Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com: "The Nixonian henchmen of today: at the NYT"

Michael Calderone, Yahoo! News: "NY Times reporter defends profile of WikiLeaks' Assange"

The Reputations of Juan Williams and NPR

Fox News Sunday discusses Juan Williams firing (watch from 24:00-34:45)

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "NPR's Juan Williams Disaster"

Alicia Shepard, NPR Ombudsman: "NPR's Firing of Juan Williams Was Poorly Handled"

Dave Zirin, The Nation: "Should NPR have Fired Juan Williams? You Betcha"

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters For America: "Three reasons NPR's Mara Liasson shouldn't be on Fox News"

Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard: "Is Nina Totenberg Next? NPR's legal affairs correspondent frequently expresses her pro-Democratic opinion."

Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Opinion piece: "Taking the public out of NPR"

Paul Farhi, Washington Post: "NPR receives bomb threat, timing suggests link to Juan Williams firing"

NPR Staffing Decision 2010

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