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Who Are the Wall Street Occupiers?

 



Sean Firko, Huffington Post: "Occupy Wall Street: Inarticulate Nonsense or Real Politics?"

ReaderSupportedNews.org: "Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street"

Gloria Goodale, Christian Science Monitor: "'Occupy Wall Street': Why this revolution isn't made for TV"

David Weidner, Wall Street Journal: "Facebook Chronicles A Lost Generation: Most of the Battered Young Are Waiting For Someone Else to Change the System"

The Iranian Pastor and Mainstream Religion Coverage

Terry Mattingly, GetReligion.org: "Got news? One doomed Iranian pastor (ho hum)"

Jijo Jacob, International Business Times: "Iran Accuses Nadarkhani of Rape, 'Zionist' Treason, but Execution Not 'Imminent'"

Google News links for search on "Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani"

New NPR Boss Hopes to Tamp Down Controversy

David Folkenflik, NPR: "NPR Turns to Public Television For New Leader"

Brent Lang, The Wrap: "CEO Gary Knell: 'We Must Depoliticize National Public Radio'"

Too Much Transparency?

Iowa City Press-Citizen: "UI Hospitals employee arrested for theft" (be sure to read comments)

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Columbia's Opinion-Meisters

Mike Martin, The Columbia Heart Beat: "Columbia's Top Ten: Most influential public opinion leaders"

Two New Studies of Media Use and Credibility

Pew Research Center: "How People Learn About Their Local Community"

Pew Research Center: "Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Sources of Information"

Giving 'Both Sides': Fair, Fearful or Lazy?

Jay Rosen, PressThink blog: "If 'he said, she said' journalism is irretrievably lame, what's better?"

Edward Schumacher-Matos, NPR Ombudsman: "'Lowest Form of Journalism' or Constructive and Fair?"

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"Confidence Men," "The Rogue" and Claims of Shoddy Journalism

Jack Mirkinson, The Huffington Post: "Mike Bzezinski, Ron Suskind Clash Over 'Confidence Men' Allegations"

Andre Tartar, New York Magazine: "White House Seeks to Undermine Suskind's 'Ineffectual Obama' Book"

Keach Hagey, Politico: "Ron Suskind fights back on Obama book"

Janet Maslin, The New York Times: "Sarah Palin Could See This Guy From Her House"

Beth Fouhy, Associated Press: "Author's Palin tell-all tells too little others haven't told"

Molly Ball, Politico: "Sarah Palin is defended by 'lamestream media'"

Enabling the Shame



Taylor Branch, The Atlantic: "The Shame of College Sports"

Unheeded Warnings

Kevin Murphy, Reuters: "Many failed to heed Joplin tornado warnings, report says"

Andrew Revkin, The New York Times Dot Earth blog: "Unheeded Tornado Warnings Just One Lesson from Joplin"

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Bachmann Repeats Bogus Vaccine Claim

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Bachmann appears on Sean Hannity radio program, 9/13

Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post: "Bachmann claims HPV vaccine might cause 'mental retardation'"

Domenico Montanaro, NBC News: "Fact Check: No evidence to suggest HPV vaccine causes 'mental retardation'"

Scott Hensley, NPR: "Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann's Bashing of HPV Vaccine"

(from 2008) Missouri School of Journalism: "Missouri School of Journalism Senior Makes Worldwide Impact with 14-part Autism Series on KOMU"

(from 2008) Huntly Collins, McClatchy Newspapers: "'Autism's False Prophets': defending vaccines in the debate"

Ben Howe, RedState.com: "Bachmann Stayed Quiet on Mandatory Vaccinations While Serving Minnesota"

Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post: "Rick Perry's HPV Vaccine Law Sparks Political Fight That Ignores Health Issues"

Krugman: Dishes But Can't Take Criticism

Paul Krugman, The New York Times: "The Years of Shame"

Paul Krugman, The New York Times: "More About the 9/11 Anniversary"

Eric Wemple, The Washington Post: "Paul Krugman's comment-stifling: cowardly and smug"

Marty Richman, Hollister (CA) Free Lance: "Paul Krugman, intellectual coward"

Nick Greene, The Village Voice: "Paul Krugman's 9/11 Blog Post is Baffling"

Noreen Malone, New York Magazine: "Cats, Music Videos, Flame Wars: Paul Krugman Is Very, Very Bloggy"

More 9/11 Media Moments

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "Sept. 11, 2011: An anniversary dissected in the media unlike any other"

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: "9/11 Commemorations Capture Public Attention

Etc., Etc.

"David Schaper, NPR: "Judge Orders Journalism School To Turn Over Emails"

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News: "Diane Sawyer secures first sit-down interview with Gabrielle Giffords"


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