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Michael Jackson Primetime Shuffle: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005408.html?categoryid=3667&cs=1&nid=2562

Jackson Death Via New Media:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/26/michael-jackson-twitter-trends-video
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article6590378.ece?openComment=true
http://akarimomar.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/the-web-collapses-under-the-weight-of-michael-jackson’s-death/

Online Journalists Break News of Jackson’s Death: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/200906/1755/

Senators Introduce Legislation: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/295785-Senators_To_Introduce_Legislation_To_Help_Media_Report_Iran_Story.php?rssid=20065

Reporters Without Borders: http://www.rsf.org/index.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=2

Gannett Announces Layoffs: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/another-big-round-of-layoffs-is-imminent-at-gannett/

Seattle Courant Folds: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2009/06/seattle_news_website_calls_it_quits.html

California Budget Crisis: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106131929&ft=1&f=1003

Vanity Fair's Article on Sarah Palin
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908

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Views of the News, June 24, 2009

Are the media covering all health-care reform options fairly? Is Obama "obsessed" with Fox News? And, ethical questions surround the New York Times' handling of the Taliban kidnapping of one of a Times reporter. Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Rod Gelatt.

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The Note, ABCNews.com: "Congressional Republicans Blast ABC; ABC Fires Back"

Republican National Committee's TV ad attacking ABC, White House healthcare plan



Julia A. Seymour, Business & Media Institute: "What We Would Ask: Questions about Obama's health care plan"

Media Matters for America: "GMA interview of Obama health care team ignores progressive concerns"

Felice Pace, Counterpunch blog: "Why NPR Refuses to Report on the Single Payer Movement...And What Should be Done About It"

C-Span (via YouTube): President Obama tells jokes at the Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner



Brent Baker, Media Research Center: "Stephanoupoulos: Obama 'Obsessed' with FNC; NYT's Keller Denies Pro-Obama Bias"

Matthew Cole, New York Magazine: "The David Rohde Puzzle"

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: "After Reporters' Escape from Taliban, Media Weigh Ethical Questions"

Clay Waters, TimesWatch: "The Times Actually Kept a Secret. Who Knew?"

Bob Garfield, On the Media: "Anonymous Callers"

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Views of the News, June 17, 2009

Iran's post-election crackdown on media, and CNN's coverage of it ... should a journalism student who witnessed a murder be forced to turn over the material he gathered? ... and, does the Souter retirement clear the way for cameras in the Supreme Court? Panelists: Mike McKean, Lee Wilkins, Rod Gelatt.

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