Clipmarks - masbury's news

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POPS FoxNews: A 24/7 Political Operation

by masbury 10-25-2009

Media Matters shows news hosts and opinion hosts pushing the same right-wing spin. Bravo to Obama for dumping them.

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POPS ABC calls teabaggers out on crowd size attribution

by masbury 9-13-2009

Off by, oh, 90% or so. "Cue up the wurlitizer about the damn liberal media ...."

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POPS Fox News viewers "more likely ... to have misperceptions"

by masbury 5-2-2009

U of Maryland study: "Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions." Love your Fox News, if you like, but challenge it with other sources if you want to have your facts right. And don't allow yourself the laziness of saying, "Oh, you can't trust studies, you know..." FN either attracts or creates mis-informed citizens.

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POPS Fox News: Unfair and Unbalanced

by darkeforce 4-21-2009

No Remarks

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POPS While newspapers fold, NPR booms

by masbury 3-24-2009

Since 2000 has increased audience 47%; 8.7% last year.

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POPS $300M in stimulus bill for energy-star rebates

by masbury 2-16-2009

Buying an appliance soon? Good news:

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POPS FoxNews parrots GOP talking points, errors and all

by masbury 2-11-2009

Nailed by MediaMatters (who noticed the same date typo in a GOP memo) for making it look like reading GOP memo was an actual news analysis. FoxNews apologizes for the date error, not for presenting GOP talking points as their own "thought."

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POPS Obama to Citibank: Ditch new jet

by masbury 1-28-2009

Citibank was planning to buy $50M luxury jet, even after receiving $45B in gov't aid. BHO says no.

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POPS Bush: Iraq intel "the biggest regret of my presidency"

by masbury 12-2-2008

"I was unprepared for war."

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POPS Colbert/Stewart viewers most news-literate

by masbury 8-17-2008

See who's "not so much." Only 53% were able to correctly identify which party now controls Congress."

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POPS White House used FoxNews to shape public opinion

by masbury 7-27-2008

Hannity, O'Reilly implicated. "Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow point out that in the US, the government is forbidden to propagandize the public. Fox Cable News head Roger Ailes (a former Republican Party official) and other high executives routinely sent memos to the newsrooms instructing them to spin stories in particular ways"

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POPS Fox News struggles to keep up

by masbury 6-11-2008

During 1st quarter of 08: CNN up 90%; MSNBC up 68%; FoxNews up 12%. CNN wins for an entire quarter for the first time.

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POPS Network "military analysts" got talking points from Pentagon

by masbury 4-21-2008

While being paid by military contractors. NY Times breaks a major story ...

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POPS Washington Post poll: Obama up, Clinton "dishonest"

by masbury 4-16-2008

Among Democrats, he has 2 to 1 electability rating

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POPS White Women Quit Clinton

by masbury 4-14-2008

graph from McClatchy