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Archive for August, 2011
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Media Trend: Covering Presidential Campaigns on the Cheap: More Using Journalists Fresh Out of College.
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Aug
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31st
Timeline of the Devolution of Classic Rock into “Modern Crap” Music. An Infographic.
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Aug
30th
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The state of the Internet 2011, right now. A live interactive report on internet media stats: Animated infographic.
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Aug
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How changes to copyright law hinder media creativity and innovation.
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Aug
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Steve Jobs’ true genius behind Apple: making a technology prison seem like a luxury resort.
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Aug
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26th
Remember “Shut up and Sing?” Perhaps there be a “Shut up and report” for the press?
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Aug
25th
25th
Slate fires media critic Jack Shafer. Journalists stunned. Public loses.
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Aug
25th
25th
Infographic: Demographics between Mac iOS and Android users. See here.
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Aug
24th
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Michele Bachmann’s “Rise of the Soviet Union” mistake. Time for the media to distinguish between gaffes and brain farts.
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- When internships are abused to acquire skills, not teach them.
- Stephen Colbert's commencement speech hits UVA students hard, in the funny bone.
- The IRS Tea Party scandal is dead. Long live the IRS Tea Party scandal!
- College graduates, your first day at your new job explained in just one picture.
- How Facebook settings updates work (I mean, annoy) in real life. [Video]
- Start the clock: “Your boy Obama” is a phrase that will be laughed at as racist in about 20 years.
- “The NFL isn't ready for gay players,” say players who must be ready when QB calls a play into motion.
- The media’s double standard in religious extremist coverage.
- Why Oblivion Why? Top 10 plot holes in the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion.
- Welcome to the age of Mob Journalism. How the Boston Marathon bombings show the perils of crowdsourced media coverage.
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- Michele Bachmann:
The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Michele Bachmann decries “huge national database” run by IRS with "personal, intimate" details During a recent interview with Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., raised the specter of the Internal Revenue Service -- an agency currently under fire for appearing to target conservative groups seeking tax- […]
- Michele Bachmann:
The IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care."The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Michele Bachmann says the IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care" Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. is one of a number of Republican lawmakers who have recently sought to link the two longtime targets of conservatives -- the Internal Revenue Service and President Barack Obama’s health care law. In a May 15, 20 […]