Both Sides Now?
There's been an awful lot of back and forth in the wake of the Tucson shootings. For their part, liberals and progressives point to the incendiary rhetoric of right wing media personalities and...
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Nobel of Them
An item listed in the Technology section of Reuters website reports that the whistle blower site WikiLeaks has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Snorre Valen, the Norwegian parliamentarian who...
View ArticleAnnals of Censorship: Union advocates and the workers’ uprising
Media coverage of the workers’ uprising in Wisconsin and elsewhere is, not surprisingly, following a familiar pattern. Official sources from government and business dominate coverage. What’s more,...
View ArticlePunking NPR
No doubt this episode will undermine NPR’s efforts in the ongoing funding battle. It remains to be seen whether NPR can insulate itself from Ron Schiller’s ill-advised and poorly timed comments. With...
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Five Signs of Shoddy Journalism Bloomington Alternative Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s plain to see just how anemic and irrelevant much of what passes for “news” is these days. In times...
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Movin’ On The Bloomington Alternative Maybe it’s all the yard signs that have sprouted up in Bloomington these past few weeks. Perhaps it’s the news media’s incessant handicapping of potential...
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Same As It Ever Was The Bloomington Alternative Change is in the air. Some of this is welcome change: the grassroots democracy movement across the Middle East and North Africa comes to mind. As does...
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ACCOUNTABILITY INDEX The Bloomington Alternative Scandal, gridlock, high crimes and misdemeanors. In this season of journalistic outrage, political stalemate and record-shattering heat waves, it’s...
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Top 10 Soundbites of 2011
The Bloomington Alternative “The Protester” is Time magazine’s person of the year. Featuring a fierce-looking, veiled figure peering back at the reader, Time’s front-cover image succinctly captures the...
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ANNALS OF CENSORSHIP: GOP PRIMARY EDITION The Bloomington Alternative The news media is full of it these days. The Republican presidential primaries, that is. But thanks to the short attention span of...
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