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MediaCulture: Memo to the Media: Extreme Weather Is Linked to Global Warming

Wed, 01/17/2007 - 3:00am
Except in the case of Katrina, most major media outlets have treated America's extreme weather events as if they were wholly separate from the broader issue of climate change.
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MediaCulture: Why Fixing the Media System Should Be on the Feminist Agenda

Thu, 01/11/2007 - 3:00am
If we truly care about women's rights and social justice, we must simply roll up our sleeves and tackle corporate media's failings, while strengthening independent media.
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MediaCulture: Digital Media Marketplace: The Next Frontier for Media Reform

Wed, 01/10/2007 - 3:00am
The future of the progressive movement depends on our ability to harness the power of digital media.
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MediaCulture: Our Meaningless 'Sacrifice' in Iraq Must Stop

Fri, 01/05/2007 - 3:00am
President Bush may not be very good at dealing with reality, but he is still gifted at letting American troops be killed, and then turning their deaths to his own political advantage.
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MediaCulture: Ten Things I Learned From the Pentagon's Prayer Team

Thu, 01/04/2007 - 9:00am
The "Christian Embassy" quietly proselytizes inside the Pentagon, but its mission surpasses this simple ministry.
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MediaCulture: Feminist Blogs Respond to Club Culture and Rape Article

Thu, 01/04/2007 - 3:00am
Tuesday's article on young women, club culture and rape has the feminist blog world hopping mad.
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MediaCulture: 10% of Active Journalists in Iraq Were Killed in 2006

Wed, 01/03/2007 - 5:00pm
After 64 journalists were killed in Iraq in 2006, Reporters Without Borders has described the country as "the world's most dangerous" for the media.
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MediaCulture: Keep on Hatin'

Fri, 12/29/2006 - 5:00pm
At the year's end, a look back on the birth of the media's hate era.
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MediaCulture: Top Ten Iraq Myths for 2006

Fri, 12/29/2006 - 3:00am
Sunnis, Civil War, Sadr and the prospects of 'victory.'
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MediaCulture: Sure Bets in the Coming News Year

Fri, 12/29/2006 - 3:00am
What changes and trends can we expect on the U.S. media scene in the coming new year?
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MediaCulture: Most Outrageous Right Wing Comments of 2006

Thu, 12/28/2006 - 3:00am
The offensive, the senseless, the bigoted, the inaccurate: a year in right-wing nuttery.
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MediaCulture: 20 Questions for CBS News' Chief

Wed, 12/20/2006 - 7:00pm
CBS News Chief Sean McManus discusses the future's newsroom, citizen media, and the failure of pre-Iraq media.
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MediaCulture: Zines Explore Transgender Culture Beyond Stereotypes

Tue, 12/19/2006 - 3:00am
How increasingly popular transgender zines are creating community and building diversity in ways that the Internet and the big screen can't.
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MediaCulture: It Wasn't Feminism That Killed the Neanderthals

Mon, 12/18/2006 - 3:00am
Anthropologists who suggest early humans survived by dint of separate gender roles are grabbing headlines, displaying the media's fondness for evidence -- however dubious -- of the species being hardwired for male dominance.
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MediaCulture: Five Hours Watching Al Jazeera's New International Channel

Sat, 12/09/2006 - 3:00am
Al Jazeera's new English-language channel offers controversial opinions and a lot more in-depth Middle East coverage than Americans are used to.
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MediaCulture: Israelis and Palestinians Destroy the 'No Partner for Peace' Canard

Sat, 12/02/2006 - 3:00am
A new documentary that looks at the people most affected by the Israeli-Palestinian divide reminds us that lasting peace will come from popular movements, not political leaders.
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MediaCulture: Keith Olbermann Proves That Dissent Has An Audience

Sat, 12/02/2006 - 3:00am
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has become the first cable news host in years to tell it like it is, and his soaring ratings prove the American public does have a taste for real news and honest dissent.
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MediaCulture: Iraq Is a Civil War: Media Dominoes Falling

Tue, 11/28/2006 - 12:00pm
NBC's decision to call the violence in Iraq a "civil war" has launched civil wars within a number of news outlets. But are they ready to challenge the Bush administration?
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MediaCulture: Ten Fallacies About the Violence in Iraq

Tue, 11/28/2006 - 3:00am
The distortions about the violence in Iraq persist even as the mayhem increases. Here are ten of the worst myths being spread in the media.
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MediaCulture: Don't Trust the News?

Mon, 11/27/2006 - 4:00pm
A new community of expert and amateur readers grades the news as it happens...
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