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	<title>FAIR Blog</title>
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		<title>Spinning Surveillance via Discredited NSA Talking Points</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/18/spinning-surveillance-via-discredited-nsa-talking-points/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=spinning-surveillance-via-discredited-nsa-talking-points</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/18/spinning-surveillance-via-discredited-nsa-talking-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athena Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Najibullah Zazi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What might it say about the depth of NSA's record of success stories that,  even after its prime exhibit is debunked, the White House is still retailing the story, the second time around with muddled language?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Syria and Sarin: Skepticism Still Warranted</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/17/syria-and-sarin-skepticism-still-warranted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syria-and-sarin-skepticism-still-warranted</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/17/syria-and-sarin-skepticism-still-warranted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[McClatchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Le Monde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Schofield]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Syria, corporate media typically betray a lack of skepticism when it comes to government claims about the WMDs of "enemy" countries. But there are notable exceptions.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Snowden and Bob Schieffer Fight the Power</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/17/snowden-and-bob-schieffer-fight-the-power/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=snowden-and-bob-schieffer-fight-the-power</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/17/snowden-and-bob-schieffer-fight-the-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CBS's Schieffer followed the establishment media's script on Snowden: We don't know what exactly the government is doing, and we should know, but the guy who's generated the discussion about all of this is a narcissist.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Pundits Attack Snowden, Maddow&#039;s Misinformation, WaPo Op-Ed Sales Job</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/14/fair-tv-pundits-attack-snowden-maddows-misinformation-wapo-op-ed-sales-job/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-pundits-attack-snowden-maddows-misinformation-wapo-op-ed-sales-job</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/14/fair-tv-pundits-attack-snowden-maddows-misinformation-wapo-op-ed-sales-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pundits attack NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Rachel Maddow makes false claims about Iran and nuclear weapons. And the Washington Post's new "Sponsored Views" feature will let let corporations and organizations post "responses" to the paper's op-ed pieces--for a price.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Syria and Chemical Weapons: What Do We Know?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/14/syria-and-chemical-weapons-what-do-we-know/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syria-and-chemical-weapons-what-do-we-know</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/14/syria-and-chemical-weapons-what-do-we-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Muir]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the New York Times posted an article about U.S. intelligence agencies becoming more confident about their assessments of several suspect chemical weapons attacks.  But the intelligence remains, at this point, at arm's length.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rachel Maddow&#039;s Iran Misinformation</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/13/rachel-maddows-iran-misinformation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rachel-maddows-iran-misinformation</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/13/rachel-maddows-iran-misinformation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samantha Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The facts on Iran's nuclear power program should be clear by now--but as coverage by the New York Times and MSNBC demonstrates, evidently they're not.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>O&#039;Reilly Discovers the Dangers of the Surveillance State</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/13/oreilly-discovers-the-dangers-of-the-surveillance-state/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oreilly-discovers-the-dangers-of-the-surveillance-state</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/13/oreilly-discovers-the-dangers-of-the-surveillance-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans who were less concerned about government overreach in 2006 have changed their minds in 2013, and some Democrats have gone the other direction. This switch can be seen in the views of some pundits--including Fox News' Bill O'Reilly.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/13/oreilly-discovers-the-dangers-of-the-surveillance-state/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Edward Snowden and the State-Identified Journalist</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/12/edward-snowden-and-the-state-identified-journalist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=edward-snowden-and-the-state-identified-journalist</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/12/edward-snowden-and-the-state-identified-journalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josh Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking Points Memo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo (6/11/13) wrote about Edward Snowden yesterday in a way that helped make it clear why so many in the press seem upset that the former NSA consultant revealed the extent of U.S. spying programs aimed at the American public. &#034;I&#039;m a journalist,&#034; Marshall wrote. And back when I did national security reporting I tried to get leaks. So I don&#039;t think leaks are always wrong&#8230;. In fact, leaks are an absolutely critical safety valve against government wrongdoing and/or excessive secrecy. But officials who leak classified information are &#034;breaking an oath and committing a crime,&#034; [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/12/edward-snowden-and-the-state-identified-journalist/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>What to Make of Snowden? CBS Asks Bush-Era Counterterror Official</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/11/what-to-make-of-snowden-cbs-asks-bush-era-counterterror-official/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-to-make-of-snowden-cbs-asks-bush-era-counterterror-official</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/11/what-to-make-of-snowden-cbs-asks-bush-era-counterterror-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Zarate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate over the government's surveillance powers that was set off by whistleblower Edward Snowden is an important one.  Who is invited to take part in that discussion really determines the kind of debate we're likely to get.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/11/what-to-make-of-snowden-cbs-asks-bush-era-counterterror-official/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Did Samantha Power Say About Iraq Invasion?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/10/what-did-samantha-power-say-about-iraq-invasion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-did-samantha-power-say-about-iraq-invasion</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/10/what-did-samantha-power-say-about-iraq-invasion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil MacFarquhar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samatha Power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times says that UN Ambassador-nominee Samantha Power "criticized the American invasion of Iraq because it lacked the council's stamp, among other reasons."  But what did Power actually say about the Iraq War before it happened?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Sunday Shows, NYT Mostly Misses the Point</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/10/on-sunday-shows-nyt-mostly-misses-the-point/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-sunday-shows-nyt-mostly-misses-the-point</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/10/on-sunday-shows-nyt-mostly-misses-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Steinhauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the Sunday shows is not that they have the same guests over and over--it's that they have the same Republican and conservative guests over and over. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Bradley Manning, Afghan Atrocity, David Gregory&#039;s Phony Gotcha</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/fair-tv-bradley-manning-afghan-atrocity-david-gregorys-phony-gotcha/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-bradley-manning-afghan-atrocity-david-gregorys-phony-gotcha</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/fair-tv-bradley-manning-afghan-atrocity-david-gregorys-phony-gotcha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's the press saying about the Bradley Manning trial? We take a look at a strange CBS Evening News report about a U.S. atrocity in Afghanistan, and David Gregory thinks he found an Obama flip-flop.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Many Iraqis Died in the Iraq War?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/how-many-iraqis-died-in-the-iraq-war/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-many-iraqis-died-in-the-iraq-war</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/how-many-iraqis-died-in-the-iraq-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Hellmich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MediaLens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How many Iraqis died in the Iraq War? Public responses to that question are disheartening because they reflect a very distorted public perception of the war. But they are indicative of an even bigger problem: corporate media's inadequate coverage of the human costs of U.S.-led wars. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pointless Partisanship on Surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/pointless-partisanship-on-surveillance/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pointless-partisanship-on-surveillance</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/pointless-partisanship-on-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Page]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#034;Democrats on one side, Republicans on the other&#034; is the way conventional Beltway reporters seem to see the world&#8211;and it&#039;s reflected in their reporting on political events. On the front page of USA Today (6/7/13), Susan Page has a piece wondering if the unfolding scandals surrounding the White House and surveillance will threaten the president&#039;s &#034;agenda.&#034; That&#039;s a strange concern for the moment, but we&#039;ll put that aside. The most unusual part of the piece is the very premise: That Obama&#039;s actions have verified Republican criticisms of his presidency. As Page puts it, the current story is especially problematic for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bob McChesney on Internet Giants and the National Security State</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/bob-mcchesney-on-internet-giants-and-the-national-security-state/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bob-mcchesney-on-internet-giants-and-the-national-security-state</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/07/bob-mcchesney-on-internet-giants-and-the-national-security-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McChesney]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week on CounterSpin, we spoke with scholar and media historian Bob McChesney about his new book Digital Disconnect. His closing thoughts seems especially relevant in light of the blockbuster reporting this week from the Guardian and Washington Post.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>O&#039;Reilly Spins a Correction on &#039;White House Visits&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/06/oreilly-spins-a-correction-on-white-house-visits/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oreilly-spins-a-correction-on-white-house-visits</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/06/oreilly-spins-a-correction-on-white-house-visits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garance Franke-Ruta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=25100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On last night&#039;s O&#039;Reilly Factor (6/5/13), the Fox News host asserted that there&#039;s still a lot the White House isn&#039;t telling us about the IRS/Tea Party scandal. But in the process he also, in his own special way, issued a correction&#8211;of sorts: The president will also not explain the IRS situation. His defenders denying that former IRS Chief Douglas Shulman visited the White House 157 times. But he was cleared into the People&#039;s House 157 times. That is a fact. Those who diminish the Shulman factor are lying directly to you. Now this is confusing. O&#039;Reilly has been telling his [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>After a Massacre, a &#039;Glimmer of Hope&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/05/after-a-massacre-a-glimmer-of-hope/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=after-a-massacre-a-glimmer-of-hope</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/05/after-a-massacre-a-glimmer-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara McCloskey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a courtroom base near Tacoma, Washington, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will plead guilty today to killing 16 civilians--most of them women and children--in an Afghan village on March 11, 2012. A little more than a year later, U.S. media seem to have not much interest left in the Bales case. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Williams Makes the Case for Putting NBC on Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/05/brian-williams-makes-the-case-for-putting-nbc-on-trial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=brian-williams-makes-the-case-for-putting-nbc-on-trial</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/05/brian-williams-makes-the-case-for-putting-nbc-on-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NBC's Brian Williams called Bradley Manning "the man who may have put U.S. military secrets in the hands of Osama bin Laden." But giving classified information to the public is something that news outlets--including NBC News--routinely do, and each time they do it they too could be accused of "aiding the enemy." ]]></description>
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		<title>Bradley Manning on TV Network News</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/04/bradley-manning-on-tv-network-news/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bradley-manning-on-tv-network-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/04/bradley-manning-on-tv-network-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers' rights and the public's right to know what the government is doing, the trial of Bradley Manning is of enormous consequence. It would have been hard for NBC News to come up with a more hostile framing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Obama Flip Flop on the War Against the Press?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/03/did-obama-flip-flop-on-the-war-against-the-press/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=did-obama-flip-flop-on-the-war-against-the-press</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/03/did-obama-flip-flop-on-the-war-against-the-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Meet the Press's David Gregory is playing "gotcha" by selectively editing Barack Obama's speeches, the real story here is that the administration's record of targeting investigative journalism is all too consistent.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Obama&#039;s Terror &#039;Pivot,&#039; Monsanto March, Schieffer&#039;s Lament</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/fair-tv-obamas-terror-pivot-monsanto-march-schieffers-lament/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-obamas-terror-pivot-monsanto-march-schieffers-lament</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/fair-tv-obamas-terror-pivot-monsanto-march-schieffers-lament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Schieffer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: Obama&#039;s big speech on U.S. anti-terrorism policies was treated as a big shift, a pivot away from war. Was it? Activists around the world rallied against Monsanto&#8211;which wasn&#039;t considered big news here. And Bob Schieffer complains that the White House makes it hard to get good guests for his Sunday chat show. There&#039;s an easy fix for that, isn&#039;t there? &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Time Magazine Stands With Rahm</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/time-magazine-stands-with-rahm/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=time-magazine-stands-with-rahm</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/time-magazine-stands-with-rahm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 20:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is, to say the least, controversial.  And now he's on the cover of Time magazine. He has his detractors, sure, but it's not hard to figure out where Time comes down: They're standing with Rahm.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>PRI&#039;s Pro-Fracking Spin</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/pris-pro-fracking-spin/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pris-pro-fracking-spin</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/pris-pro-fracking-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 17:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FAIR&#039;s new action alert takes a look at the pro-fracking spin on the public radio show show America Abroad. If you&#039;re sending them a letter to, please feel free to share it in the comments section below.  &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two Churches Make an Anti-Gay Trend at USA Today</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/two-churches-make-an-anti-gay-trend-at-usa-today/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=two-churches-make-an-anti-gay-trend-at-usa-today</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/31/two-churches-make-an-anti-gay-trend-at-usa-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Smietana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boy Scouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today&#039;s front-page headline (5/31/13): Churches Sever Scout Sponsorship The online headline, over Bob Smietana&#039;s piece on the reaction of church groups that sponsor Boy Scout troops to the Scouts&#039; announced plan to accept gay Scouts was longer but no less sweeping: Religious Regretfully Sever Scout Sponsorships That&#039;s bad news for the Scouts, since as the article points out, &#034;about 70 percent of Scout troops are chartered by a faith-based group.&#034; Must be tough, losing seven out of 10 sponsors all at once. Except the article doesn&#039;t report what the headlines claim at all. The article quotes one church leader, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Good News, Everyone! (Except You Wage-Earners)</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/29/good-news-everyone-except-you-wage-earners/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=good-news-everyone-except-you-wage-earners</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/29/good-news-everyone-except-you-wage-earners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 20:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post&#039;s Wonkblog has a hopeful headline (5/28/13): The Economy Is Holding Up Surprisingly Well in a Year of Austerity And a version of this piece landed on the front page of the Post&#039;s print edition, under the headline &#034;Economy Shows Some Endurance.&#034; And here&#039;s the good news in a nutshell: Americans with higher incomes are wealthier thanks to the stock market&#039;s 16 percent rise so far in 2013. Middle-income earners, whose assets are disproportionately tied up in their homes, are becoming wealthier thanks to higher housing prices&#8211;up 10.2 percent in 20 major cities in the year that ended [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bob Schieffer Is Tired of Booking Bad Guests on His Show</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/28/bob-schieffer-is-tired-of-booking-bad-guests-on-his-show/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bob-schieffer-is-tired-of-booking-bad-guests-on-his-show</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/28/bob-schieffer-is-tired-of-booking-bad-guests-on-his-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 22:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainstream reporters are speaking openly about the chilling effect of the Obama White House's investigations into leaks of classified material. But this willingness to talk about how the White House operates can lead some journalists to make some rather strange arguments.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Obama&#039;s Speech Really &#039;Narrow&#039; the War?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/28/did-obamas-speech-really-narrow-the-war/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=did-obamas-speech-really-narrow-the-war</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/28/did-obamas-speech-really-narrow-the-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 16:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you followed the coverage of President Barack Obama's May 23 speech at the National Defense University, you would think something big happened to the "war on terror." That was probably the message the White House wanted the press to send. But is true?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Still Getting Gitmo Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/25/still-getting-gitmo-wrong/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=still-getting-gitmo-wrong</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/25/still-getting-gitmo-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's address yesterday on U.S. terror strategies got a lot of attention for supposedly charting a new course in America's longest war. But some of the facts were mangled along the way. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: PBS and Koch, Guatemala and the U.S. Role and Rumsfeld Meets the Press</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/24/fair-tv-pbs-and-koch-guatemala-and-the-u-s-role-and-rumsfeld-meets-the-press/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-pbs-and-koch-guatemala-and-the-u-s-role-and-rumsfeld-meets-the-press</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/24/fair-tv-pbs-and-koch-guatemala-and-the-u-s-role-and-rumsfeld-meets-the-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Koch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week: PBS won&#039;t be showing us the documentary Citizen Koch&#8211;for some very dubious reasons. Also: The New York Times points out that the U.S. role in supporting genocide in Guatemala was hardly discussed at the trial; the same goes for U.S. media coverage of that trial. And Donald Rumsfeld goes on Meet the Press to talk about accountability. No, it&#039;s not what you think. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, You Can Be for Press Freedom and Still Think Journalists Ought to Do Their Jobs Well</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/23/yes-you-can-be-for-press-freedom-and-still-think-journalists-ought-to-do-their-jobs-well/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yes-you-can-be-for-press-freedom-and-still-think-journalists-ought-to-do-their-jobs-well</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/23/yes-you-can-be-for-press-freedom-and-still-think-journalists-ought-to-do-their-jobs-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daily Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Rosen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reality is that it is possible to both protest government intrusions on press freedom and to condemn bad journalism of the sort practiced by Jonathan Karl. It's important for protect journalism from official control for the same reason that it's important for media outlets to do a good job.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>What an Anonymous U.S. Official Says About Iranians in Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/22/what-an-anonymous-u-s-official-says-about-iranians-in-syria/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-an-anonymous-u-s-official-says-about-iranians-in-syria</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/22/what-an-anonymous-u-s-official-says-about-iranians-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suggesting that the Free Syrian Army believes Iranians are in Syria--which is probably true--is not the same thing as saying "Iran has sent soldiers to Syria" to fight on Assad's behalf.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Problems at PBS, From Rose to Koch</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/21/problems-at-pbs-from-rose-to-koch/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=problems-at-pbs-from-rose-to-koch</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/21/problems-at-pbs-from-rose-to-koch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koch brothers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think public television exists to offer challenging, independent news and public affairs shows that bring us stories the stories the commercial media too often ignore, free of the influence of big sponsors and corporate owners... well, this hasn't been a good week.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bum Rap: The U.S. Role in Guatemalan Genocide</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/20/bum-rap-the-u-s-role-in-guatemalan-genocide/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bum-rap-the-u-s-role-in-guatemalan-genocide</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/20/bum-rap-the-u-s-role-in-guatemalan-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Efraín Ríos Montt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Malkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times report, "Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role," raises at least one obvious question: How much has U.S. coverage of the Ríos Montt trial talked about U.S. support for genocide?]]></description>
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		<title>You&#039;re to Blame for Factory Deaths. Well, You and Walmart</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/17/youre-to-blame-for-factory-deaths-well-you-and-walmart/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=youre-to-blame-for-factory-deaths-well-you-and-walmart</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/17/youre-to-blame-for-factory-deaths-well-you-and-walmart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 21:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Surowiecki]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker's James Surowiecki has figured out who's to blame for unsafe working conditions for garment workers: people who wear clothing: "The problem isn't so much evil factory owners as a system that's great at getting Western consumers what they want but leaves developing-world workers toiling in misery."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: The IRS &amp; Obama&#039;s Scandal Trifecta, Matthews Praises Reagan, Newseum Scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/17/fair-tv-the-irs-obamas-scandal-trifecta-matthews-praises-reagan-newseum-scandal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-the-irs-obamas-scandal-trifecta-matthews-praises-reagan-newseum-scandal</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/17/fair-tv-the-irs-obamas-scandal-trifecta-matthews-praises-reagan-newseum-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newseum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What should we make of the so-called &#034;trifecta&#034; of scandals hitting the Obama White House? And what questions should we ask about the IRS/Tea Party story? Also this week: Chris Matthews wants Obama to take charge&#8211;just like the union-busting Ronald Reagan. And the Newseum decides two Palestinian journalists shouldn&#039;t be considered part of their tribute to journalists who died reporting the news. &#160;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is There Really a &#039;Scandal Trifecta&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/17/is-there-really-a-scandal-trifecta/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-there-really-a-scandal-trifecta</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/17/is-there-really-a-scandal-trifecta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cay Johnston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Tumulty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Landler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Chittum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Benghazi, the Justice Department seizing AP phone records, and the IRS targeting Tea Party groups: Much of the Beltway press corps--which has pushed the Benghazi story for months--is seeing the Obama presidency in a state of near free-fall. But what's actually happening?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Supreme Court Is an Ass</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/16/the-supreme-court-is-an-ass/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-supreme-court-is-an-ass</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/16/the-supreme-court-is-an-ass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Free Press&#039;s helpful explainer of the AP phone records scandal, noting the legal background: Smith v. Maryland &#8212; In this 1979 decision, the Supreme Court found that people have no expectation of privacy when it comes to the numbers they call because they understand it has to be transmitted through a third party (telephone company). Thus, the [Digital Media Law Project] notes,  &#034;the government can obtain that information simply by issuing a subpoena to a telephone company or other third party.&#034; As Mr. Bumble says, &#034;If the law supposes that, the law is a ass&#8211;a idiot.&#034; Everyone who wouldn&#039;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Matthews: Obama Needs to Break a Union Like Reagan</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/15/matthews-obama-needs-to-break-a-union-like-reagan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=matthews-obama-needs-to-break-a-union-like-reagan</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/15/matthews-obama-needs-to-break-a-union-like-reagan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Praise for a conservative president's breaking the air traffic controllers' union--that's what you hear on the liberal cable channel.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Problem With Journalism? Scott Pelley Blames the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/15/the-problem-with-journalism-scott-pelley-blames-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-problem-with-journalism-scott-pelley-blames-the-internet</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/15/the-problem-with-journalism-scott-pelley-blames-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newtown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Pelley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CBS anchor Scott Pelley declared, "We are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.'" Well, that sounds like pretty dramatic self-criticism. But, as usual with corporate media self-critiques, Pelley's criticism mostly misses the mark. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heritage Immigration Scandal Proof That&#8230;Both Sides Do It?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/14/heritage-immigration-scandal-proof-that-both-sides-do-it/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=heritage-immigration-scandal-proof-that-both-sides-do-it</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/14/heritage-immigration-scandal-proof-that-both-sides-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Keller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Rector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over Heritage's dubious immigration report led Bill Keller of the New York Times to write a column about the big lessons of this scandal. And the first lesson? Think tanks on "both sides" are up to no good.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bursting Benghazi&#039;s Bubble&#8211;Only to Boost Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/14/bursting-benghazis-bubble-only-to-boost-bush/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bursting-benghazis-bubble-only-to-boost-bush</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/14/bursting-benghazis-bubble-only-to-boost-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackson Diehl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Wilson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Benghazi isn't the scandal that Obama's critics make it out to be, the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl writes. But the real point of his column is to protect the legacy of the Bush White House's Iraq claims.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dead Journalists and the Newseum Scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/14/dead-journalists-and-the-newseum-scandal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dead-journalists-and-the-newseum-scandal</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/14/dead-journalists-and-the-newseum-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee to Protect Journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Calderone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newseum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A memorial  for journalists who died while reporting the news wouldn't seem to be the kind of thing that would attract controversy, but that's exactly what's happened with an exhibit at the Newseum.
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>L.A. Times&#039; Distorted Report on USAID</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/l-a-times-distorted-report-on-usaid/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=l-a-times-distorted-report-on-usaid</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/l-a-times-distorted-report-on-usaid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[L.A. Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Richter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#034;USAID Develops a Bad Reputation Among Some Foreign Leaders,&#034; read a May 7 Los Angeles Times headline, followed by the subhead: The U.S. Agency for International Development doesn&#039;t just offer aid to the poor, it also promotes democracy, which is seen as meddlesome or even subversive. Fighting poverty and spreading democracy&#8211;what&#039;s not to like? And so, the report seems to suggest, there&#039;s something a little off about foreign leaders, nine in recent years, who&#039;ve expelled the agency.  Why else would Bolivian President Evo Morales expel an anti-poverty group from his &#034;impoverished&#034; country, if he wasn&#039;t just a little bit crazy? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: CBS &#039;Covers&#039; Immigration, Joe Klein&#039;s Angry Middle, Dangerously Anti-War Public</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/fair-tv-cbs-covers-immigration-joe-kleins-angry-middle-dangerously-anti-war-public/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-cbs-covers-immigration-joe-kleins-angry-middle-dangerously-anti-war-public</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/fair-tv-cbs-covers-immigration-joe-kleins-angry-middle-dangerously-anti-war-public/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cokie Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: CBS Evening News looked like it was covering an immigrant rights rally-- but it was merely a set up to talk about chaos at the border. Time's Joe Klein goes after the "gun lobby" by saying... both sides are at fault? And Cokie Roberts hears the public doesn't want to start a war with Syria. Why does she think that's "dangerous"?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Benghazi Bias on One Page</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/benghazi-bias-on-one-page/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=benghazi-bias-on-one-page</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/benghazi-bias-on-one-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Page]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over the attacks at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, is a great test of the right's tired claim that the corporate media have a liberal bias. If that were true, then this "scandal" would exist almost entirely on Fox News Channel and conservative talk radio.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>When Libyans Die From NATO Airstrikes, It&#039;s Not Benghazi</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/when-libyans-die-from-nato-airstrikes-its-not-benghazi/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-libyans-die-from-nato-airstrikes-its-not-benghazi</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/10/when-libyans-die-from-nato-airstrikes-its-not-benghazi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's another Libya story that should be getting attention.  It's not, and never really has, because the dead are Libyan civilians, killed by U.S./NATO airstrikes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iron Man 3 and the Art of Missing the Point</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/08/iron-man-3-and-the-art-of-missing-the-point/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iron-man-3-and-the-art-of-missing-the-point</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/08/iron-man-3-and-the-art-of-missing-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manohla Dargis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood's latest superhero movie has a political message that's not particularly hard to decipher. Yet fail to decipher it New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis evidently did.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Between Two Economists Lies the American Center</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/08/between-two-economists-lies-the-american-center/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=between-two-economists-lies-the-american-center</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/08/between-two-economists-lies-the-american-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Davidson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Summers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The "center" doesn't usually indicate where most of the public is, but rather where elites have determined an appropriate middle between opposing arguments. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Those Who Send Innocents to Prison Are Not Like Innocents Who Are Sent to Prison</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/06/those-who-send-innocents-to-prison-are-not-like-innocents-who-are-sent-to-prison/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=those-who-send-innocents-to-prison-are-not-like-innocents-who-are-sent-to-prison</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/06/those-who-send-innocents-to-prison-are-not-like-innocents-who-are-sent-to-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Park Five]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Lederer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Dwyer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It shouldn't be necessary to spell out, but apparently it is, that sending the Central Park Five to prison for a crime they hadn't committed was wrong because they hadn't committed the crime. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>What&#039;s the Standard on Reporting Israeli Airstrikes?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/06/whats-the-standard-on-reporting-israeli-airstrikes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whats-the-standard-on-reporting-israeli-airstrikes</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/06/whats-the-standard-on-reporting-israeli-airstrikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Marquardt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Starr]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The claims made about Israeli airstrikes against Syria could be true, or not. What is certain is that the assessments of the airstrikes are being shared anonymously by governments involved in carrying them out, a scenario that cries out for more skepticism.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Syria Sarin Skepticism, Tom Friedman&#039;s Sick Madness, Darkening the Tsarnaevs</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/fair-tv-syria-sarin-skepticism-tom-friedmans-sick-madness-darkening-the-tsarnaevs/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-syria-sarin-skepticism-tom-friedmans-sick-madness-darkening-the-tsarnaevs</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/fair-tv-syria-sarin-skepticism-tom-friedmans-sick-madness-darkening-the-tsarnaevs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 22:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: Do the claims about Syria's chemical weapons hold up? Tom Friedman's column about the "sick madness" of attacking innocents. The Week magazine turns the Caucasian Tsarnaev brothers into non-whites.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/fair-tv-syria-sarin-skepticism-tom-friedmans-sick-madness-darkening-the-tsarnaevs/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Killing Civilians Is More Popular Than You&#039;d Think&#8211;Especially Among Pundits</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/killing-civilians-is-a-more-popular-than-youd-think-especially-among-pundits/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=killing-civilians-is-a-more-popular-than-youd-think-especially-among-pundits</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/killing-civilians-is-a-more-popular-than-youd-think-especially-among-pundits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 21:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Koppel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where do Americans get the idea that it's OK to kill civilians? Could it be that they're listening to media pundits?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ACLU Is Like the NRA Because It Is</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/the-aclu-is-like-the-nra-because-it-is/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-aclu-is-like-the-nra-because-it-is</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/the-aclu-is-like-the-nra-because-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Klein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Decrying "the ability of well-funded extremist groups to thwart the will of the overwhelming majority," Time's Joe Klein cites defenders of Social Security--who, of course, are trying to thwart the will of an overwhelming minority.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guantanamo Prisoners as &#039;Reengaged&#039; Terrorists</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/guantanamo-prisoners-as-reengaged-terrorists/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=guantanamo-prisoners-as-reengaged-terrorists</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/03/guantanamo-prisoners-as-reengaged-terrorists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Guantanamo prisoners are being held without charge, and there is no available evidence to charge them with any terrorism-related offenses, why is the Washington Post talking about the possibility that they may "reengage in extremist activity"?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>NYT&#039;s Beat Sweetener on New Interior Secretary</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/02/nyts-beat-sweetener-on-new-interior-secretary/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nyts-beat-sweetener-on-new-interior-secretary</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/02/nyts-beat-sweetener-on-new-interior-secretary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Broder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sally Jewell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Beat sweetener" was written all over John Broder's April 30 New York Times profile of new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, "a woman of untamed energy, competitiveness and confidence in the boardroom and on a mountain trail."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Dare Hamid Karzai Take Our Money!</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/01/how-dare-hamid-karzai-take-our-money/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-dare-hamid-karzai-take-our-money</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/05/01/how-dare-hamid-karzai-take-our-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NBC Nightly News  anchor Brian Williams had a most peculiar reaction to revelations that Afghan president Hamid Karzai receives regular deliveries of cash from the Central Intelligence Agency.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Syria and the &#039;Red Line&#039; Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/syria-and-the-red-line-nonsense/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=syria-and-the-red-line-nonsense</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/syria-and-the-red-line-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McClatchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dickerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Landy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major Garrett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Pelley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pundits' message on Barack Obama's talk of a "red line" on Syria is that they are concerned about the credibility of the president's threats of violence--much more so than about  the credibility of his evidence. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Breaking with Bush&#8211;Many Years Too Late</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/breaking-with-bush-many-years-too-late/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=breaking-with-bush-many-years-too-late</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/breaking-with-bush-many-years-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Dowd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When someone says they "broke" with George W. Bush over the Iraq War, you might be inclined to think that they did that sometime before 2006 or so, which is about when Bush strategist-turned-TV pundit Matthew Dowd is saying he left. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cutting the Military Budget Is a Problem&#8230;for the Left?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/cutting-the-military-budget-is-a-problem-for-the-left/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cutting-the-military-budget-is-a-problem-for-the-left</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/cutting-the-military-budget-is-a-problem-for-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zach Goldfarb]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post presents a "paradox" wrapped in a "conundrum" inside a "quandary"--all on top of a big heaping of right-wing policy advice for the left.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Invitation to a Live-Action Infomercial</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/an-invitation-to-a-live-action-infomercial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=an-invitation-to-a-live-action-infomercial</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/30/an-invitation-to-a-live-action-infomercial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Atlantic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to an event yesterday that was held specifically so that media companies can take money from companies who will pay for the chance to be mistaken for an expert. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Sick Madness of Tom Friedman&#039;s Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/29/the-sick-madness-of-tom-friedmans-culture/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-sick-madness-of-tom-friedmans-culture</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/29/the-sick-madness-of-tom-friedmans-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is going on in our community that a critical number of our columnists believe that every American military action in the Middle East is justifiable?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reporting &#039;Says&#039; Rather Than &#039;Says It Believes&#039; Could Make a War of Difference</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/26/reporting-says-rather-than-says-it-believes-could-make-a-war-of-difference/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=reporting-says-rather-than-says-it-believes-could-make-a-war-of-difference</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/26/reporting-says-rather-than-says-it-believes-could-make-a-war-of-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The front page of the New York Times had a very definitive headline on Syria and chemical weapons--but when you read the actual story, a much more ambiguous picture emerged.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Texas Fertilizer Plant Disaster: Little Coverage, Much of It Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/26/texas-fertilizer-plant-disaster-little-coverage-much-of-it-wrong/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=texas-fertilizer-plant-disaster-little-coverage-much-of-it-wrong</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/26/texas-fertilizer-plant-disaster-little-coverage-much-of-it-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CounterSpin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh Kaufman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Elk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Fertilizer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The West Fertilizer Co. explosion last week  was largely obscured by blanket coverage of  the Boston Marathon bombing. More than that, says legendary EPA whistleblower Hugh Kaufman, a guest on this week's CounterSpin, what coverage there was often obscured  the real story. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/26/texas-fertilizer-plant-disaster-little-coverage-much-of-it-wrong/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill O&#039;Reilly&#039;s Dangerous Islamophobia</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/25/bill-oreillys-dangerous-islamophobia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bill-oreillys-dangerous-islamophobia</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/25/bill-oreillys-dangerous-islamophobia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fox's  Bill O'Reilly, who hosts the most-watched cable news show, has spent much of the week making inflammatory claims about Islam. Sounds like somebody is looking for a religion to scapegoat--or, given his track record, some countries to attack.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drone Strike Testimony: Not News?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/24/drone-strike-testimony-not-news/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=drone-strike-testimony-not-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/24/drone-strike-testimony-not-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a moment when media are fixated on terrorism  and the possibility that some people might be motivated to carry out acts of violence against the United States in part because of  the effects of U.S. wars, a Yemeni writer's account of the effects of drone strikes on his village would be well worth covering.]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Lee Anderson Explains: Because I Said So</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/24/jon-lee-anderson-explains-because-i-said-so/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jon-lee-anderson-explains-because-i-said-so</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/24/jon-lee-anderson-explains-because-i-said-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Factchecking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Lee Anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson has a blog post on the magazine&#039;s website (4/23/13) addressing the controversy over his recent coverage of Venezuela (FAIR Blog, 4/17/13): At issue are sentences in three different pieces written in the course of a number of months—two on the New Yorker&#039;s website and one in the magazine.  Readers pointed out what they saw as factual errors in each. In two cases I agreed, and corrected the sentences; in the third I didn&#039;t, for reasons I&#039;ll explain. So you expect he&#039;s going to explain why he didn&#039;t agree that the third alleged factual [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Erin Burnett Wants a Different Kind of Terrorism Suspect</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/23/erin-burnett-wants-a-different-kind-of-terrorist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=erin-burnett-wants-a-different-kind-of-terrorist</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/23/erin-burnett-wants-a-different-kind-of-terrorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dzhokhar Tsarnaev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enemy combatant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CNN host Erin Burnett wonders whether it's time to come up with some new laws in the wake of the Boston bombing, since the old ones seem to give Dzhokhar Tsarnaev too many rights. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>George W. Bush Is a Swell Guy, Just Ask His Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/23/george-w-bush-is-a-swell-guy-just-ask-his-friends/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=george-w-bush-is-a-swell-guy-just-ask-his-friends</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/23/george-w-bush-is-a-swell-guy-just-ask-his-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Balz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Fournier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The opening of the George W. Bush library is generating coverage about the state of the Bush legacy. But if the journalists who were far too generous in their coverage of Bush's presidency are the same ones writing about how that presidency should be viewed now, he's in safe hands.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Al Neuharth&#039;s Front-Page Sexism</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/22/al-neuharths-front-page-sexism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=al-neuharths-front-page-sexism</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/22/al-neuharths-front-page-sexism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Neuharth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing a photograph of USA Today founder Al Neuharth above the fold in the edition of his newspaper that reported his death calls to mind a rather famous story about Neuharth's outburst at a 1983 USA Today editorial meeting. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#039;t Quote Me by Name, But My Friends the Koch Brothers Respect the Hell Out of Press Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/22/dont-quote-me-by-name-but-my-friends-the-koch-brothers-respect-the-hell-out-of-press-freedom/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dont-quote-me-by-name-but-my-friends-the-koch-brothers-respect-the-hell-out-of-press-freedom</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/22/dont-quote-me-by-name-but-my-friends-the-koch-brothers-respect-the-hell-out-of-press-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Chozick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[InsideClimate News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koch brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribune Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The New York Times finds anonymous sources to assure us that the Koch brothers are not trying to buy the Tribune newspapers in order to "destroy the other side." But Mother Jones finds an actual person who explains how the Kochs actually treat media outlets whose reporting they don't like.]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Boston Bombing, Defining Terrorism, Social Security &#039;Bravery&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/19/fair-tv-boston-bombing-defining-terrorism-social-security-bravery/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-boston-bombing-defining-terrorism-social-security-bravery</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/19/fair-tv-boston-bombing-defining-terrorism-social-security-bravery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewsHour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Covering the media's rush to misjudgment on the Boston Marathon attack, which acts of terrorism are called "terrorism," and PBS's "debate" over Social Security--in which both sides call Obama "brave" for trying to cut benefits.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Democrats Can&#039;t Blame Guns for &#039;94 Losses</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/19/democrats-cant-blame-guns-for-94-losses/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=democrats-cant-blame-guns-for-94-losses</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/19/democrats-cant-blame-guns-for-94-losses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Samuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Steinhauer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are perhaps plenty of lessons in the (most recent) Senate failure to pass even modest new restrictions/regulations on gun ownership. But one lesson needs to be resisted: The idea that passing a more expansive gun control law in 1994 came back to bite Democrats in the midterm elections.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill O&#039;Reilly Gets Angry Because He Proved David Sirota&#039;s Point</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/19/bill-oreilly-gets-angry-because-he-proved-david-sirotas-point/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bill-oreilly-gets-angry-because-he-proved-david-sirotas-point</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/19/bill-oreilly-gets-angry-because-he-proved-david-sirotas-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[O'Reilly was outraged by Sirota's point that the government's response would be very different--more costly, potentially more violent--if the perpetrators fit a certain profile. This is   ironic, because O'Reilly had, the night of the attacks, basically made Sirota's point.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thatcher Lifted Millions&#8211;Says Who?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/thatcher-lifted-millions-says-who/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thatcher-lifted-millions-says-who</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/thatcher-lifted-millions-says-who/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewsHour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times reporter John Burns admires Margaret Thatcher's legacy. But when he claims she lifted millions to prosperity, does he have any evidence? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda Pressure Cookers?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/al-qaeda-pressure-cookers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=al-qaeda-pressure-cookers</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/al-qaeda-pressure-cookers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bret Baier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eli Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Fisher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are the pressure cooker bombs used in Boston really a link to Al Qaeda? No. But some reporters are trying to make that connection. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why We Need the New Yorker to Correct Its Error on Venezuelan Inequality</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/why-we-need-the-new-yorker-to-correct-its-error-on-venezuelan-inequality/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-we-need-the-new-yorker-to-correct-its-error-on-venezuelan-inequality</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/why-we-need-the-new-yorker-to-correct-its-error-on-venezuelan-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Factchecking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Lee Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keane Bhatt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker is a magazine whose name is practically synonymous with factchecking--which makes you wonder how the glaring, major errors in the its recent coverage of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got through.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Steve Emerson Gets It Wrong&#8211;Again</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/steve-emerson-gets-it-wrong-again/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=steve-emerson-gets-it-wrong-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/steve-emerson-gets-it-wrong-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C-SPAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Emerson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why was the "Saudi national," a young man who was injured at the Boston Marathon bombing, considered a suspect? Enter "terrorism expert" Steve Emerson, who continues to make the media rounds despite a checkered history.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#039;Terror Returns&#039;&#8211;but When Did It Go Away?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/16/terror-returns-but-when-did-it-go-away/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=terror-returns-but-when-did-it-go-away</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/16/terror-returns-but-when-did-it-go-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Raasch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Hampson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Shane]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#034;TERROR RETURNS&#034; ran across USA Today&#039;s front page (4/16/13) in inch-high letters. Below, the story it referred to had a smaller headline: &#034;That Post-9/11 Quiet? It&#039;s Over.&#034; Rick Hampson and Chuck Raasch&#039;s story began: The blasts on Boylston Street were felt across the nation, shaking and sometimes shattering a fragile hope&#8211;formed slowly in the years since 2001&#8211;that maybe it won’t happen here. Not again. Then it did. But what happened in Boston that hasn&#039;t happened since September 11? All we really can say with confidence so far is that somebody tried to kill a large group of people; as USA [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>USA Today: Venezuelans Voted for High Unemployment and Food Shortages</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/16/usa-today-venezuelans-voted-for-high-unemployment-and-food-shortages/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=usa-today-venezuelans-voted-for-high-unemployment-and-food-shortages</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/16/usa-today-venezuelans-voted-for-high-unemployment-and-food-shortages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Weisbrot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ If USA Today is presenting an objective record of the Chavez years, how on Earth did he win so many elections? By that score, Venezuela must also have an especially ill-informed populace--or maybe Venezuelans know a different reality.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Authoritarian Allies &amp; the Myth of U.S. &#039;Leverage&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/15/authoritarian-allies-the-myth-of-u-s-leverage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=authoritarian-allies-the-myth-of-u-s-leverage</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/15/authoritarian-allies-the-myth-of-u-s-leverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Whitlock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The record of the U.S. government's support for authoritarian, corrupt and/or murderous regimes is not really up for debate. The only question is whether one believes that the U.S. extends such support despite a deep-seated preference for democratic rule and human rights.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cutting Social Security on PBS&#8211;From Left to Right</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/15/cutting-social-security-on-pbs-from-left-to-right/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cutting-social-security-on-pbs-from-left-to-right</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/15/cutting-social-security-on-pbs-from-left-to-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Woodruff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Shields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewsHour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the PBS NewsHour (4/12/13), the left/right debating duo of Mark Shields and David Brooks took up the issue of Social Security and "chained CPI"--and found that they didn't have a lot to debate on the virtues of Barack Obama's benefits-cutting plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Cohen on Media Missing the Costs of Militarism</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/jeff-cohen-on-media-missing-the-costs-of-militarism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jeff-cohen-on-media-missing-the-costs-of-militarism</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/jeff-cohen-on-media-missing-the-costs-of-militarism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Donahue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Today there's an elephant in the room: a huge, yet ignored, issue that largely explains why Social Security is now on the chopping block.... That problem is U.S. militarism and perpetual war." ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Misremembering Thatcher, Cutting Social Security, Hillary Clinton&#039;s Hair</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/fair-tv-misremembering-thatcher-cutting-social-security-hillary-clintons-hair/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-misremembering-thatcher-cutting-social-security-hillary-clintons-hair</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/fair-tv-misremembering-thatcher-cutting-social-security-hillary-clintons-hair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Media remember Margaret Thatcher for turning around Britain's economy. But do the numbers tell a different story? Also: Barack Obama's plan to cut Social Security and Medicare is inexplicably deemed a move to the "center," and pundits are monitoring the 2016 election by paying close attention to... Hillary Clinton's haircut?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/fair-tv-misremembering-thatcher-cutting-social-security-hillary-clintons-hair/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reagan Didn&#039;t Get Thatchered</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/reagan-didnt-get-thatchered/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=reagan-didnt-get-thatchered</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/reagan-didnt-get-thatchered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Cowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Faiola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to elite media and political circles, there's no doubt that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were treated the same way when they died: with gushing, uncritical celebration. They just wish the public could have been so univocal.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>North Korea Has Deliverable Nuclear Warhead! Or Maybe Not!</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/north-korea-has-deliverable-nuclear-warhead-or-maybe-not/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=north-korea-has-deliverable-nuclear-warhead-or-maybe-not</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/12/north-korea-has-deliverable-nuclear-warhead-or-maybe-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The panicky style of reporting on North Korea doesn't seem to be changing much, if you glance at the front pages of the Washington Post and New York Times this morning. But both pieces, if read carefully, undermine the alarmism--and make you wonder why the stories are on the front page.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who Gets to Remember Margaret Thatcher?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/11/who-gets-to-remember-margaret-thatcher/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=who-gets-to-remember-margaret-thatcher</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/11/who-gets-to-remember-margaret-thatcher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ignatius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who gets to the top of the journalistic establishment probably has a lot to do with what they think of Margaret Thatcher's hard-right policies.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Thatcher, What&#039;s the Difference Between PBS &amp; Fox News?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/09/on-thatcher-whats-the-difference-between-pbs-fox-news/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-thatcher-whats-the-difference-between-pbs-fox-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/09/on-thatcher-whats-the-difference-between-pbs-fox-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Shultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Warner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[it was striking to see the parallels between the way Margaret Thatcher's death was covered on the PBS NewsHour and Fox News Channel's most popular show, the O'Reilly Factor. Though some people like to think that PBS and Fox couldn't be further apart, they were basically singing the same tune.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>To NYT, Nuclear Facts Become Iranian Claims</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/to-nyt-nuclear-facts-become-iranian-claims/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=to-nyt-nuclear-facts-become-iranian-claims</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/to-nyt-nuclear-facts-become-iranian-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Herszenhorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times treats Iran's right to enrich uranium as a "claim," to be challenged by anonymous U.S. officials. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cutting Social Security and Medicare? That&#039;s the &#039;Middle&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/cutting-social-security-and-medicare-thats-the-middle/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cutting-social-security-and-medicare-thats-the-middle</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/cutting-social-security-and-medicare-thats-the-middle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cokie Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Balz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new White House budget proposal is getting a lot of attention because it explicitly connects the Obama administration to an agenda that includes cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits. Some pundits see this as a way to appeal to the "middle." But does anyone-- in the middle or anywhere else--really want to cut the safety net?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>WikiLeaks: Was Chavez Right About U.S. Meddling?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/wikileaks-was-chavez-right-about-u-s-meddling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wikileaks-was-chavez-right-about-u-s-meddling</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/wikileaks-was-chavez-right-about-u-s-meddling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s no secret that U.S. media loathed the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Much of that was purely political; sure, Chavez could have given shorter speeches and been nicer to his political opponents&#8211;but it&#039;s hard to imagine that would have mattered much to, say,  the Washington Post editorial board. One thing that turned up constantly in Chavez coverage over the years was his suspicion that the United States government was looking to undermine his rule. As a Washington Post news article (1/10/13) put it: A central ideological pillar of Chavez&#039;s rule over 14 years has been to oppose Republican and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keeping Yet Another Government Secret</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/keeping-yet-another-government-secret/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=keeping-yet-another-government-secret</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/keeping-yet-another-government-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Gosztola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sullivan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The compelling interest in the public knowing that a high-ranking public official has taken part in highly controversial and perhaps even illegal actions, in the view of these news  outlets, is apparently outweighed by their duty, as they see it, to keep the government's secrets.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: North Korea Alarmism, Spinning Gun Polls, USA Today Says We&#039;re All Rich!</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/fair-tv-north-korea-alarmism-spinning-gun-polls-usa-today-says-were-all-rich/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-north-korea-alarmism-spinning-gun-polls-usa-today-says-were-all-rich</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/fair-tv-north-korea-alarmism-spinning-gun-polls-usa-today-says-were-all-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: A look at some of the media panic over North Korea, how the press is spinning the gun debate and why USA Today's front page headline about how "we" are all "feeling rich" might not not actually apply to us all of us.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/fair-tv-north-korea-alarmism-spinning-gun-polls-usa-today-says-were-all-rich/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>North Korea&#039;s Attack Plan: Apocalypse Never Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/north-koreas-attack-plan-apocalypse-never-mind/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=north-koreas-attack-plan-apocalypse-never-mind</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/05/north-koreas-attack-plan-apocalypse-never-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Engel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Foreman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It didn't take long for TV coverage of North Korea to enter the "Retired General Sketches Out War Games on a Big Map" phase. But a recent example of the genre on CNN demonstrated only the alarmism seems to be the order of the day.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>AP Ditches &#039;Illegal&#039; Label</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/04/ap-ditches-illegal-label/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ap-ditches-illegal-label</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/04/ap-ditches-illegal-label/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Tribune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rinku Sen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press announced a change in their style guide: The wire service will no longer refer to "illegal immigrants," except in direct quotes. The change is  a victory for activists who have called for years for journalists to stop using the term. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>North Korea &#039;Rattles Sabres&#039;; Meanwhile, U.S. Pretends to Drop Nuclear Bombs on Them</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/03/north-korea-rattles-sabres-meanwhile-u-s-pretends-to-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-them/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=north-korea-rattles-sabres-meanwhile-u-s-pretends-to-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-them</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/03/north-korea-rattles-sabres-meanwhile-u-s-pretends-to-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-Un]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major Garrett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Engel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To hear U.S. corporate media tell it, there are "exercises" right next door, conducted by the world's most powerful military, which possesses thousands of nuclear weapons--and then there's menacing "saber-rattling."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keystone Polling and an Oil Spill Time Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/03/keystone-polling-and-an-oil-spill-time-machine/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=keystone-polling-and-an-oil-spill-time-machine</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/03/keystone-polling-and-an-oil-spill-time-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keystone XL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting positive polling for the Keystone XL pipeline, USA Today reports, "The numbers come amid continuing efforts to clean up a major new oil spill in Arkansas." But "come amid" is another way of saying "entirely unrelated to."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Misreporting Israel/Gaza Cease-Fire</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/03/misreporting-israelgaza-cease-fire/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=misreporting-israelgaza-cease-fire</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/03/misreporting-israelgaza-cease-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabel Kershner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Israeli airstrike on Gaza yesterday is being reported as a breach of the cease-fire agreement that was reached after violence last November between the Israeli military and Hamas forces. But the new accounts are misleading: They give the impression that Israel hasn't regularly violated the agreement already.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Everyone&#039;s Rich Again&#8211;Problem Solved!</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/01/everyones-rich-again-problem-solved/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=everyones-rich-again-problem-solved</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/01/everyones-rich-again-problem-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Davidson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Household wealth is on the rebound, USA Today reports--but mostly because of the stock market. Which means it means next to nothing to the vast majority of us.]]></description>
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		<title>David Stockman&#039;s American Economic Horror Story</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/01/david-stockmans-american-economic-horror-story/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=david-stockmans-american-economic-horror-story</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/01/david-stockmans-american-economic-horror-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Stockman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Reagan budget director David Stockman is outraged&#8211;outraged I tell you!&#8211;by the Federal Reserve increasing the money supply. In a lengthy op-ed on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Review (3/31/13), he condemns &#034;the mad money printers at the Federal Reserve&#034; with their &#034;egregious flood of phony money&#034; and &#034;a radical, uncharted spree of money printing.&#034; The Fed&#039;s &#034;panic-stricken melee of&#8230;money-printing,&#034; he writes, is part of &#034;the single most shameful chapter in American financial history.&#034; For all this moral indignation, however, he never gets around to explaining what exactly is wrong about &#034;printing money.&#034; It&#039;s certainly possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did the Public Really Give Up on Gun Control?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/01/did-the-public-really-give-up-on-gun-control/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=did-the-public-really-give-up-on-gun-control</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/01/did-the-public-really-give-up-on-gun-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Todd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On two Sunday shows this weekend, the hosts made the same point about the White House's plan for modest gun control efforts: The public isn't going along. Oddly, they both ignored their own networks' polling that would have undermined their argument.]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: If Only Gay Rights Were Unpopular, Then Roberts Might Embrace Them</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/29/nyt-if-only-gay-rights-were-unpopular-then-roberts-might-embrace-them/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nyt-if-only-gay-rights-were-unpopular-then-roberts-might-embrace-them</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/29/nyt-if-only-gay-rights-were-unpopular-then-roberts-might-embrace-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an article that should go down in the annals of improbable news analyses, Peter Baker argues in the New York Times (3/28/13) that the Chief Justice might be in favor of gay rights if they weren&#039;t so popular: Momentum in the political world for gay rights could actually limit momentum in the legal world. While the court may throw out a federal law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the justices signaled over two days of arguments that they might not feel compelled to intervene further, since the democratic process seems to be playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Today Covers &#039;Lonely Battle&#039; of Equality Opponents</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/28/usa-today-covers-lonely-battle-of-equality-opponents/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=usa-today-covers-lonely-battle-of-equality-opponents</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/28/usa-today-covers-lonely-battle-of-equality-opponents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Outspent and lately out-hustled by highly organized gay rights organizations," USA Today reports, "opponents have struggled to get their story out." That's a curious premise, given that "their story" is the law of the land, and that's why we're talking about it in the first place. ]]></description>
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		<title>For NPR, Fracking Fight Is Between Farmers &amp; Movie Stars</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/28/for-npr-fracking-fight-is-between-farmers-movie-stars/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=for-npr-fracking-fight-is-between-farmers-movie-stars</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/28/for-npr-fracking-fight-is-between-farmers-movie-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Chanatry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fracking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who stands between the hard-working people of Upstate New York and money and jobs coming out of the ground? Why, it’s actor Mark Ruffalo.]]></description>
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		<title>How &#039;Unlikely&#039; Is Mark Sanford&#039;s Comeback Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/27/how-unlikely-is-mark-sanfords-comeback-really/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-unlikely-is-mark-sanfords-comeback-really</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/27/how-unlikely-is-mark-sanfords-comeback-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Sanford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Hannity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The journalists amazed by Mark Sanford's comeback make the mistake of assuming that since the GOP spends so much time preaching "family values" and "social conservatism," Republican pols who violate these preachments must pay a greater price than less moralistic Democrats. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>102 Years After Triangle Fire, Media Still Wonder How Workers Keep Dying</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/25/102-years-after-triangle-fire-media-still-wonder-how-workers-keep-dying/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=102-years-after-triangle-fire-media-still-wonder-how-workers-keep-dying</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/25/102-years-after-triangle-fire-media-still-wonder-how-workers-keep-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janine Jackson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 102nd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Janine Jackson&#039;s article in the last issue of Extra! (3/13) is a sobering reminder that not that much has changed in the last century as far as worker  safety is concerned: What should be done to prevent incidents like the January 26 fire at the Smart Fashion Export factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in which at least seven garment workers (three of them teenage girls) were killed, their escape impeded by a blocked exit and the absence of the most rudimentary fire safety equipment? The answer for many would be: whatever is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Media Didn&#039;t Fail on Iraq; Iraq Just Showed We Have a Failed Media</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/25/the-media-didnt-fail-on-iraq-iraq-just-showed-we-have-a-failed-media/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-media-didnt-fail-on-iraq-iraq-just-showed-we-have-a-failed-media</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/25/the-media-didnt-fail-on-iraq-iraq-just-showed-we-have-a-failed-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Farhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Pincus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The headline on a story by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi is "On Iraq, Journalists Didn't Fail. They Just Didn’t Succeed." To make that case, though, he has to redefine "failure" so far down that it's hardly possible to avoid failing.]]></description>
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		<title>O&#039;Reilly Demands Respect for the Pagan Goddess Eostre</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/23/oreilly-demands-respect-for-the-pagan-goddess-eostre/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oreilly-demands-respect-for-the-pagan-goddess-eostre</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/23/oreilly-demands-respect-for-the-pagan-goddess-eostre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, claiming victory in the "War on Christmas," declares that the new battle is the "War on Easter."  In Bill O'Reilly's conspiracy theory, Barack Obama's election has emboldened "Secular Progressives" to ban the Easter Bunny because he stands in the way of jailing people who "criticize minorities."]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Scarborough&#039;s War, Steubenville, Drone &#039;Debate&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/22/fair-tv-scarboroughs-war-steubenville-drone-debate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-scarboroughs-war-steubenville-drone-debate</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/22/fair-tv-scarboroughs-war-steubenville-drone-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Scarborough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: Joe Scarborough remembers some things about the Iraq War--but forgets the things he said back then. We'll take a look at the CNN Steubenville coverage that had so many critics outraged. And the Washington Post presented two takes on drone deaths in Pakistan.]]></description>
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		<title>Time&#039;s Rethink on Drones</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/22/times-rethink-on-drones/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=times-rethink-on-drones</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/22/times-rethink-on-drones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Crowley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new issue of Time has a pretty interesting piece on the debate over Obama's drone program.  One way to measure the shift in official opinion is to consider that a little more than a year ago, the magazine hardly seemed to think there was any debate at all. ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post Prints Iraq Lies, 2013 Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/22/washington-post-prints-iraq-lies-2013-edition/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=washington-post-prints-iraq-lies-2013-edition</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/22/washington-post-prints-iraq-lies-2013-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Rather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hussein Kamel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Hadley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Washington Post, we're still reading lies about the Iraq War ten years later. ]]></description>
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		<title>How to Read Stories About Israel in the NY Times (Hint: Very Carefully)</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/21/how-to-read-stories-about-israel-in-the-ny-times-hint-very-carefully/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-to-read-stories-about-israel-in-the-ny-times-hint-very-carefully</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/21/how-to-read-stories-about-israel-in-the-ny-times-hint-very-carefully/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodi Rudoren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Landler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Gladstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Broad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot&#8211;not always in ways you might expect. Today (3/21/13) a story by Mark Landler and Rick Gladstone about allegations of chemical weapons in Syria includes something you see often&#8211;anonymous government sources. That can often be a bad thing; but today it&#039;s pretty useful: Two senior Israeli officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak, said that Israel was sure that chemicals were used, but did not have details about what type of weapons were used, where they came from, when they were deployed, or by whom. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Peoples, Two Pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/20/two-peoples-two-pictures/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=two-peoples-two-pictures</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/20/two-peoples-two-pictures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a pair of pictures on the front page of USA Today today, meant to illustrate a story about President Barack Obama's visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories. It actually illustrated the very different ways Israelis and Palestinians are depicted in U.S. media.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back at Iraq With&#8230;Michael Gordon?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/20/looking-back-at-iraq-with-michael-gordon/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=looking-back-at-iraq-with-michael-gordon</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/20/looking-back-at-iraq-with-michael-gordon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Woodruff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Gordon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, a front-page New York Times story helped mislead us into war with the idea that Iraq was trying to procure special aluminum tubes for its nuclear weapons program. Last night, one of the PBS NewsHour's two expert journalists to look back on Iraq was the guy who co-authored that piece. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill Maher Urges Vilification of Bill Maher</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/20/bill-maher-urges-vilification-of-bill-maher/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bill-maher-urges-vilification-of-bill-maher</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/20/bill-maher-urges-vilification-of-bill-maher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On his last HBO show, Bill Maher complained about how much he and his wealthy cohort pay in taxes. But he's unlikely to get much sympathy from the 2010 version of Bill Maher.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scarborough Remembers Some Iraq Words&#8211;But Not His Own</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/19/scarborough-remembers-some-iraq-words-but-not-his-own/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=scarborough-remembers-some-iraq-words-but-not-his-own</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/19/scarborough-remembers-some-iraq-words-but-not-his-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Scarborough]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC host Joe Scarborough's commentary looking back at the Iraq War took aim at some politicians and media outlets who were supportive of removing Saddam Hussein from power. But somehow he forgot to include his own words.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two Sides to Every Drone Death</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/18/two-sides-to-every-drone-death/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=two-sides-to-every-drone-death</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/18/two-sides-to-every-drone-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau of Investigative Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conor Friesdorf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Leiby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UN's special human rights envoy found that the CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan have "resulted in far more civilian casualties than the U.S. government has recognized." But that message was muddled by the Washington Post's he said-she said approach to the question of civilian deaths.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard Fineman Looks Back on Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/18/howard-fineman-looks-back-on-iraq/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=howard-fineman-looks-back-on-iraq</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/18/howard-fineman-looks-back-on-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Fineman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Fineman--formerly at Newsweek, now at Huffington Post--tries to come to terms with his Iraq War failures, seemingly with good intentions. But he falls short of addressing a record that shows a remarkable level of enthusiasm for the job of advocating for Bush's "eyes-on-the-prize decisiveness." ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>George Will &amp; Theoretical Liberal Media Bias</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/18/george-will-theoretical-liberal-media-bias/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=george-will-theoretical-liberal-media-bias</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/18/george-will-theoretical-liberal-media-bias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Will]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[George Will offers imaginary headline to prove his point about liberal media bias. Real headlines, unfortunately, don't back up his case.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>NYT: Odd Memories of Iran-Contra, Obama First Term</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/nyt-odd-memories-of-iran-contra-obama-first-term/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nyt-odd-memories-of-iran-contra-obama-first-term</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/nyt-odd-memories-of-iran-contra-obama-first-term/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Shear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rand Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times' Michael Shear suggests that Rep. Rand Paul's criticism of Obama's drone attacks are nothing out of the ordinary--but he takes a strange trip down memory lane to make the case.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/nyt-odd-memories-of-iran-contra-obama-first-term/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Papal Politics, Gaza Baby, NYT and U.S. Africa Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/fair-tv-papal-politics-gaza-baby-nyt-and-u-s-africa-policy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-papal-politics-gaza-baby-nyt-and-u-s-africa-policy</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/fair-tv-papal-politics-gaza-baby-nyt-and-u-s-africa-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week: What the media want you to know about Pope Francis&#8211; and what they don&#039;t seem to want to talk about. Also: Why is a UN report about dozens of Gazans killed in the Israeli attacks last year generating coverage about a baby who perhaps wasn&#039;t killed by Israel? And the New York Times wonders if U.S. policy in Africa will stress human rights over elite interests. Is that really a question? It&#039;s all here on this week&#039;s episode:]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post&#039;s Austerity Backer, Still Trying</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/washington-posts-austerity-backer-still-trying/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=washington-posts-austerity-backer-still-trying</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/washington-posts-austerity-backer-still-trying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Schneider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post's Howard Schneider asks, "In Europe's grand battle over growth vs. austerity, has Ireland proved that austerity works?" If so, keeping unemployment more than 10 percentage points above pre-recession levels is an odd sort of "working."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Pope and Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/the-pope-and-politics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-pope-and-politics</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/15/the-pope-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Weigel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Bergoglio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen as the new pope this week. But coverage often glossed over the most intense political controversies about him.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Armistice&#039;s Day Is Done&#8211;Contrary to NYT</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/13/armistices-day-is-done-contrary-to-nyt/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=armistices-day-is-done-contrary-to-nyt</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/13/armistices-day-is-done-contrary-to-nyt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choe Sang-Hun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Citing anonymous officials, the New York Times reported that "no party [to an] armistice can unilaterally terminate or alter its terms." International law expert Francis Boyle says that's nonsense.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#039;What Palestinians Said Was Israeli Aggression&#039;: The Death of Omar al-Masharawi</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/12/what-palestinians-said-was-israeli-aggression-the-death-of-omar-al-masharawi/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-palestinians-said-was-israeli-aggression-the-death-of-omar-al-masharawi</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/12/what-palestinians-said-was-israeli-aggression-the-death-of-omar-al-masharawi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar al-Masharawi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights tallies the extent of the death and destruction from Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip last November. But the headlines generated by the report focused on one child in Gaza, 11-month-old Omar al-Masharawi, and the claim that he was not killed by Israelis.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Killing a Citizen: NYT, Awlaki and &#039;Muddying the Moral Clarity&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/12/killing-a-citizen-nyt-awlaki-and-muddying-the-moral-clarity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=killing-a-citizen-nyt-awlaki-and-muddying-the-moral-clarity</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/12/killing-a-citizen-nyt-awlaki-and-muddying-the-moral-clarity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anwar al-Awlaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Savage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Maz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Shane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has not wanted to explain in any great detail how it justified killing an American citizen in Yemen. But there were apparently plenty of current and former officials willing to explain their case to the New York Times.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>What U.S. Commitment to African Justice and Human Rights?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/12/what-u-s-commitment-to-african-justice-and-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-u-s-commitment-to-african-justice-and-human-rights</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/12/what-u-s-commitment-to-african-justice-and-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Gettleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was not altogether surprising to see a headline in the New York Times, "Leader of Vote Count in Kenya Faces U.S. With Tough Choices." The "tough choice" is apparently that the candidate in the lead, Uhuru Kenyatta, has a terrible human rights record. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Hugo Chavez in U.S. Media, Time&#039;s Path to Iran War, Keystone XL and the TV Left</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/fair-tv-hugo-chavez-in-u-s-media-times-path-to-iran-war-keystone-xl-and-the-tv-left/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-hugo-chavez-in-u-s-media-times-path-to-iran-war-keystone-xl-and-the-tv-left</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/fair-tv-hugo-chavez-in-u-s-media-times-path-to-iran-war-keystone-xl-and-the-tv-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keystone XL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: Hugo Chavez was loathed by the U.S. press--and that didn't change when they reported his death. Plus Time magazine provides a look at the "Path to War" with Iran--omitting a key fact along the way.

And the Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news.  But when it came up on ABC's This Week, "left" pundit James Carville had a  curious message.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/fair-tv-hugo-chavez-in-u-s-media-times-path-to-iran-war-keystone-xl-and-the-tv-left/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>NYT Debates Hugo Chavez&#8211;Minus the Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/nyt-debates-hugo-chavez-minus-the-debate/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nyt-debates-hugo-chavez-minus-the-debate</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/nyt-debates-hugo-chavez-minus-the-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Neuman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["On Eve of His Funeral, Debating Chávez’s Legacy" is the headline over William Neuman's piece in the New York Times today. Funny headline, since there was no one in the Times' "debate" who argued that Chávez left much of anything.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time&#039;s Ticking Clock on War With Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/times-ticking-clock-on-war-with-iran/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=times-ticking-clock-on-war-with-iran</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/times-ticking-clock-on-war-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massimo Calabresi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowhere does Time's Massimo Calabresi mention one rather inconvenient fact: There is no evidence that Iran is actually pursuing a nuclear weapon. Regular inspections have failed to turn up any evidence of that.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/06/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/06/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Sampson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=24024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chavez squandered his nation's oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world's tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>149</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keystone&#039;s Endorsement by a TV &#039;Leftist&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/04/keystones-endorsement-by-a-tv-leftist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=keystones-endorsement-by-a-tv-leftist</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/04/keystones-endorsement-by-a-tv-leftist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline doesn&#039;t get covered much in corporate television&#8211;it takes tens of thousands of activists marching in Washington to get a few words on the nightly newscasts. But the State Department&#039;s recent draft assessment of the pipeline&#039;s environmental impact got a mention on one show, and it said a lot. Not about the pipeline, really, but about corporate media. The comment came on the roundtable discussion on ABC&#039;s This Week (3/3/13). The panel, like so many of these discussions, was tilted to the right: A Republican mayor from Utah (Mia Love), a former Bush adviser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years Ago, the Truth About Iraqi WMDs Was Published&#8211;and Ignored</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/04/ten-years-ago-the-truth-about-iraqi-wmds-was-published-and-ignored/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ten-years-ago-the-truth-about-iraqi-wmds-was-published-and-ignored</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/04/ten-years-ago-the-truth-about-iraqi-wmds-was-published-and-ignored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hussein Kamel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Barry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, a major American magazine published a bombshell report about the non-existence of Iraq's WMDs.  But it was hardly noticed by a corporate press corps too busy hyping the threat from those non-existent weapons.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Sequester Spin, Iranian vs. U.S. Propaganda, Stop &amp; Frisk Factcheck</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/01/fair-tv-sequester-spin-iranian-vs-u-s-propaganda-stop-frisk-factcheck/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-sequester-spin-iranian-vs-u-s-propaganda-stop-frisk-factcheck</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/01/fair-tv-sequester-spin-iranian-vs-u-s-propaganda-stop-frisk-factcheck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Argo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we take a look at how the Washington Post challenges some sequester spin. And CBS pokes fun at Iranian claims about Argo--but are the Iranians right that Argo is fiction? Plus George Will has some thoughts about stop-and-frisk policing.]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Pals and Their &#039;National Security&#039; Passion</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/01/republican-pals-and-their-national-security-passion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=republican-pals-and-their-national-security-passion</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/01/republican-pals-and-their-national-security-passion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Crowley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time magazine has a profile this week of Senate Republican buddies John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and one passage really stands out&#8211;not for what it reveals about them, really, but about the media. Michael Crowley writes: Graham and McCain have been friends for more than a decade, a partnership born of their shared passion for national security (McCain was a Navy pilot, Graham is still an Air Force Reserve lawyer), a willingness to poke their party&#039;s base in the eye and an uncanny knack for attracting the media&#039;s attention. More surprising and quotable than bland party leaders like Mitch McConnell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill O&#039;Reilly, Big Government and Racism</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/28/bill-oreilly-big-government-and-racism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bill-oreilly-big-government-and-racism</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/28/bill-oreilly-big-government-and-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's not as if Bill O'Reilly has never uttered things reasonable people might consider racist. But the fact that he seems to believe that the White House is destroying the economy in order to provide free stuff to people of color is taking things to an entirely different level.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>CNN&#039;s Recipe for Italy: Austerity&#8211;No Matter What</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/27/cnns-recipe-for-italy-austerity-no-matter-what/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cnns-recipe-for-italy-austerity-no-matter-what</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/27/cnns-recipe-for-italy-austerity-no-matter-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbie Latza Nadeau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CNN.com had an odd piece of analysis of the Italian election results, arguing that austerity  "is necessary by any calculation to actually start moving Italy out of the recession."  That's not the calculation of Paul Krugman, who for what its worth is a Nobel Prize-winning economist.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Forget Objectivity&#8211;Can We Have a Fact-Based Media?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/27/forget-objectivity-can-we-have-a-fact-based-media/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=forget-objectivity-can-we-have-a-fact-based-media</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/27/forget-objectivity-can-we-have-a-fact-based-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Pexton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no objective evidence that allowing two people of the same gender to marry will harm mixed-gender marriages. So you might think objective reporting would treat that assertion as a dubious claim. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heard the One About Lazy French Workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/26/heard-the-one-about-lazy-french-workers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=heard-the-one-about-lazy-french-workers</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/26/heard-the-one-about-lazy-french-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Cody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fortune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Chittum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post brings us the story of a right-wing U.S. businessman who is  in a very public fight over the work habits of the French.  Yes, we all know the folklore about the lazy French. What would be helpful here is some dose of reality--that's what journalism can be good for.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oscar Rights Some Historical Wrongs, Creates Some New Ones</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/26/oscar-rights-some-historical-wrongs-creates-some-new-ones/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=oscar-rights-some-historical-wrongs-creates-some-new-ones</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/26/oscar-rights-some-historical-wrongs-creates-some-new-ones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Andersen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zero Dark Thirty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many have exposed the fictions of Argo; Salon's Andrew O'Hehir described the film as "a propaganda fable." But when the Academy chose Argo and almost ignored Zero Dark Thirty, I cheered.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iranians and Their Clunky Propaganda!</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/26/iranians-and-their-clunky-propaganda/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iranians-and-their-clunky-propaganda</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/26/iranians-and-their-clunky-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Pelley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose we might ignore that the first lady of a country appeared at an awards show, flanked by members of the military, to present a prize to a film about the heroism of U.S. intelligence. No, the real problem  is Iran's Photoshopping.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez Keeps Showering the Poor</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/25/hugo-chavez-keeps-showering-the-poor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hugo-chavez-keeps-showering-the-poor</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/25/hugo-chavez-keeps-showering-the-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emilia Diaz-Struck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Forero]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chavez years, as best we can tell, have been enormously beneficial to the Venezuelan public as owners of public resources. But when corporate media write about Chavez's policies, they can barely disguise their real feelings--as if the natural order of things would mean that private companies managed the oil industry and captured the profits.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>George Will&#039;s Stop &amp; Frisk Factcheck</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/25/george-wills-stop-frisk-factcheck/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=george-wills-stop-frisk-factcheck</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/25/george-wills-stop-frisk-factcheck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC Sunday show This Week had not one but two roundtables this weekend. Right-winger George Will appeared on both of them, because... well, he knows a lot of stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Climate March and TV, Fox &#039;Liberal&#039; on Campus Rape, NYT Doesn&#039;t Like Correa</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/22/fair-tv-climate-march-and-tv-fox-liberal-on-campus-rape-nyt-doesnt-like-correa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-climate-march-and-tv-fox-liberal-on-campus-rape-nyt-doesnt-like-correa</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/22/fair-tv-climate-march-and-tv-fox-liberal-on-campus-rape-nyt-doesnt-like-correa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Beckel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Correa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Was the big climate march in Washington not hot enough for corporate TV? What does the New York Times have against leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa? And Bob Beckel said something dumb on a Fox News show yet again--a convenient "left-wing" role for a right-wing outlet.]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes David Brooks Gets So Mad He Can&#039;t Write Straight</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/22/sometimes-david-brooks-gets-so-mad-he-cant-write-straight/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sometimes-david-brooks-gets-so-mad-he-cant-write-straight</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/22/sometimes-david-brooks-gets-so-mad-he-cant-write-straight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When David Brooks writes that Obama "declines to come up with a proposal" other than raising taxes on the rich, and in reality he has proposed a plan, that merits a correction, right? Maybe. But when you're a New York Times columnist, apparently you get to play by a different rulebook. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fox News &#039;Liberal&#039; Isn&#039;t So Sure About College Rape</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/22/fox-news-liberal-isnt-so-sure-about-college-rape/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fox-news-liberal-isnt-so-sure-about-college-rape</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/22/fox-news-liberal-isnt-so-sure-about-college-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Beckel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most places, a record like Bob Beckel would probably lead your employer to tell you to take your act elsewhere.  But if you're running a right-wing propaganda network, he's a pretty valuable "leftist" to keep around.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>When You&#039;re Cutting Social Security, &#039;Wealthy&#039; Begins at $25K</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/21/when-youre-cutting-social-security-wealthy-begins-at-25k/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-youre-cutting-social-security-wealthy-begins-at-25k</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/21/when-youre-cutting-social-security-wealthy-begins-at-25k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuval Levin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a proposal for Social Security that was on the New York Times&#039; op-ed page yesterday (2/20/13): The top third of beneficiaries (by lifetime income) [would] receive no annual cost-of-living adjustment in retirement. The middle third would get half of today’s adjustment, and the bottom third would receive the same annual increase they do now. Such a reform&#8230;would reduce Social Security spending by more than a tenth over a decade and fix the program’s long-term financing. This is part of Paul Ryan adviser Yuval Levin&#039;s attempt to find &#034;common ground&#034; on the entitlement issue: &#034;Both sides should agree at least [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Does a Climatologist Need to Explain Economics to Joe Nocera?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/20/why-does-a-climatologist-need-to-explain-economics-to-joe-nocera/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-does-a-climatologist-need-to-explain-economics-to-joe-nocera</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/20/why-does-a-climatologist-need-to-explain-economics-to-joe-nocera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Hansen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Nocera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA climatologist James Hansen has tried to explain to New York Times columnist Joe Nocera why he's so wrong about the tar sands, but Nocera's account of their argument makes it seem like explaining anything to him would be an uphill battle. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Friedman&#039;s Apple Hunch</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/20/tom-friedmans-apple-hunch/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tom-friedmans-apple-hunch</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/20/tom-friedmans-apple-hunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom  Friedman wrote a column about how government policies are harming the recovery. What we need is some kind of grand bargain to, as the headline puts is, "unparalyze" the economy and spur new growth. What's that mean? Cuts to Social Security and Medicare, along with "tax reform."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The NYT&#039;s Problem With Leftist Presidents</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/19/the-nyts-problem-with-leftist-presidents/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-nyts-problem-with-leftist-presidents</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/19/the-nyts-problem-with-leftist-presidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Correa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Neuman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The polls showed that Ecuadoreans weren't "apprehensive" about giving Correa another term. So why was the New York Times? Probably because his policies are the kind that institutions like the Times tell us aren't supposed to work.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Friendly Oil&#8211;Not the Venezuelan Kind</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/19/friendly-oil-not-the-venezuelan-kind/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=friendly-oil-not-the-venezuelan-kind</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/19/friendly-oil-not-the-venezuelan-kind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Shogren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Nocera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the Keystone climate protests in Washington bringing climate change back into the media, we're hearing a lot about how the Keystone pipeline will, at the very least, mean that we'll be getting our oil from a nice country.  ]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Minimum Wage, SOTU Punditry, Dorner Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/15/fair-tv-minimum-wage-sotu-punditry-dorner-denial/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-minimum-wage-sotu-punditry-dorner-denial</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/15/fair-tv-minimum-wage-sotu-punditry-dorner-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Dorner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: Why is raising the minimum wage considered &#034;divisive&#034;? And a Washington Post pundit gives Obama State of the Union advice: Skip climate change and go big on the deficit. Plus a look at the way the New York Times framed police brutality in a story about Charles Dorner. Remember: If you like what you see, share it on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to FAIR&#039;s YouTube feed. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Are Iranian Magnets the New Aluminum Tubes?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/15/are-iranian-magnets-the-new-aluminum-tubes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-iranian-magnets-the-new-aluminum-tubes</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/15/are-iranian-magnets-the-new-aluminum-tubes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Albright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joby Warrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the run up to the Iraq War, the New York Times famously reported on an Iraqi scheme to procure special aluminum tubes that could only have one purpose:  Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The claims were false--Iraq, as it turned out, had no nuclear program--but still hugely influential.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>If There&#039;s a &#039;War Against Boys,&#039; Why Are Men Still Winning?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/14/if-theres-a-war-against-boys-why-are-men-still-winning/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=if-theres-a-war-against-boys-why-are-men-still-winning</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/14/if-theres-a-war-against-boys-why-are-men-still-winning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Hoff Sommers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christina Hoff Sommers, who played a starring role in the anti-feminist backlash of the 1990s, is back again with a new edition of her book The War Against Boys. Originally subtitled  How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, it&#039;s now relabeled How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men; she now stresses&#8211;in a major New York Times op-ed (2/3/13) and a 10-minute one-on-one interview on NPR&#039;s Tell Me More (2/12/13)&#8211;that changing schools to help boys do better educationally is just a question of &#034;basic fairness.&#034; She writes in the Times: That boys struggle with school is hardly news&#8230;. Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Transgender Healthcare, NYT Reports Tree, Ignores Forest</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/14/on-transgender-healthcare-nyt-reports-tree-ignores-forest/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-transgender-healthcare-nyt-reports-tree-ignores-forest</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/14/on-transgender-healthcare-nyt-reports-tree-ignores-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hollar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single-payer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transgender]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that in the last few years, several elite U.S. universities have begun to cover sex reassignment surgery and/or hormones for transgender students. On the one hand, it&#039;s great that they&#039;re reporting news like this, and after years of extremely disrespectful coverage of transgender issues, it feels like a victory that their &#034;balance&#034; is limited to noting that &#034;the idea still seems radical to plenty of people.&#034; On the other hand, not a single trans-identified person is quoted. But what I really want to highlight here is how this kind of article utterly fails to connect some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is John Boehner a Labor Economist?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/14/is-john-boehner-a-labor-economist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-john-boehner-a-labor-economist</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/14/is-john-boehner-a-labor-economist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Factchecking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Landler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Republican leader John Boehner must have some expertise when it comes to labor economics. Either that, or the New York Times is allowing him to make misleading claims without being challenged.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Milbank Looks Forward to &#039;Bleak Times&#039; Ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/13/milbank-looks-forward-to-bleak-times-ahead/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=milbank-looks-forward-to-bleak-times-ahead</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/13/milbank-looks-forward-to-bleak-times-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we need "serious spending cuts"? Milbank assumes the answer is so obvious that it need not be explained--everyone knows the more cuts, the better. All the serious people, anyway.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Pentagon&#039;s Budget Crunch: No Dissenting Views</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/13/the-pentagons-budget-crunch-no-dissenting-views/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-pentagons-budget-crunch-no-dissenting-views</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/13/the-pentagons-budget-crunch-no-dissenting-views/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Vogel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post had a whole piece devoted to yet another round of complaints from military leaders--without a single comment from anyone who might take the view that cutting military spending would not be such a disaster.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The &#039;Politically Divisive&#039; Minimum Wage</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/13/the-politically-divisive-minimum-wage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-politically-divisive-minimum-wage</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/13/the-politically-divisive-minimum-wage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Lowrey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's important to step back and figure out what "divisive" means here. Republicans and corporate interests are opposed to this idea, but the American people say they overwhelmingly support the concept of paying people at the bottom of the wage scale more.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>AP Decides Your Husband or Wife Might Not Be</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/12/ap-decides-your-husband-or-wife-might-not-be/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ap-decides-your-husband-or-wife-might-not-be</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/12/ap-decides-your-husband-or-wife-might-not-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Romenesko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AP's intention was presumably to remain neutral on the issue of marriage equality--but its initial policy did take a position, indicating that no matter what their state government says, AP was not going to consider legally married same-sex couples to be really married.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>PBS Goes to Israel and Palestine&#8211;Mostly Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/12/pbs-goes-to-israel-and-palestine-mostly-israel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pbs-goes-to-israel-and-palestine-mostly-israel</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/12/pbs-goes-to-israel-and-palestine-mostly-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Warner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill said, "We will hear more from Margaret [Warner] as she travels through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza over the next week and a half,"  That sounded like it could be be an interesting opportunity for TV viewers to get a glimpse of Palestinian life. But that's not what PBS chose to put on the air.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABC Botches the Brennan Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/11/abc-botches-the-brennan-hearing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=abc-botches-the-brennan-hearing</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/11/abc-botches-the-brennan-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Karl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TV news is often not all that informative. Sometimes that's because the reports are so short--a few hundred words. But then there are TV reports that manage to use their short space to garble the details of a story completely. ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl's piece about the  Senate confirmation hearing for Obama's CIA pick  John Brennan fit into the latter category.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Beltway Villager&#039;s Bad Advice for Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/11/a-beltway-villagers-bad-advice-for-obama/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-beltway-villagers-bad-advice-for-obama</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/11/a-beltway-villagers-bad-advice-for-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Cillizza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote a piece giving Barack Obama some advice on what to say in his State of the Union address. The article almost reads like a parody of Beltway punditry.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>At Beliefnet, &#039;Everyone&#039; Doesn&#039;t Include Feminists</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/08/at-beliefnet-everyone-doesnt-include-feminists/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=at-beliefnet-everyone-doesnt-include-feminists</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/08/at-beliefnet-everyone-doesnt-include-feminists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beliefnet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Romenesko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The religious-themed website Beliefnet bills itself as offering "something for everyone" with a "broad editorial point of view." Unfortunately, as playwright and pastor Kristine Holmgren found when she was offered a chance to blog there, in Beliefnet's eyes, "everyone" does not include feminists.]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Big Papers Withhold News, Curious &#039;Confirmation&#039; of Israeli Gov&#039;t Claims, 60 Minutes Plays Softball</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/08/fair-tv-big-papers-withhold-news-curious-confirmation-of-israeli-govt-claims-60-minutes-plays-softball/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-big-papers-withhold-news-curious-confirmation-of-israeli-govt-claims-60-minutes-plays-softball</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/08/fair-tv-big-papers-withhold-news-curious-confirmation-of-israeli-govt-claims-60-minutes-plays-softball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV we take a look at the the "informal arrangement" between several media outlets--including the New York Times and the Washington Post-- to not report news about a CIA drone base.

We also talk about the curious standard for "confirming" news from Israeli government officials, and we take a look at the 60 Minutes softball interview with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill O’Reilly and the &#039;Epidemic of Disrespect&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/08/bill-oreilly-and-the-epidemic-of-disrespect/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bill-oreilly-and-the-epidemic-of-disrespect</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/08/bill-oreilly-and-the-epidemic-of-disrespect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill O’Reilly-- whose network is known on-air fantasies about murdering public figures, jokes about the assassination of the president, and is the only network named by more than one spree killer as having helped to inspire their murderous designs--is worried that the country is becoming too disrespectful.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Millionaires Are&#8211;or Perhaps Aren&#039;t&#8211;Leaving California</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/07/millionaires-are-or-perhaps-arent-leaving-california/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=millionaires-are-or-perhaps-arent-leaving-california</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/07/millionaires-are-or-perhaps-arent-leaving-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Nagourney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The early headline on a New York Times story (2/7/13) by Adam Nagourney was, &#034;Millionaires Consider Leaving California Over Taxes.&#034; At some point they changed the headline, probably because there&#039;s nothing in the article that would support it. But the problems with the piece remain. The story it&#039;s trying to tell is about a new tax increase on income over $1 million. Combined with federal/state taxes, the tax bill can really start to add up for the super wealthy&#8211;an &#034;unpleasant surprise for the rich.&#034; I feel as bad for them as you do, no doubt. The point of the article, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>EXCLUSIVE: Bill O&#039;Reilly Does Not Have Access to the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/07/exclusive-bill-oreilly-does-not-have-access-to-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=exclusive-bill-oreilly-does-not-have-access-to-the-internet</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/07/exclusive-bill-oreilly-does-not-have-access-to-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Beckel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Isikoff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On last night's O'Reilly Factor, the Fox News host wondered why NBC has failed to cover the new revelations about the White House drone program. The real question here is why Fox doesn't let O'Reilly have access to the Internet.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>An &#039;Informal Arrangement&#039; to Not Report the News</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/06/an-informal-arrangement-to-not-report-the-news/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=an-informal-arrangement-to-not-report-the-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/06/an-informal-arrangement-to-not-report-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anwar al-Awlaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post  reported some news that it's known for years, but had decided not tell us until now: The CIA has a drone base in Saudi Arabia. Their rationale for withholding this information was simple: The government didn't want them to. And from what the Post is telling us today, they weren't the only ones.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>When It Comes to Drones, Trust the Churchgoing CIA Director</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/06/when-it-comes-to-drones-trust-the-churchgoing-cia-director/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-it-comes-to-drones-trust-the-churchgoing-cia-director</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/06/when-it-comes-to-drones-trust-the-churchgoing-cia-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Panetta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews hosted a discussion on the Obama administration's recently disclosed "white paper" justifying its policy of using drones to strike at U.S. citizens. Matthews ultimately deciding that the policy was defensible--on the grounds that the CIA director Leon Panetta goes to church.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>60 Minutes Plays Softball With Obama and Clinton</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/05/60-minutes-plays-softball-with-obama-and-clinton/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=60-minutes-plays-softball-with-obama-and-clinton</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/05/60-minutes-plays-softball-with-obama-and-clinton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Kroft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the top of his 60 Minutes interview with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Steve Kroft declares, "The White House offered us 30 minutes, barely enough time to scratch the surface of their complicated personal and professional relationship, let alone discuss their policies." Apparently what that meant was, "So I didn't bother to ask them about that policy stuff." ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/05/where-are-they-now-the-reporters-who-got-iraq-so-wrong/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=where-are-they-now-the-reporters-who-got-iraq-so-wrong</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/05/where-are-they-now-the-reporters-who-got-iraq-so-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Rather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary McGrory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Schneider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WMDs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case for going to war against Iraq, and much of what he said was false. Most of the journalists who promoted his justifications for the war paid no price for their failures.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>When &#039;Confirmed&#039; Means &#039;An Official Told Me So&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/04/when-confirmed-means-an-official-told-me-so/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-confirmed-means-an-official-told-me-so</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/04/when-confirmed-means-an-official-told-me-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodi Rudoren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Engel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NBC's Richard Engel report that "what we've been able to confirm" is that a Syrian convoy attacked by Israel "was packed with fairly sophisticated Russian anti-aircraft missiles." It is highly doubtful that Engel could "confirm" any such thing--unless by "confirm" he means that NBC is confirming that government sources are claiming what they are claiming.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: The Beltway Bubble, Syria Stenography, Iran&#039;s &quot;Meddling&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/01/fair-tv-the-beltway-bubble-syria-stenography-irans-meddling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-the-beltway-bubble-syria-stenography-irans-meddling</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/01/fair-tv-the-beltway-bubble-syria-stenography-irans-meddling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV, we look at the bubble that Joe Scarborough and David Gregory live in-- where the government must make "big" spending cuts, and Paul Krugman doesn't know economic. Also, does ABC's Martha Raddatz understand what the government is telling her about Syria? And Reuters grants a U.S. government official anonymity to complain about Iran meddling in other countries. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Zakaria on Arab Spring: With Democracy, Less Is More</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/01/zakaria-on-arab-spring-with-democracy-less-is-more/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=zakaria-on-arab-spring-with-democracy-less-is-more</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/02/01/zakaria-on-arab-spring-with-democracy-less-is-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria in his latest Washington Post column argues that pro-democracy movements would be better off with less democracy. To Zakaria, Egypt tried too much democracy too soon. "In Jordan, by contrast, the king did not rush to hold elections"-- shocking!--but instead "appointed a council to propose changes to the constitution." ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iran&#039;s &#039;Nuclear Weapons Program,&#039; Again</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/31/irans-nuclear-weapons-program-again/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=irans-nuclear-weapons-program-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/31/irans-nuclear-weapons-program-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday's edition of the NewsHour (1/28/13), host Gwen Ifill referred to concerns about  the "threat posed by Iran's nuclear program," and told viewers that a story "looks at the debate in Israel over how to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran." How hard is it for NewsHour to understand that allegations are not facts?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>PBS and the Poor Pentagon</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/31/pbs-and-the-poor-pentagon/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pbs-and-the-poor-pentagon</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/31/pbs-and-the-poor-pentagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kwame Holman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewsHour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the PBS NewsHour took a look at military spending cuts, the segment unfortunately presented a very narrow view of the issue--one that mimics the kind of coverage we see elsewhere in the corporate media.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Raddatz Misreports Raddatz on Syrian Weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/29/raddatz-misreports-raddatz-on-syrian-weapons/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=raddatz-misreports-raddatz-on-syrian-weapons</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/29/raddatz-misreports-raddatz-on-syrian-weapons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Panetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The implication of Martha Raddatz's quotation of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is that Syria has loaded chemical weapons at the ready, and that it would take a matter of hours for the Assad government to use them. But that's not what Panetta told...well,  Raddatz herself.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iranian Meddling in Yemen, Says Unnamed Official From Meddling Country</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/29/iranian-meddling-says-unnamed-official-from-meddling-country/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iranian-meddling-says-unnamed-official-from-meddling-country</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/29/iranian-meddling-says-unnamed-official-from-meddling-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=23588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The country that has invaded and occupied two countries in the region, and is currently waging a drone war in Yemen--not to mention the occasional cluster bomb attack--is granted anonymity to call out another country's alleged "meddling" there.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>David Gregory: Obama Should Trick Republicans by Being More Like Them</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/29/david-gregory-obama-should-trick-republicans-by-being-more-like-them/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=david-gregory-obama-should-trick-republicans-by-being-more-like-them</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/29/david-gregory-obama-should-trick-republicans-by-being-more-like-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Scarborough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meet the Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When reporters give strategic advice, they tend to reveal what they consider preferable policy goals.  A discussion of taxes and spending on Meet the Press revealed a lot about host David Gregory's worldview.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Poor People Living in an Abandoned Skyscraper So Outrage the New Yorker?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/25/why-do-poor-people-living-in-an-abandoned-skyscraper-so-outrage-the-new-yorker/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-do-poor-people-living-in-an-abandoned-skyscraper-so-outrage-the-new-yorker</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/25/why-do-poor-people-living-in-an-abandoned-skyscraper-so-outrage-the-new-yorker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Lee Anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the New Yorker, rising standards of living for the Venezuelan poor don't matter much when weighed against the fact that rich people lost some property they weren't using.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>97</slash:comments>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Obama&#039;s Liberal Inaugural?, Anonymous Iran Truth-Telling, PBS Drone Conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/25/fair-tv-obamas-liberal-inaugural-anonymous-iran-truth-telling-pbs-drone-conflict/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-obamas-liberal-inaugural-anonymous-iran-truth-telling-pbs-drone-conflict</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/25/fair-tv-obamas-liberal-inaugural-anonymous-iran-truth-telling-pbs-drone-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest edition of FAIR TV: Did Barack Obama&#039;s inaugural address really signify a shift to the left? Plus the Washington Post gives the government a chance to make anonymous claims about how much Iranians are suffering due to their sanctions policy. And PBS takes a look at drones,with special funding from&#8230; drone manufacturer Lockheed Martin? Take a look:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#039;Divided&#039; on Abortion Rights?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/25/divided-on-abortion-rights/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=divided-on-abortion-rights</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/25/divided-on-abortion-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie DiBlasio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reproductive rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today's point in covering this weekend's anti-choice "March for Life" is is to note that, 40 years after the Roe v. Wade decision, the country is divided on abortion rights.  That's an odd way of describing a 24-point spread in public opinion]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama: &#039;Starkly Liberal&#039; or Centrist?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/24/obama-starkly-liberal-or-centrist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama-starkly-liberal-or-centrist</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/24/obama-starkly-liberal-or-centrist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kane]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Washington Post story today (1/24/13) leads with this: The success of President Obama&#039;s starkly liberal second-term agenda will rest largely on the shoulders of Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid, who has been a rock-solid political ally and a valued legislative tactician for Obama during his first term. That characterization of Obama&#039;s agenda&#8211;shared by many in corporate media (FAIR Media Advisory, 1/23/13)&#8211;a seems better suited for an op-ed than a news article, especially since reporter Paul Kane has little to back up his argument. The piece is mostly about Obama&#039;s gun proposals, which Kane reports will constitute three things: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Journalists Say Obama Still Too Mean to Republicans</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/22/journalists-say-obama-still-too-mean-to-republicans/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=journalists-say-obama-still-too-mean-to-republicans</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/22/journalists-say-obama-still-too-mean-to-republicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Stevenson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Page]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since the consensus seems to be that Obama's inaugural address was actually a statement of a bold, progressive vision for his second term, it's not a surprise that some in the corporate media are upset. Obama's words were seen as particularly injurious to Republicans, who presumably already feel bad enough as it is. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sanctions Not Really Hurting Ordinary Iranians, Says Anonymous U.S. Official</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/22/sanctions-not-really-hurting-ordinary-iranians-says-anonymous-u-s-official/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sanctions-not-really-hurting-ordinary-iranians-says-anonymous-u-s-official</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/22/sanctions-not-really-hurting-ordinary-iranians-says-anonymous-u-s-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joby Warrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Kristof]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to be surprised by the practice of granting anonymity to U.S. officials. But it was surprising to be reassured in the Washington Post that the U.S.-led sanctions on Iran aren't really harming ordinary Iranians--based on the word of an anonymous U.S. official.]]></description>
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		<title>NYT Leaves Readers High and Dry on Causes of Mississippi Drought</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/18/nyt-leaves-readers-high-and-dry-on-causes-of-mississippi-drought/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nyt-leaves-readers-high-and-dry-on-causes-of-mississippi-drought</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/18/nyt-leaves-readers-high-and-dry-on-causes-of-mississippi-drought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mississippi River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom the Dancing Bug]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nowhere in the New York Times' discussion of the reaction to what an accompanying graphic calls the "historic drought in 2012" is there any mention of what is changing our history: the climate change caused by global warming brought on by human alteration of Earth's atmosphere.]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: France vs. Spain, NYT Erases West Bank Occupation, Wall Street Journal&#039;s Tax Graphic</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/18/fair-tv-france-vs-spain-nyt-erases-west-bank-occupation-wall-street-journals-tax-graphic/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-france-vs-spain-nyt-erases-west-bank-occupation-wall-street-journals-tax-graphic</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/18/fair-tv-france-vs-spain-nyt-erases-west-bank-occupation-wall-street-journals-tax-graphic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAIR TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the new FAIR TV: The Washington Post says France had better slash wages and benefits in order to be more like Spain. Why would they want to do that? The New York Times erases a headline referring to the occupation of the West Bank. And when the Wall Street Journal wanted to show  what the new tax deal meant for &#034;you&#034;&#8211;who exactly did they have in mind?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are Israeli Arabs &#039;Apathetic&#039;&#8211;or Second-Class Citizens?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/18/are-israeli-arabs-apathetic-or-second-class-citizens/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=are-israeli-arabs-apathetic-or-second-class-citizens</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/18/are-israeli-arabs-apathetic-or-second-class-citizens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaime Omar Yassin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodi Rudoren]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a variety of reasons, Arab citizens of Israel don't seem all that excited about voting in next week's elections.  And, for some reason, this strike the New York Times' Jodi Rudoren  as "apathy." But the Arab sentiments she reports sure don't sound like apathy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Copyright for People, Not for Publishers</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/17/copyright-for-people-not-for-publishers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=copyright-for-people-not-for-publishers</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/17/copyright-for-people-not-for-publishers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Swartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Stallman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Misinterpreting Copyright: A Series of Errors," an essay by Richard Stallman, is one of the best explanations I've seen for what's wrong with the way we think about copyright. The main idea is that the when the U.S. Constitution authorized copyright  laws, it did so on the basis that it is "not a natural right of authors, but an artificial concession made to them for the sake of progress."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Cure for French Malaise: Cut Worker Pay</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/16/the-cure-for-french-malaise-cut-worker-pay/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-cure-for-french-malaise-cut-worker-pay</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/16/the-cure-for-french-malaise-cut-worker-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Schneider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With an unemployment rate at just over 26 percent and regular street protests against government austerity policies, it's hard to imagine anyone holding up Spain as a model. But Howard Schneider, writing in the Washington Post, does just that--warning France that it had better shape up and be more like Spain:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Journalism by&#8211;and for&#8211;the Sponsors</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/16/journalism-by-and-for-the-sponsors/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=journalism-by-and-for-the-sponsors</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/16/journalism-by-and-for-the-sponsors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Atlantic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The headline of a recent article posted at the website of the Atlantic--"David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone Year"--probably tipped readers that something was more than a little off. It wasn't an article, really; above the headline, in a yellow box, was the phrase "Sponsor Content."  But is what the Atlantic did--and quickly apologized for--really unusual?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ignoring Climate Change When It Stares You in the Face</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/15/ignoring-climate-change-when-it-stares-you-in-the-face/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ignoring-climate-change-when-it-stares-you-in-the-face</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/15/ignoring-climate-change-when-it-stares-you-in-the-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Postel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen Dahlgren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lester Holt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NBC Nightly News asked a serious question the other night--and then gave a not-so-serious answer: Why it is so cold where it should be warm, and so warm where it should be cold? What is going on with all this extreme weather?" Its answer was true as far as it went--but it didn't go any farther. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-1986-2013/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=aaron-swartz-1986-2013</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-1986-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Swartz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's always difficult to report on someone's death. If they've had a lifetime of accomplishments, how do you sum that up in a few brief paragraphs? When a life has been cut cruelly short, it's even worse--trying hopelessly to convey the sense of lost possibilities. With Aaron Swartz, who died this past weekend, reportedly by his own hand, you have the worst of both worlds]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jack Lew, One More Anti-Business Obama Appointee</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/14/jack-lew-one-more-anti-business-obama-appointee/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jack-lew-one-more-anti-business-obama-appointee</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/14/jack-lew-one-more-anti-business-obama-appointee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Lew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Gonzalez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans and various right-wing commentators have had a thing for talking about the supposedly "anti-business" tilt of the Obama administration. It's never made much sense--and it doesn't make any more sense now that pundits are reacting to news that Obama will tap his current chief of staff Jack Lew to be his next Treasury secretary. ]]></description>
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		<title>NYT Rewrites Accurate Occupation Headline</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/14/nyt-rewrites-accurate-occupation-headline/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nyt-rewrites-accurate-occupation-headline</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel/Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali Abunimah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seth Ackerman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The New York Times reported the news on Saturday. But the most remarkable thing is what they did with the headline.]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR TV: Peacenik Chuck Hagel, Pundits vs. Elderly, Another Bogus OWS Story</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/11/fair-tv-peacenik-chuck-hagel-pundits-vs-elderly-another-bogus-ows-story/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fair-tv-peacenik-chuck-hagel-pundits-vs-elderly-another-bogus-ows-story</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/11/fair-tv-peacenik-chuck-hagel-pundits-vs-elderly-another-bogus-ows-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Brokaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week on FAIR TV: Can Chuck Hagel really be considered anti-war? Pundits are mad about the fiscal cliff tax deal--they wanted more Social Security and Medicare cuts. And Murdoch's New York Post made another attempt to link Occupy Wall Street to crime--and other media outlets went along.]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez: Why Does He Hate Us?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/11/hugo-chavez-why-does-he-hate-us/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hugo-chavez-why-does-he-hate-us</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/11/hugo-chavez-why-does-he-hate-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Forero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Suarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Pelley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might be excused for harboring some hard feelings towards a government that helped to try to overthrow your own. Which may be why U.S. reports rarely bring up the 2002 coup attempt--and when they do, treat Washington's involvement in it as another nutty Chavez conspiracy theory. ]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington on Guns&#8230;According to Sean Hannity</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/george-washington-on-guns-according-to-sean-hannity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=george-washington-on-guns-according-to-sean-hannity</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/george-washington-on-guns-according-to-sean-hannity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Rendall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Hannity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To make the case that gun ownership was not just a right, but something akin to a sacrament, Hannity quoted George Washington:  "'Rifles and pistols are equally indispensable.' 'They deserve a place of honor with all that's good.'" The quote is a hoax, and a well-known one.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill O&#039;Reilly&#039;s Fact-Free War on Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/bill-oreillys-fact-free-war-on-planned-parenthood/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bill-oreillys-fact-free-war-on-planned-parenthood</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/bill-oreillys-fact-free-war-on-planned-parenthood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly wants Congress to investigate Planned Parenthood for being an "abortion mill." In the real world, very little of their work is related to abortion services. But why let facts get in the way?]]></description>
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		<title>A Cabinet of Peaceniks?</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/a-cabinet-of-peaceniks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-cabinet-of-peaceniks</link>
		<comments>http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/a-cabinet-of-peaceniks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War/Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Bumiller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It goes to show you how limited the debate over warmaking is when politicians whose records are mostly pro-war can be portrayed as war skeptics. That's what is happening with Barack Obama's new cabinet picks: Sen. John Kerry for secretary of State and former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary. ]]></description>
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