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Juan Williams, Fox News Liberal

Posted on 10/26/2010 by Peter Hart

After being fired by NPR, Juan Williams made an appearance with Fox host Bill O'Reilly (10/21/10) where he explained that he wasn't likely to get support from prominent African-American leaders like Al Sharpton because "I'm not a predictable black liberal." … Continue reading →

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ABC on WikiLeaks: When Will They Be Arrested?

Posted on 10/25/2010 by Peter Hart

On the October 22 broadcast of ABC World News With Diane Sawyer,the anchorweighed in on the WikiLeaks Iraq Wardocumentsby noting, "Arab television is already trumpeting the revelations." Not exactly a promising start, but the correspondent Martha Raddatz did a pretty … Continue reading →

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AFP Runs With Wikipedia Founder's 'Crazy Information' About WikiLeaks

Posted on 09/28/2010 by Jim Naureckas

Agence France Presse (9/28/10) has an interview with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales about WikiLeaks–apparently because of their proximity in alphabetical order. Wales says that he wishes WikiLeaks didn't have "wiki" in its name–fair enough; he's free to wish that. But … Continue reading →

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NYT Passes Along Anonymous Denial of Civilian Deaths

Posted on 08/06/2010 by Peter Hart

We often heard during the WikiLeaks controversy thatcivilian deaths in Afghanistan are well-covered in the corporate media, so the revelations in the documents about such incidents were "old news." A report in today's Times from Rod Nordland ("Afghans Say NATO … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks on Sunday State TV

Posted on 08/02/2010 by Peter Hart

The Afghanistan documents posted by WikiLeaks were obviously the big story of the week. So how did the network Sunday shows react to these disclosures, which have the potential to open up a real debate about the Afghan War? NBC's … Continue reading →

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Time Magazine: We Cannot Leave Afghanistan

Posted on 07/29/2010 by Peter Hart

In case you thought the WikiLeaks story might change everything: The forthcomingTime magazine (out tomorrow) has acover photo ofa disfigured Afghan woman with the headline "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." The implicationwould seem to be that the Taliban will … Continue reading →

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More of Lara Logan's Media Criticism

Posted on 07/27/2010 by Peter Hart

Fresh from her comments slamming Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings forreporting things the military wouldn't like, CBS reporter Lara Logan weighedin on the WikiLeaks story on last night'sCBS Evening News, where she argued that reporters should do more to stress the … Continue reading →

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WashPost on Wikileaks: *Yawn*

Posted on 07/27/2010 by Peter Hart

The stories in today's Washington Post tell you everything you need to know about the media establishment's reaction to the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents: WikiLeaks Disclosures Unlikely to Change Course of Afghanistan War By Greg Jaffe and Peter Finn …The documents' … Continue reading →

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NYT Op-Ed Writer Bored by WikiLeaks' Revelations on Afghan Deaths, Civil War

Posted on 07/27/2010 by Jim Naureckas

Former special ops squad leader/current think tank fellow Andrew Exum noisily yawns at the WikiLeaks Afghan document release on the New York Times op-ed page today (7/27/10): The news media have done a good job of showing the public that … Continue reading →

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