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10.02.2009 2:30 pm

Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity lack real power, Times columnist says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The last presidential campaign — specifically the GOP primaries — should have shown how little power media “talk jocks like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity” really have,  columnist David Brooks writes in today’s New York Times.

Brooks writes that the talk…

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07.08.2009 11:35 am

Stop using news stories from East Coast sources, reader suggests

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Robert Porter of Wildwood — in a letter to the editor published Wednesday on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Opinion Page — requests that we stop using news articles produced by “east coast liberals.” He calls for us to use more…

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06.26.2009 2:11 pm

Are journalism schools incubators for liberals?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A couple of readers — Joe L. and EJ Rotert — are still debating that question in a two-week Editors’ Desk posting on another topic.

Excerpts of their exchange:

Joe L: The vast majority of the potential “workforce” are journalism school graduates who -…

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05.22.2009 11:04 am

Keith Olbermann answers Rush Limbaugh’s challenge to MSNBC

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rush Limbaugh’s challenge to MSNBC to ignore him for a month was answered by the cable network’s Keith Olbermann, who said he’d accept the challenge if Limbaugh went a month without talking about himself.

Limbaugh issued his challenge Tuesday on his radio…

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05.06.2009 12:04 pm

Is liberal bias the reason newspapers are struggling?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jeff Jacoby, a columnist for the Boston Globe, says the answer is no.

Political leanings have nothing to do with it, he writes in a column today. The growth of the internet has left the traditional newspaper business model in shambles…

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05.05.2009 12:03 pm

Is Barack Obama getting better press than George W. Bush got?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The ombudsman — readers’ advocate — for the Washington Post has tackled that question a couple times in recent days. The question also was the focus of a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which…

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12.10.2008 11:54 am

Will Blagojevich scandal taint Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a seven-word refer on this morning’s front page — “For Obama, a distraction, but no danger” — to a story by Washington Bureau Chief Bill Lambrecht that ran at the bottom of Page A4 under that…

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12.04.2008 11:09 am

Chuck Norris chides media for ignoring success in Iraq, Afghanistan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The most overlooked news story of the year has been the military success in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chuck Norris writes in his blog on HumanEvents.com.

“Have you noticed lately that mainstream media are giving less attention to the war in Iraq, especially concerning our…

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10.30.2008 11:18 am

Are conservatives neater than liberals?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Conservatives are neater and more organized than liberals, a psychology professor at the University of Texas and three colleagues report in an unpublished paper titled “The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives.”

Slate.com’s Bill Bishop reports on Sam Gosling’s study in an…

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