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10.22.2009 1:33 pm

Former “liberal commentator on Fox” suggests White House ease up

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Journalist David Corn is advising the White House: Don’t play a game of chicken with Fox News.

Corn, in a blog on politicsdaily.com,  describes himself: “I’m watching this fight as no disinterested observer. For years I was a rare commodity: a liberal…

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09.14.2009 6:21 pm

Poll finds more people think news stories are often wrong, biased

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The public’s faith in the media’s accuracy has hit a new low, according to a Pew Research Center poll. And more people think bias is showing in media reports.

The Associated Press’ Michael Liedtke reports:

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news…

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08.12.2009 11:48 am

How should the press discredit lies about health care, other topics?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Columbia Journalism Review — which identifies itself as “both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms” — has endorsed FactCheck and PolitiFact as good online sites for verifying claims being made during the current debate over health care.

The Editors’…

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07.09.2009 12:23 pm

“Piranhas of the Press” unfair to Sarah Palin, political writer says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The press should be ashamed of how it covered and treated Sarah Palin during and since the campaign, writes Carl M. Cannon, senior Washington correspondent for Politics Daily.

“The true villains in this political morality play may have been the press,”…

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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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07.07.2009 11:35 am

E&P asks: Did media help push Sarah Palin into resigning?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

That’s the question of the day being posed by Editor & Publisher, “America’s oldest journal covering the newspaper industry.”

On its site today, E&P asks: “Did Media Help Push Sarah Palin Into Resigning as Governor?”

NEW YORK — Earlier this month we introduced…

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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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06.17.2009 6:04 pm

TV critic says the networks are too easy on Obama

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On the heels of President Barack Obama’s complaint that one television network has been attacking his administration, at least one television critic is calling for other networks to join in.

Baltimore Sun critic David Zurawik, who writes about “the business, culture…

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06.16.2009 5:09 pm

Obama says one network is devoted to attacking his administration

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

President Barack Obama says one television network is “entirely devoted to attacking my administration.”

Obama didn’t identify the network, even when asked by CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood if he meant Fox News.

Obama told CNBC that the unnamed network has a…

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06.08.2009 4:47 pm

Rep. Lamar Smith forms group to combat threat of liberal media

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this short on Saturday among seven Washington Digest items:

Saying the greatest threat to the country is not a recession or terrorist attack but liberal media bias, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, announced Friday that he is…

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