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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;ve dreamed a dream&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/ive-dreamed-a-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always easier to cry &#8216;that isn&#8217;t news&#8217; and to condemn the &#8216;media&#8217; in general.
But make no mistake about it, the overnight celebrity of Susan Boyle &#8212; aka &#8216;the woman who shut up Simon Cowell&#8217; &#8212; is very much news.
No, her story isn&#8217;t as critical as the global recession. Her story won&#8217;t save lives or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=91&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We&#8217;re a bunch of idiots&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/were-a-bunch-of-idiots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently wrapped up a two-day media blitz of national media, chatting with just about anyone with a mic and national airtime, from Larry King to the panel on &#8220;The View.&#8221;
&#8216;Blago&#8217; was a soundbyte machine during his two-day media blitz. He plead his case to any and all who wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=89&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is media focus on Palin&#8217;s family fair?</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/is-media-focus-on-palins-family-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure.
She&#8217;s beloved as much as she is mocked. Palin fills the seats for her public speechs &#8230; and she was the prime target of late night comedy for the last part of 2008.
But Sarah Palin recently took a stand and told the media to &#8216;leave my kids alone.&#8217;
Palin said: &#8220;I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=84&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflicts overlooked by the media</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/conflicts-overlooked-by-the-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC has a solid piece &#8211; complete with an easy to understand interactive global map &#8211; outlining the international conflicts don&#8217;t involve Iraq, Afghanistan or the Middle East.
Here are some of world&#8217;s Forgotten Conflicts - violence that isn&#8217;t finding consistent prominence in the media.
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		<title>Top 10 media blunders of 2008</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/top-10-media-blunders-of-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blunders are generally funny &#8211; but newsroom &#8217;stratergy&#8217; is the only explination for these ridiculous media missteps that made Politico.com&#8217;s list of &#8216;Top media blunders of 2008.&#8217;
For my money, the NY Time&#8217;s McCain-Iseman story is the winner of the year. It was weighed down by more innuendo than buoyed by fact, the article was an ill-advised and unsubstantiated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=79&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 most overlooked stories of 2008</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-10-most-overlooked-stories-of-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek takes its annual look at the stories that were glossed over or ignored completely in favor of a pregnant man and Casey Anthony.
The Iraq War, horrific violence in the Congo and President Bush&#8217;s expansion in AIDS Relief funding unfortunately made the magazine&#8217;s &#8220;10 Most Overlooked Stories of 2008.&#8221;
Sad sidenote: The &#8216;most viewed&#8217; Newsweek stories (at the time of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=74&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic meltdown. The Obama-McCain campaigns. Financial bailouts. Plummeting consumer confidence.
This blog missed all of those stories &#8211; but with 2009 just hours away also comes a promise to follow the news, scrutinize the news and demand the news inform rather than entertain base impulses.
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		<title>JonBenet: Still dead.</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/jonbenet-still-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, someway JonBenet Ramsey is back in the news.


She shouldn&#8217;t have been news in 1996. She shouldn&#8217;t have been news outside of Denver. The story should have been buried before JonBenet was.
And it&#8217;s NOT news today. This is a case study of news judgment gone insane.
But according to MSNBC, the top news of the day is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=65&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Incredible and Unbelievable</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/incredible-and-unbelievable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story y&#8217;all may or may not believe &#8230;
So a woman developed a little bit of an itch on the top of her head. Eventually, the itch got progressively worse and worse. Somewhere along the line, she starts itching her head during her sleep &#8211; and one fateful night she actually managed to scratch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=61&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Russert: 1950-2008</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/tim-russert-1950-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering a man whose body of work set the standard of determining &#8216;what is news&#8217; &#8211; and whose style established a new standard for thorough, insightful, thoughtful and reliable journalism.
If it&#8217;s Sunday &#8230;
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		<title>Loud Silence</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/loud-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a week and a half ago, the New York Times published a damning article regarding the major TV networks and their military analysts. Reporter David Barstow&#8217;s original article was published on April 20.
This was no softball indictment of military analysts &#8211; many who are, according to Barstow&#8217;s article, are just mouthpieces for the White House, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=58&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 minutes of heaven</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/3-minutes-of-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the one story that everyone remembered from the morning news rotation.
And was NOT the story about several airlines under investigation for failing to comply with FAA rules. It wasn&#8217;t the story about city council leaders and the mayor hoping to impose a 20-cent fee to supermarket customers who choose plastic over paper bags. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=55&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea Clinton and the press</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/chelsea-clinton-and-the-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chelsea Clinton has established herself as an ambassador for her mother&#8217;s presidential bid.
She has also closed herself off from the media on several occassions &#8211; including recently brushing off a 9-year-old reporter and most recently striking down a student reporter&#8217;s question about the Lewinsky scandal&#8217;s effect on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign.
The question here: is Chelsea Clinton [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=54&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq War lost in the news shuffle</title>
		<link>http://newsfilter.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/iraq-war-lost-in-the-news-shuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Eliot Spitzer. Soaring oil prices. $4/gallon gas looming. Worries of a possible recession. The murder of a UNC student body president. The death of William F. Buckley.
But a new Pew Research study finds that the Iraq War has quietly faded into the background noise, lost amid a new torrent of news headlines.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=53&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a part of the solution &#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists, take heart: Continue to fight the good fight.
Be a voice of dissent. If a reporter&#8217;s conduct or practices do not sit well with your journalistic integrity, then follow what your gut tells you is inherently wrong.
Challenge old methods. Reconcile the age-old journalistic principles with changing times.
Don&#8217;t allow newsroom &#8216;groupthink&#8217; quash what you firmly believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfilter.wordpress.com&blog=2040589&post=52&subd=newsfilter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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