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I Watched Cable News for 12 Hours on Super Tuesday and Learned Nothing
Well, I learned one thing: Wolf Blitzer is a machine.
HLN Invited Twitter Dude @Fart to Talk About Snowden on TV, and He Talked About Edward Scissorhands Instead
"I expected to be cut off as soon as I mentioned scissors for hands or whatever, but she kept talking to me."
How It Felt to Be Inside the Ferguson Media Circus
As a local reporter in St. Louis during the protests over Michael Brown's death, I watched as the international press parachuted in. I'm glad they came.
The Mainstreaming of Al Sharpton
How Al Sharpton transformed from FBI informant to political powerbroker.
Nancy Grace's Insane, Murder-Fueled Twitter Brilliance
The former prosecutor and current fearmongering cable news host populates social media with hashtags like #BoxOfInfants, #RatBiteFever, and #SpermSwap, all in the name of telling us how terrible the world is.
A Canadian Journalist is Still Imprisoned in Egypt and His Colleagues Want Him Out
In December Egypt’s military-backed government arrested a trio of Al Jazeera journalists, accusing them of operating a “terrorist media network." Last week, as part of a day of global action, dozens of journalists gathered at Toronto's City Hall to...
I Stayed up All Night Watching Coverage of the Boston Bomber Manhunt
I was met with a flurry of false reports. Some were just dropped without mention: the suspects jacked a police SUV, possibly another car, and blew something up at Harvard. Other persisted. Was the bomber an Indian-American student who'd gone missing...