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Norm Ornstein on FORA.tv

2008-10-11T20:50:24Z

Author, political commentator, and AEI Resident Scholar Norman J. Ornstein explains why he's a fan of FORA.tv.

For more Norm Ornstein at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions:

How Will the Candidates Govern? fora.tv

On Barack Obama and the DNC: fora.tv

On John McCain, Sarah Palin and the RNC: fora.tv

Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. An election analyst for CBS News, he writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, and he appears regularly on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. He serves on the board of the Public Broadcasting Service and several other nonprofit groups. Ornstein is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Barack Obama Goes To The Fox Den | John McCain Doesn't Like CNN's Peaches!

2008-10-11T20:38:50Z

Barack Obama Attracts Crowds - John McCain Attracts Audiences Pt. "5-A"| The media loves the ratings, not the candidates!

Senator Barack Obama has been at war with Fox News for many years. I mean where does the list begin? Fox News made a living out of drawing false conclusions about the senator and his wife Michelle. To much dismay in some of the progressive blogs, Senator Barack Obama will appear on The O'Reilly Factor. Senator John McCain blast MSNBC and NBC News for Andrea Mitchell and Keith Olbermann's critical analysis of him. McCain cancels appearance on Larry King Live after CNN anchors make inappropriate comments about the campaign and his vice presidential candidate.

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Couldn't help but speak on this forsaken network! After Obama held ground against most of its journalists, in particular Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, the senator eased tension by accepting to be interviewed on the primetime news program.

Of course, the next day, bragging rights? After all, Fox News touts around they are the ones who score big interviews more than the many times he's been on CNN and MSNBC.

Last year, Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic contenders voided two of the networks sponsored debates.

In 2008, Fox News allocated the partisan attacks and plain buffoonery from O'Reilly, Liz Trotta, E.D. Hill, Meghan Kelly, Dr. Jerome Corsi, Juan Williams, Chris Wallace, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Steve Doocy, Greta Van Susteren, and of course Sean Hannity. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch brokered a "cease-fire" deal with the Obama campaign. I guess it's a "truce". A bittersweet victory for those who are opposed to Fox News and its antics.

Will this be the "I'll Scratch Your Back, If You Scratch Mine!" moment that O'Reilly gets?

Enough about Fox News, recently in an interview with Jack Cafferty on CNN's The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer asked the pundit about his thoughts on Senator John McCain. Cafferty responded with the following statement:

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President.

Campbell Brown from Election Center made a comment that angered the McCain Campaign in which it canceled his appearance on Larry King Live.

And of course, there's Andrea Mitchell from NBC News. After Senator John McCain gave his best performance at the Saddleback Forum, Mitchell questioned the appropriateness of his performance. In which she stated that:

"McCain may have [cheated] the forum"!

McCain is not appreciating his "base" covering him negatively, and he's taking the marbles and going home. Obama is putting gasoline on a fire with his appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, and making sure that disappointments are bound to happen. What do you think this?

You think that McCain should alienate CNN and MSNBC?

You think that Obama should continue to appear on Fox News?

You think that media watchdogs groups such as the Media Matters for America and Media Research Center, do a part to control "the out of control [for ratings]" partisan media?

Thanks Robert Greenwald and Fox Attacks for the standing up against the corporate owned media!

Sources are from:

foxattacks.com
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/10/wolff200810?printable=true¤tPage=all

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Rupert Murdoch on Bias in the News

2008-08-12T04:19:33Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch argues that all news media - News Corp's own Fox News included - is inherently prone to bias, and that the best counter to this problem is a diverse media representing a variety of opinions.

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned that "technology will continue to destroy all of the old ways and old assumptions, especially in the media" during an April 2 speech on "Creative Destruction: News for the 21st Century."

Rupert Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, a global media company with properties in film, television, print and online.

News Corporation's subsidiaries include Fox News Channel, Dow Jones (publisher of the Wall Street Journal), 20th Century Fox, and MySpace - Georgetown University

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-American global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp).

Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. In recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet and media. News Corp is based in New York.

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Rupert Murdoch - How Technology Has Changed the Media

2008-08-05T16:49:04Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch discusses how rapidly changing technologies have impacted news and entertainment media, and have made audiences more diverse and difficult-to-reach than ever before.

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Rupert Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, a global media company with properties in film, television, print and online.

News Corporation's subsidiaries include Fox News Channel, Dow Jones (publisher of the Wall Street Journal), 20th Century Fox, and MySpace - Georgetown University

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-American global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp).

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Has America's Political Landscape Moved to the Left?

2008-08-11T03:50:32Z

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NDN President Simon Rosenberg identifies several changes in the US political landscape that he believes indicate widespread success for the Democratic Party in November 2008.

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Simon Rosenberg of NDN, a progressive think tank and advocacy organization, holds a discussion about all things political in the changing landscape of 2008 with Markos Moulitsas, the founder of one of America's most influential blogs, Daily Kos.

Simon Rosenberg is president and founder of NDN, a leading progressive think tank and advocacy organization.
Rosenberg has worked in national politics and the media world for more than 20 years. He started his career in network television as a
writer and producer at ABC News for five years before working on the Dukakis and Clinton presidential campaigns. On the Clinton campaign, he was a member of the famous 1992 Clinton War Room.

After the campaign, Simon worked at the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Leadership Council and then started what is now NDN in 1996.

During his time at the helm of NDN and its predecessor organization the New Democrat Network, Simon has helped elect more than 50 new members to the Senate and House of Representatives and has been an influential champion of a new and more modern agenda for the nation, an innovator in helping progressives reach out to and communicate with Hispanic voters, and a leader in creating a 21st century progressive movement.

Simon is a member of the Aspen Institute's 2001 class of Henry Crown Fellows and served on the 2004 Democratic National Convention Platform Committee. He sits on the boards of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the publication Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

Simon was recently named one of the 50 most powerful people in DC by GQ Magazine. A 1985 graduate of Tufts University, Simon and his family live in Washington, DC.

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Great Moments in Hip-Hop Slang, Volume 62

2008-10-11T20:43:47Z

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A tear drops my eye.

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Hillary Clinton and the Media's Campaign "Freak Show"

2008-07-09T13:33:19Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

New Republic Senior Editor Michael Crowley criticizes media coverage of U.S. Presidential elections, and speculates as to its effects on New Hampshire's 2008 primary.

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The New Republic's 2008 Guide to the Candidates: A Celebration.

In early 2005, Editor Frank Foer made a commitment to covering the 2008 presidential candidates with a fresh lens. This "fresh" angle included profiles of major contenders from both political parties. The effort was met with a hugely positive response. Of the Barack Obama profile, George Stephanopolous said, "The New Republic has the best and most comprehensive take on Obama that I have seen." The profiles have now been compiled into a book - TNR's 2008 Guide to the Candidates - along with news, analysis, and insight into the individuals running in the broadest presidential field in decades - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue

Michael Crowley is an American journalist, and currently senior editor and columnist at The New Republic magazine. He is also a frequent contributor to GQ magazine, Slate.com, the Readers Digest, and the Washington City Paper. He guest-blogged for a time at Talking Points Memo.

He grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating from Philips Exeter Academy in 1990 and Yale in 1994.

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too much ecstasy

2008-06-13T21:30:00Z

Commentary clip fom nyc TV show "The Resident" about a dude who took 40,000 ecstacy pills. www.theresident.net

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Reshuffle of shows opposite Keith's Countdown

2008-01-12T20:20:18Z

A very thorough run-down of Must and Must-Not-Watch TV by one of our favorite commenters, Kirsten:

Campbell Brown's show will be airing at the 8 p.m. Eastern time slot, replacing Paula Zahn's show. Follwed by Larry King at 9, and Anderson at 10.
If CNN is in fact going to shorten [Anderson's] show, it leaves the 11 pm hour open.
Reruns of Bill's show go on at 11 ( in a new bit of info for me, since I don't get MSNBC, Keith doesn't rerun at that time, but in late night, They air repackaged Dateline episodes at 11 p.m. I'm wondering as Keith picks up viewers, that will change).
If CNN decides to rerun Campbell's show at 11, she would go up against Billo twice a night. Keith is currently picking up viewers at a qucik clip ( thanks to the network show he did, and his appearances on Sunday Night Football also seem to be helping).
If, in fact, Campbell Brown is as conservative as I think she is [Laffy note: Brown is married to Dan Senor], she might siphon off viewers from people who are conservative but fed up of Bill's obvious loose grip on reality.
Since it's a CNN show, she won't take the time block, leaving it open for Keith to win. He's already winning on the demos ( 18-49). Keith, as the kids like to say, is cool.

Thanks, K-Ped!