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Jennifer Hamady: Piers Morgan and the Demise of the Interview
Ever since Piers Morgan came onto the scene, I have been at a loss. His approach, his choice of questions, his rapport with guests... for a while, I thought I just didn't get it -- that perhaps I alone was missing something. But over th...
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Jordan Flaherty: Arson Attack on Women's Health Organization in New Orleans
Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and other support for poor women of color, was the victim of a break-in and arson late Thursday night. A small organization that has wo...
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Ruth Starkman: Privacy, Human Rights at Legal Frontiers of Digital Media
New markets, copyright, IP addresses, freedom of speech, human rights and, of course, privacy -- these were the hot topics of the Legal Frontiers of Digital Media Conference, which was jointly sponsored by the Media Law Resource Center a...
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Bob Sellers: Secrets of a May 'Nielsen Family'
Jerry Seinfeld has a joke about how men watch TV, remotes at the ready: "Men don't care what's on TV. Men only care what ELSE is on TV." That observation rings in my head as I recount spending a week keeping a diary as a "Nielsen Family...
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'American Colony' Goes Inside A Religious Commune
LOS ANGELES -- Bertha Hofer deserves to be one of the summer's biggest, if unlikeliest, TV stars. In the narrowest sense, she's yet another working mom opening up her life to the camera. But Hofer is part of an unusual and intriguing wo...
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Jamil Zaki: Failing to Understand the Social Sciences
Gary Gutting's recent piece in the New York Times "Opinionator" blog ("How Reliable are the Social Sciences?" May 17th, 2012) argues that fields such as economics, psychology, and sociology (1) fail to contribute "real" data of the kind ...
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NBC Orders New Singing Show
"The Winner Is" is coming to NBC. The Peacock network has ordered yet another new singing competition series ... but of course, there are twists. The show's contestants, who will be comprised of all ages and include both solo acts and g...
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WATCH: Wolf Blitzer Calls Out Donald Trump
CNN host Wolf Blitzer called out Donald Trump on Tuesday after the "Celebrity Apprentice" host continued to question the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate. Blitzer said that that he did not understand why Trump "doubl...
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Levi Johnston's Plan To Make Fast Cash
Bristol Palin's baby-daddy, Levi Johnston, might now be broke and living at his mother's Alaska home, but Johnston, who's currently expecting a daughter with girlfriend Sunny Oglesby, has a familiar plan that he hopes could make him mill...
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Michael McAfee: Need Inspiration for Your Graduate? Start With the Time 100 List
We all need a little graduation inspiration, especially when it can feel like we're sending our graduates off on ice floes. So let me share my inspiration: the Time 100 list. Jeremy Lin made the list this year, and from Secretary of Ed...
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Dan Rather: The Day That Was
For so many of us, this past holiday weekend was about BBQs, pool parties and celebrating the beginning of summer. The fact that it was Memorial Day seemed, once again, to be an afterthought. Yet we remain at war, a fact that has fallen ...
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'Game Of Thrones' Season 3 Characters Revealed
The Reeds are in! EW.com has a list of new characters coming to HBO's "Game of Thrones" in season three. Fans have been wondering which names from George R.R. Martin's third "Song of Ice and Fire" novel "A Storm of Swords" will be intro...
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Business Insider: 'Why Do Some People Hate Jews?'
In one of the more bizarre recent examples of "just putting it out there" Internet journalism, Business Insider editor Henry Blodget raised some eyebrows on Tuesday when he wrote a post with the arresting headline "Why Do People Hate Jew...
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WATCH: Donald Trump Goes On Epic Birther Rant
Donald Trump is determined to have "birtherism" front and center in the 2012 presidential election, calling it the "most important thing" just hours before he was set to attend a fundraiser for the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney. ...
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'Nauseating' Booker Controversy Sparks Resignation
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker's communications director Anne Torres has resigned in the wake of the heroic mayor's controversial "Meet the Press" remarks. Booker's office released the following statement from Torres on Monday: E...
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Wray Herbert: Dreadful Deaths: Cycling Through Fear
Almost 3,000 people died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That includes the victims in or near the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and all the passengers in the four commandeered jets, including the flight that went down in rural Pennsyl...
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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: The Arab World and the Media's Symbiotic Revolutions
The Arab world has forever changed, and so has the media. Some would argue governance, as we've known it, is also changing. Business is certainly changing; in fact, the whole world might just be changing too. The question is, is social m...
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Key Rule Could Delay Crucial Disclosure
by Justin Elliott ProPublica, May 29, 2012, 10:32 a.m.After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted last month to require broadcasters to post online political ad data currently kept only on paper at...
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Zaki Hasan: The Right Wing Tilt Toward Mass Hysteria
It seems that, even after becoming a national punchline and getting soundly schooled by President Obama himself at last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, Donald Trump has yet to give up on the right wing fever dream th...
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Mike Lux: Kevin's Gift
At my father's funeral, the presiding minister, Ebb Munden, was a man who had been one of my dad's closest friends. Ebb talked about how the last time he had gone to see my dad before he lost consciousness, he had been very emotional but...
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Meghan McCain Condemns Karl Rove
Meghan McCain condemned Karl Rove in her new book, hitting out at the former Bush adviser for rumors about her adopted sister during the 2000 campaign. McCain's younger sister Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh in 1991. Twelve years a...
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Joe Scarborough Criticizes Obama 'Kill List'
Joe Scarborough expressed discomfort on Tuesday with President Obama's newly revealed "kill list" of alleged Al Qaeda suspects. The New York Times ran a lengthy story about Obama's intimate involvement in personally deciding which peopl...
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Fox News Chief Makes False Attack On New York Times
A transcript of Roger Ailes' fiery talk at Ohio University revealed that the Fox News chief falsely accused The New York Times of publishing a questionably sourced article about him. Last week, Ailes made a series of harsh comments abou...
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WATCH: Scarborough Praises Biden For Emotional Speech
Joe Scarborough heaped more love onto Joe Biden on Tuesday's "Morning Joe," praising the vice-president's deeply personal speech over the Memorial Day weekend. Speaking to the families of fallen troops on Friday, Biden recalled the pai...
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Andrew Bacevich: The Golden Age of Special Operations
Globalizing the Global War on Terror Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com As he campaigns for reelection, President Obama periodically reminds audiences of his success in terminating the deeply unpopular Iraq War. With fingers c...
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Anthony Bourdain Is Coming To CNN
Foodies rejoice -- Anthony Bourdain is coming to CNN. The network announced Tuesday that Bourdain, the star chef and TV host, will host a Sunday primetime show starting in early 2013. Each show will be shot on location somewhere around...
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Fedele Bauccio: Thomas Keller Has a Responsibility -- To Set the Record Straight
I was surprised and disheartened to read comments by Thomas Keller in the New York Times that chefs' only responsibility is to taste. "Is global food policy truly our responsibility, or in our control?" Keller asks. "I don't think so." ...
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Michelangelo Signorile: The New Gay Celebrity Coming Out: 'I've Never Been In'
For several years there were rumors about the sexual orientation of Anne Burrell, the popular spiky-haired star of Food Network's Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, but she'd not publicly acknowledged she is a lesbian. Then fellow Food Networ...
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Good News For Captured French Journalist
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's main rebel group says it plans to release on Wednesday a French journalist it has held for a month after a firefight with Colombian soldiers. The leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said in a co...
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Matt Lauer Reveals 'Today' Supersitions
Matt Lauer was letting it all hang out during a bash in the Hamptons on Sunday. The "Today" anchor always looks very clean-shaven on air, but he showed up to a party held in his honor with a notable amount of scruff on his face. You mig...
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Romney Clinching GOP Nom On Controversial Night
By STEVE PEOPLES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CRAIG, Colo. -- Mitt Romney is poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination after Tuesday's Texas GOP primary, a largely uncontested election that will formalize the former Massachusetts...
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Efforts From Both Sides Stir Health Care Horror
WASHINGTON -- They're throwing granny off a cliff! That's the not-so-subtle message Republicans and Democrats appear to be converging on for political ads on health care this year, featuring heavy doses of what each party alleges the ot...
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Alex Trebek Talks Signing Off On 'Jeopardy!'
NEW YORK -- Let's take "Breakfast" for $500: An Oh Henry! chocolate bar and a Diet Pepsi. And here's the question: What did Alex Trebek consume a couple of hours before this breakfast interview? "When I say `the Breakfast of Cha...
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Dina Eastwood's Daughters Find Her Stash Of Dead Pets
On "Mrs. Eastwood & Company" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on E!) Dina Eastwood's secret hoarding came to light. Dina and the girls were clearing out some stuff when Francesca found a stack of boxes each containing the cremated remains of a belove...
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'Pawn Stars': How Much For A Rare Nineteenth-Century Dollar Bill?
How much for 19th-century U.S. paper currency? That was the question facing the "Pawn Stars" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on History) Monday night as they appraised some rare bills. A seller brought in a $5 bill and a $1 bill, and she pointed out ...
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'Cowpons' On The 'Extreme Couponing' Season Premiere
Season 3 of "Extreme Couponing" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on TLC) kicked off Monday night with thrifty mom of five Erin. She collects coupons so she can buy a cow with the money she saves. "We love getting a cow each year," she said. "It saves ...
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Are The Bikini Bombshells The Worst 'AGT' Dancers Yet?
The action moved to Tampa, Fla. for the latest round of "America's Got Talent" (Mon., 9 p.m. ET on NBC) auditions. One act in particular drew the scorn of new judge Howard Stern. The Bikini Bombshells, an all-female dance act from North...
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Harry Shearer: Could New York Be Wronger About New Orleans?
LOS ANGELES -- As most anybody knows who cares about newspapers, the absentee owners of the New Orleans Times-Picayune have announced plans to quit daily print publication of the paper, turning to a Wednesday-Friday-Sunday schedule, givi...
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Quebec Making Noise Around The World
MONTREAL - The civil unrest consuming Quebec is also seizing media attention abroad — with more than 3,000 news reports from 77 different countries in recent weeks.That's according to an analysis released Monday by Montreal-based company...
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MSNBC Host Says He's 'Uncomfortable' Calling Soldiers Killed In Action 'Heroes'
MSNBC's Chris Hayes sparked controversy and debate on Sunday when he said that he felt "uncomfortable" calling soldiers killed in action "heroes" because the term can be used to justify potentially unjust wars. Hayes spent a large porti...
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'Mad Men': Go Behind The Scenes Of 'The Other Woman'
Do not read on unless you've seen Season 5, Episode 11 of AMC's "Mad Men," entitled "The Other Woman." The latest episode of "Mad Men" (Sun., 10 p.m. ET on AMC) featured a sleazy exchange between the men from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryc...
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Bruce Jenner Throws A Spider At Kim Kardashian
On "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on E!) Sunday night Kim Kardashian was pushed into confronting her fear of spiders. Kim's stepfather, Bruce Jenner, threw a spider at her to see what would happen. Cue hysterical scr...
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'Tough Love: New Orleans' Swamp Date
Danielle Wilks (a.k.a., Miss Low Standards) endured dating bootcamp in the swamp on "Tough Love: New Orleans" (Sun., 10 p.m. ET on VH1) Sunday night. Not only did she have to contend with her date's dad coming along for the ride, she al...
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'Mob Wives' Reunion: Yet More Fighting In Front Of Joy Behar
As the "Mob Wives" (Sun., 8 p.m. ET on VH1) continued their two-part reunion Sunday night host/mediator Joy Behar seemed to have finally run out of patience with the incessant catfighting and bitching. After Drita D'Avanzo (who's been h...
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Tony Blair In The Hot Seat Over Ties To Murdoch
* Questioning of Blair will throw spotlight on Labour's ties to media * Blair spoke to Murdoch three times in run-up to Iraq war By Kate Holton LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - Tony Blair's decisio...
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Tony Blair In The Hot Seat Over Ties To Murdoch
* Questioning of Blair will throw spotlight on Labour's ties to media * Blair spoke to Murdoch three times in run-up to Iraq war By Kate Holton LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - Tony Blair's decisio...
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Daniel R. Schwarz: What Is the Cultural Significance of Facebook's May 18, 2012 IPO?
Worrying about the fluctuating price of Facebook and whether Morgan Stanley properly managed the IPO misses the major historical and cultural point of what happened. What, we should be asking, is the significance of Facebook's opening ca...
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Robert Teitelman: The Private Equity Debate: That '70s Show
More on the continuing rumble over private equity. Noah Smith defends private equity by arguing that without it, we'd resemble the Japanese, with their entrenched corporations and oppressive, male-dominated salary men corporate lifestyle...
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Meghan McCain Reacts To Vicious Attacks
Meghan McCain spoke out about some of the hateful backlash she received after criticizing the Republican party in a new column published on Sunday. McCain caused a small uproar on Thursday when she lamented the "the popularity of Miche...
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NBC Faces Challenges In Olympics Coverage
So all the pieces are in place for a massive NBC win -- which, given the network's recent ratings performance, it could sorely use. And yet something, or more accurately someone, will be missing. All the fancy camera work this time aroun...
