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		<title>A Conservative Propagandist Returns to Attack NPR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an article of faith with the political far right that the mainstream news media are, in the words of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the “lamestream media.” The conservatives are correct – the mainstream news media often are lame.  But, it’s not because the news media are liberal, which is the point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Breitbart has a job to do and he does it well. Breitbart&#8217;s job is to lie and distort the truth in order to advance a right-wing agenda, embarrass liberals, and undermine the Obama administration. Breitbart is not a journalist, researcher, or pundit. He is a propagandist. Read the entire post by Peter Dreier and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spitting, racial and gay slurs?  Just isolated instances of emotions running high</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Saturday, March 20, the weekend of the historic health care vote in Congress, Tea Party protesters outside of the Capitol apparently spit on and hurled racial and gay slurs at Democratic lawmakers.  Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Amy Kremer, coordinator of the Tea Party Express, both denounced the incidents, and characterized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party &#8212; A Case in Unproportional News Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, 600 people showed up at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention at the Opryland complete in Nashville and this makes page A1 of the New York Times?  Four times as many paying people (2,435) attended my journalism educators convention in Boston last year, and I can tell you we didn&#8217;t get any mention in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links to News Reports on ACORN Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson, &#8220;For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din,&#8221; Washington Post, September 23, 2009. University of Northern Iowa, &#8220;Profs: Why ACORN was in the news in &#8217;07-&#8217;08, and what the media got wrong,&#8221; Romenesko, September 23, 2009. Alicia Shepard, &#8220;The ACORN Videos: Did NPR Ignore Them?&#8221; NPR, September 23, 2009. Michael Calderone, &#8220;Study: Media&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN Study co-author Dreier on Rachel Maddow Show, 9-24-2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A study by Christopher R. Martin, Ph.D. and Peter Dreier, Ph.D. Using the controversy over ACORN as a case study, this report illustrates the way the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped. It describes how &#8220;opinion entrepreneurs&#8221; (primarily business and conservative groups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Media Concocts Phony Mainstream Media Conspiracy over ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;ACORN Story Grows but Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It.&#8221; That complaint from a Fox News headline nicely sums up conservative allegations of a mainstream media conspiracy:  there is a huge story about ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) that Fox is covering, but the mainstream media are not covering because (in the [...]]]></description>
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