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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>Tea Party &#8212; A Case in Unproportional News Coverage</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/tea-party-a-case-in-unproportional-news-coverage</link>
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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>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/links-to-news-reports-on-acorn-study</link>
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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>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/acorn-study-co-author-dreier-on-rachel-maddow-show</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy]]></description>
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		<title>Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/manipulating-the-public-agenda-why-acorn-was-in-the-news-and-what-the-news-got-wrong</link>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mediacrit.com/?p=123</guid>
		<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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		<title>Candidates Respond to Wall Street Failures: Is Government the Problem or the Answer?</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/candidates-respond-to-wall-street-failures</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent collapse of several investment banks on Wall Street is one of those stories that is hard to understand and easy to dismiss. But the financial meltdown tells us plenty about how a McCain or Obama administration would handle the country’s economy, and whether we will bring stability back to the financial market, or keep blindly repeating the boom-bust cycle.]]></description>
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		<title>Mourning in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mediacrit.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Russert, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press for 17 years who died suddenly on June 13, seemed like a thoroughly decent guy to me. In the following days, Washington journalists, politicians, and his viewing public lauded him as a fine political analyst, a straight shooter, and a great family man. In fact, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa&#8217;s News Heroes</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/iowas-news-heroes</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iowa journalists deserve a lot of credit and time to catch their breath. They have been covering, almost nonstop, the tragic weather we’ve been having since the monster F5 tornado swept through Parkersburg, New Hartford, and Dunkerton on May 25. Then came the floods. This has been a bad several weeks for sleep if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwashing Dirty Coal</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/greenwashing-dirty-coal</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://mediacrit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/go_green007.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-96" title="go_green007" src="http://mediacrit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/go_green007-150x150.jpg" alt="The Courier\'s \&#34;Go Green\&#34; tabloid " width="150" height="150" /></a>
It happened again. The <i>Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier</i> had a special "green" tabloid section in their Sunday, April 20 newspaper, with big full-page ad by LS Power. After doing the same thing last year, it appears that <i>Courier</i> is operating in an irony-free zone where "green" and "coal-fired power plant" can mean the same thing.]]></description>
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