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	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Have the Media &#8216;Falsely Framed&#8217; ACORN?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christopher R. Martin and Peter Dreier
A pimp and a prostitute walk into an office. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it wasn’t for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Until recently, ACORN, the largest community organizing group in the country, was well known primarily among liberal activists and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN Study co-author Peter Dreier on Rachel Maddow Show, 9-29-2009</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/acorn-study-co-author-peter-dreier-on-rachel-maddow-show-9-29-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cable Television]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Television News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Martin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Manipulating Public Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[news media]]></category>

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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 &#8216;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 wrong on ACORN,&#8221; [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Dreier]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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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>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cable Television]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Labor News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media Economics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Martin]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[conservative media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Dreier]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential campaign]]></category>

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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 and individuals) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Media Concocts Phony Mainstream Media Conspiracy over ACORN</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/conservative-media-concocts-phony-media-conspiracy-over-acorn</link>
		<comments>http://mediacrit.com/conservative-media-concocts-phony-media-conspiracy-over-acorn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mainstream media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Dreier]]></category>

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&#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 words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit’s Problem: It’s Health Care, not the Union</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/detroits-problem-health-care-not-the-union</link>
		<comments>http://mediacrit.com/detroits-problem-health-care-not-the-union#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bob Corker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Labour Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Center for Automotive Research]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Leonhardt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Cohn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labor News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UAW]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[union]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Senate’s failure to pass the bailout of the U.S. auto industry strikes a big blow at one of labor’s last stands in manufacturing in the U.S.
What’s at stake?  According to the bill:  355,000 workers in the U.S. directly employed by the automobile industry; 4,500,000 employed in related industries (the auto industry has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the End of Identity Politics</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/obama-and-the-end-of-identity-politics</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[African American]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bill Moyers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
One of the most unfortunate book titles of the last year was Shelby Steele’s A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win.
The book was published in December 2007, and beginning with the Iowa caucuses the following month, Steele had to explain with increasing difficulty why Obama still wouldn’t [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mediacrit.com/candidates-respond-to-wall-street-failures#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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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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