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		<title>Where is the evidence in the rush to close Price Lab?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Price Lab School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dwight Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa's R&D School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Iowa Legislature seeks to finish its session, it is now essential for all of us to take an objective look at the proposed closing of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School, Iowa’s R&#38;D School. We need to ask a simple question about the rationale for the closing: where is the evidence?  Because if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the U.S. News &amp; World Report college rankings can teach us about UNI’s budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea for this column started with a nagging question:  why does Truman State, the former Northeast Missouri State University, keep beating the University of Northern Iowa every year in the U.S. News &#38; World Report rankings of Midwestern public universities? For several years, UNI has appeared among the top-ranked public universities in the Midwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zuccotti Park &#8211; Safe and Completely Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 27, 2011, it was a damp but impressively warm (high of 57 degrees, way above normal) in New York.  The streets in the financial district were packed with tourists at the World Trade Center site to see the new buildings rising, and shoppers filled the nearby Century 21 department store, picking over the [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Broadcasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Folkenflik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James O'Keefe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lamestream media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mainstream media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vivian Schiller]]></category>

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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>US News Media on Mubarak Speech: Picking the Soundbite, Missing the Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Shadid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news on Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s historic Feb. 1 televised speech, according to most U.S. news media,  is that he decided he would not run for reelection in September.  In Mubarak&#8217;s less-than-categorical words,  &#8220;I say in all honesty and regardless of the current situation that I did not intend to nominate myself for [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cable Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mediacrit.com/?p=154</guid>
		<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>Old Energy Meets New Energy</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/151</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<title>Spitting, racial and gay slurs?  Just isolated instances of emotions running high</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/spitting-racial-and-gay-slurs-just-isolated-instances-of-emotions-running-high</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steele]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mediacrit.com/?p=132</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/tea-party-a-case-in-unproportional-news-coverage</link>
		<comments>http://mediacrit.com/tea-party-a-case-in-unproportional-news-coverage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/have-the-media-falsely-framed-acorn</link>
		<comments>http://mediacrit.com/have-the-media-falsely-framed-acorn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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