Did we need 6,600 words about the utterly irrelevant John McCain? Somebody thought we did.
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NBC’s Big Fat Gay Mistake
The network’s half-hearted attempts to appear gay-friendly while broadcasting the Sochi Olympics only underscore its complicity with the Kremlin’s crackdown on LGBT rights and freedom of the press.
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The Year in Preview: There Will Be Gaffes
Games will be changed, mean things will be said, and people will most certainly be outraged.
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We Wrote a Heartbreaking and Terrifying Post about Viral Content without Lists or GIFs. Then You Clicked on It, and Magic Happened.
Sure, you clicked on “8 Reasons Why This Puppy Will Make You Cry and Change Everything.” But what if you didn’t cry, and nothing changed?
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CNN Losing Interest in News
Their leader says he wants more of “an attitude and a take.” It’s actually not a bad idea.
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Will Zombie Marco Rubio Win in 2016?
Why the press needs to stop burying presidential contenders before the primaries start.
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The Media Need to Do More to Help People Navigate Obamacare
The fact that a law is controversial doesn’t absolve them of their resonsibility to guide the public through it.
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Who Knew Nerd Click Bait Was So Sexy?
Media outlets are racing to attract the wonkiest and the geekiest to crunch numbers for their publications. How did that happen?
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Insurance Companies Got You Down? Stupid Obamacare!
If your insurance company behaves like a rational capitalist actor, it’s obviously Barack Obama’s fault.
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Why Lara Logan Won’t Lose Her Job
She’s a rising star, and CBS doesn’t fear liberals the way it fears conservatives.