What that Fox News-Petraeus tape reveals
Media
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The Business of the Ideological Media Is Business
Why the right may be unable to solve its media problem
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Are Conservative Media Only Hurting Conservatives?
This year, they did the most harm to their own side.
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It’s Just Unbelievable to Be Freed
Why some of us may never get over how far lesbians and gay man have come from the old homo version of Jim Crow.
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Free Speech Weirdness from Overseas
Imagine if the government started policing Rush Limbaugh’s facts.
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Why Do the Sunday Shows Suck So Much?
Explaining the awfulness that is Meet the Press, This Week, and the rest
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David Brooks, the World’s Most Gullible Man
What do you know, he found the “authentic” Mitt Romney.
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CSI: David Byrne
An investigation of music’s power by one of its great polymaths
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Obama Insufficiently Audacious for Press Corps
Looking hard for something to complain about
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Newsweek: Is Asking Inane Questions the Future of Journalism?
A spoof of the magazine’s infamously sensational cover stories