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He Lied/She Lied
Can PolitiFact resist the temptation of false equivalence?
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The Journal vs. Fox (Huh?)
The Wall Street Journal’s yahoo cousin, Fox News, embarrasses the family.
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Siri, Sexism, and Silicon Valley
Siri might not be sexist, but that doesn’t let Apple—or the tech world—off the hook.
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The (New York) Times, They are A-Changin’
Newspaper coverage goes from alienation of ‘homosexual’ to featuring same-sex marriages.
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Just TELL Me You’re Gonna Invade My Privacy
Federal regulators have reached a settlement with Facebook over privacy violations—but it’s just a slap on the wrist for an industry that regularly sells user data.
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The Barney Frank Greatest Hits Reel
You knew it was coming. Some fabulous news organization would assign someone to come up with the Barney Frank YouTube highlights. Here it is at HuffPo. And here HuffPo’s Ryan Grim fondly recalls being chewed out by the honorable member of Congress from Massachusetts, adding a few others’ such memories: Politico’s Glenn Thrush describes walking […]
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Barney Frank Announces Retirement With Jabs at Partisans
“People on the left and right live on parallel universes…People know different facts.”
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The Body Politic
Criticism of an Egyptian blogger’s nude photos underscore liberal worries about seeming too radical.