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UK media in covering US politics">The growing significance of the UK media in covering US politics

December 15, 2008

If you wanted a sign of the grow­ing import­ance of the UK news media in report­ing US polit­ics (a phe­nomenon sup­por­ted by Matt Drudge, the now global online mar­ket in Eng­lish lan­guage news, and the largely apolit­ical US press), here it is. Media Mat­ters, a Democratic-leaning MSM rebut­tal ser­vice, turns its power­ful fisk­ing atten­tion to this Times […]

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The Magnificent Folly of Great American News Reporting

November 15, 2008

I don’t know John Crewd­son, but I’m sorry he’s out of a job. He’s the sub­ject of this post at the Chicago Reader: The Nobel Prize in medi­cine was awar­ded last month to Luc Montag­nier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pas­teur Insti­tute in Paris for dis­cov­er­ing the HIV virus in 1983 — but not to the […]

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