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‘How conservatives are at war with the middle class…’

August 9th · No Comments · news media, Obama administration

Beginning with the Reagan administration, and reaching its fullest realization during the presidency of George W. Bush, conservatives have systematically been acting to redistribute wealth from the middle class upward. The result has been the steady decay of the middle class, and it’s all a result of conservative policies, specifically involving taxes and deregulation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-bard/krugmans-takedown-of-ryan_b_674845.html […]

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Ace student journalists again on the case at NABJ

July 30th · No Comments · NABJ, news media

Follow the National Association of Black Journalists 2010 Convention in San Diego all this weekend through the Student Multimedia Project. It’s one of the best things NABJ does. Don’t miss their daily convention reports in print editions of the NABJ Monitor and broadcast on NABJ TV (not to mention Twitter). Check out these kids who may be coming […]

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Are ‘hyperlocals’ replacing traditional newspapers?

July 26th · No Comments · news media, South Florida Times, The Coastal Star

Time weighs in with another update on a question that no matter where I go, comes up as soon as folks become aware of my news journalism background — “What’s happening to our newspaper(s)?” A nod to Jan Norris, mother hen to a bunch of us former Palm Beach Posties, for the alert on the Times piece. […]

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What — no NABJ words for NAACP? — Part II

July 23rd · No Comments · news media

Thanks to my colleague Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press columnist, for begging the question: “Why would the NAACP believe anything it saw on Fox?”

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What — no NABJ words for NAACP?

July 22nd · No Comments · news media

Statement from the National Association of Black Journalists on the Reaction of News Organizations Covering Shirley Sherrod: (Also, while NABJ kept its comment media-centric, Betty Baye of Louisville Courier-Journal, one of my journalistic role models, weighs in nicely, as usual. — cbh) WASHINGON (sic), DC, (July 22, 2010)-Today, the National Association of Black Journalists issued the […]

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Sara Haji spanks Maureen Dowd — and other insight from the minds of Muslim ladies at Muslimah Media Watch

July 20th · No Comments · InterFaith21.com, news media

That “Open Letter to Maureen Dowd?”  That’s what I was talking about at the conclusion of my last post over at InterFaith21. Our increasingly discredited “mainstream” news organizations continue feeding a diet of Faux News from the right and the Dowds and Tom Friedmans on the left. But the Internet is making accessible such folks […]

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