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Roll Call for the 2008 Muzzle Awardsnew

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression honors -- if that's the right word -- those who engage in "especially egregious or ridiculous" acts of censorship.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Cathy Harding  |  04-09-2008  |  Civil Liberties
Tags: Dennis Kucinich, New York, FEMA, civil liberties, FCC, Brandeis University, CBS, DMV, Jay Rockefeller, MSNBC, Muzzle Awards, Ronald M. Zaccari, Texas Democratic Party, University of Virginia, Valdosta State University

Media Moguls, Not Looters, Killed Media's Truth Tellersnew

For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, but once the crisis point had passed, most broadcasters went back to business as usual.
L.A. Weekly  |  Nikki Finke  |  09-16-2005  |  Media
Tags: George W. Bush, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and FNC’s Shep Smith and NBC’s Brian Williams, FNC’s Bill O’Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Meet the Press host Tim Russert cut off Jefferson Parish’s Andre Broussard

While Network News Flounders, the Present Belongs to NPRnew

Now that early-evening network news programming has sustained a series of body blows, it looks as if NPR -- certainly not cable -- is the wave of the future for serious news-followers.
Boston Phoenix  |  Dan Kennedy  |  04-15-2005  |  Media
Tags: ABC, Ted, Tom, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, Dan, Brokaw, Koppel, Rather

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