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Fuck Fox, Bring on AL Jazeera

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

Al Jazeera, financed by the government of Qatar, reportedly purchased Current TV: NYT - Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Gore Failed: “Going forward, the challenge will be persuading Americans to watch — an extremely tough proposition given the crowded television marketplace and the stereotypes about the channel that persist to this day.” Full NYT Media Decoder story here.

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The WORD’s 2011 Snookerer of the Year

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

She snookered Hunter College President Jennifer Raab; Erec R. Koch, Dean of Hunter’s School of Arts and Science; John T. Rose, Hunter’s Dean of Diversity and Compliance,  D:F/M’s Chair Jay Roman.

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Today is the Day: February 28 Rally @t Union Square to Support OCCUPY WALL STREET

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Date: Tue Feb 28 01:14:49 EST 2012
From: occupy_antisuppression-owner@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [occupy_antisuppression] Anonymous re-tweets, MichaelMoore.com posts
To: occupy_antisuppression@lists.riseup.net

MichaelMoore.com just put an alert at the top of the site:

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Stinkiest Journalism of the Year

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Occupy the PU-litzers!

This year has given us simply too many worthy contenders for FAIR’s annual P.U.-litzers–recognizing the stinkiest journalism of the year. A big part of the problem was that so many outlets were striving to distinguish themselves with especially awful coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. So to note those lowlights, we bring you a special installment of P.U.-litzers: The OWS edition.

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