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ABC Honors Bill Clinton with Interview on 'His Work to Save a Continent' By Tim Graham | July 20, 2007 - 12:19 ETABC’s Good Morning America interviewed Bill Clinton on Thursday morning, and while he made the news for saying Iraq is hopeless ("There is no military victory here"), the interview was also notable as another opportunity for ABC to honor Clinton as a global statesman and ask him softball questions for almost nine minutes. Co-host Diane Sawyer reported he was in Africa to see Nelson Mandela and do his AIDS work: "And President Bill Clinton weighs in, speaking...

CBS Cameraman Shot By US Troops Under Arrest Troops believe he was working for insurgents, not just covering them as reporter. Just announced on CNN. Developing...

CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER to address, in detail, the issues surrounding the authenticity of the documents broadcast in the 60 MINUTES report on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard... Developing...

Proof Through Repetition and the "Liberal Bias" of the U.S. Media: A Review of Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? By NEIL H. BUCHANAN ---- Friday, June 20, 2003 Eric Alterman, What Liberal Media? (Basic Books 2003) Can it ever be pointless to publish a well-written book? Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? is a nice piece of work. It combines uncompromising passion with sardonic humor, careful research, and incisive prose. Alterman makes a solid case that the legendary left-wing bias of the big-time American media is a myth. That so many people believe that myth is a testament to nothing more...

Calling the conservative bluff By John Mark Eberhart, Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News By Eric Alterman Coulter, Limbaugh, O’Reilly; oh my. Goldberg and Goldberg, Buchanan and Drudge. There they are: Ann and Rush and Bill, Bernard and Jonah and Patrick and Matt. Seven of the most popular political pundits in America, their views on display in newspapers, voices crackling across the airwaves, opinions flying through cyberspace. And nary a liberal among them. But now Eric has come forward to call their bluff. That’s Eric as in Eric Alterman, author of What...

The Wayward Media By TED WIDMER "...Alterman is ready for a bar fight, and he comes out swinging. His first targets are Goldberg and Ann Coulter, the acidulous commentator whose mini-skirts and mini-thoughts have ensured her a wide following on the paleolithic end of the political spectrum....Throughout the book, the idea of a liberal reporter seems a faint anachronism -- like the typewriter or Jimmy Olsen's bow tie -- when contrasted to the disciplined nexus of private foundations, talk shows and dirt-seeking oppo men that the right uses to get out its message. Alterman vividly presents this nether world as...