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Swine Flu — The Media and Twitter

Although many don’t concur about the Swine Flu’s handling from the world media, there is no dispute that its overall topic has assumed a lot more attention in the political and technological community than expected. And as the H1N1 flu virus seems to take a back seat in the media’s more promontory coverage of Arlen Spector’s seniority battle and baseball’s internal drug problem, the time for evaluation of the press has come.
One of the best thought out analysis was from foreign policy writer Adam Elkus, who responded to claims that social networking and the microblogging …

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Opinion Piece: Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party

What Rush Limbaugh truly means to the Republican party is a question that is becoming more and more impossible to answer. 
Former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently joked in a CNN interview that his Republican colleagues, and in specific — Sarah Palin ”aren’t that cute.” This was a quote Mr. Limbaugh didn’t seem to take in as much of a playful stride as Romney, instead attacking the week old GOP council. ”They despise Sarah Palin. They fear Sarah Palin. They don’t like her either. According to them, she’s embarrassing.”
Without playing into the overall political message …

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Opinion Piece: Fake Reform and Its Negative Effect on Washington

Political contribution reform and all of its due glory has its ups and downs, but like other things, when manipulated it will become exactly what it is seemlingly posed against — partisan warfare. Enter the Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Commities.
In what has exploded throughout the political world, a June fundraiser for these committees turned into a give and take offer for the president — to speak at the event in exchange for a ban on PAC and Lobbyist donations — for one day. Pundits, the partisan media, politicians and …

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Torture — Its Effect on the Media and All of Us

Washington is a very confusing place. 
In the past week, the public has seen the story of waterboarding explode into literately hundreds of pieces. President Barack Obama and his cabinet have almost fatally contradicted themselves and the main stream media’s supposed unbiased analysis of the waterboardings have flown hand in hand — and in some cases have assumed the form of — their own talking heads. And of course, this all comes in great time of President Obama’s 100 day celebration. 
So how can this all be politically interpreted? In some ways, it can’t. 
As John Dickerson writes, we …