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ACA Repeal Stunt Amendment Fails in Senate Tonight

By cassandra_m February 2, 201129 Comments

The GOP brought up their amendment to repeal the ACA on a bill meant to reauthorize the FAA. It failed pretty spectacularly — largely because the GOP amendment didn’t propose a way to *pay* the $1+ trillion cost of repeal.

More Like This Please

By Unstable Isotope May 6, 20106 Comments

It must be nice to have a functioning media in a state. Look what happened in Illinois: In the race for President Obama's old Senate seat, Republican candidate Mark Kirk…

In Which We Find Ron Williams Losing All Journalistic Integrity He Had Left

By cassandra_m April 5, 201048 Comments

Sunday's editorial page had another piece from Williams, this one not just carrying water for the Insurance Commissioner, but inexplicably injects her current round of excuses into the debate without a single comment from Matt Denn.

The Secret Doings of the Politico Editorial Meeting

By cassandra_m March 2, 20102 Comments

This is damned awesome -- a very cool website and a damned funny take on the ohsoinsidery Politico:

How the Media Gets Suckered by the Media Lobbying Complex

By cassandra_m February 22, 20101 Comment

Sebastian Jones writes an excellent piece of investigative journalism -- The Media-Lobbying Complex -- documenting the various (and many) undisclosed conflicts of interest that seem to power much of the…

Calling ‘Em Out

By cassandra_m October 9, 20099 Comments

Time Magazine reports that the White House is getting more aggressive in taking on the disinformation that gets into the press:

President Obama Highlights a Favorite Cause of Bloggers

By cassandra_m August 23, 200911 Comments

At his Town Hall at the DNC the other day, President Obama took notice of how dysfunctional the media's role has become:

This Is How It Gets Done

By cassandra_m August 13, 200918 Comments

Brendan Nyhan wrote recently about the proven playbook of getting misinformation (lies, really) about Obama's birth certificate and about some details of the health insurance reform actually get into the media rotation:

Bush: ‘Gog and Magog Made Me Do It’

By El Somnambulo August 6, 200911 Comments

Invade Iraq, that is. And just one more story the MSM didn't cover: A raging born-again religious fanatic lunatic was President. El Somnambulo cannot make this stuff up. But here's…