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Fox News Loses Garrett, National Journal Lands ‘Major’ Hire

Fox News Loses Garrett, National Journal Lands ‘Major’ Hire

Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett is jumping ship and moving to NJ. National Journal Group announced today that the award-winning political journalist is joining National Journal as a Congressional Correspondent, “reporting and providing analysis across all of National Journal Group’s publications.” “Major Garrett is the embodiment of the new team we’re building here at National Journal,” said Editor-in-Chief Ron Fournier. “He is known across Washington as one of the hardest-working journalists in the business, a … Read entire article »

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So much for ‘conversation’ on race

So much for ‘conversation’ on race

The election of Barack Obama, America’s first black president, was supposed to be a sign of our national maturity, a chance to transform the charged, stilted “national conversation” about race into a smarter and more authentic dialogue, led by a president who was also one of the nation’s subtlest thinkers and writers on the topic. Instead, the conversation just got dumber. The America of 2010 is dominated by racial images out of farce … Read entire article »

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NAACP: We were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart

NAACP: We were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart

Here’s NAACP President Ben Jealous’s statement on the group’s investigation of a tape showing former USDA official Shirley Sherrod talking about mistreating a white farmer 24 years ago — a tape the group initially condemned. With regards to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing … Read entire article »

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Fox News Getting Helen Thomas’ Old Seat is ‘Poetic Justice’

Fox News Getting Helen Thomas’ Old Seat is ‘Poetic Justice’

This might upset some of the Fox News-ophobes within DC media circles, the so-called purists that tend to look down on the highly rated cable news outlet. As Fox News is purportedly competing with Bloomberg for that front-row seat once occupied by the former dean of the White House press corps and Hearst Newspaper columnist Helen Thomas, Chris Wallace, the host of “Fox News Sunday,” suggested there would be … Read entire article »

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MSNBC Olbermann Absurd Defense Of Banning Dissenting Voices From Show

MSNBC Olbermann Absurd Defense Of Banning Dissenting Voices From Show

Looks like thin-skinned Keith Olbermann is getting defensive about his policy of prohibiting any guests on his show who disagree with him.  An MSNBC Countdown promo features Olbermann making an absurd non sequitur of an argument in seeking to justify his echo-chamber approach. Keith claims he asks questions “to find out if I’m wildly incorrect” about something, ignoring the obvious: he’s unlikely to find out if he’s wrong if he … Read entire article »

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