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Fox news, not exactly known for it’s, er, penetrating stories, showed some uncensored porn clips a few nights back. There’s a move afoot to complain to the FCC about this episode, though the FCC has no real power over cable.

Aspirin and ibuprofen, mostly, but they’re drugs, right? When a headline in a mainstream newspaper screams “Drugs found in more than 6,700 Florida autopsies in 2003,” the vast majority of readers are going to assume that most of those deaths were caused or abetted by the consumption of illegal drugs, because , as we all …

Roger Ebert compares and contrasts Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh: It is a belief of mine about the movies, that what makes them good or bad isn’t what they’re about, but how they’re about them. The point is not the subject but the form and purpose of its expression. A listener to Stern will find …

(note: this entry is color coded for your reading convenience!) As reported here on BlogWood, The Tampa Tribune published an article on Nov. 19 that is remarkable for it’s bias. In a nutshell, a Sheriffs Deputy went before a government board to represent MADD, but testified in full uniform and misled those to whom he …

Iraq Death Bombs Protests London Bush Failure Liar Punk-Ass Chump MICHAEL JACKSON UPDATED to fix stupid errors :~)

The post below this one was a mistake. Well, the link and pasted text were a mistake anyway. This is what I meant to post, and the post below actually contains a follow-up letter to this earlier letter to Jim Romenesko’s media blog. See, if you read this post, the headline for the post below …

In case anyone missed this, it’s a must read from Jim Romenesko’s blog. A little inside info from a former Fox News editor: From MATT GROSS, assistant editor, New York magazine: As a former editor at Foxnews.com — and therefore clearly a disgruntled ex-employee — let me just say that the right-wing bias was there …

From today’s News Dissector Web Log: FCC BATTLE STILL RAGES: CALL TO PRESSURE CONGRESS Common Cause is seeking to mobilize pressure on Congress: “Last Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee responded to the call to overturn the FCC decision. It took the first step by approving Senate Bill S.1046, and added several amendments, including one addressing …