The Disease of Right-wing Framing
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Here is a recent New York Times headline of an article describing a George Bush stump speech in Michigan: Bush describes Kerry&#39;s health care plan as a &#39;government takeover.
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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Mitt Romney contributed tens of thousands of dollars to groups in a position to influence his image on the right.
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Given the contemporary issues and ideological stances adopted
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How two words illuminate the shift of power from the media to the people
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Current Media hopes to strike while the apathy is hot.
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When it comes to presidential politics, the news media loves front-runners. And seems to hate them, too.
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How campaign donors can defy the odds of a classic economic theory.
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Having shown up at wired.com of all places just the other day, a story claiming that Paul's campaign staff or his supporters have been (email) spamming to get the message out. This is pure bullshit, and I'll explain why.
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For years, political scientists assumed our political leanings came from the way we were raised and the company we keep. You're a screaming liberal? Must be because you were raised in a household full of screaming liberals. You're an arch conservative? Must be because of that college you went to.
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Both sides of the political spectrum twist the truth in their media briefs, according to a website that's tracking the spin. The system of half truths make it hard for ordinary folks to become informed.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: The push for participatory democracy has the disturbing whiff of an Astroturf campaign - a fake grassroots movement.
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Move over, MoveOn.org. The liberal-leaning group that has raised millions of dollars to run negative ads attacking President Bush now has a competitor on the right with a somewhat similar name.
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It's not enough for U.S. Republican presidential candidates to be conservatives. They've got to be bigger and better conservatives to win the hearts of right-wing America.
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Some are born to rule, others to ridicule, is a worthy reminder to U.S presidential hopefuls struck by an endless arsenal of satirical barbs on the Web.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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TRUTH IN advertising should extend to political advertisements aired over the public airways. The so-called facts presented in political advertisements, even statements masquerading as opinion, should be held