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By this point, Marvel Comics has the recipe down pat for sparking mainstream-media interest: Take a comic-book icon like Spider-Man or Captain America, and add a dose of real-world politics.
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That's the only conclusion that can be drawn from the refusal of mainstream-media organizations to allow their employees to attend Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity on Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C. That's right, in a showdown between nonpartisan sanity and partisan madness, the traditional media have boldly decided to ... not take a stand.
Arianna Huffington: Choking on Its Contrived Objectivity, the Media Refuses to Take a Stand on Sanity Arianna Huffington 2010
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That's the only conclusion that can be drawn from the refusal of mainstream-media organizations to allow their employees to attend Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity on Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C. That's right, in a showdown between nonpartisan sanity and partisan madness, the traditional media have boldly decided to ... not take a stand.
Arianna Huffington: Choking on Its Contrived Objectivity, the Media Refuses to Take a Stand on Sanity Arianna Huffington 2010
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Madly trying to split the difference, as so many of my mainstream-media colleagues feel impelled to do, does a disservice to the concept of the truth.
Discourse.net: Economist.com Does '7 Questions for Dan Froomkin' 2009
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In my case, I drew on my mainstream-media experience to navigate the virgin sea.
Why I Blog 2008
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That's nothing compared with the mainstream-media outlets that HuffPo hopes to displace.
Arianna’s Answer 2010
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In my case, I drew on my mainstream-media experience to navigate the virgin sea.
Why I Blog 2008
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A recent post despaired of "cliché-ridden mainstream-media papal coverage — oftentimes with such barely concealed hostility towards the pope (that) one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry."
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If mainstream-media political journalists don't start calling bullshit more often, then we do risk losing our primacy -- if not to the comedians then to the bloggers.
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But by and large, mainstream-media journalism missed the real Bush story for way too long.
White House Watched 2009
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