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Fox News is falsely suggesting a new Weekly Standard article proves the CIA didn’t link the Benghazi attacks to an anti-Islam YouTube video. In fact, CIA talking points obtained by the conservative magazine actually demonstrate the intelligence community believed there was a link between the attacks and reactions to the video

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The  bogus story  that  New York Times  columnist Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy appeared on Boston.com, the sister website of  The Boston Globe , through a third-party content provider that posts content without editorial approval and provides such content to more than 200 web outlets. That provider, meanwhile, took the story from an Austrian-based blog without any editorial review or fact-checking of its own, a practice that is becoming more and more common in the Internet content sharing world. The blog has since deleted its post and all posts from the author appear to have been removed from Boston.com. The false story, which had its roots in a satire by the website Daily Currant , was subsequently  picked up  by the conservative site Breitbart.com, a move later criticized by Krugman himself and numerous news outlets from  The Atlantic  to  Politico

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The problem with so much of the Beltway media’s ongoing commentary regarding the sequestration showdown between Republicans and President Obama is that it reflects the central failing of the press throughout Obama’s presidency: It blames the president for the GOP’s ingrained, signature obstinacy. Earlier this week, I noted that the bulk of the commentary class was berating Obama for failing to ” lead ” on the budget issue.

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As Republicans made history yesterday by filibustering a secretary of defense nominee for the first time in U.S. history, Fox News contributor Scott Brown expressed support for the Republican’s obstructionist strategy of denying Chuck Hagel’s confirmation vote. Insisting there was no reason to “ram” Hagel’s nomination through, and claiming Republicans were acting “thoroughly” and “thoughtfully,” the former Republican senator told Neil Cavuto’s viewers GOP senators leading the filibuster effort “have some very real concerns” and were acting appropriately in blocking a vote.

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From Progressive News Source- http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/jNf2Kqkn_cw/192570 Progressive News Post- Alexander Zaitchik: The Wash. Post ‘s Jennifer Rubin Divide And The Iraq War

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A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that 35 percent of U.S. adults have used the internet to diagnose a medical problem either for themselves or an acquaintance. Eighty two percent of Americans consulted search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo for diagnostic information while an additional 13 percent used medical sites such as WebMD.

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Fox News relied on dubious arguments from a conservative group with a history of ethical problems to cast doubt on how the Obama administration is implementing government regulations related to the health care reform law. In a segment titled “Regulation Nation,” anchor Jenna Lee claimed that the health care law’s new regulations are on the “fast track” because the public hasn’t been afforded enough time to offer input on them before their passage. Correspondent Shannon Bream added that this was in contrast to a 1993 executive order from former President Clinton, which required a minimum of 60 days for comment

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Gun researcher John Lott has made numerous media appearances in the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. to argue against the enactment of gun violence prevention measures.

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The Washington Times editorial board is taking a stand for freedom, opposing newly enacted legislation that prevents broadcasters from airing TV ads that are excessively loud. “Nobody likes overly loud television commercials,” the Times observed in a December 14 editorial , but the “government is taking a step too far into the nation’s living rooms.” According to the conservative newspaper, government action to ameliorate this minor irritant could set us down the slippery slope towards total government control of the internet. What’s most troubling is that Congress and the FCC are inviting future intrusion.

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A coalition of states led by the Russian Federation has backed away from a proposal for the United Nations to have more direct regulation over the Internet.

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