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Right-wing media are trying to downplay a  confrontation  over gun sale background checks between a woman who lost her mother in the Newtown, CT, shooting and Sen.

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In trying to dream up a #slatepitch on the new Brad Paisley-LL Cool J collaboration “Accidental Racist,” a variety of contrarian avenues spring to mind: “Why Brad Paisley, Like Skynyrd Before Him, Is Right About The Stars & Bars.” “If You Love The Band You Can’t Hate ‘Accidental Racist.’” “Good Intentions Redeem Gag-Inducing Lyrics In Paisley-LL Collabo.” None of those headlines can sustain a valid argument.

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If the UK Telegraph does not retract and apologize for James Delingpole’s latest piece of pure hate speech , then it is declaring its own publication policies a sham.

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Politico’s Dylan Byers neatly sums up the reaction, or lack thereof, to the news that Fox News chief Roger Ailes used a Fox contributor to pitch a presidential run to David Petraeus in 2011: No one seemed to believe that Ailes had breached media ethics.

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The end of the 2012 election has raised questions about media’s impact on results.

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Fox News is blaming fact-checkers for Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential election, claiming that they tilted the race in President Obama’s favor. Fox repeatedly attacked fact-checkers for debunking many of Romney’s falsehoods during the campaign — following the Romney camp’s dismissal of fact checks as biased. Fox: “Partisan” Fact-Checkers Drove Obama Win   Steve Doocy: Biased Fact-Checkers Allowed Obama Team To Put Out “Flat-Out Lies.” On Fox & Friends , co-host Steve Doocy claimed that fact-checkers with a “political agenda,” “allowed the president’s team to put out some ads that were absolutely false”:  DOOCY: You look at throughout the summer months, Mr.

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Washington state Democrats aren’t the only ones fuming about the Seattle Times’ unprecedented decision this week to run a full-page endorsement ad this week in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna. More than 100 staffers at the Times’ signed a letter to the publisher, denouncing the paper’s news advocacy role.

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Right-wing media attacked NBC News and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell for not airing a 1998 tape of President Obama on Wednesday before the network could authenticate it, accusing NBC of a “double standard” and of being a subsidiary of the Obama administration. In fact, in seeking to verify the full context of what Obama said 14 years ago, comments first publicized by the Drudge Report and subsequently distorted by right-wing media, NBC News was doing exactly what is required of news organizations: checking the facts

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Thousands of protesters marched against planned tuition hikes in Montreal, opposing the Liberal government of Premier Jean Charest, two weeks before Quebec’s parliamentary elections.

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