Josh Silver covers the FCC’S declaration of TMZ and 700 Club as “Bona fide Newscasts” via The Huffington Post
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Looks like the Right-Wing FUD Factory Freedoms Watch is not doing too well these days…
(Read article on TPMMuckraker)

When Ari Fleischer (Dissembler Extraordinaire) was trotted out as the face of Freedoms Watch, they had the UFC swagger of Tito Ortiz. Now, they look a little bit more like Horseshack on Celebrity Boxing getting smacked around by […]

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Seems Karl Rove is not going to be sitting quietly on the sidelines. Indeed, it’s hard to figure out what to make of the new, available, accessible, public and on the record Karl Rove, columnist, talking head and blogger.
Rove may have royally screwed the pooch with his revisionist version of the lead up to war […]

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There’s a growing thread over at WebmasterWorld today about the very much unsettled legal matters involving blog and web publishers being held legally responsible for the comments and content posted by other users.
In our burgeoning social media internet, online defamation, libel and slander are becoming an enormous problem - both because of the very […]

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Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s […]

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