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Dan Froomkin

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Name: Dan Froomkin

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Dan Rather

Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting

5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are both pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship ... [Published The Big Picture Blog - May 18 2013]

Entities: Pro-War, Daniel Ellsberg, Dan Rather, Censorship

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War

There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are both pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship by Journalists Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists. A survey by the Pew Research Center ... [Published Zero Hedge - May 14 2013]

Entities: Daniel Ellsberg, Dan Rather, Pro-War, Censorship

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

Media Mocked Idea of Targeted IRS Audits

The Internal Revenue Service has admitted that it for tax audits during the 2012 election season.Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal reported during last years election that President Barack Obama had an enemies list, and those that found themselves ... [Published Newsvine - May 11 2013]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, David Weigel, Dan Froomkin

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Flashback Media Group

Flashback: Media Ridiculed Claims IRS Targeted Conservatives

During the 2012 presidential campaign, many conservatives complained that the IRS was targeting them for harassment, with some even claimed that Obama had an "enemies list." At the time, the progressive media complex ridiculed these claims, but now ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 11 2013]

Entities: Flashback Media Group, Bill Moyers, Jay Sekulow, Paul Waldman

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Stephen Colbert

The President of Hollywood

There was a time when the artistic community felt an obligation to speak truth to power. It was called the Bush years. Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner back in 2006, and proceeded to blast President George ... [Published Frontpagemag.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Stephen Colbert, Hollywood, Barack Obama, White House, Conan O'Brien

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Dick Cheney

Dan Froomkin: New Torture Reports Blames Obama and the Media for Not Confronting the Truth

By this point, there really should be no doubt in anyone's mind that torture was widely used during the last administration -- and that nothing like that should ever happen again.The new, comprehensive report out today from an august, bipartisan commission ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Torture, Dan Froomkin, Detainee, Dick Cheney, Task Force

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

National Security Brief: Pressure Mounts On Obama To Investigate Torture

Pressure is mounting on the Obama administration to allow access to documents pertaining to the CIA’s post 9/11 terror suspect detention program and to order a full accounting of the Bush-era torture program. At the outset of his first term, President ... [Published Think Progress - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Torture, Thomas Pickering, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, National Security

First reported Feb 03 2013 - Updated Feb 03 2013 - 2 reports

Noted for February 3, 2013

Victorian GadgetsBrad DeLong (April 2012):U.C. Riverside Seminar: Fiscal Policy in a Depressed EconomyAn assessment by Dan Froomkin of of William Saletan: "The case for torture": "There's a line between idiotic, toxic contrarianism and the active embrace ... [Published Brad DeLong - Feb 03 2013]

Entities: William Saletan, Paul Krugman, Dan Froomkin, University of California Riverside, Joe Scarborough

First reported Jan 15 2013 - Updated Jan 15 2013 - 1 reports

Dan Froomkin: Commuting John Kiriakou's Sentence Would Be a Step in the Right Direction for Obama

Had John Kiriakou actually engaged in torture, he wouldn't be in any trouble at all -- he never even would have been investigated. But because he talked about torture with reporters, he's going to prison. Read More... More on Torture ... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Jan 15 2013]

Entities: John Kiriakou, Dan Froomkin, Torture, prison

First reported Jan 12 2013 - Updated Jan 12 2013 - 1 reports

Dan Froomkin: How Many Dead and Wounded Soldiers Ago Did Obama Give Up on Afghanistan?

Why did Obama wait two years to "change his mind," and four years to pull out? Over 1,300 American servicemembers have died in Afghanistan since the summer of 2009 -- well over half of all the dead during the entire war. When did he know it was hopeless? ... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Jan 12 2013]

Entities: Dan Froomkin, Afghanistan

First reported Dec 12 2012 - Updated Dec 12 2012 - 2 reports

Noted for December 10, 2012

Aaron Bady: Essay critiques the ideas of Clay Shirky and others advocating higher ed disruption : "I suspect that if you agree with Clay Shirky that teaching is analogous to music, then you are likely to be persuaded by his assertion that Udacity ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Dec 12 2012]

Entities: Clay Shirky, Bradley Belt, Mark Granovetter, William G. Gale

First reported Dec 08 2012 - Updated Dec 09 2012 - 2 reports

Sunday Long Read: “How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign”

This one is worth giving the Huffington Post a click. Dan Froomkin—ejected from the Washington Post for being insufficiently ‘bipartisan’—reports: Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, ... [Published Balloon Juice - Dec 09 2012]

Entities: Norman Ornstein, Thomas Mann, Dan Froomkin, Republican Party (US)

More Content

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Opinion: Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting... [Published Hidden Harmonies China Blog - May 19 2013]
Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting [Published The Big Picture Blog - May 18 2013]
5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gate... [Published Zero Hedge - May 14 2013]
5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gate... [Published PrisonPlanet - May 14 2013]
Media Mocked Idea of Targeted IRS Audits [Published Newsvine - May 11 2013]
Flashback: Media Ridiculed Claims IRS Targeted ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 11 2013]
The President of Hollywood [Published Frontpagemag.com - Apr 30 2013]
“Looking Forward, Not Backward” Is Not Only Stu... [Published PrisonPlanet - Apr 25 2013]
US torture 'indisputable', CNN's humiliation, a... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 18 2013]
Dan Froomkin: New Torture Reports Blames Obama ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 17 2013]
National Security Brief: Pressure Mounts On Oba... [Published Think Progress - Apr 17 2013]
Ron Fournier's amazing admission about his serv... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Feb 28 2013]
The Price of Speaking Truth to Power [Published NO QUARTER - Feb 28 2013]
In Case It Wasn’t Already Obvious, Mistah Kurtz... [Published Firedoglake - Feb 04 2013]
The liberal publicity line on ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ [Published Mondoweiss - Feb 03 2013]
Noted for February 3, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - Feb 03 2013]
Noted for February 3, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Feb 03 2013]
Dan Froomkin: Commuting John Kiriakou's Sentenc... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Jan 15 2013]
Dan Froomkin: How Many Dead and Wounded Soldier... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Jan 12 2013]
The Fix [Published Eschaton - Jan 10 2013]
U.S. Government Using Terrorism Against the Ame... [Published Zero Hedge - Jan 07 2013]
Noted for January 5, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Jan 05 2013]
Links for 12-19-2012 [Published Economist's View - Dec 19 2012]
Links 12/16/12 [Published naked capitalism - Dec 16 2012]
STUDY: Cable News Regularly Refers To Torture U... [Published Think Progress - Dec 12 2012]
NYT's Calmes Wins Dubious 'Unbiased' Title From... [Published NewsBusters.org blogs - Dec 12 2012]
Noted for December 10, 2012 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Dec 12 2012]
Noted for December 10, 2012 [Published Brad DeLong - Dec 12 2012]
The "Lie of the Year": Mitt Romney's ... [Published Slate - David Weigel - Dec 12 2012]
Noted for December 11, 2012 [Published Brad DeLong - Dec 11 2012]

Blogs

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Opinion: Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting... [Published Hidden Harmonies China Blog - May 19 2013] Once in a while one runs into articles that seems to fly against convention wisdom, that seem to tear at the veil of world injustice, that seem to open one’s eyes to provide insight into the causes of so many of today’s ills. This article titled Why ...
Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting [Published The Big Picture Blog - May 18 2013] 5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War Why There Is So Much Pro-War Reporting There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are both pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship ...
5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gate... [Published Zero Hedge - May 14 2013] There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are both pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship by Journalists Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists. A survey by the Pew Research Center ...
Flashback: Media Ridiculed Claims IRS Targeted ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 11 2013] During the 2012 presidential campaign, many conservatives complained that the IRS was targeting them for harassment, with some even claimed that Obama had an "enemies list." At the time, the progressive media complex ridiculed these claims, but now ...
US torture 'indisputable', CNN's humiliation, a... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 18 2013] Two separate bipartisan reports with surprising pronouncements, and a cable news debacle, highlight similar themes Today is a travel day for me, so I'll use this opportunity to note some brief though significant items: (1) It's hardly news that ...