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Jason Linkins: Andy Richter Crushes CNN's Wolf Blitzer In Celebrity Jeopardy

Editor of Eat The Press

Hey, Wolf Blitzer! Know what the situation is, in your Situation Room? Looks to me like the situation is that Andy Richter controls the universe. At least as far as "Celebrity Jeopardy" goes!

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Sports and the Uncivil Society

Dave Zirin, 09.18.2009

Sports correspondent for the Nation Magazine

The efforts of the media to conflate "black people behaving badly" alongside "tea baggers on the march" should be soundly rejected.

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You Say You Want a Virtual Revolution?

Lisa Petrides, 09.17.2009

Lisa Petrides is president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

While it's true that the Web-based economy poses tough new challenges for higher education, we shouldn't let ourselves get too sentimental about the way things were in the old days.

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Sever the Link Between Populism and Racism

Scott Kurashige, 09.18.2009

Scholar of history and race/ethnicity, University of Michigan

David Brooks is a very clever and gifted writer. But his latest piece repudiating the role of race in the vitriolic backlash against Obama just doesn't pass muster.

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What I Learned From Jay Leno's Prime Time Debut: Part I

Charles Warner, 09.17.2009

Charles Warner is an active blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com and teaches at The New School

The interview with Seinfeld was stiff and overly scripted; even the phony pre-taped appearance of Oprah was stiff, boring, and predictable.

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Jimmy Carter's Words Give Media Outlets a Gigantic Excuse to Look Hard at Racism and Some Obama Critics

Eric Deggans, 09.17.2009

TV/Media critic for the St. Petersburg Times

It took a former president using blunt language to get the nation's chattering class to focus on an issue that has troubled some since the first first Tea Bag protestor tossed a pouch of Lipton into the Potomac.

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Interview: Robert Greene on 50 Cent

Jason Richards, 09.17.2009

Toronto-based freelance writer

In The 50th Law, the new book Robert Greene co-wrote with 50 Cent, Greene regards the rapper as the music world's modern-day Bonaparte.

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Reading The Pictures: Glenn Beck's Organ. TIME's Dime.

Michael Shaw, 09.18.2009

Publisher of the visual politics blog, BAGnewsNotes

With so many confused and troubled people being politically exploited right now, Time has, in effect, gone beyond good sense to pull its own Joe Wilson.

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My Lunch With Nancy Pelosi and Her Seven Pieces of Wisdom

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, 09.17.2009

Travel expert, author of FLY SOLO, founder TangoDiva.com

I know one thing for certain; Pelosi was nowhere near Fashion Week. While others were chatting about the top must-haves for next season, Madame Speaker was generously giving me seven pieces of advice.

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Where Does Social Media Start, and a Mainstream Media News Cycle Die?

Phil Bronstein, 09.17.2009

Executive Vice President and Editor-at-Large, San Francisco Chronicle

When and how a news story begins, and what the steps are in between that moment and Jimmy Carter offering his final, funereal judgment, are interesting questions.

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Think Again: The Conspiracy Nuts Take Over

Eric Alterman, 09.17.2009

Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Either by denial or by omission, pundits and politicians claim that they don't believe birther accusations. Nonetheless, they stand in alliance with professed birthers.

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New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse

Greg Mitchell, 09.17.2009

Author, 'Why Obama Won'

I have no quarrel with TIME magazine devoting a cover to Glenn Beck -- so long as the story sticks to hard facts and harsh truths. The issue coming tomorrow sadly fails to do so.

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