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		<title>Former NSA Chief Was Worried About &#8220;Enemy Of The State&#8221; Reputation</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/07/former-nsa-chief-was-worried-about-enemy-of-the-state-reputation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past week, details on two of the most closely guarded and controversial federal surveillance programs have been brought into the light of day and has turned the public perception of the shadowy National Security Agency into a potentially menacing and out of control organization. And it&#8217;s not for the first time. The 1998 Will Smith and Gene Hackman film Enemy of the State portrayed a rogue agency attempting to kill Smith&#8217;s character, a lawyer who they believe possesses information that would embarrass the agency. &#8220;The government&#8217;s been in bed with the entire telecommunications business since the &#8217;40s,&#8221; Gene Hackman&#8217;s character, a retired NSA official, tells Smith. &#8220;They have infected everything. They can get into your bank statements, computer files, e- mail, listen to your phone calls.&#8221; Former NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden was promoted to head the agency as the movie came out, and was deeply worried about the public perception it created, James Risen reported in his 2006 book State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration. Hayden, who went on to become the director of the CIA under President George W. Bush, &#8220;was appalled&#8221; by the NSA&#8217;s portrayal, and responded with a full-fledged PR campaign. The agency&#8217;s very existence was long a state secret. &#8220;I made the judgment that we couldn&#8217;t survive with the popular impression of this agency being formed by the last Will Smith movie,&#8221; he told CNN in a segment pulling back the curtain on the agency. &#8220;It has to be somewhat a secretive agency, and right in the middle of a political culture that just trusts two things most of all: power and secrecy,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s a challenge for us, and that&#8217;s why, frankly, we&#8217;re trying to explain what it is we do for America, how it is we follow the law. Could there be abuses? Of course. Would there be? I am looking you and the American people in the eye and saying: there are not.&#8221; With it&#8217;s current test far more real than a Hollywood blockbuster, it remains to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=97374&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fox’s Megyn Kelly Alpha-Dogs Working-Mom Critic Erick Erickson</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/31/foxs-megyn-kelly-alpha-dogs-working-mom-critic-erick-erickson/#ixzz2UtzW9Ies</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 20:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Poniewozik</dc:creator>
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		<title>AP Twitter Account Hacked, Falsely Reported White House Explosions</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/23/associated-press-twitter-account-hacked-reported-white-house-explosions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Twitter accounts belonging to the Associated Press were hacked Tuesday afternoon, with a false tweet about explosions at the White House sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly down one percent. The accounts, the main account of the newswire @AP and its mobile-centric account @AP_Mobile, were both suspended shortly after the tweet as dozens of AP employees quickly debunked the rogue tweet. The offending tweet sent by @AP was: “Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.” The tweet sparked a momentary “flash-crash” in the markets, which quickly recovered from a short sell-off. Earlier this month, following the Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s decision to allow companies to release material information via social media, Bloomberg began including tweets in its ubiquitous terminals. A spokesperson for the SEC declined to comment on whether the regulatory agency will examine the trading. A Secret Service spokesman did not immediately have a response to the tweet. AP&#8217;s White House correspondent Julie Pace corrected the tweet publicly at the start of the White House daily press briefing moments after it was sent. &#8220;It appears as though AP&#8217;s Twitter account has been attacked, so anything that was just sent out &#8230; is obviously false,&#8221; she said, before continuing with the customary first question afforded to the wire. &#8220;I appreciate that, and I can say that the president is fine, I was just with him,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed. Hackers from then so-called “Syrian Electronic Army” took credit for compromising both accounts. The Associated Press reported that the hacking followed a phishing attempt on its corporate network. Media companies have been the target of hacking attempts for months. The same group claimed credit for hacking the Twitter account of CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; last week and several hacking attempts on the BBC&#8217;s accounts, though this is by far the most prominent attack.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93813&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston&#8217;s Wild, Unnerving, Topsy Turvy Day</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/17/bostons-wild-unnerving-topsy-turvy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston went on a roller coaster ride of speculation, rumor and evacuations on Wednesday, thanks in part to a rumor-mill stoked by national media camped in town covering the marathon bombings. In the morning, the hunt for the marathon bomber seemed to be stalled. The one press conference with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Massachusetts authorities was called off. Activity in the crime scene seemed to be winding down, with most stores not directly on Boylston Street reopening for business. Then, suddenly, CNN began reporting that a “dark skinned” suspect had been identified using surveillance video. Crowds began to form outside the Westin Copley Hotel where CNN was reporting live. An arrest, CNN said soon after, had been made. The Associated Press and Fox News soon put out similar alerts and reporters by the hundreds rushed to the U.S. District Court on Boston Harbor, where a suspect might be booked and arraigned. A perp walk more than 30 television cameras long formed and dozens of curious Boston locals toting smart phones swelled the crowd. On the police scanner, chatter was heard about a police arrest at a hotel off the Massachusetts turnpike. Inside the court, court employees gathered outside the emergency magistrate’s courtroom, eager to watch what seemed certain to be one of the arraignments of the year. Rumors spread through the crowd: the FBI says no arrest has been made. But surely, others rationed, the closed parking lot in front of the court due to “heightened security” and the police and Coast Guard boats hovering in the waters on the other side of the building were proof that something exceptional was about to happen. Before the debate could be settled the court’s fire alarm went off and a booming voice announced over the loudspeaker “Code Red emergency. Please evacuate immediately.” Court employees looked startled. “In 14 years of working here I’ve never heard of a ‘Code Red’ emergency,” one man said. Outside, police had pushed back the ever-growing throng of journalists and gawkers 100 feet from the building<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=93280&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Stepping Down After Contentious Term</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/22/fcc-chairman-julius-genachowski-stepping-down-after-contentious-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is stepping down, he announced Friday. Genachowski, who became chairman in 2009, has presided over an agency that has grappled with contentious issues like U.S. broadband policy, cable and telecom industry competition, and media consolidation. In seeking to strike a centrist balance, Genachowski managed to alienate both public interest groups that have pushed for a more activist FCC on issues like media ownership and Internet openness, as well as industry giants, particularly AT&#38;T, which had proposed buying T-Mobile before the FCC objected. Verizon Wireless is currently suing the FCC in federal court over the agency’s “network neutrality” rules. Genachowski’s announcement, which was expected, comes just days after another FCC commissioner, Robert McDowell, announced his plan to leave the agency. Their departures create two vacancies on the commission, which will be filled by candidates nominated by President Obama. The job of FCC chairman is particularly important, because the position wields significant power in shaping U.S. telecom regulatory policy. A spokesman for the FCC’s office of the chairman declined to comment on the reports of Genachowski’s impending departure, but Reuters reported that he informed his staff of his decision on Thursday. To finish reading this article from TIME Buisness click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91105&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Republicans Can&#8217;t Stay Mad at Fox News</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/06/why-republicans-cant-stay-mad-at-fox-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A front page story in today&#8217;s edition of Politico announces a &#8220;purge&#8221; at Fox News, where contentious, hyper-partisan pundits lured Republicans into a false sense of security during the election. Ratings have dropped and viewers feel &#8220;duped,&#8221; Politico reports, so the network is undergoing a credibility “colonoscopy.&#8221; But while Republicans trust Fox less than they have before, a survey highlights why viewers aren&#8217;t likely to switch the channel. For four years, Public Policy Polling has been asking Democrats and Republicans who they trust when it comes to the broadcast media. According to the latest numbers, released on Wednesday, both liberals and conservatives used to trust Fox more than they do now. In PPP&#8217;s inaugural poll, about 50% of all viewers said they believed what people were saying on CEO Roger Ailes&#8217; channel. This year only about 40% did, the lowest since PPP has been asking. The other networks from the inaugural poll&#8211;ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC&#8211;either elicit about the same or slightly more trust than they did in 2010. (CNN is owned by the same parent company as TIME.) Yet the survey sheds light on a comforting truth for the likes of Ailes. Even on the wane, Republicans still trust Fox far more than other networks. In fact, it&#8217;s the only outlet that more of them trust than distrust by enormous margins. Excepting PBS, that disparity is about 50 points. So however mad viewers may be about election coverage or Sarah Palin&#8217;s divisive squawking, if most conservatives trust no other news outlet, they remain a fairly captive audience in the broadcast world. The ratings at Fox, which has topped the Nielsen charts for a decade, are still handily better than other major networks even after the post-election dropoff. On Tuesday, more than 1.1 million tuned in to watch their cable news shows, more than twice the number that watched MSNBC and more than three times the amount that turned into CNN.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87441&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News answers questions during panel discussion at Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Katy Steinmetz</media:title>
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		<title>The Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s House of Cards</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/06/the-anti-defamation-leagues-house-of-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started watching House of Cards with trepidation since nothing&#8211;ever&#8211;could approach the brilliant original British series. But, lo and behold&#8211;and despite some teeth-gnashing inaccuracies about the processes of journalism and politics&#8211;it is, as the Brits might say, a cracking good show.  And it&#8217;s a brave one, at times. The teachers unions don&#8217;t fare too well in the American version. And the Anti-Defamation League shines briefly and fairly accurately as an over-the-top, paranoid organization that finds anti-Semites under ever floorboard. This has roused the inevitable Abe Foxman to protest. The ADL would never call a member of Congress anti-semitic for opposing the illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank! He opines. The ADL would merely be &#8220;sharply critical,&#8221; he says. Excuse my chuckle. Sharply critical? The settlements are illegal and a major impediment to a peace settlement (as, of course, is the Palestinians&#8217; refusal to acknowledge Israel&#8217;s existence&#8211;and the Hamas rockets that are fired from Gaza). And as for the wanton slinging of the anti-Semitic canard, Foxman once publicly accused me of anti-Semitism and I&#8217;ve been a strong supporter of Israel (but not its illegal settlements) all my life&#8211;including, by the way, the recent attack on Syria&#8217;s attempted transport of rockets to Hizballah and Israel&#8217;s surgical effort to hit Hamas arms caches in Gaza. Foxman really needs to get ahold of himself or retire. Anti-Semitism exists. It is historically toxic and dangerous. But he is seriously devaluing the currency by throwing the accusation hither and yon&#8211;and House of Cards has called the ADL on it. Good for them. Update: I can&#8217;t figure out how to respond to commenters using this new system, so I&#8217;ll do it here. Several commenters wanted to know what the teeth-gnashing inaccuracies were. Here they are: 1. a journalist would not be able to break a big, single-sourced story without telling her boss who the source is. 2. a neophyte journalist at a major newspaper would not be able to break the story without input, and perhaps collaboration, from the paper&#8217;s Congressional correspondents. 3. a major figure like the House<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87434&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Abraham Foxman</media:title>
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		<title>Piers Morgan v. Alex Jones</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/08/piers-morgan-v-alex-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday&#8217;s Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN should have been titled Morgan vs. Jones and aired on pay-per-view. Alex Jones is a radio host who supports a White House petition to deport Morgan, who is British, for his views on gun control. Since the Newtown, Conn., shooting, Morgan has openly discussed his belief in a nationwide ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, a view Jones vehemently opposes. &#8220;1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms,&#8221; said Jones. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter how many lemmings you get out on the street begging for them to have their guns taken! We will not relinquish them! Do you understand?&#8221; See Part 1 below: After a commercial break, Morgan asks Jones for a calm debate. Jones quickly becomes animated and at one point bellows, &#8220;I want to get people off pills that the insert says will make you commit suicide and kill people! I want to blame the real culprit. Suicide pills! Mass-murder pills!&#8221; Jones later adopts a British accent and calls Morgan a &#8220;redcoat&#8221; before Morgan can turn to his next guest, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. See Part 2 below: Update: The White House petition to deport Piers Morgan has been denied.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded, &#8220;Let’s not let arguments over the Constitution’s Second Amendment violate the spirit of its First.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84364&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hagel Nomination</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/07/the-hagel-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan discovers that Bill Kristol once favored the &#8220;anti-Israel&#8221; appeaser as George W. Bush&#8217;s vice president. Gak!  Sully also compares and contrasts Hagel and Kristol on Iraq. By the way, I just love the way Kristol just&#8230;opines conclusively, as if he knows something, that Saddam has lost his support among Iraqi Sunnis. Oh, the blather, the blather! One question for Andrew, though: When you go behind the paywall, will I still be able to link to you?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84322&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hagel Nomination Outcry</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/07/hagel-nomination-outcry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although President Obama nominated former Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican, to be his next Secretary of Defense three hours ago, two conservative groups are already out in opposition: one a gay rights organization, the other a pro-Israel group.  Below is a television ad produced a few weeks ago by the Emergency Committee for Israel that aired on cable stations in the Washington, DC market: The same group also purchased the domain name ChuckHagel.com to criticize Hagel for supposedly being too soft on Iran and Syria and weakening the U.S. relationship with Israel.  ECI says it seeks to &#8220;provide citizens with the facts they need to be sure that their public officials are supporting a strong US-Israel relationship.&#8221; It&#8217;s board includes Bill Kristol, a prominent neo-conservative and editor of the Weekly Standard. The Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative gay rights group, highlighted Hagel&#8217;s past problems with the gay and lesbian community in a full-page ad in today&#8217;s Washington Post. Gay rights groups are drawing attention to a comment made by Hagel in 1998 disparaging then-President Bill Clinton&#8217;s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, James Hormel, as &#8220;openly, aggressively gay.&#8221; Hagel has since apologized for the remark as &#8220;insensitive,&#8221; but the Log Cabin Republicans seek to tie Hagel&#8217;s comment in a larger anti-gay and lesbian framework, including his prior support for &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; and the Defense of Marriage Act.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84280&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election Watch: Karl Rove Vs. the Arithmetic</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2012/11/07/election-watch-karl-rove-vs-the-arithmetic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Poniewozik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was, as Bill Clinton told us at the Democratic convention, about the arithmetic. And last night, the arithmetic won. Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States. The polls, beaten up for weeks by partisans as being “skewed,” were generally correct. Polling nerds like Nate Silver, pooh-poohed by some pundits, proved even more correct. After billions of dollars of spending, the election was remarkably predictable, and predicted. But in a bizarre interlude last night, Fox News analyst and GOP rainmaker Karl Rove went to war against the math–his own network’s. It was an earlier night than expected even by many who thought Obama would win, as NBC and Fox called his re-election at about 11:15 p.m. ET. But after Fox called Ohio and thus the US for the President, Rove immediately began complaining, on Fox’s air, that Fox had called the election too early. “Do you believe that Ohio has been settled?” Chris Wallace asked him. “No, I don’t,” Rove said, adding that he had the director of the Romney Ohio campaign on the phone. “I would be very cautious of intruding in this process.” But Rove was not cautious of intruding in Fox’s independent election-calling process. Fox, like many networks, keeps a separate “decision desk” of analysts to make calls on states independent of influence by anchors and on-air talent. It’s not unusual to call states, even if there’s only a small gap in the reported vote, on the basis of what they know about the vote yet to come in. (And as it turns out, they were absolutely right.) What is unusual–really, one of the most spectacular things I have ever seen on cable news–is for one arm of a network to basically turn against itself on-air. “Here’s what we’re going to do!” said anchor Bret Baier. “We’re going to get someone from the decision desk and we’re going to bring them in here and we’re going to have them on air and we’re going to interview them about this decision.” That’s right: One of you nerds had better get in here and explain yourselves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81922&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PolitiFact, Harry Reid’s Pants, and the Limits of Fact-Checking</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/08/politifact-harry-reids-pants-and-the-limits-of-fact-checking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Poniewozik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fact: I do not know whether Mitt Romney paid federal income  taxes, when, or how much, in any year before 2010, for which he publicly released his tax returns. Fact: You probably do not either, unless you are among the small army of spreadsheet-slinging professionals it must take to shepherd his wealth, or—possibly—if you are Mitt Romney. Fact: Sen. Harry Reid is also not in a position to know definitively whether and how much tax Romney has paid, though that has not stopped him claiming–and claiming, and re-claiming–that someone in a position to know told him Romney paid no income tax for ten years. And fact: the watchdog fact-checking outlet PolitiFact assigned Reid its dreaded “Pants on Fire” label for said claim, although, fact: PolitiFact does not and cannot know either whether it is true or false.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=75295&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Aaron Sorkin: Your Lame Show Got the BP Spill Backward</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/06/26/hey-aaron-sorkin-your-lame-show-got-the-bp-spill-backwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a knight with my banners now bravely unfurled, I hurl down my gauntlet to thee, Aaron Sorkin, and your preposterous, sanctimonious, Man of La Mancha–quoting HBO drama Newsroom. And I basically agree with the show’s basic critique of dumbed-down, he-said-she-said, eyeball-driven journalism! I just hated the pedantic lectures disguised as rat-a-tat-tat dialogue in the first episode, and our awesome Jim Poniewozik says the coming episodes are even worse. I don’t have much to add to Jim’s TV criticism, but I want to gripe about Sorkin’s first example for his journalism-bashing thesis, the BP spill. He seems to think it was the ultimate undercovered story. It was actually an overcovered story. I got torched as an antienvironmental BP shill when I first reported that leading coastal scientists thought the spill’s ecological impact had been exaggerated, so let me clarify what I’m saying. The Deepwater Horizon explosion was obviously a tragedy for the 11 men who were killed on the rig. It was clearly an economic disaster for coastal Louisiana. And oil isn’t a recommended additive to marine environments. Spilling 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was bound to affect the ecosystem, and not in a good way. Pelicans aren’t supposed to wear black. But contrary to Sorkin&#8217;s fantasy, it wasn’t just brave speak-truth-to-power rabble rousers who instantly declared the BP spill the Worst Ecological Disaster in History. It was the entire media herd. It was a dramatic story, with a fiery explosion, telegenic oiled wildlife, corporate flacks who couldn’t get their story straight and a mesmerizing gusher that nobody could figure out how to plug. I probably would have hyped it too, if I hadn’t been home at the time with a newborn baby. When I finally got sent to the Gulf a few months later, though, there just wasn’t any evidence of ecological havoc. There were some oiled birds, but less than 1% of the number killed by the Exxon Valdez, and only three oiled mammals. And the spill had done almost nothing to accelerate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=73058&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">HBO&#039;s &#34;The Newsroom&#34;</media:title>
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		<title>Why There Aren&#8217;t Supermarket Scanner Moments Anymore</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/06/20/why-there-arent-supermarket-scanner-moments-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows the story. Another sad impostor in the long line of presidential candidates who try to emulate the Normals, George H.W. Bush walked into a grocery store one day in 1992 and blew his Joe Sixpack cover story by marveling at the futuristic wonder that was the store&#8217;s decade-old bar code scanning technology. Everybody knows this story because it was a perfect illustration of the thickness of the White House bubble. What many people don&#8217;t seem to know about this story is that it is completely false. It was a grocers&#8217; convention, not a store; and according to every eyewitness account, Bush wasn&#8217;t completely blown away by the scanners, which were in fact of a new, innovative variety. The other version spread because of a New York Times article the following day by a reporter who wasn&#8217;t there. (The Times did get the location right&#8211;transposing the story to a supermarket happened later.) Despite a lot of people&#8217;s best efforts, the fiction became legend &#8212; one of the stickiest myths in U.S. political history. I&#8217;ve met plenty of people who still believe it. They&#8217;re out there. And some of them even work in the news business. MSNBC&#8217;s estimable Andrea Mitchell is apparently one of them. On Monday she introduced a clip of Mitt Romney by remarking, &#8220;Maybe this was Mitt Romney&#8217;s supermarket scanner moment.&#8221; It was and it wasn&#8217;t. The clip seemed like the Bush Myth all over again: At a rally in Pennsylvania, Romney professed amazement at a local convenience store&#8217;s touchscreen sandwich ordering doohicky, a mainstay of Sheetz&#8217;s, Wawa&#8217;s and other fine dining establishments for many years. And not unlike the Bush Myth, context spoiled the whole story. Romney was just making a point about (yawn) burdensome regulation. The full clip made it pretty clear he wasn&#8217;t about to invest heavily in hoagie robots any time soon. But in one very important way, Romney&#8217;s Wawaterloo (we&#8217;re calling it that, right?) was completely different: No one is going to remember it. The news cycle chewed up the myth and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=72782&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Now Praise Ed Gillespie, Super Surrogate</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/06/05/let-us-now-praise-ed-gillespie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED with a response from Ed Gillespie There needs to be an Academy Awards for Televised Political News, a Golden Babbler Bobble-Head statuette that could be awarded on a special joint airing of Morning Joe, Meet the Press and Hardball, or if Fox News wins the broadcast rights, Fox and Friends, Studio B and O&#8217;Reilly Factor. There would be an award for best rant of the cycle, a prize for best surrogate, and an acknowledgement for least-informative soundbite. Anchors could even get nods. My vote for that one would go, of course, to Shepard Smith of Fox News, whose deadpan pose in the face of the ubiquitous perfidy of the people, officials and institutions he covers perfectly captures the national mood. For Best Surrogate, I am not yet ready to cast my ballot. But I do have an early favorite: Ed Gillespie. His appearance on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this week was a case in point. Perhaps never before has someone so ably delivered such substantially dubious material, which is pretty much the very definition of a surrogate&#8217;s job. (MORE: Why Can’t President Obama Get Surrogates You Can Believe In?) For newcomers to the political punditry fan club, some introduction is in order. Gillespie is a well-respected pro in Washington, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and senior White House aide to President George W. Bush who has in recent years been something of a Republican elder statesman. He is part of the founding crew of Crossroads, the external mega-structure of Republican money, and he has been a principal at Resurgent Republic, a conservative polling operation that has been, among other things, pushing the party to be more inclusive of Latino voters. In 2004, Gillespie lead the surrogate assault on John Kerry, and it was for this reason, and for his reputation in Washington and among Republican party insiders as a decent fellow, that the Romney campaign asked him to sign on a few weeks back. He immediately made his mark by going on Meet The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71788&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fair and Balanced&#8217; Stretched to Its Limit</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/30/fair-and-balanced-stretched-to-its-limit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Altman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated, 6:10 PM If you&#8217;ve spent any amount of time watching Fox News, and did not arrive at the network already wedded to its view of the world, you know that &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; is not actually an aspiration or ethos, but rather an inside joke meant to melt the faces of incredulous liberals. Yes, there is a divide between Fox&#8217;s opinion arm and its news-gathering operation, which employs many straight-shooting reporters. But it&#8217;s difficult to put much faith in this supposedly impermeable wall when the network itself is cutting four-minute attack ads against Barack Obama on its own news shows. Behold the following, aired in its entirety on Fox &#38; Friends, the network&#8217;s morning show: The pulse-quickening video traces the nation&#8217;s steep decline under our socialist president. Set to a thumping score, it splices Obama&#8217;s promises with the grim reality of the recession: rising unemployment, higher debt, spiking gas prices. All the scariest nouns in the conservative dictionary make an appearance: food stamps, hybrid vehicles, crowded cities, Nancy Pelosi. If that&#8217;s not enough of an inducement, there&#8217;s some baffling imagery&#8211;a piggy bank tumbling down a staircase, animals spinning on an umbrella-topped lazy susan&#8211;that may just stick with you. It is entirely reasonable for Fox to present analysis and opinion critical of Obama. But it&#8217;s a different thing altogether for a news program to produce its own campaign videos. It&#8217;s hard for the network to defend itself against claims that it is a propaganda organ for the Republican Party while it airs attack ads as starkly negative as anything Mitt Romney&#8217;s super PAC could dream up. Update, 6:10 p.m.: Fox News sends along this statement from Bill Shine, its executive vice president of programming: &#8220;The package that aired on FOX &#38; Friends was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the senior executive level of the network. This has been addressed with the show’s producers.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71478&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ vs. NYT on Murdoch</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/26/wsj-vs-nyt-on-murdoch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast these two headlines on octogenarian NewsCorp chief Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s testimony yesterday in front of panel investigating press ethics at his and other British papers: Murdoch, Center Stage, Plays Powerless Broker vs. Murdoch Bats Away &#8216;Myths&#8217; To their credit, the Journal reporters (article number two) take a fairly dry, factual approach to the testimony. It&#8217;s the Journal&#8217;s headline-writing editors who deserve credit for the up-sucking presentation of their boss. By contrast, the great John Burns (cf. Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan) delivers a more opinionated treatment in his piece for the New York Times (article number one), saying Murdoch presented himself as &#8220;&#8230;a balding, bespectacled Mr. Magoo lookalike.&#8221; They report, you decide.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70058&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt vs. the Media: Why Romney Is Wrong About Campaign Coverage in the Digital Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if they can get a little preachy, I&#8217;m not one easily bothered by politicians critiquing the media. We write about them all the time&#8211;sometimes preachily&#8211;and as the principles in a whole bunch of news stories, their perspectives are worth something. But just as when pundits mouth off about politics, it would help press-critic politicians to make an argument that holds up in a light breeze. Here&#8217;s what Mitt Romney had to say at an Associated Press luncheon on Wednesday: In just the few years since my last campaign, the changes in your industry are striking. Then, I looked to Drudge or FOX or CNN online to see what stories were developing. Hours after a speech, it was being dissected on the Internet. Now, it’s Twitter, and instantaneous reaction. In 2008, the coverage was about what I said in my speech. These days, it’s about what brand of jeans I am wearing and what I ate for lunch. Most people in my position are convinced that you are biased against us. We identify with LBJ&#8217;s famous quip that if he were to walk on water, your headline would read: “President Can’t Swim.” Some people thus welcome the tumult in your industry, heralding the new voices and the unfiltered or supposedly unbiased sources. Frankly, in some of the new media, I find myself missing the presence of editors to exercise quality control. I miss the days of two or more sources for a story – when at least one source was actually named. How your industry will change, I cannot predict. I subscribe to Yogi Berra&#8217;s dictum: &#8220;Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.&#8221; But I do know this: You will continue to find ways to provide the American people with reliable information that is vital to our lives and to our nation. And I am confident that the press will remain free. But further, I salute this organization and your various institutions in your effort to make it not only free, but also responsible, accurate, relevant, and integral<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68909&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Today Show, Palin Joins the Lamestream Media</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/03/game-change-on-today-show-palin-joins-lamestream-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Poniewozik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before she was a guest host on this morning’s Today show – 45 minutes before – Sarah Palin was a guest, joining Matt Lauer on the morning of three Republican primaries, to offer “her take on the race.” Toward the end of the interview, Lauer asked his soon-to-be temporary partner a pointed question: Should the Republican nominee this year choose a running mate with more experience than Palin had in 2008?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68798&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gaffe Cycle Dominates the 2012 Campaign</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/27/the-gaffe-cycle-dominates-the-2012-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 2012 campaign for president, the news cycle has been replaced by the gaffe cycle. Back in the day, and even four years ago, certain signature events all but guaranteed a full 24-hours of political press coverage. Win a primary campaign, dominate a televised debate, announce a major endorsement or deliver a policy address, and a candidate would be rewarded. The newspapers would front the event in the morning, the talk-radio and cable news shows would discuss the event during the day, and the network news programs would wrap it all up at the end of the day. For big moments, the weekly magazines and weekend news roundups would keep it in the headlines. But cable news and then the Internet long ago began to erode the traditional news cycle. Facebook and Twitter feeds, like CNN, never stop flowing. What is news one moment will be replaced the next. The only way to keep a story alive is to share it, twist it, react to it. The story is not the event, but the dialog that follows. And on this playing field—from which cable and radio news increasingly takes their cues&#8211;the predictable big events must compete with the unexpected small events. The small and the unexpected have been winning. (LIST: The Top 10 Gaffes of 2011) Think of what you remember of the last week: The fact that Romney won Illinois and Jeb Bush’s endorsement? Or the fact that Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom used an ill-advised “Etch-a-Sketch” metaphor in a CNN interview? The gaffe, unscripted and surprising, endured. It simply mattered more to the national conversation. Go back a few presidential cycles, and the reverse would be true. The mainstream journalists, as filters, would have discounted the gaffe as what it was: A poorly worded restatement of conventional wisdom. The media filter would have focused on the primary win and the endorsement as the events that mattered. Now think about the event that defined Obama’s visit to the South Korea: Was it President Obama’s scripted visit to the DMZ?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68305&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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