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Glenn Beck's symptoms range from conservative paranoia to bad acting.

The Nation's Richard Kim joins several other journalists in a discussion of the politics of gender, sexual identity and power

The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, Robert George of the New York Post and Danny Schechter the news dissector look at the reporting of the past week.

The workings of a build-up to a fake-scandal over President Obama's laughter on 60 Minutes.

Communist McCarthyism!? The right-wing makes less sense than usual with its Obama insults.

Jon Stewart finally confronts Jim Cramer face-to-face. The results are fascinating to watch.

Fox's coverage of EFCA. Cramer v. Stewart. The Nation's Ari Melber, Isabel McDonald and others discuss the news coverage of the past week.

Media watchdogs who slept through the Bush era now have little interest in examining just how many of our liberties were lost.

CNBC's Jim Cramer has appeared all over the NBC empire defending his financial acumen; Stewart has now rallied the power of Viacom to fight back.

Withdrawing his bid for Surgeon General, CNN's Sanjay Gupta is headed back to TV. But his medical reporting, like his nomination, is worrisome.

Blogs

Links to what you need to know, and the greatest hits and misses in the media,  as we "limn the morning" at our new Media Fix blog.

May 4, 2010

On Wednesday ABC's Nightline offered a cartoonish and superficial discussion of black marriage.

April 22, 2010

Hannity, Beck & Gang regularly flick sticks at tree-hugging boss.

April 16, 2010

 Will CNN get caught in the crossfire?

April 11, 2010

Keeping it crazy makes you long for order and schmaltz.

April 2, 2010

  ACORN's closing up shop. Who's to blame?

March 25, 2010

Lately, 3D reality has been popping out of Fox's 2D world.

March 20, 2010

 Non-news led the news at the Times when Petraeus met the Armed Services Committee.

March 19, 2010

Today's Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in painful self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I haven't seen anything this painfully scripted since the Phantom Menace.

February 19, 2010

"So the haters have Fox, the lovers who are afraid to be hurt again have MSNBC, but what about all the people who watched the speech and found it too straightforward and understandable? Well, there's always CNN."

February 11, 2010
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