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Alyona Minkovski: a young woman to watch

August 12, 2011 Madonna Gauding Media 3 comments

Watch where, you may ask? Well, how about RT TV (formerly Russian TV). Based out of RT’s Washington D.C. Bureau, Alyona Minkovski, at the

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Warning: Copyright troll Righthaven extorts settlements from bloggers

July 30, 2011 Madonna Gauding Courts, Media One comment

Where the law has created a legal way to extort money from hapless netizens, Righthaven has stepped in for some quick cash. They’re not

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Looking back at KMOX with Ron Jacober

June 20, 2011 Arthur Lieber History, Media One comment

Ron Jacober has been broadcasting for 38 years. He has called games for the St. Louis Cardinals, the St. Louis Blues, the St. Louis

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Pruitt-Igoe: Ghosts and survivors of a failed urban policy

May 14, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Government, History, Housing, Media, Missouri region 3 comments

Watching “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” in a packed theater this afternoon was much more than a movie-going experience: It was a history lesson, a fact-finding

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To Sarah Palin: About that grudge…

May 13, 2011 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Media, Politics Leave a comment

People who have  difficulty gathering and processing information have plenty of company. We all have moments that humble us. Fortunately, there is still considerable

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Mallard Fillmore: Not funny, not true

April 7, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Politics 14 comments

As someone whose morning bowl of Cheerios cannot be properly digested unless accompanied by a perusal of the comics page, I’ve been looking at

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The progressive case against NPR and PBS

March 22, 2011 Arthur Lieber Government, Media 2 comments

President Barack Obama is trying to take the scalpel approach to cutting the federal budget rather than the machete or butcher knife that  Michelle

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The Local Community Radio Act of 2010

February 5, 2011 Madonna Gauding Congress, Media 2 comments

A free Internet, as we’ve known it, may be slipping away with the FCC’s watered down Net Neutrality ruling and its recent approval of

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Turning up the heat on Missouri politicians: Sean Soendker Nicholson

January 31, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Missouri region, Politics 2 comments

Sean Soendker Nicholson has run the widely read Fired Up! Missouri blog since March 2009. With a national following in the thousands, Fired Up!

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Patch: Good news for neighborhoods, or local-news poacher?

January 26, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Missouri region, Technology One comment

  When a school district repurposes a building, or a sandwich shop takes the political pulse of its neighborhood, is it news? Sure, especially

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