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St. Louis lags badly in media coverage of Congressional Races

June 3, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, Campaigns, Media, Missouri region, Politics, Uncategorized, Voting/Elections One comment

As the St. Louis Metro Chapter of the League of Women Voters once again did its heavy lifting to bring political awareness to the

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Hello Fourth Estate – Democracy in Missouri Needs You

October 18, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Last night, I attended the forum for Congressional candidates in Missouri’s Second District sponsored by the League of Women Voters. It was terrific, except

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Hillary gets the short end of media coverage, in more ways than one

September 5, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Media One comment

Hillary Clinton gets far less air time and far fewer column inches in  mainstream media coverage than does Donald Trump.  And while that’s a

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Myths and lies about Greece

July 14, 2015 Madonna Gauding Banks, Financial reform, Foreign Policy, International, Justice One comment

  From Truth and Satire: Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much

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How the media went wrong on the CBO “Obamacare” report

February 6, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Health care, Language/Words, Media 3 comments

When the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the Affordable Care Act on Feb. 4, 2014, the headline in the next morning’s St.

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Mainstream media is like the frog in a boiling pot

July 29, 2013 Arthur Lieber Budget, Congress, Courts, Ethics, Government, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Senate Leave a comment

By its very definition, the term “news” means something that is happening now. What qualifies as news in the mainstream media is largely events

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