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Plastic-bag news blackout

February 12, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Trump Leave a comment

  The media encountered an intentional news blackout at Mar-A-Lago yesterday. When reporters arrived at Trump’s Palm Beach resort to cover his golf outing

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Obamacare enrollment, Year 2: Mainstream media outlets ignore success

December 11, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Media Leave a comment

The ACA [Obamacare] is alive and growing—and Year 2 of enrollment is going quite well, but you’d never know that if you get your

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What happened to American media?

November 30, 2011 Mike Davis Corporations, Media Leave a comment

The Mayor’s office in NYC responded to accusations of mass arrests of reporters during Occupy Wall Street protests by stating that only five of

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