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Note explains why Current sold to Al Jazeera: Shared values.

The big question behind the sale of San Francisco-based Current TV is “Why would owners Al Gore and Joel Hyatt sell to Al Jazeera?” OK, besides the estimated $500 miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion sale price — $100 mill to be pocketed by Gore. But besides the Benjamins, why Al Jazeera? Fox News is preparing to feast on this […]

Karl Rove, Dick Morris to disappear from Fox. For a while. (VIDEO)

You won’t be seeing any more Karl Rove meltdowns or Dick Morris flat-out-wrong predictions on Fox News. For a while. Sez New York Magazine:Fox News chief Roger “Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.” Seems that, as a Fox […]

Media bias? Study finds that Romney has received more favorable coverage than Obama since first debate

As Romney gained in the polls in the aftermath of the Denver debate, he got substantially more favorable media coverage. Obama’s coverage suddenly became more negative. Nearly three times as many Obama-related stories had a negative tone than a positive one.

Connecticut’s US Senate debate was brought to you by…. the combatant$

A quick check of the hard-to-navigate Federal Communications Commission website shows that the price of the 30 second spots during tonight’s mud-slinging exercise between Republican Linda McMahon and

Six things that Joe Biden, Paul Ryan must do in their VP debate

Historically, says Emory University debate coach Bill Newnam, “vice presidential debates have not mattered.”

But in the aftermath of President Obama’s disastrous performance in last Wednesday night’s first presidential debate, which helped Republican Mitt Romney erase the Democratic incumbent’s yearlong lead in the polls, “the stakes in Thursday night’s debate are astronomical for both candidates,” notes University of Michigan debate director Aaron Kall.