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ashk4n Facebook Timeline rev model: "Disguising ads as friends’ updates" betabeat.com/2011/12/23/exc… < Google at least differentiates 'ads' from content 9:16 AM Dec 23rd, 2011 via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 5 others
FYI, @politifact, your claim to be outside partisan bubble is exactly what all journalists list as reason for "balance" bit.ly/sxTXtV 8:30 AM Dec 23rd, 2011 via TweetDeck
TimKarr Media live in such abject terror of perceptions of bias that they've outsourced job of sorting fact from fiction bit.ly/sGKxGJ 2:35 AM Dec 21st, 2011 via bitly Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 7 others
politifact Krugman says we're guilty of false balance RT @NYTimeskrugman: Politifact, R.I.P. nyti.ms/vf3gpC 6:30 AM Dec 20th, 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 39 others
SusanGDailyKos Stop citing @politifact , even when they rule in your favor. Their methods make them unreliable self-appointed arbiters, no matter the topic 8:24 AM Dec 20th, 2011 via TweetDeck Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 19 others
EricBoehlert if you didn't c @politifact's train wreck coming, you don't understand the enormous media pressure to claim BOTH SIDES do it; #theydont 7:52 AM Dec 20th, 2011 via web Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 30 others
Even our "fact-checking" websites can't get away from being "centrist" by calling out Dems for things they don't do: nyti.ms/veXdGE 7:56 AM Dec 20th, 2011 via TweetDeck
Sometimes I just love @emptywheel. bit.ly/vq0Gyp 11:22 AM Dec 15th, 2011 via TweetDeck
edshow Why the world needs @mmfa RT Today In Dishonest Fox News Charts bit.ly/uMiPOL 1:24 PM Dec 12th, 2011 via Tweet Button Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 34 others
W.T.F. ?? RT @elonjames: *Looks at #Boycott List* Oh. forgot one. *Adds @lowes right under Chik-fil-a* ---> bit.ly/uKkafb 6:39 PM Dec 9th, 2011 via TweetDeck
More stories like this need to be written. This is f'ing ridiculous. #OWS bit.ly/vEhV0N (via @GregMitch: bit.ly/t0DANB ) 2:32 PM Dec 7th, 2011 via TweetDeck
AdamSerwer This -----> RT @conor64: Wake up call for the left: the executive power Obama has asserted may soon belong to Newt Gingrich. 2:26 PM Dec 7th, 2011 via web Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 33 others
The "Who Counts as Press?" question gets to a court: bit.ly/uQESN8 1:33 PM Dec 7th, 2011 via TweetDeck
Elana_Brooklyn Dear @whitehouse women deserve PlanB OTC. Stop ignoring science. Catholics use birth control. RW will never vote 4u anyway #occupyhhs 12:49 PM Dec 7th, 2011 via HootSuite Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 4 others
akammer Google insists on a warrant before disclosing emails to government, even though law doesn't require it. npr.org/2011/11/24/142… via @csoghoian 9:41 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via web Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 2 others
I hope this appeal addresses the question. Journo=someone doing journalism. Can't constitutionalize the profession. bit.ly/s8On56 9:38 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via TweetDeck
Potentially a huge deal. RT @stanfordlaw: U.S. District judge drew line between "journalist" & "blogger" ($2.5M fine) bit.ly/s8On56 9:35 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via TweetDeck
wikileaks This is the whole problem with the US banking blockade. All formal processes have found in our favor. It is entirely backroom. 9:17 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via web Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 121 others
wikileaks NYTimes has, as usual, seriously falsely reported. We never said the US treasury was against us. Just the opposite. It found in our favor. 9:15 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via web Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 105 others
JustinBrookman RT @ceciliakang Despite law, stealth commercials frequently masquerade as TV news: wapo.st/vHpDnN #privacy #freespeech #ftc #fcc 6:24 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via Plume for Android Retweeted by CoffeeHouseTalk and 2 others

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