MEDIA-LOGIC

CBS' black eye: A debate disaster

If you gave up a portion of your Saturday evening to watch the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CBS and National Journal, you might want to write to CBS and ask for that hour to hour-and-a-half of your life back.

Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Media HQ

The revolution may never be televised, but if Occupy activists in a semi-secret media war room in New York’s Bowery district have their way, it will be livestreamed....

Facebook targeted with porn, violent images

Facebook users on Tuesday were assaulted by a wave of pornographic and violent images, pushed into their accounts as content supposedly liked or recommended by their friends....

How Social Media Distorts the Occupy Movement

When police forced Occupy Wall Street protesters to evacuate Zuccotti Park last night, social media incompetently covered what the mainstream media abandoned....

Turkish state TV re-elects İbrahim Şahin as head

Şahin was chosen after a five-and-a-half-hour meeting in which the board of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) deliberated between three candidates under consideration for the position. ...

Stewart: GOP’s foreign policy is a middle finger to the world

After watching the latest Republican presidential candidate debate, Comedy Central host Jon Stewart had a simple question for his audience on Monday evening: “How do you know if you had too many debates?” ...

Twitter index: Twitterers angry at the NYPD's late night Occupy Wall Street raid

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters and Twitter users who support the cause are tweeting about the New York Police Department’s late night raid on the OWS protesters camp in Zuccotti Park, NYC....

Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-hit nuke plant

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday saw a striking scene of devastation: twisted and overturned trucks, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble virtually untouched since the wave struck more than eight months ago....

Press TV reporter released by Israel

The Israel regime has finally released Press TV correspondent Hassan Ghani, one week after he was abducted in international waters by Israeli forces while aboard a Gaza-bound relief aid boat, Press TV reports. ...

'Elite media biased against Occupy Wall Street'

Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional rights attorney, said the media's reaction to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement highlighted how mainstream media journalists had become part of the elite class....