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Escape from False Equivalence in Today's NYT
Please be sure to read Binyamin Appelbaum’s assessment of a return to the gold standard, in today’s NYT. (Note: Appelbaum…
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Press Can Deal With the Benghazi Committee
When a congressional investigation turns into a partisan operation, the media need to treat it as such.
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Today's Hero of the False-Equivalence Struggles: On the Media
False equivalence, for those joining us late, is the almost irresistible instinct in mainstream journalism to present differing views as…
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Reuters Bad News, Good Headline
The importance of one verb and one noun
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Reuters Just Use the Damned Word: Filibuster
Defining obstructionism down
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Reuters I Hope This Is Our Final Shutdown Reader: Map, Airplanes, ChiComs
What 32 committed people, and one timorous speaker, can do to everyone else
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Screenshot Tuesday-Night Shutdown Reader: 'This Didn't Happen Today'
"Democracy requires accepting defeat," and other quaint concepts
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Reuters Shutdown Chronicles, NTSB Division
Crash investigations -- who needs 'em? Nobel prizes too. We're saving the world from Obamacare.
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Reuters Monday Shutdown Reader: 'A Last-Ditch Effort' to Save the Country
The view from the right
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Reuters Your Sunday Shutdown Reader #1: In Defense of Boehner
"How many times do we have to refight the Civil War?"
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NRDC Why the Shutdown Is Hurting All of Us, and Why That Doesn't Matter
"They don't know the difference between soil and dirt."
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Reuters More Tales of Shutdown Life
A struggle within one party, damage across the country
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Wikimedia Commons 'JFK, Oswald Differences Lead to Violence,' and Other Great Headlines of Yesteryear
Two innovative ways out of a journalistic dead end
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Coast Guard Today's Shutdown Bonus: Why It's Harder for the Coast Guard to Find People Lost at Sea
Studies in the self-lobotomization of a modern system
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Public Domain The Two Basic Facts That Should Be in Every Shutdown Story
If Congress could vote on a "clean" bill, it would end the shutdown tonight. So why isn't it allowed to vote?
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Reuters Et Tu, FT?
One newspaper, straddling two different worldviews
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False Equivalence Watch: East Asia / Mea Culpa Edition
It's not just for Americans any more.
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Blue Rider D.C. Interlude: False Equivalence, This Town
Media notes on a return visit
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A Quick False-Equivalence Update
Does 2006-vintage Obama make a hypocrite of the current version, when it comes to the debt ceiling? No.
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A False Equivalence Classic
The press' role in the new form of "defining deviancy down."
