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Twitter launches emergency alerts for phones

(AP) Twitter launches emergency alerts for phonesNEW YORKTwitter is launching an alerts feature that lets U.S. users receive emergency notices as text messages. Alerts are available from the American Red Cross, the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Emergency Management

Bezos: Print newspapers could become 'luxury'

Amazon chief executive and new Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that print newspapers could one day become a luxury item. “Some day, I don’t know how many years in the future — it could be decades — but

NPR Hides the Cost of Obamacare

NPR Hides the Cost of Obamacare

National Public Radio’s Scott Horsley continued his cheerleading for President Barack Obama with a story Wednesday about the president’s latest attempt to promote Obamacare to a highly skeptical public. Horsley allowed Obama’s claims about the cost of Obamacare premiums to

Reagan Library Chairman Will No Longer Be Politico CEO

Reagan Library Chairman Will No Longer Be Politico CEO

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will no longer be the CEO of Politico, a position he has held since the publication debuted in 2007. On Sunday, Fred Ryan, the founding CEO of

Iran Rejects Obama Meeting; Media Hardest Hit

Iran Rejects Obama Meeting; Media Hardest Hit

The media are saddened that President Barack Obama will not be, after all, meeting with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani today. The decision deprived them of a handshake they were already praising for having altered the course of history. But the

NBC News' Kasie Hunt Snarks at Ted Cruz Filibuster

NBC News' Kasie Hunt Snarks at Ted Cruz Filibuster

Kasie Hunt isn’t with MSNBC. She works for NBC News and presents herself as an objective reporter. This is a tweet she fired off less than a half-hour into Senator Ted Cruz’s Tuesday afternoon filibuster of ObamaCare. This is not

Media Ignore Good Global Warming News

Media Ignore Good Global Warming News

You would think that the recent news about how Global Warming might not be real would be reason to celebrate in every corner of the media; Whoo-hoo we are not doomed! Oddly enough, though, except for some obligatory reporting about

Hasselbeck Lifts Fox; New Lows for CNN's 'New Day'

Hasselbeck Lifts Fox; New Lows for CNN's 'New Day'

After week one, Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s arrival as one of three co-anchors of Fox and Friends  has given cable’s number-one morning show a ratings lift over the previous week and the same week last year: 20% in total viewers, 18% in the

MSNBC's Toure Doesn't Know Where Kenya Is

MSNBC's Toure Doesn't Know Where Kenya Is

Touré, MSNBC’s The Cycle host, revealed a lack of knowledge of  geography when he claimed on the air that Kenya was on the Northern Coast of Africa. Kenya is, in fact, on the eastern coast of continental Africa close to