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What’s Driving the Media Wars?

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If you get the impression that Americans' grasp of the news scarcely overlaps, you are not imagining things.

Media Literacy: How Reporters and News Consumers can Step Up their Game

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Journalism is in the midst of a slow-motion crisis. When I was in journalism school, students learned how to write using the "inverted pyramid" approach. The inverted pyramid is a style of writing that dates back to the days when paper real estate — in a print newspaper — was limited. Editors who wished to …

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Blank Weather Forecast On Your Device? Blame MSN Direct

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I remember it well: standing in the Sharper Image store debating between a three-day Bushnell wireless weather forecaster featuring AccuWeather forecasts and an Oregon Scientific model alongside it that offered more detailed information from a competing service provider, MSN Direct. Both weather stations did something unique: They didn't require owners to hook up outdoor sensors …

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