Obama On Leaks, Tapper's Warning, New CNN Show

May 23, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Obama: Leak Investigations Could 'Chill Investigative Journalism' President Obama said Thursday that he is "troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable." Continue reading... WATCH: Jake Tapper's Warning To Obama Supporters New CNN Show Gets Premiere Date Top Politico Reporter Joins The New York Times Wolf Blitzer's Embarrassing Moment With Tornado Survivor NY Times Eviscerates Obama White House Robin Roberts Publishing Memoir WATCH: Jon Stewart Shuts Down Bill O'Reilly You Just KNEW There Would Be 'Tornado Truthers,' Didn't You? WATCH: Jon Stewart Shuts Down Bill O'Reilly You Just KNEW There Would Be 'Tornado Truthers,' Didn't You? Wolf Blitzer's Embarrassing Moment With Tornado Survivor TRITA PARSI Iran's March to Naked Dictatorship? While a very slight glimmer of hope existed after the fraudulent elections in 2009 that the negative trajectory could be reversed through the ballot box, even that small probability may now have been eliminated. Continue reading... MARK RICE The Need for Common Frames of Reference One of the great achievements of the Internet has been the explosion of websites, blogs, etc. dedicated to politics and the news. This very same achievement, however, has paradoxically resulted in the erosion of a common frame of reference for understanding the news. Continue reading... PETER DREIER New York Times Deserves a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting on Bangladesh Sweatshops If journalism's role is to not only report the facts but also to expose wrongdoing, then the Times deserves kudos, and a Pulitzer Prize, for documenting and explaining the emergence of Bangladesh's new sweatshop economy as a major source of the clothing that American and European consumers buy every day. Continue reading... WRAY HERBERT The New (Malevolent) Ageism The elderly have never been honored in American society. They have more often been stereotyped, stigmatized and pitied. And according to Princeton University psychological scientist Susan Fiske, this unfair ageist stereotyping could become even darker with the new influx of seniors. Continue reading... ELLIOTT NEGIN Unreliable Sources 5: How the News Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation Given the Heartland Institute's penchant for misrepresenting science, you would think reporters would be curious about who finances its work. You would be wrong. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003