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TOP STORIES

Obama wants TARP funds for small businesses

5 ways the Tea Party could fail from National Journal

Elliot Spitzer’s redemption strategy from Daily Beast

Daniel Ellsberg documentary attracts wide audience

DEMOCRACY & CAMPAIGN CASH

Bill Moyers: ‘Two parties, equal opportunity hypocrites’

Lobbyists retreat but never surrender from Truthout

Lawrence Lessig: How to get our democracy back from DN!

Donors reward Dems who pushed public option from Huff Po

FOREIGN POLICY & TERRORISM

Extraordinary Edition on US secret prisons in Afghanistan

Bush, Cheney and the great espace by William Rivers Pitt

Rep. Ron Paul: Stay out of Yemen! from Antiwar.com

The lynch mob mentality by Glenn Greenwald

MEDIA POLITICS

Times Square billboard from NORML denied by CBS

Focus on the Family buys more Super Bowl ad time

Can Obama overcome right-wing talk radio? by Sue Wilson

Paul Krugman & media deficit hawks from FAIR

JOURNALISM & THE FREE PRESS

New era for press after Citizens United from CJR

Ombudsman: ‘Critics are right’ NPR disrespected Zinn

O’Reilly blames Hannity, Beck for Fox News narrative

3rd Circuit Court hands down conflicting student speech ruling

TECHNOLOGY & PRIVACY

FBI wants records kept of websites visited from CNET

What do behavioral targeters know about you? from GigaOm

Springsteen demands ASCAP remove his name from lawsuit

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The fight on the right, Progressive inertia

Are progressives depressed or too privileged to make change? from Alternet

Blackwater & Khost bombing: Is CIA deceiving Congress? by Jeremy Scahill

Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change? from CJR

Apartheid lawsuit goes forward against Ford, GM, IBM

2010 Census uses word ‘negro’ raising memories of Jim Crow

WATCH KFC ad: Placate threatening black people with fried chicken?

Canada says ‘No’ to Yes Men website from Ars Technica

For 6 months, blogger can’t get Google to turn blog back on from TechDirt

Journalism’s dreamers must keep eyes on stats from Reynolds J-Institute

Faculty protest Texas football coach’s raise by Dave Zirin

Doctored news photo covers up govt involvement from China Smack

Price of Pearl Jam’s new ‘Just Breathe’ single: One tweet from Mashable

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Rupert Murdoch considers leaving Google, marrying Bing

Montgomery Burns & Richie Rich

Gates & Murdoch: The unlikeliest freedom fighters by Douglas Rushkoff

News Corp weighs exclusive alliance with Bing from NY Times

Murdoch, Microsoft and Google from CJR

Murdoch madness by Jeff Jarvis

Will Murdoch’s Bing gamble pay off? from The Guardian

Why News Corp can afford to leave Google for Bing from Advertising Age

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Sunday News Catching Up

Interview: Medea Benjamin talks Afghan trip with Scott Horton

Democrats protecting Bush-era criminal activities by Glenn Greenwald

Sibel Edmonds bombshell buried in the blogosphere? from Antiwar Radio

Spending bill would block release of torture photos from Truthout

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Tuesday Night Reading

Pentagon spokesman was Bush domestic propaganda official from Raw Story

ACORN legislation could defund top contractors from Project on Govt. Oversight

Drowning out the right-wing noise machine by Megan Tady

Broad new FBI surveillance rules are unconstitutional from ACLU

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Articles from Friday

Students and bloggers not covered under proposed Shield Law

Former CIA Directors trying to block torture investigation

Where is the Defund Blackwater Act? by Jeremy Scahill

Public Option offered by Kucinich & Conyers ignored by Bruce Dixon

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Today’s Reading

Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Goes on the Record from American Conservative

Redacted: Washington Post Makes Deal with Pentagon from CJR

5 Facts Corporate Media Won’t Tell You About Cannabis by Paul Armentano

New York Times Slams Single-Payer from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

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