Jon Stewart cooks Raw Story, Dial Up Rocks

Jon Stewart skewers headlines of lefty blogs

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

Dial Up Rocks

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Obama’s Q&A ‘against the narrative’ so Fox cut away

Vodpod videos no longer available.

Jon Stewart: Fox saw Obama’s Q&A as ‘against the narrative’

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Blair lied to public and misled parliament in build-up to Iraq War

NPR finds right-wing crank to spit on Zinn’s grave from FAIR

The creed of objectivity killed the news by Chris Hedges

Law would keep FCC off low-power radio from 10th Amendment Center

POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS

Supreme Court decision does not lift restrictions on nonprofits

Has the Democratic Party traded principles for power? from NOW

Dem ad slams GOP candidate as ‘architect of voter suppression’

What libertarians & the left have in common from Antiwar Radio

O BA MA

Obama doing another Q&A, with Senate Democrats Wed AM

Obama ignores another of his own pledges, increases drug war budget

Defying China, Obama to meet with Dalai Lama from AFP

Large percentage of GOP thinks president is racist, socialist, non-citizen

WORLD WIDE WEB

Short on cash, Wikileaks suspends operations from CNET

Everybody forgets readers when bashing news aggregators

Celebrity doppelganger Facebook photos could violate terms

Reuters pulls ‘backdoor’ tax hikes story from Raw Story

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News you might have missed this weekend

What Obama should say in his State of the Union address

TECHNOLOGY

Why is the White House backing away from net neutrality?

FCC delays new national broadband plan for another month

‘TV Everywhere’ takes even more public interest advocacy heat

TASER’s new weapon: Mobile phone monitoring for parents

POLITICS

How the Teamsters beat Goldman Sachs, saved 30,000 jobs

Maddow: Giuliani’s ‘whole brand’ based on exploiting 9/11

Doing journalism in 2010 is an act of community organizing

Palin’s inaccuracies helped McCain lessen vote margin in ’08

CULTURE

Prop. 8: Fight over gay marriage going to trial in federal court

Army soldier imprisoned for lyrics of ‘Stop Loss’ hip hop song

Conan, Leno to fight in a pit, whoever wins ‘gets to leave NBC’

The age of privacy is over, says Facebook founder Zuckerberg

ECONOMY

Impact of Urban Wal-Mart study: 0 jobs brought to Chicago

For unemployed professionals, new job often means a pay cut

House committee wants Geithner to testify on AIG bailout $

Bill Moyers: Wall Street is riding a ‘surging ocean of greed’

ETC

Bono, your Palestinian Gandhis exist, in graves and prisons

Ecuador to grant radio frequencies to its indigenous nations

USDA has no problem with ammonia in our hamburger meat

Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law ‘fires a rocket’ at Roger Ailes

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Wed Dec 2 news round-up

Some like it pot

Feinstein and Durbin removing bloggers from shield law bill from Daily Kos

We must not let Big Telecom segregate the Internet from Afro-Netizen

If Congress can kill outlandish Wall St bonuses, why don’t they? from Alternet

Blackwater’s Erik Prince stepping down, revealed as CIA asset from Vanity Fair

Yahoo spying policy would ‘shock’ customers, according to letter

EFF sues feds for info on social network surveillance from CNET

New blogger payola disclosure rules starting from WA Post

Bank of America to repay entire $45b of TARP funds from NY Times

GAO issues warning on broadband stimulus grants from Tech Liberation

Op-ed: Higher ed fiscal crisis protects the wealthy by Peter Phillips

Interview about remixing Antarctica with DJ Spooky from Huffington Post

‘My name is Rachel Corrie’ and Israel’s waning impunity from Electronic Intifada

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Climategate, Lobbyists lobby for right to lobby

Lobbyists lobby White House for right to lobby from ABC News

Journalist learns about union-busting the hard way from Alternet

Argentine Dirty War victims cautiously embrace trials from Truthout

ACORN can be paid for existing contracts, DOJ says from NY Times

Op-ed: Colbert conservatism by David Sirota

Pub fined $13K for WiFi copyright infringement from CNET

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Opposition research, Students jailed, Bill Moyers retiring

Air America reporter Ana Marie Cox on opposition research journalism

Students held in jail overnight without food in tuition hike protest

Bill Moyers leaving weekly TV again, for good, in 2010

Spain mandates affordable broadband for all from CNET

Seattle Times Editorial: Block NBC/Comcast deal

Obama airs Cuba views in interview with dissident blogger

Suit accuses Hartford Courant of plagiarism

NY Mets and the business of terrorism from Electronic Intifada

Obama interview draws attention to China’s heavy hand

Bing censors Chinese-language searches outside China

PBS ombudsman: What’s not on the air

Andrew Breitbart trying to blackmail Dems with ACORN tapes?

Florida jury awards ex-smoker $300m from Phillip Morris

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Friday Morning News

DOJ stalls FOIA request on telecom immunity lobbying efforts from EFF

Obama sides with Republicans against Patriot Act civil liberties reforms

Feingold explains problems with Judiciary Committee from Daily Kos

FTC seeks to restrict gift giving to bloggers from Wall St Journal

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