Virtually Speaking

News of the week on Virtually Speaking Sundays: Gaius & Avedon Carol

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What happened this week? What have Obama, Israel, the NRA and Keystone Pipeline lovers done lately? Tune in.
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Matt Yglesias resigns from the presumed-progressive community — with prejudice

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Shorter Yglesias: I enrich myself by defending your forced suffering. Bad choice on your part.
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The Chicago Trib sent the Boston Globe pizza today, and a kind note

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In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, I think the media had a harder job than we give credit.
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Jon Stewart unhappy with CNN’s coverage of Boston Marathon bombing

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Jon Stewart mocks CNN for reporting (along w/ AP) that someone had been arrested. But was it really CNN’s fault?
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Programming note: Gaius on the Obama budget and other news of the week

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Discussing Obama cuts with Maya Rockeymoore. Discussing the week’s atrocities with Digby of Hullabaloo.
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Jon Stewart on CNN 2.0 (video)

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Jon Stewart is not a fan of the ‘new’ CNN.
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Facebook would like you to hate it a little bit more

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As if the Instagram scandal weren’t bad enough, Facebook is now launching auto-play video ads in your news feed.
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GOP agrees to raise taxes, challenges Obama to cut social programs

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It’s clear the Obama-Boehner cat-food-for-taxes deal is still on the table.
FOX admitted its mistake in Jennings reporting. Will Sean Hannity?

Beyond Fox News: The GOP is realizing it needs to talk to the rest of the media too

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If the GOP ever wants to reach Latinos and women, among others, it needs to move beyond the Fox News bubble.
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Creepy trend: Local TV buying canned news, broadcasting as their own

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Conan O’Brien finds local TV is buying scripts and video of pre-fab news, then pretending it’s their own story.
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