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	<description>Rallying citizens to shoulder personal responsibility and restore consitutional government.</description>
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		<title>Public broadcasting &amp; me</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/11/16/public-broadcasting-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My amicable collaboration with noncommercial radio in Colorado since the 1980s, and with noncommercial television since the 1990s (in the form of Head On, familiar to readers of this site and to viewers statewide), didn&#8217;t get in the way of someone on the left named Joe Power whose story line of my alleged &#8220;hatred&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hair on Fire</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/04/17/hair-on-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/04/17/hair-on-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red at Heart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough commented yesterday that tea party patriots complaining about taxes &#8220;have their hair on fire&#8221; over nothing.I&#8217;m one of the very few Americans that ever watches Morning Joe for any length of time. Living in Colorado, that means I&#8217;m up at 4:00 a.m. to check on the day&#8217;s liberal spin.  Joe and Mika both have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hurt Locker and Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/08/the-hurt-locker-and-hollywood/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/03/08/the-hurt-locker-and-hollywood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Davenport</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched my first Oscars telecast since at least 2004.  I will admit to having developed a profound distaste for the event during the Bush years, when poorly educated, overpaid actors professed their opinions (and feigned knowledge) of international politics and foreign policy.  These opinions &#8212; from the likes of Sean (Jeff Spicoli) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankruptcy for owner of Denver Post</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/16/bankruptcy-for-owner-of-denver-post/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/16/bankruptcy-for-owner-of-denver-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Singleton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denver Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MediaNews Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper bankruptcies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to read closely to see it, so elegant are the euphemisms, but the company that owns the company that owns the Denver Post is taking bankruptcy to get out from under $1 billion in loans it can&#8217;t repay. (&#8220;Pact lets Post&#8217;s owner cut debt,&#8221; Jan. 16.) I note this with sadness, not any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do tell: Who pushed Ritter out?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/07/do-tell-who-pushed-ritter-out/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2010/01/07/do-tell-who-pushed-ritter-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ritter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kid-glove treatment by the Denver Post on Gov. Bill Ritter&#8217;s decision not to run again, makes me miss the Rocky Mountain News as never before. And it increases my gratitude for the feisty skepticism still alive and well in talk radio and the blogosphere. In three days of coverage on the Ritter story by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSM easier on jihadists than Christians</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/19/msm-easier-on-jihadists-than-christians/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/19/msm-easier-on-jihadists-than-christians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schmitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The despicable terrorist act that Major Hasan committed was no doubt awful. Our prayers go out to the families that have lost their loved ones. Outside of his heinous act what is also disturbing is the media’s treatment of the role that his religion played. Let’s be honest with each other and understand that his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubly betrayed: By Hasan &amp; PC elites</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/doubly-betrayed-by-hasan-pc-elites/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/11/10/doubly-betrayed-by-hasan-pc-elites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Moloney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leftists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Less than two hours after the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil since 9/11, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that his investigators were “definitely not discussing terrorism”. Soon after President Obama urged Americans “not to jump to conclusions”. When reporters asked what the President meant by that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who in the media have ‘perspective’?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/26/who-in-the-media-have-%e2%80%98perspective%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/10/26/who-in-the-media-have-%e2%80%98perspective%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=3344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the remarks by spokesmen for the Obama administration in its war against Fox News was David Axelrod&#8217;s observation that Fox was not a news organization because it had a &#8220;perspective&#8221; on the news.T hat deserves analysis on more than one level. First, there is the political angle. Obviously, Obama’s quarrel with Fox has everything to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waak owes us an apology</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/26/waak-owes-us-an-apology/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/26/waak-owes-us-an-apology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the vandalism at Colorado Dem headquarters is known to come from one of her own, albeit not &#8220;a good Democrat&#8221; as she lamely puts it, party chairman Pat Waak owes an apology to Republicans, independents, and everyone else opposed to the government medical takeover &#8212; whom she slurred yesterday in reflexively blaming the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSM caught &#8216;watering the plants&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/15/msm-caught-watering-the-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/08/15/msm-caught-watering-the-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Rudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been heavy media coverage of the picture of Obama-with-Hitler-mustache that a guy was displaying outside one of the townhall meetings the other day. The picture is at one of the links below. Several talking heads on TV blamed Republicans and conservative talk radio for motivating this ugly display (see third link below). One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cronkite better before he was anchorman</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/27/cronkite-was-better-before-he-was-anchorman/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/27/cronkite-was-better-before-he-was-anchorman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent passing of CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was the occasion for considerable media navel gazing, most of which either waxed nostalgic or sought to channel his luster. The best commentary was by Dorothy Rabinowitz at the Wall Street Journal. Rabinowitz agrees that Cronkite was a major force in broadcast journalism, but her more nuanced analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leftist agenda of TV entertainment</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/21/leftist-agenda-of-tv-entertainment/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/21/leftist-agenda-of-tv-entertainment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosella Gilbertson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month ABC’s crime drama Castle has emerged as the newest entertainment show used by the left-liberal political machine. What else could explain the subject matter which transparently resembled a recent GOP Senator’s love affair scandal to which the main characters made the comment, “so much for family values.” Not to be outdone, the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the future for newspapers?</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/13/what-is-the-future-for-newspapers/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/13/what-is-the-future-for-newspapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet & new media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=2678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent years several major metropolitan newspapers have gone out of business and more have cut back considerably on their coverage. The reason is a decline in readership and advertising revenue, mostly because of the popularity of the internet but also because of reader dissatisfaction. Advertising provides the bulk of newspaper revenue, while subscriptions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fame is fool&#8217;s gold</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/fame-is-fools-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/07/02/fame-is-fools-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Except for flipping burgers at Jack-In-The-Box, I earned my first paycheck as a professional actress. My mother put me on the stage when I was three years old, and her enchantment with Hollywood was not unlike that of Mama Rose, the determined stage mother in Gypsy. I like to affectionately refer to her effect on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Sabato slant</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/11/beware-the-sabato-slant/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/05/11/beware-the-sabato-slant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Rudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Probably we&#8217;ve all seen Larry Sabato on TV during election season. The UVA political scientist is usually portrayed as an unbiased analyst, concerned mainly with the facts, especially statistics, and with political predictions. Well, in this world there is no such thing as &#8220;unbiased&#8221;. In Larry&#8217;s case, his writings reveal him to be a liberal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come to 5/1 Media Panel</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/28/2112/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/28/2112/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CCU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centennial Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timely & Relevant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What forces in America&#8217;s economy and culture are threatening the survival of newspapers and diverting audiences to other information sources? What are the consequences for us as citizens in a free society? How can we take charge in the emerging new paradigm; or can we? Discuss all this with Centennial Institute panelists at Issue Friday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSM touchy-touchy over tea</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/16/msm-touchy-touchy-over-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/04/16/msm-touchy-touchy-over-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Kataline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes & TABOR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backboneamerica.net/?p=1943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a shot in the arm it was to participate in Denver&#8217;s Tea Party. We had no harbor in which to dump tea, but I felt a strong kinship with the Colonists who protested taxation without representation. The enormous crowd showed that same passion as well. We have infinitely more to protest today than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News reporting not enough</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/16/newspapers-need-more-than-news-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/16/newspapers-need-more-than-news-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Reeb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet & new media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are the times that try journalists&#8217; souls, to paraphrase Thomas Paine, as newspapers try mightily to survive in an exponentially expanding electronic world. Radio and television were once thought to be the death of newspapers, and now the Internet, with its multiple applications and formats, is greatly feared. This is no phantom. Many afternoon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Rest of story&#8217; suffers with Rocky gone</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/06/rest-of-story-suffers-with-rocky-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/03/06/rest-of-story-suffers-with-rocky-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Andrews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in the first week since the Rocky shut down, think about the state and local stories that were covered less robustly in the absence of a competing metro daily. Three for starters would be: ** Senate Dems seek to bust the 6% constitutional spending limit. ** Senate Dems endorse college subsidies for illegal aliens. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMN, RIP: What a loss</title>
		<link>http://backboneamerica.net/2009/02/26/rmn-rip-what-a-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Sharf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media critic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[E. W. Scripps has announced that Friday will be the last day of publication for the Rocky Mountain News. This is a sad day for Denver and Colorado, and given the state&#8217;s pivotal position in national politics, it&#8217;s not too good for the country, either. The Rocky always had longer articles, better coverage, and sharper [...]]]></description>
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