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	<description>Fix the media and seize the truth by viewing or posting reports on articles containing speculation, bias, incorrect facts, quotes out of context and everything in between.</description>
	<link>http://www.FixMedia.org</link>

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		<title>Christian Bale's Alleged "arrest"</title>
		<description>What is making the headlines today, definitely would not have made the news a month ago. This is a clear attempt of the media to profit from Bale's new found A-celebrity status. What the majority of the reports fail to state clearly (only People pointed this out) is that it is British policy to arre...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/53/</link>
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		<title>Maliki Endorses Obama Timeline</title>
		<description>Not a surprise the HP would construe such an article. It was clear all along that Maliki supports troop withdrawal, but they (HP) decided to spin this toward Obama. The surge is working, which paves a clear path for withdrawal. 

As stated in the WSJ:

"Mr. Dabbagh said the government did not en...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/52/</link>
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		<title>Fox News Airs Altered Photos Of NYT Reporters</title>
		<description>I discovered this on the Huffington Post. The story claims that FOX news purposely altered the photos of two NYT reporters during a morning show. Will be interesting if indeed FOX doctored the photos or did Media Matters doctored the airing?</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/51/</link>
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		<title>US "advises" Mexico On Torture In AP Article</title>
		<description>In this widely disseminated AP article, the first paragraph resonates with the recent Gitmo woes:

"Videos showing Leon police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/50/</link>
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		<title>Spelling Error Leads To Recommending Narcotic</title>
		<description>Before my morning cup of coffee I caught the following subtext below a psychiatrist on Fox News American Newsroom:

"Scientists: Oxycotin doesn't have any side effects

"Oxycotin spray was successful at Univ of New South Wales"

Oxycotin is a common misspelling for Oxycont...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/48/</link>
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		<title>Fox News Report Targets Islam For UK</title>
		<description>In this article, Fox News aggregates an article from the Times of London, but does so with an explicitly targeted title. The original title[REF1] reads, "Church attacks Labour for betraying Christians". 

The main argument: "The report, commissioned for the Church of England and to be pu...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/47/</link>
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		<title>AP's Crystal Ball; Hillary Concedes?</title>
		<description>Despite multiple statements in the past 24 hours from Clinton's campaign, the Associated Press took its speculation to the press and claims that Hillary Clinton is confirmed to be conceding the Democratic nomination tonight, in light that all state primaries will have been completed:

"Hillary ...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/43/</link>
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		<title>FEMA Gets A Bully Image, Courtesy Of ABC News</title>
		<description>The title of the article, "FEMA Boots Katrina Victims From Trailers", conjures up images of a mean-spirited FEMA sending armed troops to clean out the trailers in a Fallujah-style routing out. They go on to support this image:

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency notified all of the...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/42/</link>
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		<title>Cluster Bomb Failure Rate Exaggerated</title>
		<description>A recent proposed global ban on cluster bombs has prompted a flurry of articles. Reuters reported on the effort, but overstated the failure rate of the cluster bombs, or their tendency to not explode, leaving deadly unexploded ordinance (UXO) on the ground as land mines:

"Cluster munitions ope...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/41/</link>
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		<title>ABC Doesn't Know When To Quit: Boob Job Redux</title>
		<description>For some reason, despite initially being called out, ABC decides to continue to feed bad information.

FixMedia reported in March(REF) on a widespread media trend of calling Stephanie Kuleba's breast surgery, which ultimately claimed her life, a breast augmentation. This was despite the fact that ...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/40/</link>
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		<title>Writing Slip-up Makes Cop Look Coo-coo</title>
		<description>In this article: "A sheriff's deputy has fatally shot a man who stormed through security at a northern California county courthouse carrying two large butcher knives."

The article is fine until the last sentence, "A public defender says he recognized the shooter as a previous client wit...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/39/</link>
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		<title>"Wedding Day Shootout" Not Quite So</title>
		<description>Reuters released an article under the highly misleading title of "NY police cleared in 50-bullet wedding day shooting". They maintain this sly interpretation throughout the first paragraph.

However, later it is revealed the shootout took place at a strip club at around 4a.m. for the groom'...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/38/</link>
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		<title>CNN Paints Bush As Euphemizing Economic Woes</title>
		<description>In this CNNMoney article, the title reads: "Bush denies U.S. economy in recession". This instantly sets a tone with previous Bush sentiments, and use of the word 'deny' as if he's being stubborn and refusing to admit America's financial trouble. They go on to stoke this sentiment:

"Pres...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/37/</link>
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		<title>Media Protects Its Own In Recent Scandal</title>
		<description>The news and media never had a problem detailing the gruesome sex crimes committed by anyone else, from the former president to the average Joe. But what happens when one of its own is afflicted? Newsbusters(REF2) found out.

They found a stark contrast between the source articles (SRC) from a var...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/36/</link>
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		<title>Sludge Invokes Unconfirmed Racial Overtones</title>
		<description>The AP reported on a "sludge" being used in neighborhoods as a test-fix for high concentrations of lead. The writer jumps immediately into implications of the program targeting poor minority sectors: "Scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/35/</link>
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		<title>Fox Creates False Panic - 'trapped Children'</title>
		<description>Fox News blasted it's bright orange "BREAKING NEWS" banner across every face of it's website today that read, "WATCH NOW >> CEMENT TRUCK OVERTURNED ON DALLAS HIGHWAY, CHILDREN TRAPPED"

Clicking the link streamed video of an accident with little evidence of "trapping" and no audio stream. F...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/34/</link>
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		<title>French Yacht/Hostages Released(no Bloodshed?)</title>
		<description>In this AP article distributed by Fox News(SRC), they quote French President Sarkozy as saying the crisis ended without incident:

"In a statement, Sarkozy thanked the French army and other French agencies "that allowed a quick end" to the hostage-taking. The statement did not elaborate on the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/33/</link>
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		<title>AP Discredits Sci-Report By Portraying Zealot</title>
		<description>In this article, the Associated Press documents a well-respected Physicist and his recent claims that his famed "Higgs Boson" particle will be found soon with recent technological developments. The particle is named after himself, Peter Higgs, however, many have dubbed the particle "The God Particle...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/32/</link>
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		<title>AP Ropes Media In With Attractive VA Cc #'s</title>
		<description>Before you cry foul (or more appropriately 'fraud'), take a closer look at this vastly disseminated Associated Press article. The author starts out by throwing large numbers your way, claiming the Veteran's Affairs(VA) office's credit card spending is under investigation: "All told, VA staff char...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/31/</link>
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		<title>60 Minutes Looks The Other Way For Detainee</title>
		<description>This one comes courtesy of Accuracy In the Media (AIM), which is the reference article (REF). Apparently, the heart-felt 60 minutes testimonial of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz was placed in a context that ignored some facts and shed light on others.

AIM reports, "Pelley cites others...</description>
		<link>http://www.fixmedia.org/posts/30/</link>
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