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The Invisible Primary – Invisible No Longer
By Project for Excellence in Journalism
A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign – A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy .
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/10/
30/the-invisible-primary-invisible-no-longer/

Google’s Response To Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
By Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch
Google may have lost the bidding war to invest in Facebook, but it is preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene. It goes by the codename “Maka-Maka”.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/10/
30/googles-response-to-facebook-maka-maka/

Want To Be A Journalist For Halloween?
By Gal Beckerman, CJR
Why was it so easy for FEMA to pretend to be the press?
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/10/
30/want-to-be-a-journalist-for-halloween/

Man Who Staged Fake FEMA Press Conference Loses Job
By AP
After John P. Philbin’s involvement in staging a fake FEMA press conference, DNI Mike McConnell decided not to have him as his top public information officer.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/10/
30/man-who-staged-fake-fema-press-conference-loses-job/

Report Looks At Citizen Journalism During Burma Crackdown
By International Journalists’ Network
A new report examines the role of bloggers and citizen journalists during the recent turmoil in Burma.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/10/30
/report-looks-at-citizen-journalism-during-burma-crackdown/

VIDEO: Listening Post: Post-Communist Elections
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post reports on the elections beginning in Poland and the influence of US spin doctors on the Ukranian elections.
Watch Here ? www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/
10/30/listening-post-post-communist-elections/

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