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Media Monitor: Strained economic forecasts, Twitter’s power and non-combat fatalities

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.18.08 | 10:51 am

Bellwetherman? In an email Thursday about its campaign opposing the governor’s bonding bill vetoes, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota used a bizarre example as proof of an ailing economy’s effect on working Minnesotans: the firing…

Press study says coverage of Iraq War has plummeted

By Steve Perry | 04.03.08 | 11:04 am

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published a telling chart that measures the steady decline in media coverage of the Iraq War since the start of 2007. One culprit: the presidential sweepstakes. “In the last quarter of 2007,”