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Phase 06: Collect Volunteer Metadata on Pre-War Television News Coverage

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Keywords

* Media Content Analysis
* Copyright Restrictions
* Fair Use
* Metadata Collection

Intention

* Find a way to receive volunteer input on the pre-war television transcripts without violating copyright restrictions from ABC, CBS, & NBC news.
* Collect more volunteer metadata on these clips to help inform the editing process.
* Post image thumbnails with the transcripts in order to give the text more depth and context.

What I have

* Transcripts for ABC, CBS, & NBC newscasts from August 26, 2002 to March 19, 2003.

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Liberal Bias at CBS News?

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The problems with the pre-election 2004 CBS Bush-National Guard story will probably become the most convincing circumstantial evidence for the liberal media bias hypothesis.

Producer Mary Mapes' sloppy journalistic practices are already proof enough of liberal bias within conservative circles. This is based upon the assumption that her actions were explicitly or implicitly motivated by a liberal political bias against George W. Bush.

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Influence of Media Logic

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I have been noticing that there are a number of articles questioning the relevance of network news since tonight is Tom Brokaw’s last broadcast as the NBC Nightly News anchor.

The Echo Chamber documentary focuses on the network news because of the influence that the media logic of the electronic medium of news has on the national political discourse...

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Bill Plante Transcript Now Posted

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Volunteer Citizen Journalist Ben Tupper has completed the first Echo Chamber Project transcription with the interview with CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante.

Here is the link to the interview: http://www.echochamberproject.com/plante

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"But if you take it as a given, as I've already suggested to you that we did, that the administration was hell-bent on going to war, then you could only point out the steps that were being taken down that path."

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