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I have found the mainstream media's treatment of Obama and discussion around his ethnicity or religion to be quite disturbing. 

In addition to correcting the misinformation and rumors, the media should be discussing why the fear and obsession over these rumors exists, why it is problematic and what it says about the American people.

 McCain echoed this trend of simply correcting the misinformation while subtly affirming a larger problem- fear and contempt towards Muslim and Arab people at a town hall meeting last week. 

 Friendly fire in Iraq -- and a coverup

 I just read this article on EW.Com titled " BET and VH1 Present... Awards Shows Without Women: Why the channels -- and fans -- aren't buying into the female rap perspective"

Our colleague Frank Baker sent over this interesting aticle from Forbes magazine: Active Video Games Help Kids Exercise. Univeristy of Hong Kong researchers found that kids can burn four times as many calories playing active video games than playing passive ones. The report was published in the September issue of the

The Poynter Institute has an interesting article up about Charles Blow, The New York Times' first visual Op-Ed columnist. That's right: Blow doesn't write traditional Op-Ed Columns -- he uses visual data such as charts and graphs and diagrams to support his opinions. According to Blow, his inspiration was the original charts and graphs the Times printed on the Op-Ed page:

Check out this interesting article from Utne Reader, How Fair Use Got Its Groove Back.

What do you think?