Editing 2000s (section)

=== Journalism ===
* "It was, we were soon told, 'the day that changed everything', the 21st century's defining moment, the watershed by which we would forever divide world history: before, and after, 9/11." ~ ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref>{{cite news |last=Henley |first=Jon |title=Was 9/11 really the day that changed the world for ever? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/09/9-11-changed-world-forever |quote=It was, we were soon told, "the day that changed everything", the 21st century's defining moment, the watershed by which we would forever |access-date=February 25, 2013 |location=London |date=September 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013074730/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/09/9-11-changed-world-forever |archive-date=October 13, 2012}}</ref>
* The [[BBC]]'s foreign correspondent [[John Simpson (journalist)|John Simpson]] on [[Rupert Murdoch]] (March 15, 2010): {{blockquote|I do think that he and the newspapers he's run have introduced an uglier side, an abusive side, into journalism and life in general in this country.}} He says this Murdochisation of national discourse, which was at its height in the UK with ''The Sun'' in the 1980s, has now migrated to the US. "Murdoch encouraged an ugly tone, which he has now imported into the US and which we see every day on [[Fox News]], with all its concomitant effects on American public life – that fierce hostility between right and left that never used to be there, not to anything remotely like the same extent."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moss |first1=Stephen |title=John Simpson: 'I'm very pessimistic about the future of the BBC' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/mar/15/john-simpson-bbc-murdoch-journalism |work=The Guardian |date=15 March 2010}}</ref>
* October 2001, Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses [[Naomi Klein]]'s book titled ''[[Fences and Windows]]'': {{blockquote|On September 11, [2001] watching TV replays of the buildings exploding over and over again in New York and Washington, I couldn't help thinking about all the times media coverage has protected us from similar horrors elsewhere. During the [[Gulf War]], for instance, we didn't see real buildings exploding or people fleeing, we saw a sterile Space Invader battlefield, a bomb's-eye view of concrete targets – there and then none. Who was in those abstract polygons? We never found out.<ref>{{cite book |last=KLEIN |first=NAOMI |title=FENCES AND WINDOWS |year=2002 |publisher=Flamingo |isbn=978-0-00-715047-2 |page=165}}</ref>}}
* May 15, 2003, [[Fox News Channel]]'s (which grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become the dominant [[cable news]] network in the United States.<ref>Gillette, Felix (October 1, 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20081003183854/http://www.observer.com/2008/media/viewers-continuing-flock-cable-news-networks "Viewers Continuing to Flock to Cable News Networks"]. ''The New York Observer''.</ref>) political commentator [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]]'s "The Talking Points Memo", from his [[The O'Reilly Factor]] television [[talk show]]: {{blockquote|So, Talking Points urges the Pentagon to stop the P.R. dance and impose strict rules of conduct for the Iraqi people to follow. Law-abiding Iraqis want that. It's only the gangsters and the fanatics who don't. Shoot looters to kill, and aim well.<br />And that's ''The Memo''.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |author-link=Bill O'Reilly (political commentator) |title=Shoot to Kill |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86967,00.html |work=Fox News Network, LLC |date=15 May 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524090610/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C86967%2C00.html |archive-date=24 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
* A poll released in 2004, by the [[Pew Research Center]] for the People and the Press, found that 21 percent of people aged 18 to 29 cited ''[[The Daily Show]]'' (an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday) and ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show) as a place where they regularly learned presidential campaign news. By contrast, 23 percent of the young people mentioned [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]] or [[NBC]]'s nightly news broadcasts as a source. When the same question was asked in 2000, Pew found only 9 percent of young people pointing to the comedy shows, and 39 percent to the network news shows. One newspaper, ''[[Newsday]]'', has ''<nowiki>The Daily Show'</nowiki>''s host [[Jon Stewart]], listed atop a list of the 20 media players who will most influence the upcoming presidential campaign. Random conversations with nine people, aged 19 to 26, waiting to see a taping of ''The Daily Show'', revealed two who admitted they learned much about the news from the program. None said they regularly watched the network evening news shows.<ref>{{cite web |title=And now the news: For many young viewers, it's Jon Stewart |url=http://www.today.com/id/4400644/site/todayshow/ns/today-entertainment/t/now-news-many-young-viewers-its-jon-stewart/ |work=NBC News |date=March 2004 |access-date=February 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217071445/http://www.today.com/id/4400644/site/todayshow/ns/today-entertainment/t/now-news-many-young-viewers-its-jon-stewart/ |archive-date=December 17, 2013}}</ref>
* ''[[The Guardian]]'', is a British national daily newspaper. In August 2004, for the [[2004 US presidential election|US presidential election]], ''<nowiki>The Guardian'</nowiki>''s daily "G2" supplement launched an experimental letter-writing campaign in [[Clark County, Ohio]], an average-sized county in a [[swing state]]. G2 editor [[Ian Katz]] bought a voter list from the county for $25 and asked readers to write to people listed as undecided in the election, giving them an impression of the international view and the importance of voting against US President [[George W. Bush]]. The paper scrapped "Operation Clark County" on October 21, 2004, after first publishing a column of complaints from Bush supporters about the campaign under the headline "Dear Limey assholes".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1329858,00.html |title=Dear Limey assholes |access-date=May 13, 2008 |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=October 18, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228213924/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0%2C13918%2C1329858%2C00.html |archive-date=December 28, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The public backlash against the campaign likely contributed to Bush's victory in Clark County.<ref name="bowers">Bowers, Andy. "[http://www.slate.com/id/2109217/ 'Dear Limey Assholes&nbsp;...'/A crazy British plot to swing Ohio to Kerry—and how it backfired.]" ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', November 4, 2004. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511092638/http://www.slate.com/id/2109217/|date=May 11, 2011 }}</ref>
* March 2005 – Twenty MPs signed a British House of Commons motion condemning the [[BBC]] ''[[Newsnight]]'' presenter [[Jeremy Paxman]] for saying that "a sort of Scottish Raj" was running the UK. Mr Paxman likened the dominance of Scots at [[Westminster]] to past British rule in India.<ref>{{cite news |title=Scots MPs slam Paxman 'Raj' jibe |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4350233.stm |work=BBC |access-date=February 25, 2013 |date=March 15, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812174742/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4350233.stm |archive-date=August 12, 2017}}</ref>
* August 1, 2007 – [[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corp.]] and [[Dow Jones & Company|Dow Jones]] entered into a definitive merger agreement. The US$5 billion sale added the largest newspaper in the United States, by circulation ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' to [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s news empire.
* August 30, 2008 – three years before the [[2011 England riots]], ''[[The Socialist Worker]]'' wrote: "Those who have responded to the tragedy of knife crime by calling for police crackdowns ought to take note. The criminalisation of a generation of black youth will undoubtedly lead to explosions of anger in the future, just as it did a generation ago with the riots that swept Britain's inner cities."<ref>{{cite news |last=Prasad, Assaf and Basketter |first=Yuri, Simon and Simon |title=Notting Hill Carnival crackdown targets young black men |url=http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=15831 |newspaper=Socialist Worker |access-date=February 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520233036/http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=15831 |archive-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Ann Coulter]] is an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[social criticism|social]] and [[political criticism|political]] [[pundit (expert)|commentator]], eight-time best-selling author, [[syndicated columnist]], and lawyer. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. As the 2008 US presidential campaign was getting under way, Coulter was criticised for statements she made at the 2007 [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] about presidential candidate [[John Edwards]]:<ref name="Bradley_Tahman">{{cite news |last=Bradley |first=Tahman |title=Controversial Columnist Draws Fire for Anti-Gay Slur |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2924630&page=1 |access-date=September 27, 2011 |newspaper=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=March 5, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929180802/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2924630 |archive-date=September 29, 2013}}</ref><ref name="CNN_edwards_faggot_comment">{{cite news |title=Coulter under fire for anti-gay slur |url=https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/ |access-date=September 27, 2011 |newspaper=[[CNN]] |date=March 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002160349/http://articles.cnn.com/2007-03-04/politics/coulter.edwards_1_anti-gay-slur-neil-g-giuliano-ann-coulter?_s=PM%3APOLITICS |archive-date=October 2, 2012}}</ref>{{blockquote|I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word '[[Faggot (slang)|faggot]],' so I'm... so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions.}}
* In December 2008, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine named [[Barack Obama]] as its [[Time Person of the Year|Person of the Year]] for his historic candidacy and election, which it described as "the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Von Drehle |first=David |title=Why History Can't Wait |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1861543_1865068_1867013,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=December 16, 2008 |access-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217223841/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0%2C31682%2C1861543_1865068%2C00.html |archive-date=December 17, 2008}}</ref>