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Charge of the Beckerheads
By Sheila Samples
I didn’t know Van Jones. I didn’t know Van Jones
was a friend of mine -- at least not until the stench billowing from the Fox
Hate Channel became so foul I was forced to take a closer look at this
terrifying creature. No -- not Jones, whom President Obama wisely had hired as
Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality -- but
the sobbing, lying, deliriously insane Glenn Beck.
Oct 16, 2009, 00:11
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Damn the New York Times and damn ‘permitted’ marches
By Mickey Z.
On September 26, the New York Times deemed it fit to run an article, headlined “Thousands
Hold Peaceful March at G-20 Summit,” in which propagandist Ian Urbina informed
us of “several thousand demonstrators” converging on downtown Pittsburgh in
light of that city’s hosting of the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting. Urbina called
it a “peaceful and permitted march.”
Sep 28, 2009, 00:15
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Former CBS anchorman warns of corporate influence over news
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
On September 16, Dan Rather, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, warned
that today’s news is shaped by very powerful corporate network owners who “are
in bed with powerful political interests” that are influenced by
government regulatory interests.
Sep 22, 2009, 00:19
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Late breaking -- sometimes broken -- news
By Rosemary and Walter Brasch
WNEP-TV, a large regional station in
northeastern Pennsylvania, led its noon news, Friday, Sept. 11, with the
announcement that there was finally a compromise on the state budget.
Sep 15, 2009, 00:11
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Good and bad developments in the cable news wars
By Mary Shaw
It’s funny how the cable news networks so often
become the news topics themselves. And last week was a big week for that kind
of “news news” -- some good, some bad.
Sep 8, 2009, 00:12
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MSNBC and Fox: Posing divided, united they stand
By Laura Flanders
There are days when one’s reminded why one works
in independent media. August 1 was one of those days, when the New York Times
ran a front page media
story that might as well have been headlined: GE and Fox Hush Hosts
For Profits.
Aug 5, 2009, 00:18
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Lou Dobbs undermines CNN's credibility
By Mary Shaw
With Fox News tilted firmly to the right and
MSNBC leaning more and more to the left, CNN is commonly regarded as the more
moderate, more balanced cable news alternative.
Jul 29, 2009, 00:10
News Media
Few tears for crimes against Muslims
By Linda S. Heard
As if we needed any more proof that the
international media deliberately avoid exposing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian
injustices, their suspect behaviour during recent days has sealed the case.
Jul 15, 2009, 00:18
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Alternative news?
By Frank Scott
The performance of both corporate and
independent media reporting the Iranian election should provoke apprehension
among news consumers. When conservative Fox, liberal PBS, and radical Pacifica
all refer to the Iranian president as “hard line,” and uncritically assume a
stolen election, news is not being reported. A party line is being toed.
Jul 14, 2009, 00:15
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Congressional caucus looks for way to save dying print media
By Wayne Madsen
On June 25, the Caucus on Freedom of the Press
held a forum on the state of journalism in the United States in the
Congressional Visitors Center in Washington, DC. The forum was organized by
Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mike Pence (R-IN), two of the founding
members of the caucus.
Jun 30, 2009, 00:22
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Then some Americans wonder why they hate us
By Bev Conover
As the old adage goes, “One picture is worth a
thousand words.”
Jun 17, 2009, 00:22
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Western media propagandize Iran’s missile test
By Jeremy R. Hammond
Iran announced on May 20 that it had
successfully tested its Sejil 2 surface-to-surface missile, and Western media
sources took the opportunity to portray the Middle Eastern nation as a threat
to world peace and, specifically, as a threat to Israel.
May 28, 2009, 00:12
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To corporate media, Pelosi, not Cheney, is torturer in chief
By Laura Flanders
Beltway journalists seem finally to have a found
a torture story they like. Mind you, not the one about the Bush/Cheney White
House possibly okaying drowning to extract “information” to justify an Iraq
attack -- not that story. The story the Beltway bulldogs have decided to
get stuck into is a story about Democrats.
May 20, 2009, 00:13
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Why I oppose the Inquirer boycott
By Mary Shaw
There’s a new controversy here in Philadelphia. It seems
that our once-great newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer (aka the “Inky”), has
hired John Yoo as a regular columnist. Yoo is, of course, one of the architects
of the Bush administration’s pro-torture policy and a supporter of warrantless
surveillance of U.S.
citizens and the unitary executive theory. In other words, Yoo is an anti-law
kind of lawyer.
May 15, 2009, 00:16
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Foreign Policy’s “The Cable” changed quote about Emanuel
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) -- Foreign Policy’s”The
Cable” Internet publication featured a story on May 6 about Israeli President
Shimon Peres’s meeting with President Obama at the White House. Foreign Policy
is published by Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC.
May 12, 2009, 00:44
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People who don’t need ‘People’
By Walter Brasch
From a pool of about 7 billion, those
hard-working geniuses at People magazine have managed to find the 100
most beautiful people in the whole wide world. And -- get ready for the
surprise -- almost all of those beautiful people are rich American celebrities.
May 8, 2009, 00:16
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Emanuel’s stringent press conference rules freeze out veteran reporter
By Wayne Madsen
Although veteran White House correspondent Helen
Thomas was restored by the Obama White House to her front row position at White
House news conferences after being moved to the third row by the Bush
administration, first row status does not earn the dean of the White House
Press Corps any special attention from Obama.
May 5, 2009, 00:16
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Dumbed down news drives down newspaper circulation
By Jerry Mazza
USA
TODAY reports that “total average daily circulation declined 7.1%% in the
October-March period from the same six months in 2007-2008. The latest figure
represents data from 395 daily US newspapers that reported in both the current
and year-ago periods. . . . USA TODAY remains the No. 1 newspaper though it
suffered the steepest circulation drop in the publication’s history.”
May 1, 2009, 00:20
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Iraqi shoes and the demotivated media
By Guy
Gabriel
While a hero in the Arab world, in the West the
position of Iraqi journalist Muntadher al-Zaidi was more ambiguous. Few people
seemed to mind that such a bold statement as throwing shoes was being made
against George Bush, then-president of the Untied States. What was of great
interest was that the story had a comic element.
Apr 13, 2009, 00:19
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Cracking the corporate media’s Iron Curtain around death at Three Mile Island
By Harvey Wasserman
Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed
by a whisker. They both killed people.
Apr 2, 2009, 00:19
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