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News Media Last Updated: Jan 27th, 2010 - 00:34:43


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Iran and Latin America: The media states its case
By Ramzy Baroud

Should the United States be concerned about Iran’s determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the ayatollahs’ strategy of cozying up to Latin America?

Jan 27, 2010, 00:17

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Err-America
By Walter Brasch

Air America, the liberal radio network, went down in flames, Jan. 21, when it filed for bankruptcy. It wasn’t because of air-to-air combat with conservative talk shows and bloggers. It wasn’t because of the Recession, although reduced advertising revenue, a reality of all media, also affected Air America. It wasn’t even demographics, even though older, marginalized conservatives tend to listen to radio more than do younger liberal professionals. And media history was only part of the problem.

Jan 25, 2010, 00:24

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The BBC’s ‘Conspiracy Files’
By Paul Holme

At 16:15 local time Hong Kong and the Philippines, on Saturday, 9 Jan., the BBC World News service broadcast “The Conspiracy Files,” concerning lingering suspicions about 9/11 -- specifically the anomalous, sudden, and complete collapse of Building 7, which was not hit by a plane.

Jan 12, 2010, 00:31

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The media vultures are coming and freedom of expression is at risk
By Ramzy Baroud

As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a plethora of viewpoints is available. It might also seem that the apparent increase in media choices also increases the chances for the public interest to be understood and served fairly. Unfortunately, this is far from the case. The media world is shrinking by the day.

Jan 8, 2010, 00:20

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Washington Post opposes health care reforms
By Margie Burns

Unbeknown to people outside the Washington, D.C., region, health reform has faced tremendous antagonism from the Washington Post.

Nov 16, 2009, 00:18

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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

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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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