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Guerrilla News Network's Ford Foundation connection: The progressive media and the CIA
By Bob Feldman
Although the Guerrilla News Network [GNN] may claim to
be an anti-corporate media group, it was given a grant of $62,500 in 2006 by
the multi-billion dollar (and CIA-connected) Ford Foundation,
(also see "Alternative
Media Censorship") whose board of trustees chairperson, Kathryn
Fuller, has also been sitting on ALCOA's corporate board since 2002.
Jan 4, 2007, 00:40
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Aljazeera: The plot thickens
By Ramzy Baroud
The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15,
the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television, was hardly an ordinary
event.
Dec 21, 2006, 00:46
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Murdoch megalomania
By Jerry Mazza
James Murdoch, the
son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has settled into being not only a mogul,
i.e., BSkyB Chief Executive, but is guilty of the same megalomania he accused
(with a sweep of his �unseen hand�) the BBC of exhibiting.
Dec 14, 2006, 00:28
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Greenberg buying up New York Times shares
By Jerry Mazza
�Hammering Hank,� as
he�s better known to colleagues, is at it again. According to Reuters, AP, and
CNBC at msn.Money Maurice �Hank� Greenberg has been buying up
shares of The New York Times
Company to try to break the Sulzberger family�s �hold� on it. Watch out.
Dec 1, 2006, 01:08
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A Qatari child is born
By Linda S. Heard
At last! After years of speculation and months of
delay the English-language version of Al Jazeera, the Arab World's most
controversial and arguably most successful, television network aired on
November 15. It is billed as the first English-language news channel headquartered
in the Middle East or Gulf.
Nov 22, 2006, 00:36
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The FCC must stop shutting down microradio stations
By K�llia Ramares
On October 27, I went to an
informal FCC hearing on media consolidation. It was held at the Oakland
Marriott as part of the California NAACP convention. It was informal because
only two of the five commissioners�Michael J. Copps and Jonathan S. Adelstein--the
Democrats�were present. So it wasn�t an official hearing and wasn�t mentioned
on the FCC web site.
Nov 8, 2006, 01:20
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Filming his own death in Oaxaca, Mexico
By Henk Ruyssenaars
(FPF)
-- When working as an independent correspondent in Chile, I saw the zooming in
on a killer for the first time when cameraman Leonardo Henrichsen was filming
his own death. He was shot during the failed military coup on June 29, 1973,
shortly before Washington's war machine and CIA/Kissinger's coup on the 11th of
September 'suicided' democratically elected President Salvador Allende.
Oct 31, 2006, 00:51
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Sebastian Mallaby�s distortions of what �every honest politician knows�
By Seth Sandronsky
As U.S. midterm elections near, the topic of political
honesty draws some pundits like moths to light. Take Sebastian Mallaby in the
Washington Post of October 23.
Oct 30, 2006, 00:42
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Mike Malloy is b-a-a-a-a-c-k
By Sheila Samples
Much to the dismay of the Bush Crime Family and
the Flying Monkey Right, their most fervent nemesis, talk-show host Mike
Malloy, will return to progressive airwaves on Monday, Oct. 30 -- a whole week
and one day before the mid-term elections. When you consider the corruption and
scandals oozing like slime from the right over just the past week and one day,
Malloy's return is not a moment too soon.
Oct 24, 2006, 00:57
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Bush�s absolute power grab
By Carla Binion
On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the
Military Commissions Act of 2006. This new law gives Bush power similar to that
of Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the executive branch powers
similar to those of the KGB or Gestapo.
Oct 20, 2006, 01:19
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Truthiness and lies
By Lacey Benns-Owens
It�s no wonder that �truthiness� was chosen as Word of
the Year for 2005. This term, created by fake journalist Stephen Colbert, seems
more and more appropriate these days. Colbert states, �we are divided between
those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart.� Truth no
longer seems to exist. Replacing logic and facts with feelings and heart has
become all too common. Part of this shift may stem from the very genre spoofed
by Colbert. Cable news media has taken a dramatic shift away from the original
concepts and ethics surrounding journalism.
Oct 20, 2006, 01:07
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The message will out
By Linda S. Heard
It's been almost a
year since a Daily Mirror headline read "Bush plot to bomb his Arab
ally." The article referred to a leaked "top secret" Number Ten
memo that reportedly quoted the US president telling Britain's Prime Minister,
Tony Blair, of his desire to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar at a time
the broadcaster was covering US activities in Fallujah.
Oct 18, 2006, 00:58
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Wars and propaganda machines
By Rodrigue Tremblay
Propaganda
machines are dangerous, even
more so in a democracy than in a totalitarian regime, because their goal is to
confuse, disinform, lie, raise fear and manipulate the opinions of the people.
Oct 9, 2006, 01:30
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Murdoch almighty: When public loses opinion
By Ramzy Baroud
People imagine that their opinions are their own, not
those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not
as free in thought as we think.
Sep 21, 2006, 01:15
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Ten anti-Castro "journalists" in South Florida on US government payroll
By Luciana Bohne
During the Mercosur summit in Argentina, WJAN-TV South
Florida reporter, Manuel Cao, asked Cuban President Fidel Castro why his
government didn't allow a prominent doctor and dissident to leave the country.
Quick as lightning, Castro shot back, "Who pays you?"
Sep 15, 2006, 00:48
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Keith Olbermann's finest hour
By Bill Berkowitz
On Wednesday, August 30, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had
his Edward R. Murrow moment and he made the most of it. In a thoughtful and
hard-hitting six-minute commentary, Olbermann, the host of
"Countdown," responded to the new campaign launched by the Bush
administration branding opponents of the war in Iraq as appeasers and confused
enablers of terrorism.
Sep 14, 2006, 00:19
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The art of lap dining: More from the liberal [sic] media
By Mickey Z.
Here's how it works:
Mainstream America is heavily conditioned to believe that Fox News represents
the far right of the political spectrum while The New York Times is lefter
than left . . . and anyone with opinions off this limited chart is ignored,
mocked, or, if all else fails, arrested and/or eliminated with extreme
prejudice. Thus, the parameters of debate in the land of the free are narrower
than Ann Coulter's mind.
Sep 8, 2006, 00:44
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All the news that fits the Bush agenda
By Ernest Partridge
It is difficult to understand how anyone with even a
modicum of critical intelligence, can still believe the right-wing complaint
that the mainstream media (MSM) "has a liberal bias." Evidence to the
contrary is overwhelming, and new evidence appears almost daily.
Sep 1, 2006, 00:33
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Out to lunch
By Remi Kanazi
The US media�s biased coverage of the crisis in
Lebanon should come as no surprise. While the White House and Congress claim a
�special relationship� with Israel, our news outlets are not supposed to have a
�special relationship� with anyone. Their job is to fairly report on matters;
anything less is a disservice to those watching their news programs and reading
their newspapers.
Aug 7, 2006, 01:24
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Millbank launches attack on White House Press Corps veteran Helen Thomas
By Wayne Madsen
While Israeli bombs and missiles obliterate Lebanon
and her people, the Washington Post's Dana Millbank, a favorite messenger boy
for the Bush neocons, launched his own attack against Lebanese-American White
House Press Corps doyenne Helen Thomas, in a scathing review of her new book, Watchdogs
of Democracy: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Failed the Public.
Jul 19, 2006, 00:48
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