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By Robert Scheer
By Nomi Prins
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This parody from the Onion challenges the assumption that 24 hours of news coverage, satellite uplinks and bold graphics actually keep us more informed.
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It looks like the two senators have decided to skip their respective primaries and run against each other directly on the “Situation Room.” In all fairness, this isn’t a feud so much as John McCain sniping at Barack Obama’s airtime with e-mail.
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“The Daily Show” takes a trip back in time to chart CNN legal pundit Nancy Grace’s relentless coverage of the Duke lacrosse case, sampling from her various contradictory, hyperbolic, graphic and biased reports over the last year. Make sure to catch what happened on her show the day the charges were dropped.
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Check out this spot-on sendup of news and punditry, which proves that the dumbing down of America can be funny when it’s not just plain sad.
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CNN’s John Roberts refutes John McCain’s idealized presentation of Iraq a day after the senator said the U.S. troop surge was working. McCain tried to claim that the media are stuck in a time warp of three-month-old bad news, but it turns out he was either misinformed, mistaken or lying about the results of the surge in Baghdad.
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jeffcohen.org
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Jeff Cohen joins Truthdig to talk about life in the big media trenches, why news coverage is only getting worse, and how horse race politics and the corporatization of information are killing American democracy. Cohen was the communications director for the 2004 Dennis Kucinich campaign, founder of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, and author most recently of “Cable News Confidential” (excerpted here).
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Wow. CNN’s Jack Cafferty really doesn’t like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. After calling him the definition of a “weasel,” Cafferty asked America whether the AG should resign. Surprisingly (or not), CNN didn’t get one e-mail saying Gonzales should stay.
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While discussing the Internet’s racy photos of “American Idol” contestant Antonella Barba, CNN “Headline News” host Glenn Beck abruptly said to his guest, US Weekly’s Dina Sansing, “Dina, I’ve got some time and a camera. Why don’t you stop by?” After a few seconds of stunned silence, Beck said “No? OK.”
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Truthdig tips its hat this week to the CNN White House correspondent who has doggedly exposed the contradictions between the Bush White House and the U.S. military on Iranian involvement in Iraq.
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By Andy Borowitz — Satirist Andy Borowitz riffs on the news networks’ ratings-oriented weather obsession.
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Michael Ware, who has been reporting from Iraq for three years now, describes the situation to Wolf Blitzer: “If this is not a civil war, Wolf, I don’t want to see one when it comes.”
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Dr. James Dobson, leading light of the Christian right, says people are neither born gay nor choose to be gay. They’re just mama’s boys. Watch it
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Despite evidence to the contrary, CNN anchors and reporters repeatedly insisted the controversy surrounding John Kerry’s “botched joke” will play a major role in the upcoming election.
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Jon Stewart took CNN to task on Monday over the frenzied tone of its North Korea nuclear test coverage. With little to offer in the way of fact and 24 hours of programming to fill, the news network turned instead to conjecture and doomsday prophecy, prompting this observation from Stewart: “CNN: It’s 99.9 percent what they don’t know.”
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Maher makes the good point that in a less sexually repressed society, Mark Foley could have come out of the closet a long time ago.
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From CNN
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That’s the percentage of Americans who believe Bush deliberately misled the country about the war in Iraq, according to a new CNN poll. Scary part: 41% believe he has told the truth.
Posted on Oct 4, 2006
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A former Air Force colonel said on CNN that the U.S. is currently conducting military operations inside Iran. But his evidence seems weak, and we don’t want to make a big deal out of it.
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From CNN
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Bush says that questioning of suspected terrorists “won’t go forward” unless Congress passes a law clarifying the treatment and interrogation of such detainees.
Believe that? If so, there’s a nice Nigerian billionaire we met on the Internet who’d love to discuss a business opportunity with you…
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From CNN
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Speaking on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Arianna Huffington said CNN host Chuck Roberts should be held accountable for saying that Ned Lamont is referred to as “The Al Qaeda candidate” when in fact no previous record of such an appellation exists.
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Jon Stewart had a roundup Thursday of a bizarre recent trend: Armageddon news coverage. Behold this montage of shame, in which every TV news outlet from Good Morning America to MSNBC seemed to make an appearance. CNN, in its quest for fact, checked something called a rapture index, while Fox News demanded a rapture timetable, prompting Stewart to comment, Thats the timetable Fox News is demanding we have.”
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From CNN via YouTube
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Interviewing a flack for the Israeli government about the killing of women and children at Qana in Lebanon, this CNN anchor channels Anderson Cooper with her refusal to meekly accept meaningless government platitudes. Watch the sparks fly.
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“The Daily Show” host offers a roundup of Lebanon reporting and confronts the media’s seeming inability to process the crisis.
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From ThinkProgress
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President Bush told Larry King that deceased Enron founder Ken Lay was “a good guy.” That’s just patently false. A jury confirmed as much. And as for Lay’s crimes, Bush said he was “disappointed.”
Memo to Bush: “Disappointed” is dropping an ice cream cone in the mud. Leaving thousands of employees with worthless pension plans and profiting wildly by knocking California off the power grid ... that’s a bit more than “disappointing.”
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From crooksandliars.com
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In a mostly softball interview with Larry King Thursday night, President Bush said that he doesn’t get intelligence briefings on Sunday. (Presumably because that’s the day the Lord takes a break from those updates, too.)
Story about the interview
Full transcript
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The investigative journalist par excellence tells CNN that many higher-ups in the Pentagon have grave concerns about the White House’s military designs in Iran.
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Bruce Springsteen defends his right to speak his mind about political issues, and derides as “insane” those who say that musicians should stick to bubble-gum fare.
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CNN runs a must-watch segment on quacks who claim to cure people of their homosexuality. (One method: smashing a pillow with a tennis racket while screaming your mother’s name.)
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From jkrweb.com
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OK, all you expatriates probably already knew this, but Truthdig didn’t: “The Daily Show” runs on CNN International outside the U.S.
Think about that: Millions (perhaps billions) of foreigners get Jon Stewart’s version of America on a relatively straight-news-oriented channel. Depending on how you feel about Stewart’s sensibility, that’s either wonderful or troubling. (This snippet of news comes near the end of a hilarious article about Stewart’s upcoming gig at the Oscars.)
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CNN had mistranslated the Iranian president as saying Iran had a right to use nuclear “weapons,” rather than nuclear “technology.” | story
Posted on Jan 17, 2006
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