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By Lynne Joiner
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By Joseph Conrad
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From hammeroftruth.com
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Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus, one of the few traditional media reporters to have forcefully challenged Bush’s prewar claims on WMDs, has called for a moratorium on publishing government statements “that are designed solely as a public relations tool.”
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Last week the media seized upon several issues in Iraq, Afghanistan and the White House that supposedly had Bush “on a roll.” But after a subsequent negative turns of events, Media Matters asks whether the media will give the same amount of attention to Bush’s roll in the opposite direction….
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By Norman Solomon — Members of the media have been too easy on the Republican push to ban gay marriage. Yes, it may be all about politics, but does that mean society shouldn’t react harshly to the attempt to codify discrimination in our Constitution?
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By Robert Scheer — Five of the largest U.S. newspapers shirked their journalistic responsibility by covering up the government’s outrageous smear campaign against Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.
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The five media heavies who shamelessly promoted the government’s lies about the Los Alamos scientist chose to settle today rather than reveal their government sources.
Lee was savaged by a media fueled by government rumors that he was spying for China, an accusation he was never officially charged with. Lee was imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months in 1999-2000 and ultimately received an apology from the judge who heard his case. Truthdig says: The media was not defending freedom of the press but their own right to operate as a megaphone for government agents with an agenda to slander an American citizen. The media went to bat for government agents who broke the law. When will those agents be held accountable? Read Robert Scheer’s extensive coverage of the Wen Ho Lee case.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revisits the 2004 election and finds evidence of massive electoral fraud. Kennedy writes: “After carefully examining the evidence, I’ve become convinced that the president’s party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004.”
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By Norman Solomon — “We remember that many Americans have lost their limbs or their lives in on-the-job accidents that might have been prevented if overall media coverage had been anywhere near as transfixed with job safety as with, say, marital splits among Hollywood celebrities.”
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By Robert Scheer — “It is good news that the public is finally hip to Bush’s con, yet it is worrisome when surprisingly sensible proposals by the president on immigration are automatically rejected because of the source.”
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By Molly Ivins — “The president’s approval ratings are at 31%, and not a single Shih Tzu will yap at him.”
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From surrealstudios.com
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In a new book, Salon senior writer Eric Boehlert chronicles “one of the great journalistic collapses of our time”: the media’s failure to sufficiently challenge the president in the run-up to the Iraq war. Check out the extended excerpt.
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi officially resigned today after weeks of refusing to concede defeat in April 9-10 elections. Berlusconi, the largest media owner in Italy, has had a stranglehold on the country’s media, but even an all-out television blitz could not convince the public to ignore a failing economy, which the new center-left government must now revive.
Posted on May 2, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Calling this lobbying reform measure an “ethics bill” requires brass bravura.
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“The Colbert Report” host achieves what few traditional media interviewers can do: make neocon leader William Kristol stammer and sweat about his support for the Iraq invasion.
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By Robert Scheer — A jaded media ignores CBS’ well-documented revelation that the CIA clearly informed Bush that Saddam Hussein had no WMD program.
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The government will detonate a massive amount of conventional explosives to figure out the math on a tactical nuclear weapon—perhaps to be used on Iran, warns Air America host Randi Rhodes.
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By Norman Solomon — Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,” the outrage continues to howl through mainstream U.S. media.
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The space agency will now allow its scientists to speak to the media without public affairs officials muzzling them.
Posted on Mar 31, 2006
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But the N.Y. Times refuses the meetings, which Bush is holding at the lowest ebb of his presidency. How this fits in with his “Blame the Media on Iraq” policy is something we’ll have to puzzle over.
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By Robert Scheer — “This is a moment of truth for America. It is time to acknowledge that we need the immigrant workers as much as they need us, and to begin to treat them with the respect they deserve.”
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By Molly Ivins — The more that administration leaders play games with definitions of democracy and weasel wording about torture, the less they can be believed about anything. So if they someday tell the truth, no one will believe them.
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Dwayne Powell —
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The Washington Post pulls back the curtain on the firm responsible for producing pro-U.S. propaganda in Iraq. (Hint: they call propaganda “influence.”)
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By Molly Ivins — “I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying—it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”
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From crooksandliars.com
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The MSNBC host calls radio talk show host Laura Ingraham “desperate” and “stupid” for criticizing the bravery of reporters in Iraq.
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From crooksandliars.com
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An NBC reporter cuts through the chatter about unreported positive stories in Iraq: You can easily get killed reporting them. So how positive can the situation be?
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By Molly Ivins — There is now a three-year record of who has been right about what is happening in Iraq—Rumsfeld or the media. And the score is: Press, 1,095; Rumsfeld, 0.
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MSNBC via Crooks and Liars
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After Bill O’Reilly threatened one of his callers with legal action for merely mentioning Keith Olbermann, the MSNBC host brings on a former state prosecutor to confirm that the only person in legal jeopardy is O’Reilly himself.
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From Fox News via Newsbusters
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Did Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg fall asleep while hearing a key redistricting case—as Fox charges? If so, most traditional media outlets didn’t report it.
A conservative website poses an interesting question here: if Justice Thomas or Scalia fell asleep, would most news outlets ignore that, as well?
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By Norman Solomon — Public acceptance of killing thrives on abstractions. And, in turn, those abstractions are largely facilitated by news media. Solomon examines how words can mask the ugly truth of state-sponsored killing.
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By Robert Scheer — On Monday an Austrian court sentenced crackpot British historian David Irving to three years’ imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust 17 years ago. Directly on the heels of rioting sparked by the Muhammad cartoons, the ruling has exposed a longstanding double standard in the West about who is entitled to free speech and why.
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Norman Solomon —
Officials’ media spin shouldn’t be confused with anything genuine.
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Tony Blankley —
As I understand the profound concern of the ever-alert White House reporters, they smell a constitutional crisis because the shooting party failed to alert the media of the accidental shooting down in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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MSNBC via ThinkProgress
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The traditional media and the blogosphere are abuzz with questions about the drinking Cheney did before hunting; whether his medications, combined with alcohol, may have played a role; and whether this explains why he didn’t alert the media for so long about the accident (i.e., did he need the time to get the intoxicants out of his system?).
Some of the best writing on the topic:
Think Progress: McClellan Ducks Questions on Role of Alcohol
AMERICAblog: What did Cheney drink and when did he drink it?
Tucker Carlson: You CanӒt Drink A Beer If You Shoot. Period.
Think Progress: Inconsistencies in statements of Cheney’s “star witness”
Raw Story: ‘Beer quote’ scrubbed from MSNBC story
The Nation’s John Nichols: Cheney has a lot more explaining to do
Posted on Feb 17, 2006
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Nasser Shiyoukhi / AP
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By Tyler Golson — Don’t believe the hype about homespun religious anger: Middle Eastern leaders stoke religious riots because it makes their secular governments look tame in comparison.
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Three-quarters of the country isn’t buying White House claims that the media’s requests amount to a “fishing expedition.” | story
Posted on Jan 27, 2006
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From AOL
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By Blair Golson — AOL’s tasteless feature Hollywood “Babes in Arms” proves that mass media remains unbowed in its pursuit of exploiting war as a sexy, romantic profit center.
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By Jon Wiener — Bush rolled out an old canard about Bin Laden and the media rolled over. An inside look at the sticking power of a falsehood.
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Pandis Media/Corbis
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By Robert Scheer — Why is it not bigger news that those infamous Iraqi female scientists once routinely referred to in the media as “Dr. Germ” and “Mrs. Anthrax” have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their U.S. captors?
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