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The Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Won’t Run

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2006 NBC has told the Dixie Chicks it won't run an ad for their documentary because in it they criticize President Bush. Watch it. The irony: The Dixie Chicks are being silenced in trying to advertise a film about how they were silenced. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Military Bans Left-Leaning Blog, Permits Right-Wing Site

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2006 A Marine stationed in Iraq found he was blocked from accessing the cheeky, left-leaning political blog Wonkette, while he had no problem accessing conservative Michelle Malkin's site Hmmm . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2006 Bush & Co have apparently been muzzling climate scientists from speaking forthrightly to the public about global warming Shocker, right? Perhaps they thought last week's head fake on giving more free rein to NASA scientists would throw reporters off the scent . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lying About the State of the Union

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Jan 31, 2006 As our government renames a civil liberties-trampling spying program and suppresses the results of its own studies, Americans are being left in an information vacuum regarding the true state of our union. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Media Outlets Censor Tape of Kidnapped Reporter

Blair Golson / Truthdig Jan 31, 2006 Jill Caroll, 28, appears pleading and weeping in a newly released tape. | storyTruthdig says: Al Jazeera won't let us hear Carroll's voice because it would be too "upsetting" to viewers. CNN CNN's "The Situation Room" won't even show a clip. What exactly is going on here? Why not let us, the viewers, decide what's too "upsetting"? How is this any different from Bush's censorship of coffins returning home from Iraq? We've watched jetliners packed with innocents crash into our Twin Towers. We've watched Iraqi civilians bombed in real time by our own forces. Since when did we become unable to judge for ourselves what we need to see to make sense of the world around us? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Exit Howard Stern, Enter Possibility

James Harris / Truthdig Jan 9, 2006 Howard Stern's move to Sirius just might change the radio business for good. But will the change be for the better? James Harris reports. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )