Test-Tube Meat May Be En Route to Dinner Table

Staff / Truthdig Jul 6, 2006 Dutch scientists are working on growing artificial pork out of pig stem cells. Efforts to mass-produce it are underway. This use of stem cells may have the unintended effect of uniting militant vegans and evangelical right-to-life'ers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behind the Scenes at Gitmo

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2006 ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it. The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as "custodial interviews." The room pictured above--which has a plush lazy chair--is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms. This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Did Santorum Display Classified Documents on Fox News?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 24, 2006 When Pa Sen Rick Santorum went on Fox to make what turned out to be a bogus claim about WMDs in Iraq, did he violate federal law by holding classified documents up to the camera? Greg Sargent has more . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

No Reporters Allowed in Gitmo–Except for Fox

Staff / Truthdig Jun 23, 2006 Last week, the Pentagon kicked all reporters out of the Guantanamo Bay prison after the suicides of three detainees. But on Wednesday the Defense Dept. invited a Fox News analyst down to Cuba to tour the facility. And what do you know? The Fox analyst described Gitmo as ?now gentle, almost child-like the way they treat the detainees.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stewart to Cooper: Where Is CNN’s ‘Sense of Mission’?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2006 Jon Stewart takes Anderson Cooper to task for being part of the CNN-MSNBC junta that seems to want nothing more than to ape Fox News' graphics and "swoosh" sounds. (h/t: Huff Po) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News Debunks Santorum’s WMD Claim

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2006 Mere hours after Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) announced breathlessly at a press conference that ?we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,? a Fox news reporter found out that Santorum was hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions already acknowledged and dismissed by the White House?s Iraq Survey Group. Watch Santorum dissemble when confronted with these truths on air. (h/t: Think Progress) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush’s Phony Momentum at Home and Abroad

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2006 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 . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News Host Shouts Down Hate Speech

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2006 Watch as Fox host Julie Banderas drowns out a vile anti-gay hatemonger. (Sort of a straw-man target, to be sure, but it's nice to see Fox News on the correct side of the cultural divide for a change. (Video hoster: Johnny Dollar's Place.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FCC Probing Fake-News Broadcasts

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2006 Federal authorities are investigating dozens of TV stations for running "faux news broadcasts" made by government agencies and corporations. (Via Huff Po.) Earlier: See the report that kick-started the investigation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blockbuster Report: AT&T Allows NSA to Spy on Entire Internet

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2006 This is the big one, folks Wired News unearths internal AT&T documents that show how the telecom company, at the behest of the government, built "secret rooms" in cities across America that enable the NSA "to look at every individual message on the Internet and analyze exactly what people are doing" Story and AT&T internal documents Wired News explains why it published the story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Feds Tracking ABC News Phone Calls in Leak Hunt

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 A "senior law enforcement official" has told ABC News that the government, in trying to root out confidential sources, is tracking the phone numbers the news organization calls Maybe we should just start calling him George "Big Brother" Bush Update: An official acknowledges its "backtracking" of journalists' phone records . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart Skewers Fox News on Tasteless Segment

Staff / Truthdig Mar 30, 2006 When Fox News decided to juxtapose busty bikini babes and news of a serial killer manhunt on the same screen, the savior from Comedy Central made wonderful mincemeat of the situation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )