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 Time to Unplug the CPB: Replace corrupt board with independent trust By and |
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Laura Rozen on Niger-Uranium, Jeff Chang on Village Voice-New Times merger (10/28/05-11/3/05)
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Too Many Liberals?: Olbermann says MSNBC bosses upset by liberal guests
10/27/05 MSNBC host Keith Olbermann recently revealed that network bosses were upset when he had two liberal guests too close together on his show in September 2003. |
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Extra!: "Making the Invisible Visible": Antipoverty activists working to make their own media (January/February 2003) By
"If a tragedy happens, they will bring [cameras], but as soon as that day is over, they’re gone." Katrina has brought unusual mainstream media attention to poverty, but history warns us it's not likely to last.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Press Release: Attacks on Pledge Ruling Bolster Its Logic (6/28/02)
Media Beat: After the Libby Indictment, the Press Is Acquitting Itself (10/31/05) By
Media Beat: At the White House, the Spin Doctor Is Ill (10/28/05) By
CounterSpin: Laura Rozen on Niger-Uranium, Jeff Chang on Village Voice-New Times merger (10/28/05)
Media Advisory: Too Many Liberals?: Olbermann says MSNBC bosses upset by liberal guests (10/27/05)
Action Alert: Are 2,000 U.S. Deaths "Negligible"?: Fox's Brit Hume downplays U.S. deaths in Iraq (10/25/05)
Media Beat: Iraq Is Not Vietnam. But... (10/24/05) By
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MediaCitizen: New Pub-casting Chief Completes Right-Wing Coup (10/31/05) by Timothy Karr
The new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has stacked the agency's offices with White House propagandists and GOP loyalists in a bold-faced effort to carry forward Kenneth Tomlinson's right-wing crusade against public broadcasting.
New CPB president and former RNC chair Patricia de Stacy Harrison is hiring former State Department "public diplomacy" officials to fulfill her mission to fight the mythical left-leaning bias of public broadcasting.
Salon: How the News Works Now (10/31/05) by Tom Tomorrow
A graphical representation of the self-reinforcing cycle of government propaganda and complicit corporate reporting—all staunchly defended as "a matter of journalistic integrity." (Ad-viewing required.)
Editor & Publisher: Our Myth Brooks (10/30/05) by Greg Mitchell
The claim of the New York Times' John Tierney that the Plame Wilson leak was an “accident” is topped by his colleague David Brooks' assertion that there was no cover-up effort and that Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation “did not find evidence of wide-ranging criminal behavior."
Plus Editor & Publisher: Miller: Key Witness, After All (10/28/05) by William E. Jackson, Jr.
The New York Times, in dozens of editorials, statements by the publisher and the executive editor—and comments by legal talent—ridiculed the idea of Judith Miller being a key witness in the CIA leak case. Now it turns out that her "source" was the only one indicted for major crimes.
Huffington Post: NBC's Deception (10/30/05) by Eric Boehlert
Questioning NBC's claim to have been "very transparent" about Meet the Press host Tim Russert's role in the Valerie Plame Wilson story:
If NBC wanted to be "transparent," why didn't the network issue a statement that made clear Russert and Libby never even discussed Plame? Why was that glaringly important point, which would have caused Libby some discomfort prior to the indictment (as well as advanced the story in 2004), why was that left unsaid? Why, during an election year, didn’t Russert appear on Meet the Press and say, "Based on questions posed by special prosecutor Fitzgerald, it seemed clear Libby had testified that he and I spoke about Plame in July 2003, when in fact we did not."
Plus Huffington Post: Reassign NBC's Pete Williams (10/30/05) by Dan Carol. A former employee of Dich Cheney—and former colleague of "Scooter" Libby—continues to actively cover the Plame leak case despite the obvious conflict of interest.
CounterPunch: Framing the Poor (10/29/05) by Tim Wise
A corrective to the claims, oft repeated in the wake of Katrina, that
liberal social policy had rendered the black poor unable or unwilling to work, content to collect a government check, and thus, had made them incapable of saving themselves. This lie—and it is just that, not an exaggeration or simplification or overstatement, but a flat-out falsehood—has been parroted by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Charles Murray (of Bell Curve fame)... despite the lack of evidence to sustain it, and the amazing amount of evidence, both contemporary and historical, to refute it.
In fact, as Wise points out, only 16,000 people in New Orleans were receiving cash welfare; only 20,000 people lived in public housing; just 11 percent received food stamps.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Our Editorials Repeated What We Now Know to Be Wrong (10/29/05) by O. Ricardo Pimentel
One paper's admirably honest attempt to take its share of blame for uncritically buying the Bush administration's lies about Iraqi WMDs—and a call for accountability of the liars themselves.
We take responsibility for being duped on the matter of WMD...but at what point will those doing the duping be held accountable for taking us to war? Two thousand U.S. dead-and up to 30,000 Iraqi dead-and still counting.
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