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Category Archives: US News, Sadly Broken
RT host on Ukraine–Inspiring Independence (Updated)
Abby Martin has my nod for inspiring journalism for this unequivocal statement of editorial independence. Speaking on her usual RT show in no uncertain terms, she condemned Russia’s use of state power to determine Ukraine’s political future. It is hard … Continue reading
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New NSA Revelations: What Julian Assange Has to Fear
The most recent batch of classified NSA documents disclosed by Snowden reveal shocking facts about the criminalization of dissident speech by the US security state. It has been revealed by journalists at The Intercept that the NSA sought to put … Continue reading
Posted in State Secrecy in US, US News, Sadly Broken
Tagged Assange, nsa, snowden, Wikileaks
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The BBC–Can it be Trusted?
This seems to be the question on everybody’s lips this week. When I turn on the radio, it’s all I hear, no matter the channel. But let’s get one thing straight: it is trivial that we should be skeptical of … Continue reading
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Bias in the News: Some comments about structural conditions
Is the content of the news unbiased and objective? Can we assume that news outlets report objectively on world events and domestic issues? If this were the case, we could expect to hear a full spectrum of opinion, reflecting, minimally, … Continue reading
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Tagged media analysis, news analysis, news objectivity, press objectivity
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Criticizing Obama from the Left
In the exceedingly narrow frame of reference for US party politics, Obama is commonly described as left of center. What is ignored is that the entire set of policy positions considered “Left” across the world are beyond the scope of … Continue reading
White House Press: Ground Rules (Clinton 2000 interview with Amy Goodman)
Here is an excellent case study of how the media in the US works: AMY GOODMAN: President Clinton on Election Day 2000. I interviewed him with WBAI producer Gonzalo Aburto. Well, a day after that program, I got a call … Continue reading
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Where I get my news
NYTimes just did a great article on DemocracyNow, which I paste below. I get most of my news from the two most independent and objective sources I can find, which are Democracy Now and AlJazeera. DemocracyNow’s idea is to let … Continue reading
Why support the Occupy Wall Street movement?
The occupiers themselves are pretty clear about the issues, so it’s a real sham that the television journalists on CNN and FOX claim not to understand. Perhaps they can avert the gaze of the media for a while longer, but … Continue reading
TomDispatch: Let’s forget 9-11
I’ll say more on this soon, but here is some clarity in the muddled waters of 9-11 hyperbole and political showmanship: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910125513799497.html Excerpts: Ask yourself this: ten years into the post-9/11 era, haven’t we had enough of ourselves? If we … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11 hyperbole, attack Iraq, Rumsfeld, TomDispatch
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The Daily Show and Class Warfare
Updates: Daily Show 092111 on Obama’s tax plan (and schooling Indiana governor Mitch Daniels) Daily Show 011911 Small government? Really? Jon Stewart and the Daily Show pulled out all the stops last night on their “say it like it is” … Continue reading
Glenn Greenwald on Obama’s Civil Liberties (compared to Bush era)
Rough notes: Obama’s policies, especially regarding civil liberties and foreign policy, have been a wholescale extension, and often intensification, of Bush era policies. Even the political right has lauded Obama for having such a “strong” foreign policy. “For decades Republicans … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, civil liberties, climate of fear, Glenn Greenwald, habeus corpus, indefinite detention, Obama, Wikileaks
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Glenn Beck, America’s sad hero
“They’re not stupid. There is a revolution that is beginning. … Many of their people are in and around this administration… And they have a plan. Because they have a plan, they will win… They are going full throttle recruitment… … Continue reading
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Tagged debate, demagogue, Fox News is really terrible, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, media, news
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On Thomas Friedman, or the funniest thing I’ve read in a month.
Thomas Friedman, for those who aren’t already familiar with him, has achieved enormous fame in the US as a columnist for the NYTimes. He wrote books that became instant top-ten bestsellers like “The World is Flat” and “Hot Flat and … Continue reading
Nir Rosen: Um, I didn’t mean that
Nir Rosen’s disavowal of his rash twitter comments, here, is so sensitively articulate and so razor-sharp that it deserves to be read for its own sake. He said some brash things. He talked on Twitter as if her were talking … Continue reading
Assange shames CNN for pursuing gossip over war and death
Julien Assange, the man behind the Wikileaks release of hundreds of thousands of internal Pentagon documents detailing incidents of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, is interviewed by Larry King. Daniel Ellsberg, who was behind the Vietnam-era release of the Pentagon … Continue reading
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