Rob Enderle, a San Jose, California- based technology consultant. says Huffington may build AOL into a media organization with a similar clout to Murdoch’s Fox News Corp. “look how political views have worked for Fox ….. There’s certainly the opportunity to create a muc[...]
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February 8th, 2011 - 1:47 am § in America
Fox Edits Declaration of Independence
This Sunday, during the SuperBowl, Fox took fair and balanced to a new level. In a rare display of patriotism, Fox had NFL players read the Declaration of Interdependence. What a patriotic act! Glen Beck should be proud! Of course, the Declaration was edited to remove content that might offend G[...]
Campus Threats: Not Funny Anymore
Over at the AAUP listserv, Galya Diment has a funny post about a math professor at California State University, Northridge caught on video urinating on a colleague’s door. While I assume that the post was an effort to relieve tension, I am not at all relieved by the lack of focus on our REAL[...]
January 24th, 2011 - 10:39 am § in America
Talk Show Host Takes Over the Republican Party of Washington
The sad fate of the Republican Party now seems sealed, at least in WA state. Kirby Wilbur, a rabid right wing ideologue of the Beck/Limbaugh school, is now the head of the state committee. Hasn’t the time come for the remnant or rationality in the Republican party to call for something else?[...]
January 18th, 2011 - 1:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Guns on Campus
Some months ago I went to a Beck rally armed with faux pellet guns .. gifts to the crown, intended to make a point. I was taken seriously by the Beckies, even invited in (at their cost) to hear the great man speak. But some gun totin liberal friends, including faculty colleagues, tried to scare [&[...]
January 17th, 2011 - 10:26 pm § in America
Rhetoric: Diagnosis by Mug Shot
(updates, original post 14 Jan 2011) On the Berkeley Blog, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, associate professor of psychology, diagnoses insanity via a mug shot and media commentary. He says that the “smiling mugshot of Jared Loughner (has sent) chills down people’s spine.” and then goes on t[...]
January 12th, 2011 - 12:01 am § in Politics
Free speech: it’s good business
Usually Michael Hood at Blatherwatch writes about radio in Seattle, with an emphasis on talk radio. Today, Michael (clicking on Rush will being you to Michael’s blog) writes about the shameful way the talkers on hate radio are behaving. I have copied his text whole here because he do[...]
More on Hate Rhetoric from Berkely Blog
Listening to the carrion worms of Fox tonight and to liberals insisting on balance …… Among the evasions of the Fox right, has been the claim that their rhetoric had nothing to do with the Arizona massacre. They claim to be fair and balanced. Yet, somehow, the violence we have seen[...]
January 8th, 2011 - 6:11 pm § in America
Alan Grayson on the Shootings in Arizona
We are all going to hear excuses for what just happened. The right will avoid any sott of self criticism, Glenn Beck will somehow find a way to blame this on Obama. The left, at least most of it, will try to appear rational by not using the word bigot to describe any of the […][...]
December 14th, 2010 - 12:08 am § in Politics
National Privatized Radio (c) NPR 2011
Michael Hood at Blatherwatch writes about the right wing effort to defund NPR. While NPR itself now only receives 2% of its funding from Congress, the real danger may well be to KUOW and the other locaL affiliates. The local stations get about 10% of their budgets from Congress. That is only $90 m[...]