Seattle’s channel 4 reports that a Seattle woman, known as @_UmmWaqqas, seems to have risen to a top position in ISIS’ travel agency. The ISIS online “travel guidebook” tells recruits to get in touch with this lady to learn how to get to Turkey and then cross the border. Cha[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
April 27th, 2015 - 11:43 pm § in America
FREDDY GRAY’s ARREST RECORD
Maybe Baltimore should bill Fox, CNN and MSNBC a portion of their profits during this episode of Reality News? The events in Baltimore have become a sort of cable porn. Unfortunately, it’s not quite like what you’d find on somewhere like watchmygf.sex, which pains me as much as it must p[...]
April 26th, 2015 - 7:01 pm § in The Ave Scene
Newspeak as Public TV Fades
One of KCTS laid off staff commented “If (management) can’t spin it ….create the impression of more public affairs coverage, who will give them money?” The formerly UW sponsored Seattle public TV station KCTS-9 is laying off a lot of its staff. (Report by Joel Connelly at T[...]
April 10th, 2015 - 5:53 pm § in Politics
Video clip of Fox reporter being jerk at White House briefing
The other day a female reporter named Susan Crabtree, who works for the Washington Examiner, a conservative online tabloid owned by rightwing billionaire Phillip Anschutz, referred to the president as “Obama” five times at a White House briefing while asking questions of Press Secretary[...]
Is This For Real? Michael Eisen Goes Turncoat
Why I, a founder of PLOS, am forsaking open access By Michael Eisen | Published: April 1, 2014 PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THIS THAT IT WAS WRITTEN FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY ON DR. EISEN’S WEBSITE!!! I co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open a[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 2:49 pm § in Misc.
Fox pundits whine about Obama hogging Selma limelight
“This morning on Fox & Friends the Kurvy Kouch Potatoes devoted the whole of their Selma segment to complaining about a photo that appeared in the New York Times. Later, the ladies of ‘Outnumbered’ did the same thing. The photo in question was of President Obama walking arm-in[...]
March 2nd, 2015 - 12:47 pm § in Misc.
CNN tape debunks O’Reilly lie
If Fox News is nothing more than the propaganda arm of America’s political right, they’ll ignore the furor over Bill O’Reilly’s serial lies and continue employing him as their chief propagandist. After all, Hitler didn’t fire Goebbels for lying. And while a real journal[...]
February 25th, 2015 - 5:55 pm § in Misc.
FOXISM: O’Reilly
More trouble for Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, After his claim to have participated in combat during the Falkland War, it now appears that the Fox anchor talker also lied about about witnessing the execution of four nuns during El Salvador’s civil war in 1980. Media Matters for [...]
February 23rd, 2015 - 2:38 pm § in Misc.
Is Brian Williams Running for the Republican Nomination to be President?
Why does anyone show surprise when a talking head turns out to be an empty headed faker? Remember how Ronald Reagan reminisced about his landing on D Day? While speaking at a forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in 2008, an audience member asked Williams what his “wow” interview was o[...]