Over at Blatherwatch, Michael Hood reports on a local reporter who has made it. Dorothy Parvaz is now in Iran working for Al Jazeera. This gig comes after being an investigative reportet for the PI. In that role she tweaked noses enough to get on Hannity, leading to O’Reilly to eventuall[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
March 26th, 2011 - 9:52 pm § in Misc.
Getting Glenn Beck off Seattle’s Airwaves
Previous Ave posts about Glenn Beck Huff Post reports that Glenn Beck has lost radio stations in Connecticut and New York. Buckley Radio, a chain which runs 17 stations around the country, told Radio Ink magazine and Media Matters that it will cease airing Beck’s show, which airs on four of it[...]
Paul Allen’s Toys
UPDATE: how Paul Allen affects UW Presidential search. I have a proposal: why doesn’t Paul Allen just buy the UW and make it the NW version of Harvard? I do not know what tax rate Billionaire Paul Allen pays, but the typical rate in his bracket is 15%! On the Tom Hartmann show, see Rep[...]
March 19th, 2011 - 7:11 am § in Uncategorized
Democrat Congressman Wants to ‘Defund’ Fox News
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) took to the House floor Thursday and said, “If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to strip funding from NPR because they believe — wrongly, in my view — that NPR is biased, then we should be given the same opportunity” and prevent taxpa[...]
March 18th, 2011 - 6:16 am § in America
Freedom of The Web.
Ed. After the North African and Bahraini revolutions, there can be no doubt that free and unlimited access to the web needs to become a basci, human right. For other posts on this subject, click here. by Geov, 03/17/2011, 11:14 AM It’s a staple of the mudslinging in comment threads at various poli[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 10:54 pm § in Hypocrisy
Man bites Dog? Kudoes for Glenn Beck!
Glenn Beck, yes Glen Beck has exposed the footage used by the Fox machine to slander NPR as a fraud! I am speechless.[...]
Socialists around the world consider Obama their leader
THE INTERNATIONAL CADRES DEFEND THEIR OWN News Analysis by John Charlton of the Post and Email The International Socialist Review was concerned in 2008 that Obama would compromise on their principles. (Dec. 7, 2009) — The concern of common Americans that their federal government has b[...]
March 14th, 2011 - 5:00 pm § in America
Actors hired for talk radio rent-a-caller services
From Blatherwatch We always suspected… that actors might be being hired as callers for talk radio shows, but then we said “nahhh…” Now that callers are becoming a thing of the past for talk radio, it can be revealed talk syndicators of Rush and Sean have hired ringers (so to [...]
Evan Bayh Joins Fox News!!!
from Huff Post: UPDATE: Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network. Michael Clemente, the network’s senior vice president for news, announced the move in a statement. He said that “Senator Bayh’s decad[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 4:26 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW Blogger Bites Seattle Times, is this news?
UPDATE: see news at TPM. Over at HorsesAss, Darryl has criticized the quality of journalism at the Seattle Times. This would be a “man bites dog story,” if it were not that the Times has descended into the fish wrapper class of AP wire reflection. The more important ssues here are [...]