The self righteous Faux Truth Teller Disses CNN for Making Money off of Malaysian Air 370. Bill’s outrage is awesome, especially given Murdoch’s own devotion to making up scandals to sell adverts.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘news media’
March 24th, 2014 - 8:05 am § in Misc.
A world without free speech
This campaign is focused on free press in foreign countries. As an avid (and unusual) reader of the world press, however, I am less than sanguine about our own media. The sad fact is that a small number of media giants control almost all of our media. We get very little news of critical events [&h[...]
September 12th, 2012 - 11:57 am § in Hypocrisy
FOX NEWS provides a poster in the public interest.
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BREAKING NEWS: Oops, CNN and Fox Report that Supreme Court Strikes DOWN Obamacare
FOX and CNN announce the the SCOTUS has dumped Obamacare: The TeaPart joined the rush to victory: Of course, they were WRONG! Here is the full text. Fox, of course, is now spinning madly, trying to paint the decision as a defeat for the Affordable Health Act. THE-Ave editor on the other hand, is q[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Scott Brown Chickens Out of Debate with Elizabeth Warren
The Boston Herald reports: Republican senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has decided not to participate in a nationally televised debate with his opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Warren> Brown’s excuse was that the debate was to be sponsored by the Ted Kennedy Foundation and Vicki Kennedy, [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Obama’s lead depends on the battle of the Bayesians
Nate Silver on the 2012 Campaign Mr. Obama remains slightly ahead of Mr. Romney in most national polls, and he has had a somewhat clearer advantage in polling conducted at the state level. Mr. Obama would be about 80 percent likely to win an election held today, according to the model. However, the [...]
Washington State Republican Convention, No cheer in Tacoma!
I was a Republican. At least my fellow delegates kept asking me if I was a Republican. This lasted the four days of their state convention. Apparently my credentials had been questioned. I was worried about how many of my fellow delegates were carrying guns, and the chair did tell the audience tha[...]
The Hypocrisy of Racism
There is much talk about “the talk.” “Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it [...]
Is Mitt Romney playing Richard III?
Human remains discovered in search for King Richard III A team from the University of Leicester is today (Wednesday September 12) announcing a dramatic development in the search for King Richard III. The search, which has entered a third week, has uncovered evidence of human remains — the fir[...]