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Media Continues To Mislabel Foley & Hastert

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[News Media]
What happens when your political party seems to be completely filled with pedophiles and those who protect them? What can you do with an election looming?

If you're the sleazy, irresponsible mainstream media, you can do what Associated Press, Fox, and others have done--claim these scumbags are Democrats and hope it sticks.

You know things are bad for the Republican party--whenever one of them gets in trouble, their friends in the "liberal media" label them as being Democrats! Foley is a Republican!

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Study Shows Daily Show Has As Much News As "Real" News Programs

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[News Media]
[Entertainment]
The Daily Show is much funnier than traditional newscasts, but a new study from Indiana University says it has the same amount of meat on its bones when it comes to coverage of the news. The brand of news coverage Jon Stewart and the rest of The Daily Show's staff brings to the airwaves is just as substantive as traditional news programs like World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News.

Most of us think the Daily Show is a lot more informative than all mainstream news.

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NY Post Makes Fun Of Death Threats Against MSNBC Anchor

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[Mean People]
One would think journalists might not make fun of a high-profile industry colleague, in this day and age, receiving an envelope -- at home -- which contains white powder. But that seemed to be the case at the New York Post's "Page Six" today in reporting on an alleged incident involving Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown."

Olbermann is not only a frequent critic of President Bush and the Iraq war -- he has been involved in a long feud with Fox News in general, and with Bill O'Reilly in particular. Fox News and the New York Post share an owner: Rupert Murdoch.

Olbermann has more to say on the issue, including how the New York Post may have interfered with a federal investigation. Check out his video response here where he says unequivocably, "We will not be intimidated by threats from the radical right."

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Why The American Media Sucks: In Four Simple Pictures

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Can it be so easily demonstrated why the American media has completely turned its back on journalism? Check it out... Here is the current cover of Newsweek across various areas of the world.

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FOX Launches "Crazy Clinton" Campaign

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[Liars]
[News Media]
To promote his new Clinton Global Initiative, a program to bring experts and nations together to solve social and environmental problems, President Clinton filmed an interview with FOX News's Chris Wallace.

Since this is Fox News, all didn't go according to what they told the former president, and Wallace ended up trying to assassinate Clinton's character by reinforcing the lies perpetrated by the right-wing smear "Path to 9/11." blaming Clinton for Bin Laden's attacks.

In this interview, Wallace opened the Pandora's box and Clinton refused to let him shut it--he lashed back at Wallace, Fox, and conservatives perpetrating a fraud and accusing him of being soft on terrorism.

Clinton's counter-arguments were specific, clear, and fair and balanced. So what does FOX do? Promote the interview as "Clinton Freaks Out"... [LOOK OUT! He's telling the truth. He must be crazy!!]. Watch the fireworks this upcoming week as the video is released. See the full transcript here.

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Don King: Fox News "Expert on Hurricane Katrina"

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[News Media]
Today on Fox News, Neil Cavuto devoted much of his show’s coverage to the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. To give the real picture of what’s going on, Cavuto brought in two “experts” on back-to-back segments — exercise guru Richard Simmons and boxing promoter Don King.

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Media Hoodwinked By Bosnian Pyramid Story?

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[News Media]
The world's oldest and largest pyramid found in Bosnia? It sounds incredible. The story has swept the media, from the Associated Press and the BBC, from papers and websites in the U.S. to those in India and Australia. Too bad that it is not a credible story at all. In fact, it is impossible. Who is the "archaeologist" who has taken the media for a ride? Why did the media not check the story more carefully?

Archeology magazine calls into question the credibility of the man making the pyramid claims, while others say that stone blocks discovered indicate it may have been man made.

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Colbert Skewers President While Neutered News Media Gape

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[News Media]
The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was televised on C-Span Saturday evening. Featured entertainer Stephen Colbert delivered a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps. He did it to Bush's face, unflinching and unbowed by the audience's muted, humorless response.

Click here for the "must see" video!

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Fake News

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[News Media]
WBRZ airs 'fake' news, says media watchdog The Center for Media Democracy and Free Press, a nonpartisan media policy group, cite Baton Rouge's WBRZ as a culprit in a 10-month investigation of a national "fake news" epidemic. Specifically, the sting focused on corporate-sponsored videos passed off as news. Investigators found 77 TV stations, including WBRZ, actively disguising sponsored content from General Motors, Intel, Pfizer, Capital One and others to make it look like their own reporting. More than a third of the time, stations aired fake news in its entirety as their own, the report said.

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"Recent Surge of Violence" Discovered in Iraq!

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[News Media]
The current administration recently reported that due to a "recent surge of violence", troop levels in Iraq will not be reduced any time soon. Democratic Underground began examining things more deeply and discovered that the "recent surge of violence" is much more than a recurring theme in the media.

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Short Toots

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[Essential Factoids]
[News Media]
Residents perished, but Formosan termites survived Katrina just fine.

Right-wing French group serves pork soup to the poor to exclude Muslims and Jews. A crowd of soup activists chanted, "We are all pig eaters! We are all pig eaters!"

Red rain dumps alien bacteria from a comet over India, scientist claims.

At least 17 dogs in President Bush's security detail were put up at a five-star hotel in New Delhi; hotel staff were told to address the dogs by their rank, as "sergeant-major" or "lieutenant."

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A Tale Of Two News Stories

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[News Media]
On January 21, The Washington Post first broke the Monica Lewinsky story regarding Bill Clinton.

On December 16 the initial disclosure of the Bush administration's use of the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct domestic surveillance that has been widely described as an illegal, was made public.

MediaMatters has provided an interesting, well-researched piece showing how the major newspapers and mainstream media treated each story. How many articles were written in each case, where did they appear and how much content was publicized on the stories? The results are surprising.

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LA Republicans Launch Bumper Sticker Compaign Against Blanco

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In what appears to be the first shot of the next governor's election, the Louisiana Republican Party is selling a bumper sticker that read, "Don't blame me. I voted for Jindal."

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Fox News Throughout History

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[News Media]
Ever wonder what it would be like if Fox News existed throughout history? Check it out.

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Blacks "Loot"; Whites "Find" According to Mainstream Media

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[News Media]
[Society]

A tale of two skin colors. Two syndicated news reports accompanied by photographs. One shows a black person with food taken from a store during the Katrina disaster, identified as a "looter." The other shows some white people doing the same, but characterizes their actions as "finding" items from a local store.

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CNN Showcases Trifecta of Dumbasses For Rita

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As Hurricane Rita bears down on the Gulf Coast, CNN deploys not one, not two, but three idiot anchors to stand out in the storm-force winds and show us all that, yes folks, hurricanes are windy and wet.

Unfortunately, Anderson Cooper has yet to be decapitated by a flying sheet of tin. We're still waiting.

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Fox News "Terrorizes" Suburban Family

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A couple whose home was wrongly identified on national television as belonging to an Islamic radical has faced harassment, and police are providing special protection.

After the report ran on Fox News on Aug. 7, people have shouted profanities at Randy and Ronnell Vorick and spray-painted "terrorist" (spelling it "terrist") on their property.

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Just In Case You Forgot What Happened On Sept. 11th...

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[News Media]
The New York Times calls it "a rich vein of city records." Akin to gold??

Others might find such a characterization offensive and inappropriate. Whatever you want to call it, the city of New York is making public a large array of transcriptions and recordings of the pandemonium during Sept. 11th, as if any of us need to be reminded that people suffered and died. So be prepared to have your senses bludgeoned with a blitz of suffering, all ultimately designed to distract and lure eyeballs to commercial sponsors.

Already in "heavy rotation" is the recording of a New Yorker trapped under a fire truck, calling 911 from a cell phone, saying he won't be able to breathe much longer. Thanks for sharing CNN. Thanks for exploiting the suffering of thousands.

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White House's McClellan Does A Jig For Press Corps Over Rove

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[News Media]
Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan shows his fancy dance moves as some of the press awaken from their groupthink slumber and actually start acting a little bit like journalists:
Q: Scott, can I ask you this: Did Karl Rove commit a crime?

MCCLELLAN: Again, David, this is a question relating to a ongoing investigation, and you have my response related to the investigation. And I don't think you should read anything into it other than: We're going to continue not to comment on it while it's ongoing.

Q: Do you stand by your statement from the fall of 2003, when you were asked specifically about Karl and Elliot Abrams and Scooter Libby, and you said, "I've gone to each of those gentlemen, and they have told me they are not involved in this"?

MCCLELLAN: And if you will recall, I said that, as part of helping the investigators move forward on the investigation, we're not going to get into commenting on it. That was something I stated back near that time as well.

Q: Scott, this is ridiculous. The notion that you're going to stand before us, after having commented with that level of detail, and tell people watching this that somehow you've decided not to talk. You've got a public record out there. Do you stand by your remarks from that podium or not?

MCCLELLAN: I'm well aware, like you, of what was previously said. And I will be glad to talk about it at the appropriate time. The appropriate time is when the investigation...

Q: (inaudible) when it's appropriate and when it's inappropriate?

MCCLELLAN: If you'll let me finish.

Q: No, you're not finishing. You're not saying anything. You stood at that podium and said that Karl Rove was not involved. And now we find out that he spoke about Joseph Wilson's wife. So don't you owe the American public a fuller explanation. Was he involved or was he not? Because contrary to what you told the American people, he did indeed talk about his wife, didn't he?

MCCLELLAN: There will be a time to talk about this, but now is not the time to talk about it.

At that point, the room went dark for a few moments and McClellan reappeared basked in an otherworldly red glow. Sounds of flames and screaming people could be heard off in the distance...

MCCLELLAN: David.. David.. David.. I told you before we weren't going to talk about this right now. How would you like it, if for example, I mentioned that your cousin who's in Iraq is currently located at Lat: 307.2 Lon: -122.4 and will be going out on patrol in an un-armored Humvee at 07:30 UTC? Or that as we speak, Rove is feeding a story to Fox and CNN on how your wife slept with ten black guys at Plato's retreat while you masturbated wearing Donald Duck pajamas? Don't make me show the video Dave.. don't make me. Be a good little reporter and ask how the President's dog is doing. By the way you're never allowed in this room ever again.

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CNN Calls Attention To It's Own Failure To Report News

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It's a shame we don't have a "cluelessness" category for this story, but one has to chuckle when CNN runs a story entitled, "Michael Jackson, Does anyone care?"

Ironically, CNN like all mainstream media, refuses to recognize that it's not Michael Jackson people don't care about, but the now-marginalized mainstream media, which still can't seem to figure out what is and isn't worthy of being reported.

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Newsweek: America is Dead

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[News Media]
Not more than a few weeks after Newsweek's disasterous story and related retraction over Americans flushing the Koran down the toilet and sparking religious riots in which many died, the "news magazine" runs an interesting picture in their Japanese edition.

The cover story shows an American flag, dirtied and tossed in a trash can, its staff snapped in two. The large white text reads, "Amerika ga shinda hi", which translates to "The day America died."

Right about now, every talk radio host is salivating. The big question is how they're going to tie this into a liberal conspiracy to promote hatred of America? To me it just seems to confirm that Newsweek is a crappy publication that has no taste or journalistic integrity, and their zeal of creating overhyped sensationalism transcends national boundaries.

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CNN Hails Nuclear Fusion As Oil Drilling Advancement

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[News Media]
[Science]
A research group from UCLA has discovered a form of nuclear fusion. As exciting as the news may be and the exciting implications for new technology and alternative fuel sources, CNN didn't think this was a top story and buried it in their Science section of the web site behind other stories on exploding toads, cleaner air and discovery of an old woodpecker.

To make matters obnoxiously worse, CNN's version of the story stated, "This new way of making nuclear fusion could have potential uses in the oil drilling industry and homeland security.."

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer Says Liberals Can't Be Good Catholics?

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[News Media]
In what can only be considered yet another feather in CNN's ethical approach to news coverage, their favorite furry anchor Wolf Blitzer, on the topic of the Pope's death and introducing several guests questioned whether the catholic on the panel that is of a more liberal persuasion was actually capable of being a "good catholic." In the wake of this man's religious leader dying, he seemed to not be happy with Blitzer's casual moral judgements. Go figure?

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CNN Publishes Misleading Poll Results

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[Polls]
As usual, the editors at CNN seem to think that the American people are idiots. Maybe they are -- as reflected in this latest attempt to demonize democrats.

In presenting the results of a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, CNN.com used a visually distorted graph that falsely conveys the impression that Democrats far outnumber Republicans and Independents in thinking the Florida state court was right to order Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed. In fact, a majority of all three groups agrees with the court's decision, and the gap between Democrats on one hand and Republicans and Independents on the other is within the poll's margin of error.

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CNN: The Cheese News Network

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[News Media]
It must be a slow news day... CNN downplays apparently mundane issues like drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Social Security, Decreased life expectancy due to childhood obesity, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Italy leaving Coalition of the "Willing", Syrian intelligence agents leaving Beirut, Darfur genocide, Americans still without healthcare, lots of wars, dead soldiers and Iraqis and what is CNN doing?

Running front page stories about steroid-using baseball players that nobody cares about. This is the crap that our Congress wastes their time with, instead of investigating more substantive issues like: Jeff Gannon, Robert Novak outing Plame, Vote tampering in Ohio & Florida, non-existent WMDs, Enron/Haliburton/Cheney, POW abuse in Iraq/Gitmo, etc.

Shameful.

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War of the Words

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When is a "terrorist" not a terrorist? When is a "reform" a reform? New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent mulls some of the ways that language is used to spin perceptions in modern politics.

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British Press Call Attention to "Castrated" US Mainstream Media

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[News Media]
The British publisher Guardian has an excellent expose on the current state of the United States Mainstream Media, specifically in the wake of the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert controversy, which points to a more systemic, complete crippling of the free press, and Americans' ability to find un-tainted popular sources of important information.
On the internet, the mainstream media is derided and scorned. One question is dominating US newsrooms and television studios: ignored, scandalised and now corrupted, just what is America's mainstream media for anymore?

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Wall Street Journal Editorial on Bloggers

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[News Media]
[Activists]
The WSJ has a very interesting editorial on the power of Bloggers and the realization that the MSM (mainstream media) are now officially relegated to just another area of journalism, and a pretty inaccurate and pathetic one at that.

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FDR's Grandson & Others Demand Fox News' Brit Hume Resign

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[News Media]
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and former Social Security associate commissioner James Roosevelt Jr. examined how FOX News Washington managing editor Brit Hume and other pundits distorted a quote by Roosevelt Jr.'s grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in order to claim that the former president would have supported privatizing Social Security.

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Associated Press Falls for GI-Joe Hostage in Iraq

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[News Media]
[Dubious Research]
The Associated Press's Fact-Checking-Monkeys apparently let this one slip through: Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners.

It's a good thing we can get our news from reliable sources like the AP. We don't want our GI-Joes to be abused.

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Western Journalists in Iraq: "Hotel Reporters"

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[News Media]
[So-They-Say]
If you're an average person around the world who seeks out various sources for your news and information, in all likelihood, you may know more about Iraq than the western journalists who are there trying to cover the war. It's so dangerous in the area, that most reporters are confined to their hotel, relaying x-hand accounts of events, or even if they manage to get outside, the typical way is via military escort, at which point they're taken to scenes set up specifically for them. Don't expect much from these "Hotel Reporters" unless you're looking for details on the amenities at the Fallujah Hilton.

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Partisian debacles compared: WMDgate vs Rathergate

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[News Media]
Now that the end has come to both the CBS Dan Rather investigation and the WMD hunt in Iraq, a comparison and contrast table has been published so the people can compare the details of these partisian messes. Which one do you think is the more severe transgression?

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Tucker Carlson axed from CNN, and so goes Crossfire!

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[News Media]
CNN said goodbye to pundit Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, and with him likely the "Crossfire" program that has been the granddaddy of high-volume political debate shows on cable television.

At the same time, in areas all across the world, clouds temporarily parted and a little ray of sunshine was observed...

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Fox news writer spins tragedy into corporate PR

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[News Media]
Steven Milloy, the self-proclaimed critic of junk science at Fox News, rarely misses an opportunity to bash environmentalists. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, he falsely claimed that the collapse of the World Trade Towers could have been delayed if only the builders had used more asbestos. He also has a habit of distorting other people's words when it serves his agenda. (A recent example of this was featured on RealClimate.org, a weblog for climate scientists.)

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Hairstyles of the Pundits

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[News Media]
Could you build a career as a pundit? Depends. How's your hair? Do you have one of these specialty cuts that scream, "I don't care about my appearance, unless it might change my Q rating"? Perhaps you sport the Pompous-dour? The Bald Eagle? or maybe Bill O'Reilly's Hair-ass-ment?

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Embedded reporter nails Rumsfeld

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[News Media]
By now, most who still have the stomach to watch the news have heard of the questions thrown by soldiers to Sec. Rumsfeld in Iraq over their equipment problems. It turns out that a resourceful reporter, having been denied the opportunity to ask Rumsfeld questions directly, got a soldier to ask the question for him. No doubt the conservative pundits will call attention to this as some sort of invalidation of the issue, while others recognize that this is a new era of neutered journalists where they must do what they can to ask the tough questions.

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La politicians pass resolution urging citizens to not watch CBS

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[News Media]
People throughout the area are outraged that a resolution authored by Louisiana councilman Barry Bagert, that urged Parish citizens to refrain from watching CBS news, was passed. "A resolution which dictates and advises citizens of what TV channel to watch because of a political dispute is far beyond the responsibility of the council", stated one critic of the council's tomfoolery.

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Fox news spins "anti-god" agenda of Maryland schools

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[News Media]
Fox News is as usual, inciting a wave of ignorance in publishing a story entitled, "Students free to thank anybody but God".

Nevermind that in Fox's version of the story the Pilgrims all gave thanks to "god" but conveniently left out that the pilgrims didn't believe in crosses (as a form of idolatry), mass, marriage as a religious sacrement, and a large amount of many churchs' sacret rituals.

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First hand account of the Iraq mosque killing

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[Terroir-ism]
[News Media]
I knew NBC would be responsible with the footage. But there were complications. We were part of a video "pool" in Falluja, and that obligated us to share all of our footage with other networks. I had no idea how our other "pool" partners might use the footage. I considered not feeding the tape to the pool -- or even, for a moment, destroying it. But that thought created the same pit in my stomach that witnessing the shooting had. It felt wrong. Hiding this wouldn't make it go away. There were other people in that room. What happened in that mosque would eventually come out. I would be faced with the fact that I had betrayed truth as well as a life supposedly spent in pursuit of it.

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Media prepares another smokescreen over atrocities

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[Terroir-ism]
[News Media]
Get ready kids. It's coming. In the wake of the NBC video showing an American soldier gunning down a helpless Iraqi in a mosque, conservative pundits are launching a new smokescreen, calling attention to supposed "hostage slaugherhouses" (aka "an empty room with a bloody mattress in it"). It seems every time the U.S. gets caught doing something profoundly immoral, the media launches a counter story of insurgent evildoing to sedate the masses into not being outraged.

Forget what your parents told you, apparently two wrongs do make a right.

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Spinwatch debuts as another media watchdog

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While we consider ourselves part of the contingent that is endeavoring to keep the media in check, we're not alone. The most recent addition to the counter-spin arena is a web site run by a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, entitled Spinwatch.

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Mainstream media attacks its critics; buries head in sand again

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You might think that the major media that got suckered by George W. Bush’s Iraqi weapons-of-mass-destruction claims just last year would show some humility about its own fallibility.

But, no, the elite U.S. news media is now criticizing common citizens who have raised questions about voter fraud in the Nov. 2 election. The New York Times has joined the Washington Post and other major news outlets in scouring the Internet to find and discredit Americans who have expressed suspicions that Bush’s victory might not have been entirely legitimate.

Follow along as the Consortium News tells the story of the love affair with the administration and their sordid path of questionable news "coverage" on critical issues.

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How journalists kill science

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The Columbia Journalism Review has an insightful story on how the mainstream media, in their effort to pander to certain profitable demographic groups have shown an increasing tendency to ignore facts and overwhelming scientific evidence when deciding which stories to run and what to say.

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Embedded journalists can now pick sides in Iraq

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They may not get many takers, but Iraqi insurgents in the besieged city of Fallujah on Saturday invited journalists to "embed" with them to report their side of the war. "All media will be allowed into Fallujah to witness the crusade against Islam and see the real face of America. U.S. media will not be excluded," said a statement by the Falluja Mujahideen Shura. "We will protect and transport them to the location of the events. There will be a special building for the journalists."

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Bad translation of Bin Laden tape = trouble for "red" states

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The Middle East Media Research Insitute has evidence to indicate that the U.S. media mis-translated the Osama Bin Laden tape of Oct. 29th. Among other things, a key aspect of the speech was mischaracterized, where Bin Laden stated that the security each individual U.S. state would be based on how they voted in the election. If this is true, then he's signalled his intent to go after "red states" and ignore California, New York and other urban areas whose electoral votes didn't go for Bush.

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The state of "Corporate Media"

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An organization called the "Free Press Action Fund" has an insightful flash movie entitled Debating for Ratings" which poignantly captures the state of American media.

Every election season, instead of covering the issues, networks focus on rumors, campaign strategies, gaffes, and the latest polls.

The media have hijacked our democracy — their goal is to increase profits and keep advertisers happy, aiming for ratings instead of informative, well-investigated stories that are good for democracy.

When they ignore the real issues, candidates are forced to raise money from special interests to buy ad time. That's just fine for large media companies, who rake in record profits as a result — they win by ignoring the issue. The losers are American citizens.

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O'Reilly caught with his pants down?

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First it was Bill O'Reilly launching a preemptive strike against a producer of his show claiming an attempt to extort $60M to stop a harassement complaint from going public, and now Andrea Mackris' side of the story - a lewd tale of lots of nasty sexual things O'Reilly apparently enjoyed confiding to her... there's an ominous rumor asserted that some of this may have been recorded. Spinmeisters, on your marks, get set...

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Administration to put more "spin" on Iraq news

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Apparently the administration isn't happy about the truth on Iraq and the problems surfacing with the country's control, reconstruction and level of insurgent attacks. The solution? No, silly, it's not get Iraq under control. It's a new PR campaign! It's for the Pentagon and the U.S. Agency for International Development to begin censoring more negative news stories from getting to the U.S., and paying Iraqi spokespeople to give warm-and-fuzzy press conferences at US bases in order "to improve Americans' opinions about the Iraq conflict"

This sounds like a job for the Iraqi Minister of Information. I bet the Bush administration is probably sorry they killed him now.

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Fox bans guests from mentioning Libertarian candidate on air

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Apparently guests on Fox shows are being told they are not allowed to mention the Libertarian candidate's name on air.

Dean Ahmad, former treasurer of the national Libertarian Party and a representative of Muslims for Badnarik, was invited to appear on Fox News' ``O'Reilly Factor,'' but was told by the producers not to mention Badnarik's name on the air.

Most recently Penn Jillette was on the Fox show and is apparently a supporter of Badnarik but conveniently didn't mention the candidate by name. Was he too told that this candidate's name was not allowed to uttered on air?

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