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Dear Nancy,
You are truly grinding on my very last nerve. You’ve always gotten on my nerves, but as of lately, I can no longer bear to hear your voice. When I think about you my brain conjures up words like, “yellow journalism” and “sensationalist” and of course, “scandal monger.”Dear Nancy,
You are truly grinding on my very last nerve. You’ve always... more
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The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series "Mercury Theatre on the Air". It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel, 'The War of the Worlds'.
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program's quality of realism.
Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage.
Because the program's oration included a segment in which "radio has a responsibility to serve in the public interest at all times," the news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast and some confirmed suicides.
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The Full, Unedited 1938 Welles Production is brought to you in 7 parts:
(Part One) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wf5TPVz56A
(Part Two) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUBisKB5l98
(Part Three) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejt_aWUrEp8
(Part Four) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aYZPkHEp_s
(Part Five) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wxLjcz1oE8
(Part Six) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFLmXZ9Lmk
(Part Seven) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuDdAe17OL0
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For more on "Yellow Journalism," please indulge in the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalismThe War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series... more
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* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been... more
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LAKELAND, Fla.---- Animal control officers hope to trap a pack of raccoons that mauled a 74-year-old Florida woman who tried to chase them from her yard.LAKELAND, Fla.---- Animal control officers hope to trap a pack of raccoons that mauled... more
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We cannot be both Drug Free and Free - Dr Lester Grinspoon
UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961
The Single Convention was the first international treaty to prohibit cannabis. Bangladesh means cannabis - the people centered their lives on the plant. This law help created the famine a decade later
In recorded history there have been no known deaths or harm
attributed to marijuana use, except maybe coughs.
Yet our beautiful country, with 5% of the World's
population, houses 25% of the prison and jail inmates.
The Greatest Generations' Longest War, born of racism and fed
by ignorance and lies must end.
President Raygun warned of MJ health damages, saying,
"We don't know what they are yet, but we know that they are permanent."
First, thanks to Hearst's Yellow Journalism, we were told that smoking MJ
made you a murderer. Then it was squacked that it drove you mad.
Then the buzz wuz amotivational syndrome. Then it grew
tits on males and made one impotent. Brain damage, mental illness,
lung cancer, where will the lies end. We can all agree though,
that prohibition breeds deception, corruption, violence and death.
You can not tell me that you're a civilized country if you are
incarcerating individuals for smoking marijuana... that's barbaric.
-- Vancouver City Mayor Larry CampbellWe cannot be both Drug Free and Free - Dr Lester Grinspoon
UN Single Convention on... more
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norrisnuvo goes on mastermind answering questions on prohibition.
Developed from an idea by Winston Matthews - written by Winston and norrisnuvo. Animated by norrisnuvo
http://www.norrisnuvo.co.uk
http://www.cannazine.co.uknorrisnuvo goes on mastermind answering questions on prohibition.
Developed from an... more
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Return democracy to youtube and the new medias
www.liveactionfilms.org
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The headlines this week about a new "gay" infection were dramatic. FLESH-EATING BUG SPREADS AMONG GAYS, said one Australian newspaper, referring to a study about an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection affecting homosexual men in San Francisco and other American cities. EPIDEMIC FEARED--GAYS MAY SPREAD DEADLY STAPH INFECTION TO GENERAL POPULATION, shouted a press release from the Concerned Women for America, a conservative public-policy group.
But is there a new HIV-like public health epidemic on the horizon? Not likely, says Dr. Henry (Chip) Chambers, coauthor of the study, which was published this week in the online edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. "This is definitely not the new AIDS," says Chambers, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "HIV is a life-threatening disease that is incurable and necessitates lifelong treatment," adds Bill Stackhouse, director of the Institute for Gay Men's Health at the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York.
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Another example of media spin to increase the ratings. This is yellow journalism at its finest. I am talking about the coverage of the study's results release. The media loves to sensationalize the fear aspect of any story to the point of ridiculousness. The headlines this week about a new "gay" infection were dramatic.... more
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Lawrence O'Donnell calls John Edwards a "loser" and urges him to drop out and stop blocking the historic election of the nation's first black candidate. If this doesn't fire you up, I don't know what will. I myself once thought that Edwards should drop out but have since broken free from media mind control and returned to my senses. This article is an outrage. Just how far will the media go to stop Edwards?Lawrence O'Donnell calls John Edwards a "loser" and urges him to drop... more
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