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Fuck the Corporate Media - you decide
So I was Stumble!ing (yes it's a verb to me) and I came across this video on youtube.com named Fuck Corporate Media. OK I'm down with hearing some arguing. After watching the video I found it amusing how it's not just the corporate media (in this story) that is leaving out events and details of this protest. Everyone is going to have their own side of the story. This protest started off as a Presidential Visit but skewered into topics like Media Bashing, Gay Bashing, Violence, Anarchy, Police Brutality and etc...
Those old ladies had it right. If you stop the video at 15:41 you will notice the sign one of them is holding. It states, "Pres Bush - Give Us Back Our Civil Rights"
This all seems to be a retaliation of the protesters who were called Uncontrollably Violent Anarchist.
Please comment! I really want to hear other opinions. I'm ALL about changing the face of Mass Media but in this case it seems like a game of "Spy Vs Spy" So I was Stumble!ing (yes it's a verb to me) and I came across this video on youtube.com named Fuck Corporate Media. OK I'm ... more -
Is a little part of you afraid?
This is a personal question from me to the rest of the Current community. I'm hoping that you'll pay it forward.
Knowing what you know regarding the conduct of the men in charge of our government right now, is just a little part of you afraid to speak out publicly?
Do you hesitate from bringing it up when given an opportunity?
Is there at least a little part of you that is mortally afraid of what your government is capable of doing right now?
I am.
If you are, vote yes.
And share your fears. Because the only way these bastards win is through our silence.
Stay vocal. Stay vigilant. This is a personal question from me to the rest of the Current community. I'm hoping that you'll pay it forward. ... more -
Video: 'Spin' ---T.V. Footage you were never supposed to see
Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.
Take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you'll never look at TV reporting the same again. Tell your friends about it. This extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown. Hopefully, the Internet will change that. Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for publi... more -
CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative
This kind of crap is how we got to this point, folks. Via Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com:
JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think the press corps dropped the ball at the beginning. When the lead-up to the war began, the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings.
And my own experience at the White House was that, the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives -- and I was not at this network at the time -- but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president.
COOPER: You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?
YELLIN: Not in that exact -- they wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces. They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical and try to put on pieces that were more positive, yes. That was my experience. This kind of crap is how we got to this point, folks. Via Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com: ... more -
Scott McClellan on the "liberal media" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political culture: The "Liberal Media":
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"If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. . . . In this case, the "liberal media" didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."
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Just consider how remarkable that is. George Bush's own Press Secretary criticizes the American media for being "too deferential" to the Government. He lays the blame for Bush's ability to propagandize the nation on the media's uncritical dissemination of the Republican administration's falsehoods. And most notably of all, McClellan actually uses cynical scare quotes when invoking the phrase which, in conventional political discourse, is deemed the most unassailable truth of all: The Liberal Media. In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most lu... more -
Washington Post invites White Pride advocate to trash Edwards and Obama
Glenn Greenwald exposes Kathleen Parker's previously expressed racist sentiments towards Obama, and questions the Washington Post editor's judgement in inviting such a person to write a column essentially calling John Edwards and Barack Obama gay. From the original article:
"Well, at least they didn't kiss.
I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama."
PS To those who may not have heard of Glenn Greenwald, I'll just say that if I could only read one blog it would definitely be his. I discovered Greenwald's first blog, "Unclaimed Territory" in December of 2005 when the NSA warrantless wiretapping scandal broke. No one has been a more effective explainer of constitutional law or more accurate and fierce in the field of media criticism. Glenn Greenwald exposes Kathleen Parker's previously expressed racist sentiments towards Obama, and questions the Washington Post... more
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