Why is America so crazy?
• BrasscheckTVFormer Marine and Chief WMD Inspector Scott Ritter makes a pretty good standup comic with a good backdrop in this video. Tweet! Yuck!
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MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSM Stealing Blog Content: Times Joining Growing MSM Trend?
• MondorebImagine how pleased we were when the London Times quoted our recent interview--several times! Pleasure turned to pain when the Times didn't credit us, however. After ignoring our letters, we did some research. Is this a new MSM business model.
John Edwards Affair: Interview with David Perel, Editor-in-Chief of the National Enquirer
• MondorebA DBKP Exclusive Interview with David Perel, Editor-in-Chief of the National Enquirer on the John Edwards scandal, the difficulties involved, media disapproval, and how the MSM got scooped again by a supermarket tabloid.
RON PAUL 4409 -- FOXnews wants to burn your kids Alive!
Google 4409Does FOXnews wants to burn your kids Alive! [graphic footage] (Publisher: 4409 gets back into the groove with this one,... good job)
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New York Times to raise newsstand price to $1.50
• www.breitbart.comLast increase came a year ago. The NYT recently announced a 4.5% increase in home delivery prices for the paper that takes effect this month, the second bump in a year. The increases helped overall circulation revenue rise 2.5 percent in the latest q
New York Times 2Q profit drops 82 percent
• www.breitbart.comNEW YORK (AP) - New York Times Co. says its second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from the year-ago quarter boosted by a one-time gain. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink.
Court tosses FCC 'wardrobe malfunction' fine
• RawStory.comA federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."
Barack Obama, Mainstream Media: Obama’s Excellent Adventure
• MondorebNeed more proof that the Mainstream Media isn’t the PR wing of the Democrat Party? Look no further than their coverage of Obama’s Excellent Adventure.
4 Cleared in Madrid Train Bombing (how much will the MSM cover this?)
• New York TimesA Spanish court overturned the convictions of four men and upheld the acquittal of a fifth on Thursday in the convoluted legal proceedings relating to the 2004 Madrid commuter train bombings that killed 191 people in the deadliest attacks by Islamic
Media Death March
• Wired MagazineThe depressed newspaper industry is old news of course but Alan Mutter, who blogs at Reflections of a Newsosaur, noticed a depressing pattern in the last report of "short" market activity: there were some pretty big bets that newspaper stoc
Chuck Shumer Happy MSM is Obsessed with Recession
• Nancy MorganWeekly culture roundup focuses on the Mainstream Media, Chuck Shumer's role in the housing meltdown, recession and other bizarre national goings-on.
Dick Cheney: Tony Snow 'the best'
• by - Mark Silva swamppoliticsAsked about Snow's "brand of conservativism,'' Cheney said: "I frankly agreed with him on nearly everything, and I'm generally viewed as pretty conservative.
Jim Cramer: The Flip-Flop that Ought to be Illegal
• YouTubeHow can it be that Bear Stearns Hedge Fund guys are going to JAIL for their misdeeds, but, Jim Cramer gets away with THIS?
What We Call the News (another good JibJab)
• JibJabCelebrities in rehab, political punditry and a mauling at the zoo - this is what we're calling news these days! This funny satire on broadcast news features Larry King, Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and the rest of your favorite talking heads
TIME for Socialism
• Ludvig Von Mises InstituteAnyone who is still wondering why the so-called "mainstream media" was so hostile toward Congressman Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination will find an answer in the June 2 issue of Time magazine.
‘Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier.’
• Think ProgressCBS’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan criticized the lack of media attention to the Iraq war. She said she felt responsible for the fact that “no one really understands” what is happening in Iraq. She also said that the soldiers there “feel fo
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them
• nielsenhayden.comThe Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give the AP money in return for “permission”
Bury Tim Russert Already!!!!<br>by Butler Shaffer
• LewRockwellAs I write these words, we are into the third day of a seemingly endless period of mourning for Tim Russert. ... there is something telling about the state of journalism in this country in the way his death is being transformed into a national traged
Michael Crichton, Vindicated: His 1993 prediction of mass-media extinction
• SalonThe mediasaurs had about a decade to live, he wrote, before technological advances—"artificial intelligence agents roaming the databases, downloading stuff I am interested in, and assembling for me a front page"—swept them under.
Obama, Mainstream Media: Right Color Was More Important than Right Stuff
• MondorebLast spring, the liberal Mainstream Media was more interested in whether Barack Obama was "black enough". "The Right Color"--or "The Right Shade of Color"--was more important than asking whether a rookie senator had
How the Media Abandoned Iraq
• AlternetThe editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it
CNN reporter talks of pressure to be patriotic
• APCNN correspondent Jessica Yellin said Thursday she was referring to her time spent at MSNBC when she said she felt pressure not to report stories critical of the Bush administration during the time leading up to the Iraq war.
Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war
• by Glenn GreenwaldHere is an absolutely amazing link to a video where the three network news anchors appeared jointly on The Today Show this morning and were forced by McClellan's book to address whether the media failed in its duties in the run-up to the war
Barack Obama: His Uncle May Have Been in Attic--But Not Auschwitz
• MondorebPrevarication or gaffe? Barack Obama and the whereabouts of his uncle won’t interest the Mainstream Media. Why it’s dangerous–even if Obama is “their guy”.
Obama: Pundits Explain the Meaning of Sweetie to the Rest of Us
• Nancy MorganBarack Obama calls a reporter “Sweetie” and pundits the nation over scramble to explain to the cretins living in flyover country what he really meant.
Montana Bakken Oil Field: Good News for U.S. Consumers, Bad News for MSM
• MondorebIn a place called Richland County, Montana - a HUGE oil field may be holding up to 503 BILLION barrels of sweet crude--in a place where more millionaires are being created per capita than anywhere else in America.
Mainstream Media: Who Knew the Clintons Had Scandals?
• Nancy MorganA strange thing happened the day after the NC and Indiana primaries: the MSM suddenly discovered the Clintons had a shady past.
Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses were 'basically pro-war'
• rawstoryMSNBC's Chris Matthews gave a speech last night at Harvard's Institute of Politics Forum where he made a few eye-opening confessions:
ABC News to launch on-campus bureaus
• ReutersABC News, looking to bolster its connection with younger viewers, plans to open bureaus this autumn on the campuses of five universities across the United States, the network said.
We deserve the full truth about 9/11<br>by Sen. Karen Johnson
• Arizona RepublicRegarding "Drinking the 9/11 Kool-Aid" (Editorial, April 24): After three government investigations and more than six years, we still don't have answers on 9/11.
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