Richard Branson To Launch Virgin's iPad Magazine
• Huffington PostBillionaire Richard Branson is expected to announce that Virgin will launch an iPad magazine on November 30th.
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MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Reviewing Project Censored's Top 2009-10 Stories
Stephen LendmanProject Censored's top sanitized or suppressed stories
FOX NEWS-Murdoch Admits He Tried to Shape Public Opinion on Iraq (video)
• YoutubeRupert Murdoch Admits He Tried to Shape Public Opinion on the Iraq War during an otherwise smug and elitist conversation at the DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM which took place in January 2007. Murdoch met in forum with host Charlie Rose, Israeli Vice
Crocodile on plane kills 19 passengers after stampede
• RawStory.comA plane crash in Africa may give new meaning to the term, "snakes on a plane."
The Secret World of Extreme Media?
• Sam Bushman via Liberty News RadioAm I demonstrating the absurd by being absurd? This headline, merely a play on words, is borrowed from the recent article, "The Secret World of Extreme Militias" by Barton Gellman of Time Magazine. Is Gellman himself a "Media Lone Wolf?"
Glenn Beck Sick?
• DrudgeReportGLENN BECK TAKES A MEDICAL: Problems with vocal chords; losing feeling in hands, feet; unclear if there is connection to eye issues... Developing...
It's official: Distrust in lamestream media at all time record high
• www.gallup.comWASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. 57% now say this.
CNN reporter: Network censored footage of Iraq ‘war crime’
• RawstoryIn 2007, Ware was with a group of US soldiers in a remote village in Iraq under the control of al Qaeda militants. There was a teenage boy in the street carrying a weapon for protection. "(The boy) approached the house we were in and the (US) soldier
The Parent Company Trap (Fox News,... Evil or Stupid?)
• The Daily Show with Jon StewartFox News is either evil or stupid for not mentioning that Alwaleed bin Talal is News Corp.'s largest shareholder. (09:39)
US trust of media dwindling
• AFPNo more than one-quarter of Americans trusts the news media, but the greatest confidence in the struggling newspaper industry ironically comes from young people. The Gallup poll found that 25% of Americans felt a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of co
Freedom Watch July 31st, 2010 - Part 1 of 5.
• YouTube.comJudge Andrew Napolitano interviews Julian Assange from Wikileaks
"Newsweek" sells for a buck!
• Daily BeastBut make no mistake, Harman's pocket change purchase of Newsweek—he paid $1, plus the assumption of liabilities for the magazine—has to be a passion play, because it certainly isn't a financial one.
The Liberal Media: Rest in Peace
Stephen LendmanThe myth of the liberal media
Do Guantanamo media restrictions also prevent open trials?
• McClatchy NewsReporters covering trials of accused terrorists at Guantanamo on Monday will have their first-ever face-to-face chance to air their complaints about the U.S government's restrictive rules, which journalists say make it nearly impossible for the publi
Why the silence from The Post on Black Panther Party story?
• Washington PostThursday's Post reported about a growing controversy over the Justice Department's decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with
New study documents media's servitude to government
• Glenn Greenwald (Salon)The latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials. This new study examines how waterboarding has been discussed by America's four largest newspaper
Washington Post fails to disclose blogger’s ties to White House
• Rawstory"Leadership panelists are not employees of The Post, nor are they paid by The Post. They are leadership experts from government, military, corporate and educational fields. Patricia’s bio was updated before she took on the advisory role to the White
Attacks on Rolling Stone reporter make media look servile
• Rawstory"In defending herself and her compatriots in the press corps, against charges they are too chummy with the military, Logan wounded them grievously with mis-aimed friendly fire," McIntyre wrote on his blog. "She unfortunately reinforced the worst ster
The Public Tells Rupert Murdoch "Hell No"
• arstechnica.comAccording to Hitwise's numbers, simply adding the registration barrier has cut traffic to the site almost in half. Prior to the change, The Times was seeing somewhere in the neighborhood of four to five percent of the traffic going to the print...
2 editorial commentators outed for being on BP's payroll
• Washington Post2 CNN contributors, Alex Castellanos and Hilary Rosen, and their work for BP. BP has retained the services of Rosen, a Democrat who heads the Washington office of the Brunswick Group, to help out with BP's lobbying and public relations offensive insi
The Media IS The Enemy
Dr. John WatermanLast Friday Dr. Waterman's radio show was attacked and succesfully taken off the air by DDOS attacks. His program, "The Waterman Files" on Arugusoogradio.org was attacked and taken off air . . .
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BP and government blocking coverage of oil damage
• RawStory.comAn increasing number of stories are also starting to circulate concerning deliberate attempts by both BP and government officials to block coverage of the damage and the clean-up attempts.
Obama's Crackdown On Whistle Blowers Targets Press Freedom
• Russia Today (video)In the past few weeks the U.S. has witnessed an aggressive crack down on whistleblowers. For many the Obama administration's tough investigative stance on unauthorized press leaks goes against the president's own election promises to
How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack
• Glenn Greenwald - salon.comIt was clear from the moment news of the flotilla attack emerged that Israel was taking extreme steps to suppress all evidence about what happened other than its own official version.
A Statist Attack on John Stossel
• By Jacob Hornberger via www.campaignforliberty.comIf you want to understand why America is in deep crisis on the domestic front, consider an op-ed entitled "Tell Fox to Lay Off Our Civil Rights" by a liberal named James Rucker. The op-ed perfectly encapsulates the statist mindset that has mired our
Obama Preparing To Bail Out Newspapers & Media Moguls And Kill Blogs
• Businessinsider.com/Additional intellectual property rights to support claims against news aggregators.” The document even takes on the language of Rupert Murdoch and company describing aggregators as “parasitic.” It espouses their perspective...
USA Today: TSA Worker Violence, Not Passengers, The Real Story
• Mondo FrazierUSA published a story on violence and the Transportation Security Administration–and wrote the lede as if the violence was coming from frustrated passengers at airports. However, readers going deep into the story find out that it’s the TSA employees
Oil Rig Survivor Part 1
• 60 Minutes - CBS"I'm gonna die right here." Mike Williams was the chief electronics technician aboard the Deepwater Horizon. He was below deck in his office when the explosion occurred.
Times-Union case puts newspaper in awkward spot on 'sunshine' law
• Yahoo! News blogThe Hearst Corporation, which owns 15 daily newspapers across the nation, finds itself weighing whether to try to block a media request for e-mails among 4 people: 2 aides to New York Gov. David Paterson and a pair of reporters at the Hearst-owned Al
Washington Post Mistakes Malcolm X for Obama
• Mondo FrazierOne suspects the Washington Post is not racist: after all, it's not like the paper was used at a Tea Party.
