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New Report Shows Big-Money Politics and Broadcast Media Are Undermining Democracy

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FreePress.net - Jan. 26 (Special Report) - On Thursday, Free Press released Citizens Inundated, a report that follows the money trail from big-spending political donors to the bank accounts of the nation's largest broadcast companies.

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Republican Debate In New Hampshire: Worst Ever

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - I came into tonight wondering how tomorrow morning's debate moderators at NBC News would manage with the task of having to stage a debate mere hours after a competitor's. But it's not going to be a problem at all! NBC News can ask questions all day long about economic issues without having to worry about getting repeats of answers from tonight.

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As Herman Cain Surges, Corporate Media Ignore His Koch Connections

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Oct. 16 (News Analysis) - With two major polls showing Atlanta businessman Herman Cain now moving ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to claim the top spot among the contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, media are beating a path to his door. Given Cain's clear and strong connection to the billionaire newsmaker David Koch, you'd think that Cain's longstanding ties to the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, which is chaired by Koch, and its sibling organization, simply known as Americans For Prosperity, would be a meaty topic for enterprising reporters. Apparently not.

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Taken to Task: Occupy Wall Street’s Nattering Nabobs of Negativity

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

finance.yahoo.com - By Aaron Task - Oct. 07 (News Analysis) - Most of the mainstream press coverage so far has been dismissive of the protests and, in some cases, downright patronizing. "SERIOUSLY?" CNN's Erin Burnett asked mockingly after finding one protester who didn't know the government made money on the Wall Street bailout. Burnett is taking a lot of heat in the blogosphere for her piece, and rightfully so. As a Goldman Sachs alum, you'd think Burnett would know there's a heavy price to pay for moral hazard, not to mention the Fed's zero interest rate policy and ongoing subsidy of Wall Street, as well as the taxpayer-funded bailouts of AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There's also the issue of America's loss of moral authority and the damage done to the Anglo-Saxon model: After years of telling other countries not to bail out their bad banks, we found that advice is much easier to give than to take.

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Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won't Come From the Ballot Box

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Naomi Klein - Oct. 06 (News Analysis) - Among the thousands at last night's Occupy Wall Street protest here in New York City was award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein. She is the author of the bestselling book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” She also wrote "No Logo," a book that has become a cultural manifesto for critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. Klein joins us to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and why it is being belittled in the corporate media. “My biggest fear was that the Obama presidency was was going to lead this generation of young people into political cynicism and political apathy,” Klein says. “But instead, they are going to where the power is. They are realizing the change is not coming in Washington because politicians are so controlled by corporate interest, and that that is the fundamental crisis in this country.” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Economists Shut Out of Debt-Ceiling Debate

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - Of the 1,258 guest appearances during segments that discussed the issue in the month leading up to the debt deal, only 52 -- or 4.1 percent -- were made by economists.

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What The Press Is Getting Wrong About Solyndra

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - FACT: Same Panel Of Career Officials Approved The Loan Guarantee Bush Admin. Advanced 16 Projects, Including Solyndra, Out Of 143 Submissions. The Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and expanded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. At a congressional hearing, Jonathan Silver, the Executive Director of Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, testified that the Bush administration's DOE [Department of Energy] selected Solyndra from 143 submissions to move forward in the process:

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Big Media Blacks-Out Wall Street Protests

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Will Bunch - Sep. 21 (News Analysis) - Apparently for editors in their plush 8th Avenue skyscraper, the Wall Street Day of Rage is not among the news that the New York Times considers fit to print (emphasis on the word "print" ... more on that aspect in a second). Instead, since as many as 2,000 demonstrators against Wall Street and government corruption first crowded into Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Saturday (the numbers have dwindled since then), the metro section of the Times has gone wild with the imminent closing of the orginal Ray's Pizza as well as the looming disappearance of parking meters(maybe the Gray Lady is just selling nostalgic to newspapers' graying audience?) The Times isn't unique, though. There don't seem to have been any print articles in the Washington Post, either, and my sense is that television news coverage - even on "liberal" MSNBC - has been non-existent or less-than-minimal at best.

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Gallup Finds The Part Of America That Believes The Economy Is Doing Well

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Aug. 17 (Poll) - You know, from time to time, I have reason to opine that it seems as if Washington, D.C. -- home to your affluent, well-to-do politicians and the affluent, well-to-do political media that chronicles their escapades -- lives in an entirely different world from the rest of America. Typically, the way the economy gets covered is that it's framed as something that impacts nothing but the political horse race. Most of the country recognizes unemployment as something that impacts people's ability to "pay rent" and "get food." But on Capitol Hill, it's just something that impacts the ability of affluent political incumbents to keep their seats.

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The Destructive Conservative Myth That Keeps Our Economy in Tatters

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By David Morris - Aug. 09 (News Analysis) - Many thought the stimulus was too small. Some thought it too large. But conservatives offered a nonsensical bizarre proposition. The additional spending was useless. Rick Scott, the Republican candidate for governor in Florida, accused his Democrat opponent of having “backed the failed stimulus bill, which created debt, not jobs.” The Koch brother-funded group Americans for Prosperity launched a series of ads that claimed the “$787 billion stimulus … failed to save and create jobs.” Presidential candidate Michelle Bachman recently declared, “had the President done nothing we would have seen 288,000 jobs created this week. Instead, we’re losing jobs.”

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Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack On Republicans

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Thom Hartmann - Aug. 07 (News Analysis) - Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”

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Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism”

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Glenn Greenwald: - Jul. 26 (News Analysis) - “When it became apparent that Muslims were not involved and that, in reality, it was a right-wing nationalist with extremely anti-Muslim, strident anti-Muslim bigotry as part of his worldview, the word 'terrorism' almost completely disappeared from establishment media discourse. Instead, he began to be referred to as a 'madman' or an 'extremist,'" says Greenwald. “It really underscores, for me, the fact that this word 'terrorism,' that plays such a central role in our political discourse and our law, really has no objective meaning. It’s come to mean nothing more than Muslims who engage in violence."

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What Does Lowballing the Number of Dead Iraqi Civilians Tell Us About Ourselves?

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Russ Wellen - Jul. 25 (News Analysis) - Over a period of about two weeks in May, I encountered in major news media three separate references to the number of people who had died in the Iraq war. Anderson Cooper, on his CNN show, Steven Lee Myers in the New York Times Magazine and Brian MacQuarrie in the Boston Globe all pegged the number in the tens of thousands, sometimes adding “at least.” . . . The “tens of thousands” mantra is peculiar because even the most conservative calculation—that provided by Iraq Body Count, a British NGO—is now more than 100,000.

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Al Sharpton Is Replacing Me Because He's Friendlier To Obama

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Cenk Uygur: - Jul. 25 (News Analysis) - 'Sharpton says he has decided not to criticize the president about anything.' So the guy who was criticizing the president is out, even though he had really good ratings, and the guy who has decided not to criticize the president about anything is in. That's interesting."

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Cenk Uygur On Leaving MSNBC: Network Told Me To 'Tone It Down,' Didn't Want To 'Challenge Power' (VIDEO)

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Cenk Uygur - Jul. 21 (News Analysis) - Cenk Uygur--the progressive online talk show host whose brief tenure as an MSNBC anchor ended on Wednesday--tore into the network in a lengthy monologue on Wednesday night, saying he had turned down a smaller role on MSNBC because he had been told he was too combative towards "those in power." Uygur had been the 6 PM host the network since January.

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Murdoch's influence extends to U.S., global politics

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sunlight Foundation - By Ryan Sibley - Jul. 20 (Investigative Report) - The phone hacking scandal currently plaguing News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch, began in London, and because of rumors that his employees hacked the phone messages of 9/11 victims as well, the scandal has made it's way to the U.S.—where the media mogul has far-reaching political interests and is a considered a major political contributor.

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How the U.S. Government uses its media servants to attack real journalism

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jul. 17 (News Analysis) - Earlier this week, the truly intrepid investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill published in The Nation one of the most significant political exposés of the year. Entitled "the CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," the article documented that the CIA uses and effectively controls a secret prison in Mogadishu, where foreign nationals who are rendered off the streets of their countries (at the direction of the U.S.) are taken (along with Somali nationals) to be imprisoned with no due process and interrogated (by U.S. agents). Although Somali government agents technically operate the facility, that is an obvious ruse: "US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners" and are "there full-time," Scahill reported.

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The CIA’s Secret Prison in Somalia

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Harper's - By Scott Horton - Jul. 17 (News Analysis) - The Obama Administration’s recent decision to charge a Somali militant named Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame with crimes in a federal court in Manhattan has focused a good deal of attention on American intelligence operations in the Horn of Africa. Somalia is still viewed as the quintessential failed state, and it has been cited by American analysts as a breeding ground for Islamist militants. The U.S. government has made no secret of the special attention it devotes to the country, but it has been remarkably short on details about what that attention entails. Much of this knowledge gap has now been filled in by a remarkable piece of reporting from The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill. . . .

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Fox's Comical Defense of Murdoch

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Alex Seitz-Wald - Jul. 15 (News Analysis) - Fox News finally addressed their parent company’s hacking scandal head on ... , with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp. Host Steve Doocy and guest Robert Dilenschneider, a media consultant, agreed News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has done “all the right things” and argued that the scandal is way overblown. “For some reason, the public, the media, keep going over this, again, and again, and again” the guest said. “It’s too much,” he added, “We should move on.” Doocy agreed, scolding the media for not devoting its time to covering more important issues. (His show later featured a segment on actress Mila Kunis and a performance by second-tier boy band Lifehouse, popular in 2001.)

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Stealing from Social Security Is NOT a Debt Solution -- Why Do the Media Promote This Dangerous Myth?

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Dean Baker - Jul. 13 (News Analysis) - survey after survey shows, the vast majority of the public are incredibly ignorant of the most basic facts about the budget and the economy. If we treated their teachers in the media the way the educational reformers treat public school teachers, few economics and budget reporters would have jobs.

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The Strange Silencing of Liberal America

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By John Pilger - Jul. 11 (Special Report) - How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, "Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia," was banned in the United States in 1980, the broadcaster PBS cut all contact. Negotiations were ended abruptly; phone calls were not returned. Something had happened. But what?

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Lies Become Truths: The Demise of the Newspaper Leaves Americans Dumber, Blinder and Prone to Ideological Manipulation

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Chris Hedges - Jun. 29 (News Analysis) - Newsrooms today are anemic and forlorn wastelands. I was recently in the newsroom at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and patches of the floor, also the size of a city block, were open space or given over to rows of empty desks. These institutions are going the way of the massive rotary presses that lurked like undersea monsters in the bowels of newspaper buildings, roaring to life at night. The heavily oiled behemoths, the ones that spat out sheets of newsprint at lightning speed, once empowered and enriched newspaper publishers who for a few lucrative decades held a monopoly on connecting sellers with buyers. Now that that monopoly is gone,

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The Democratic Spin Machine Is Never There

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ringoffireradio.com - By Mike Papantonio - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - there are still numerous Republican sex offenders – those that actually committed crimes – that are still talking the halls in Washington. Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Show on MSNBC to talk about the GOP perverts who need to follow Weiner’s example and get out of Washington.

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Brazil: Lesbian kiss delayed

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Solana Pyne - May. 12 (News) - It’s been a big month for gay rights in Brazil. Last week the supreme court gave gay couples the same legal rights as heterosexual married couples.

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Maddow Rips Sunday Shows For GOP Guest Slant (VIDEO)

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - May. 10 (News Analysis) - A week after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Sunday shows had three times as many Republican guests as Democratic ones.

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