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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Some Indian Deaths More Equal Than Others
Noticing how "the U.S. press slowly accepted that this wasn't an attack on Westerners, that Indians weren't merely collateral damage" in the Mumbai attacks, Alexander Cockburn is reminded (Nation, 12/3/08) of Victorian novelists' "scores of selfless characters" for whom "the … Continue reading
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John Brennan: 'Alleged' Torture Supporter or Victim of Ardent Leftists?
The New York Times yesterday (12/3/08) described problems that President-elect Barack Obama faces in managing the transition at the Central Intelligence Agency. CJR's website has an item today (12/4/08) critical of the piece as a "dramatic example" of the Times' … Continue reading
'Enormous Damage to American [Media] Credibility'
Writing on the propensity for "shoveling it all ['responsibility' for increased terrorism 'in the post 9/11-era'] off on the administration that is leaving, while exonerating our culpable media," Salon's Glenn Greenwald takes (11/28/08, ad-viewing required) as his lead example of … Continue reading
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Silence Is a Dangerous Sound
Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman reminds us (TruthDig, 11/25/08) that, "as President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli/Palestinian conflict": You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the … Continue reading
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Campaign Media's 'Firestorms of Manufactured Rage'
Feeling "especially exasperated by the readiness of TV pundits and op-ed writers to make sweeping statements about the state of the electorate without ever talking to an actual voter," veteran media critic Michael Massing took an October trip to Ohio … Continue reading
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'Sad, but Not Surprised' by NBC Sexism
Blogger Carole Cohen has posted (Cleveland Real Estate News, 12/2/08) Margot Friedman's mass email wherein the media activist bemoans NBC's choice of yet another white male to host their premier Sunday news show–yet Friedman finds a silver lining: Thank you … Continue reading
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Responses from ABC or WaPo on Bush's Iraq Inspectors Lie?
Thanks in advance to all the folks who are participating in FAIR's action alert, "Media Still Letting Bush Lie on Iraq Inspectors." Please post any responses you receive from ABC and the Washington Post in the comments section of this … Continue reading
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Chris Wallace and Why Watergate Worked
At a screening of the film Frost/Nixon, Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace defends George W. Bush against the assertion–which doesn't seem to have been made by anyone present–that Bush's crimes were worse than Richard Nixon's (Salon, 12/2/08): It trivializes Nixon's … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Wallace, Fox News Channel, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Watergate
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Mumbai Imagery vs. Iraq and Afghanistan Coverage
Interviewed by Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman (12/1/08) on the Mumbai attacks, Tariq Ali has a "point I would make about this whole business, which is, of course, ghastly, terrible": I think it should be stated that if … Continue reading
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Who Gets to Speak, Take Two: The Economy and the NYT
Two weekends ago the New York Times' Week In Review section launched an op-ed series called "Transitions," in which it promised to provide "a series of Op-Ed articles by experts on the most formidable issues facing the new president." The … Continue reading
Blinkered U.S. Media Miss Mumbai Angles
"Piecing Together the Story" (12/1/08) of the horrific attacks in Mumbai, AlterNet editors see "a lot more to the Mumbai attacks than CNN and the New York Times have been reporting." Among the news "nowhere to be seen in the … Continue reading
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