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Monthly Archives: May 2009
You Don't Get 'Thoughtful Conversation' From an Advocate for War Crimes
Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed columnist Harold Jackson (5/20/09) writes that most of those who have criticized his paper for hiring of pro-torture lawyer John Yoo as his colleague "have their facts wrong." After making a gratuitous swipe at bloggers ("who never … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Harold Jackson, John Yoo, Kevin Ferris, Michael Smerconish, Philadelphia Inquirer, Rick Santorum, torture
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California Health Reform, Minus Single-Payer
The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib wrote a piece today (5/20/09–subscription required) that offers California as a model for understanding the difficulties in overhauling the healthcare system: California's experience, in fact, represented a kind of trial run for the healthcare … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Wall Street Journal
Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Gerald Seib, Michael Moore, single-payer
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On Bill O'Reilly's (Latest) Ignorant Gloating
Taking note of Bill O'Reilly's "cheerleading the downfall" of newspapers–"he reacted with glee when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was forced to go Web-only. More recently in his column, O'Reilly similarly wisecracked about the New York Times' financial woes"–MediaWeek editor Mike Shields … Continue reading
Posted in Media Business
Tagged Bill O'Reilly, Editor & Publisher, MediaWeek, Mike Shields, newspapers
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The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Search Engines
Corporate media's arguments against Google are getting stranger and stranger. While previously the Washington Post had accused the search engine of "vacuum[ing] up their content without paying a dime," now the Post has media lawyers Bruce Sanford and Bruce Brown … Continue reading
Posted in Media Business
Tagged Bruce Brown, Bruce Sanford, copyright, Google, Washington Post
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Media Silence on Pol 'Implicitly Endorsing' Inquisition
Quoting Sen. Lindsey Graham's statement at a May 13 Senate hearing that "one of the reasons these techniques have been used for about 500 years is that they work," Robert Parry (Consortium News, 5/16/09) explains that this is "implicitly endorsing … Continue reading
On the Depths of Rupert Murdoch's 'Crass' Roots
Taking down "Michael Wolff's fat masterpiece of sycophancy about Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News," Murdoch Archipelago co-author Bruce Page (CounterPunch, 5/15/09) counters Wolff's "astigmatic lens of gossip" with "a true outline" of Fox/Wall Street Journal mogul Murdoch's … Continue reading
Posted in International
Tagged anti-semitism, Australia, Bruce Page, CounterPunch, Keith Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Versailles, World War I
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Examining the Paper of Record's Torture Record
Giving us a glimpse at "a large part of what was left on the editor's floor" from his On the Media NPR interview, Harpers.org's Scott Horton (5/12/09) writes of "the New York Times and its history of dealing with the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged George Orwell, Harper's, Khmer Rouge, New York Times, NPR, On the Media, Scott Horton, torture, waterboarding
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Philly Paper Welcomes Home Native Torture Hero
Blogger and Philadelphia Inquirer writer Will Bunch has a review (Attytood, 5/11/09) of how, "by late last year, the world already knew a great deal about John Yoo, the Philadelphia native and conservative legal scholar whose tenure in the Bush … Continue reading
Posted in Media Business
Tagged Attytood, John Yoo, Philadelphia Inquirer, torture, Will Bunch
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Don't Even THINK of Lying to Bob Schieffer
CBS anchor Bob Schieffer was profiled byMarketwatch, where we learn: But don't get the false impression that Schieffer is a pushover for his important guests. When I asked him how he feels when subjects lie to him on the air … Continue reading
The Moral Deficiency of Charles Krauthammer
Responding to a "stupid" critique of his May 1 column defending the use of terror in "ticking timebomb" scenarios, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer (5/15/09) asserts that there has too been a real-life example of such a situation: On October … Continue reading