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Monthly Archives: June 2009
CNN: 'Making Blacks Look Bad' So 'Whites Feel Good'
Ishmael Reed's contextualization (CounterPunch, 6/29/09) of the epic demonization of Michael Jackson within historical U.S. media racism also takes a swipe at CNN's Black in America program, "an exercise meant to boost ratings by making whites feel good by making … Continue reading
Posted in Advertisers, Race
Tagged Black in America, Charles Blow, CNN, CounterPunch, homophobia, Ishmael Reed, New York Times, Soledad O'Brien
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'Happy-Face' Reporting Turns Debt Payments Into 'Savings'
Posting on Canada's Centre for Research on Globalization website (6/29/09), economic historian Michael Hudson notices that "Happy-face media reporting of economic news is providing the usual upbeat spin on Friday's debt-deflation statistics. The Commerce Departmentâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s National Income and Product Accounts … Continue reading
NYT Reports Honduras (Opponent Opinions) From Afar
Looking at a June 28 New York Times report that the "Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup," A Tiny Revolution blogger Bernard Chazelle (6/28/09) writes that "from the byline alone, you know this is going to be good": "Elisabeth Malkin, … Continue reading
Posted in International, Politics
Tagged A Tiny Revolution, Bernard Chazelle, coup, Elisabeth Malkin, Honduras, Latin America, Manuel Zelaya, Simon Romero
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A Massive 'Press Blackout' for a Massive Press Outlet
Calling the six months of unanimous news media silence on New York Times reporter David Rohde's kidnapping "the most amazing press blackout on a major event that I have ever seen," Greg Mitchell (Editor & Publisher, 6/23/09) now wonders if … Continue reading
Posted in Media Criticism
Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Steele, David Rohde, Editor & Publisher, Greg Mitchell, New York Times, Poynter, Taliban
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A Look at Iranian Voting Turns Up Bad News for U.S. Democracy
Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research had one of the most informative pieces I've seen on the Iranian election, published on WashingtonPost.com (6/26/09). Weisbrot examines the actual Iranian vote-counting procedures, and concludes that in Iran, "large-scale … Continue reading
Someone (Who Could Have Been a Justice) Is Wrong on the Internet
Richard Posner is the sort of judge who gets mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee because of his supposed brilliance. But, then, he's also the person who wrote this: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials … Continue reading
Climate Change Secondary to 'Free' Trade at NYT
Tying the urgent present-day topic of economic reporting in with the most pressing global emergency of climate change, Dean Baker has posted at his Beat the Press blog (6/29/09) on "What Does 'Free Trade' Have to Do With Taxing Greenhouse … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Environment
Tagged Beat the Press, cap-and-trade, Dean Baker, New York Times, trade
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'Catch Phrase' vs. Reality in Iran
Knowing how much "we reporters love a catch phrase," Iran writer Reese Erlich (ZNet, 6/28/09) wants you to know that, despite "Twitter being all a flutter in the west," current reporting is "highly misleading" in that "Iran is not undergoing … Continue reading
Mexico Electoral Fraud 'in the Dust of History' at NYT
Veteran independent Mexico reporter John Ross (CounterPunch.com, 6/28/09) wants to know which countries come to mind when thinking about "a stolen election by an entrenched regime," "demands for a recount to which election officials respond by offering to recount just … Continue reading
Posted in Election, International
Tagged CounterPunch, Iran, John Ross, Mexico, New York Times
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Why Read the Press Release? Just Blame the Taliban
Investigative reporter Gareth Porter's careful reading (Dissident Voice, 6/28/09) of "the official military investigation into the disastrous May 4 airstrike in Farah province" of Afghanistan, which "omitted key details" and "gave no explanation" for reasserting "that only about 26 civilians … Continue reading
Posted in International
Tagged Afghanistan, Associated Press, casualties, Dissident Voice, Farah, Gareth Porter, New York Times, Taliban
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Trivial Media Maintains 'Mass of Isolated Individuals'
Spanish sociologist Pablo Ouziel has a new Consortium News essay (6/28/09) describing the consequences of how "we wake up in the morning to hear and watch the newest tragedy that has swept the world's media attention"–whether it's "the tragic crash … Continue reading
Posted in International, Politics
Tagged civil liberties, Consortium News, militarization, Pablo Ouziel
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Political Prosecutions Bumped by Death, Sex
Addressing Bush-era Department of Justice investigations, David Swanson (6/26/09) is asking OpEd News readers the provocative question, "Did you know the United States has in recent years prosecuted hundreds of people for political reasons?" This is a crime, or rather … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged C-SPAN, David Swanson, Department of Justice, law, OpEd News
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Immune-From-Criticismism at the Washington Post
In his evaluation of the Dan Froomkin firing, Washington Post ombud Andy Alexander (6/26/09) confidently asserts that "first, it's not about ideology," then later asserts that Froomkin "was urged not to do media criticism." Clearly, though, the notion that the … Continue reading
Posted in Media Criticism
Tagged Andy Alexander, Dan Froomkin, Gene Weingarten, Washington Post
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The WaPo's Last Flash of 'Accountability Journalism'?
In Dan Froomkin's last column for the Washington Post (6/26/09), he promises to "continue doing accountability journalism"–as good as any self-description to distinguish his work from his typical Post colleague's obsequiousness–and tries "hard to summarize the past five-and-a-half years" in … Continue reading