Category Archives: corporate media
Nygaard Notes> Death, Danger, Fear and Media
Nygaard Notes Independent Periodic News and Analysis Number 531, May 17, 2013 On the Web at http://www.nygaardnotes.org/ This Week: Death, Danger, Fear, and Media ****** 1. “Quote” of the Week: “Seen as Accidental and Therefore Easily Forgotten.” 2. “Not Simply about Watching Something Unfold” 3. Death, Danger, Fear, and Media 4. Crime? Accident? Or Something Else Entirely? 5. Ethical […]
Glenn Greenwald> Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent
Senior Obama officials tell the US Senate: the ‘war’, in limitless form, will continue for ‘at least’ another decade – or two Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Friday 17 May 2013 07.54 EDT Assistant Defense Secretary Michael Sheehan, right, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s May 16, 2013, hearing on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. […]
Glenn Greenwald> The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties
The controversies over the IRS and especially the AP phone records appear to have long-lasting effects Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 15 May 2013 10.45 EDT President Barack Obama Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Due to the controversies over the IRS and (especially) the DOJ’s attack on AP’s news gathering process, media outlets have suddenly decided that President Obama […]
Larry Butler> The Myth of Liberal Media Bias
“…while corporate media does indeed have a conservative slant, they also have an interest in convincing you that their reporting is neutral.” By Larry Butler (about the author) Op Eds 4/28/2013 opednews.com Good Press Conference by www.mcmurraymusings.com “Liberal media bias” is one of those axiomatic slanders that is self-evident among conservative believers. Seldom do progressives respond in any way more meaningful than […]
Greg Palast> Now that the SOB is dead…” Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan about Afghanistan
“I am moved to recount a bit of my lengthy talk with the Afghan minister after reading reams of meretricious bunkum about Afghanistan from the pens of US propaganda repeaters pretending to be reporters.” By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Friday, 10. May 2013 GregPalast.com “Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry […]
[Video] Glenn Greenwald> Debating Bill Maher on Muslims, Islam and US foreign policy
The HBO host has become a leading advocate of the view that Islam is uniquely violent and threatening. Does that hold up under critical scrutiny? Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk Saturday 11 May 2013 09.25 EDT [Video below] From l to r: Glenn Greenwald, Joy Reid, Charles Cooke, Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time”, May 11, 2013 Photograph: screen […]
More Diversity, Less Consolidation: How to Change the Media
Change the Media, Change the World Panel description (full panel below): Full panel video: Published on Apr 11, 2013 videofreepress· Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on […]
Noam Chomsky Compares Right-Wing Media to Nazi Germany
ForaTv Uploaded on Oct 14, 2009 Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/06/Noam_Chomsk… Linguist Noam Chomsky expresses concern that American listeners are consuming the “crazy content” broadcast by right-wing media outlets as “substantive” — answers to why the rich liberals running the country do not care about people in the flyover states. What comes to mind, Chomsky says, is late […]
Phyllis Bennis> Syria’s Chemical Weapons…Iraq Redux?
The “democracy” that ten years of US war and occupation left behind in Iraq. Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies May 3, 2013 Posted by Portside on May 4, 2013 Phyllis Bennis Facebook News from the Middle East is growing more dire by the day. And unfortunately, most of the news from our own officials and influential […]
Nichols and McChesney> From Billionaires to Big Media: Democracy Up for Grabs
Dollarocracy Panel Moderator: David Barsamian, Alternative Radio.org Full panel: Published on Apr 11, 2013 videofreepress Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on FACEBOOK! Check the WAMMToday page for […]
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