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- Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions.
- I consider the Internet to be one of the world’s great wonders. And also America’s last hope for a free press.
- A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
- From Project Censored
- Gerson spun the deceit; the Post peddled it. Now they’ll operate under the same roof.
- Personally, I have come to the conclusion that the media is not only influenced by the CIA… the media is the CIA. - It is impossible to be an informed citizen by watching network news. The business-friendly script is carefully edited to portray America’s activities around the world in a positive light.
- ...Network News will officially go Cable with Katie Couric playing the role of Edward R. Murrow
- Rupert Murdoch's Victims
- Clearly, it needs to be the right kind of bleeding to lead the news. The skin, if not the blood, needs to be the right color. Can there be much doubt about the differences that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality/geography make to media coverage in the U.S. today?
- Tabloid stories involving sex, crime or celebrity are preferred by TV news management today. These stories are inexpensive to cover, since speculation by alleged experts can fill fill up hours of airtime. And tabloid stories typically don't offend anyone in political or economic power, including corporate sponsors and media owners. - Move over Bill, Chris, Michelle, Rush, Sean, & Company. Make way for a worthy challenger to the title of leader of the racist rant pack holding court weekday evenings on his hourly show on CNN.
- Reuters news agency urged the U.S. military on Sunday to investigate the killing of one of its journalists by American troops in Baghdad a year ago. - WELCOME TO AMERICA. IF YOU'RE A JOURNALIST, BEND OVER AND SPREAD 'EM!
- Can anyone spell First Amendment? Is there a list somewhere of all the TV channels banned by the gubmint?
- If FOX is an essential part of the state propaganda-system which facilitates the war, then how can we absolve their employees from accountability? Doesn’t that make them legitimate targets for resistance organizations?
- During the course of writing this article, I reached for my handy thesaurus to find appropriate synonyms to describe the profession of "cable television news journalist."
- This is the type of filth to which the American public is subjected on a daily basis.
- There are two sides to every conflict - unless you rely on the US media for information about the battle in Lebanon. Viewers have been fed a diet of partisan coverage which treats Israel as the good guys and their Hizbollah enemy as the incarnation of evil.
- This, my friends, is racism, pure and simple.
- Want to check to see if your Internet packets are being "sniffed" by AT&T.
- Out to Lunch
- All Terror, All the Time
- Far from the objective, regular-guy interpreter of globalization that the D.C. media portrays him to be, Friedman is a member of the elite of the economic elite on the planet Earth. - Journalists' group says TV crews complain of targeting by Israeli warplanes
- In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special "megaphone" software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints.
- More newsworthy than Israeli fighter jets: An evacuation helicopter lands in Lebanon on the BBC
- ...Bill O’Reilly, has stated on national television that he would like to see me murdered and thrown into Boston Harbor.
- For those of you lucky enough to not know Bill Kristol, he is the top neocon intellectual (how's that for a gigantic oxymoron) in the country. He is in effect their propaganda minister.
- The media can be ignorant, biased, self-serving, indeed, but it can also be racist, utterly racist
- Fron "Project Censored"
- Tareq Ayyoub, a reporter for Al Jazeera, was killed on April 8, 2003, during a strike of the building in which the Arab-language TV station was housed
- Responsibility for determining, selecting and interpreting what constitutes "the news" is dominated by a small, privileged layer of society - Associated Press and right-wing math... - Blogs sometimes include information -- accurate and otherwise -- about the U.S. military's global war on terror. U.S. Central Command officials here took notice and created a team to engage these writers and their electronic information forums.
- ...the Pentagon is not interested in ferreting out phantom "al-Qaeda" sleeper cells in Des Moines, but rather the "homegrown" threat posed by those of us opposed to the neocon master plan for total and unremitting war.
- Brian Kilmeade, Fox Ministry of Disinformation and Fear Mongering talking head, should make his way back to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he once sat in as anchor.
- In a brazen attempt to sugar coat Israel’s flagrant violations of the Geneva Convention, specifically Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which is intended to protect civilians, the corporate media continues to spin the situation in the Gaza Strip.
- ...Bush’s neoconservative administration is tightening its grip on what information the American people get to see and hear. - This is what we get when we hire nitwits to write our laws.
- Only a spin doctor would deny that the media baron has a say in all major decisions taken in Downing Street
- ...on the scale of moral outrage the BBC ranks the deaths of Israeli soldiers enforcing an illegal occupation far above those of Palestinian civilians enduring the illegal occupation.
- Michelle Malkin, neocon blogger and concentration camp advocate, has posted a spate of converted WWII posters on her site, taking the New York Times to task for reporting the news, albeit a year late.
- Afraid of American journalists, that is, as long as they’re not from Fox.
- If you haven't been following this big story about the future of Net neutrality, I'll try to lay it out as simply as I can.
- The media is a fully-integrated part of the state power-structure. In its practical application, it is more valuable than the military. There are definite drawbacks to using force, whereas, propaganda and public relations tend to be less disruptive to the normal flow of business.
- ...Pentagon spokesperson Pete Williams jumped ship, but he was hardly crossing enemy lines. He became a correspondent for NBC. Just over a decade later, another Pentagon spokesperson, Victoria Clarke, gave up her position to work as a CNN commentator. - ...if "Big Com" defeats Net Neutrality, which in our corporate-legislative environment is a given, internet-goers will be facing a fee for every search they conduct on search engines like Yahoo and Google.
- Hiding the truth
- The entire program of Fox News Live with Bill Hemmer (12 - 1 p.m.) seemed custom designed to make the Bush administration look like everything was right with the world. - The CIA has adopted internal rules allowing it to define what constitutes a news organization and what doesn't, a Washington-based research group contended in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday - Olbermann may stand in as the current darling of the libs, so desperate for a corporate media personality to turn on the Bush administration, but when the rubber meets the road he is basically a shill for the Israel Lobby and ultimately the neocons.
- In the aftermath of the three suicides at the controversial Guantanamo prison facility in Cuba last Saturday, reporters with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald were ordered by the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the island today.
- ...the neocons—it is no longer relevant to talk about Bush, as he is little more than a wind-up doll, albeit a damaged wind-up doll—are snooping domestically and it is disingenuous for the corporate media to go on and on about "international communications," as if the government is only snooping calls going out of the country. - Rather than critically examining the claims of the police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the Conservative government concerning the alleged terrorist conspiracy, the corporate media has greatly amplified and embellished them.
- ...(the) Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. - The Kosniks are cultists...They've invested so much, emotionally, in the Democratic Party that it's made them rather shallow and monotonous. All their thinking, all their energy, is bent toward getting people like...Warner or Hillary Clinton...into office.
- I'm somewhat surprised that US military officials didn't sever Zarqawi's head, pack it in ice, ship it overnight to DC and have Rumsfeld or Tony Snow or some other administration figure hold it up by the hair...
- This morning I watched CNN's Soledad O'Brien conduct an incredible interview with Michael Berg, the father of Nick Berg, who was beheaded by al-Zarqawi, but the most interesting and upsetting part of the interview was cut from further broadcasts on CNN later on in the day.
- Their idea is to stand between the content provider and the consumer, demanding a toll to guarantee quality delivery..."the Tony Soprano business model"...
- We don’t know why the media giants have veered from their traditional cheerleading and focused on the atrocities at Haditha...likely, the unexpected attention to Haditha indicates the growing divisions among American elites about Bush’s alarming mismanagement of the war. If the occupation had gone smoothly, there’d be no recriminations or talk of massacres..
- "We've turned into this nation of overfed clowns, riding around in clown cars, eating clown food, watching clown shows. We've become a nation of cringing, craven fuckups."
- The U.S. Department of Justice has told Google, Microsoft and other major Internet companies that it wants them to keep detailed records of where people go while surfing the Web for up to two years.
- Move to allow more consolidation could come as soon as June 15 - So, the next time you read little Howie, just remember, he certainly appears to be carrying water for his wife to ensure she stays on good terms with the Bush White House.
- We remember that many Americans have lost their limbs or their lives in on-the-job accidents that might have been prevented if overall media coverage had been anywhere near as transfixed with job safety as with, say, marital splits among Hollywood celebrities.
- What Decline for Social Security and Medicare?
- Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know - it is also about controlling who we respect and who we find ridiculous.
- Nothing on CNN. Nothing at all ...
- ...the element essential to the eventual fascist takeover in the U.S. that has been in place the longest is the Republican assault on the independent media.
- It's amusing to see how papers treat the latest spying news.
- Watching Western television or reading newspaper reports of Palestine always leaves me perplexed. If I did not live in Palestine and bear witness to Israel’s military occupation, I would be left with the impression that Palestinians and Israelis are equals – with no occupation existing – and that this conflict simply requires "concessions" on both sides.
- Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick up the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access for police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.
- Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its latest annual report that more than 1,300 media workers were attacked or threatened last year and more than 100 were in jail. - Total regulation rules are close at hand, a new internet will kill free speech and weed out anything deemed "inappropriate"
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