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Wall Street Journal Hit Piece On Bernie Sanders Just Doesn’t Add Up
By Gerald Friedman Huffington Post (9/16/15) It is said of economists that they know the cost of everything but the value of nothing. In the case of the article “Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion,” this accusation is a … Continue reading
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Jorge Ramos Commits Journalism, Gets Immediately Attacked By ‘Journalists’
Glenn Greenwald. (photo: PBS) One of the supreme values of large corporations is fear of offending anyone, particularly those in power, since that’s bad for business. By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept (8/26/15) The Republican presidential candidate leading every poll, Donald Trump, … Continue reading
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Larry Wilmore: Message From Fox Is Clear, Black Lives Matter When They’re Paying For Ad Time
www.thelarrywilmore.com By Heather Crooks & Liars (8/10/15) The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore took on the talking heads over at Fox for spending all of a half a minute on racial issues and the Black Lives Matter movement during their … Continue reading
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Cops Gun Down Unarmed Journalist’s Career And LA Times Caves
LA Times fires Ted Rall – evidence blows up in newspaper’s face By Greg Palast Reader Supported News (8/5/15) Ted Rall is a lying, fantasist scum bag. Or maybe, just maybe, the LA Times, complicit with the Los Angeles police, have … Continue reading
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Is Chris Matthews Just Another Auto-Pilot Shill For The Koch Machine?
Attacks aren’t just going to come from the right - they’re going to come from all over the place from insiders who want to keep the status quo in place and their multi-million dollar paychecks coming (I was watching The … Continue reading
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It’s Just Not Said …
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all the right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not … Continue reading
Isn’t It Odd? Why Doesn’t US Media Interview Real Allies On Iran Deal?
We get to hear from Donald Trump, who has never been elected to anything and represents no one at all. By Juan Cole Informed Comment (7/16/15) So after France and Britain and Germany conducted negotiations with Iran over its civilian … Continue reading
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Bernie Sanders Blindsided By Selective New York Times Blackout
Media bias: sometimes it’s invisible until you look for it. By William Boardman Reader Supported News (7/16/15) The front page story is about such issues as “work force anxieties, “shrinking middle class,” “stagnant wages,” and a growing income gap … Continue reading
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National Plutocrat Radio: Corporate One-Percenters Dominate NPR Affiliates’ Boards
It’s hard to believe in public radio’s stated commitment to diversity when it stacks its governing boards with white men overwhelmingly drawn from the ranks of the corporate elite. By Aldo Guerrero Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (7/2/15) For a public … Continue reading
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Pay To Play: CNN’s ‘Courageous’ Advertorial Fake News Mill For Corporations
By Jim Naureckas Fairness and Accuracy in Media (6/8/15) CNN has announced the formation of a new unit that will not report the news. Instead, it will take money from corporations to produce content that resembles news but is actually PR designed … Continue reading
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Matt Taibbi On The Journalist & Politician Cheerleaders For Iraq War, Then & Now
Democracy Now! (6/21/15) In this web-only conversation with journalist Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, we turn to Iraq. He recently wrote a piece for Rolling Stone titled “Forget What We Know Now: We Knew Then Iraq War Was a Joke.” … Continue reading
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Tomorrow’s News Today! — 9 Headlines We Guarantee You’ll See Again Sooner Than You Think
By Tom Englehardt TomDispatch.com (5/19/15) It’s commonplace to speak of “the fog of war,” of what can’t be known in the midst of battle, of the inability of both generals and foot soldiers to foresee developments once fighting is underway. … Continue reading
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White House Correspondents Association Spends More On Its Director’s Salary Than On Scholarships It Touts
By Ryan Grim The Huffington Post (4/22/15) WASHINGTON — The nonprofit White House Correspondents Association spends more on its chief executive’s salary than it does on program services, a new documentary reports. The film, “Nerd Prom: Inside Washington’s Wildest Week,” uses tax … Continue reading
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Neil Young: The Monsanto Years
By Neil Young (4/24/15) The Monsanto Years are here and we are living them. Monsanto is the poster-child for what is wrong with corporate controlled government in our world. Our upcoming record, “The Monsanto Years”, encompasses several associated subjects that … Continue reading
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Bill Maher Calls Out Bill O’Reilly As A Liar On ‘Real Time’
By Lily Karlin The Huffington Post (3/7/15) Bill Maher is not very impressed with political commentator Bill O’Reilly. In a segment on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night, the host blasted Fox News for so intently covering the major … Continue reading
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