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Fox News : Just Don’t Call it ‘Journalism’
Glenn Beck of Fox “quote” News.Fox and its enablersIn the mainstream media Fox’s pretense of being an actual news network is hardly more convincing than, say, Milton Berle in a bra and garters posing as a woman. By Eric Alterman … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox News, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Obama Administration, Propaganda, White House
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Barbara Ehrenreich to Journalism Grads : Welcome to the Working Class
Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now ‘part of the working class.’ By Barbara Ehrenreich / June 4, 2009. [The following is the text of Barbara Ehrenreich’s commencement address on May … Continue reading
Report from Nicaragua : Repression in the Revolution
Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega when he was a leader of the Sandinistas‘I met Martin Vega just after the Nicaraguan revolution when we all saw such promise there.’By Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte / The Rag Blog / October 14, 2008 Below … Continue reading
New Media Targeted With Harassment, Arrests at RNC
Using horseback officers, police moved to cut off demonstrators during GOP convention in St. Paul. Photo by Nick Vlcek / City Pages.‘Dozens of journalists, photographers, bloggers and videomakers arrested in an orchestrated round up of independents covering the Republican National … Continue reading
The Wife John McCain Callously Left Behind
Forgotten woman: Carol McCain.‘There is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign’By Sharon Churcher / August 8, 2008 Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, … Continue reading
Bigots (Mambo #1)
Graffiti from Barcelona, Spain. “Los cerdos?” “The Pigs.” Photo by Duncan Cumming.‘I think he saw a dark woman, a human darkness, and that’s all he needed to see’By Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez A few days ago I went with a friend … Continue reading
Obama’s Mariachi Ad : What Were They Thinking?
Manny Ramirez: The great guapón as Obama spokesman?Obamarama, Latin StyleBy Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez / July 26, 2008 Have you seen the Barack Obama mariachi ad? It’s on YouTube if you want to check it out. [See it below.] In a … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Hispanic, Latinos, Marketing, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Television
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Illustration by Guy Billout / The Atlantic Monthy.What the Internet is doing to our brainsby Nicholas Carr [Nicholas Carr’s most recent book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, was published earlier this year. “Is Google Making … Continue reading
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Journalism : OUT OF PRINT!
Arianna Huffington questions newspapers’“veneer of unassailable trustworthiness.” Drawing courtesy of New Yorker.The death and life of the American newspaperBy Eric Alterman The following article on the state of the newspaper in America today first appeared in the March 31, 2008 … Continue reading
"Liberty City 7" and the Marginalization of Black Discontent
In this courtroom drawing, U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Arango, center, makes her closing arguments before Judge Joan Lenard during the so-called “Liberty City Seven” trial in Miami on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007The Vendetta Against Black MenBy Salim Muwakkil / May 13, … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American Society, Criminal Justice, Racism
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Feminism & Women : Backlash Spectacular
Phyllis Schlafly in action, 1979A Doctorate for Phyllis Schlafly, Oh My….By Katha Pollitt Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Let me run that by you again. , the distinguished 155-year-old seat of higher learning in St. Louis, … Continue reading
