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Have Democrats Been Marginalized Within Their Own Party?We have heard a lot over the past year or so about how President John F. Kennedy wouldn't be able to garner his political party's nomination for the presidency in today's Democrat Party.
Baltimore, MD, A year ago before the election, I joined Newsvine to express my discomfort with the election and how it was going for Barack Obama. I didn't want Barack Obama to become President of the United States for various reasons but not because he is black (I am black).
Confronting the Spin on the Fort Hood MassacreIt is sad and disturbing commentary on the state of American culture when the facts surrounding an event, such as the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood, can not only be manipulated to facilitate a political ideology but blatantly ignored in the pursuit of a political agenda.
I am quoting (approximately) myself, from two or more years ago: As PRACTICED in the world today, Islam is an INTOLERANT religion--the most intolerant religion in the world.
This is my third or fourth recent article on the misrepresentation of jobless claims data (symptomatic of a general problem in the way the mainstream media, and the financial press). What was the actual, factual NEWS? It was that the weekly jobless claims number fell to 5 …
Brown Man Thinking Hard: Political Spin: The Media's Election Night After PartyThe races themselves almost seem incidental, so hungry is our political establishment on both sides of the aisle for a chance to trumpet their agendas.
Don't be surprised that the Media Elite sided with Fox NewsThe Obama administration's basic charge against Fox News is undeniably true: The network functions as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party.
The economic news last week was actually bad, but the mainstream media and Wall Street insisted on spinning the news as "good" news.
"ST. LOUIS (AP)—Green Bay Packers fans are known as cheeseheads. Could fans of the St. Louis Rams soon be dittoheads?
Technology has radically changed the way we get news. The big three of radio, broadcast news and the daily paper have over the years been joined by 24 hour cable-news networks, news websites, and news blogs.
Stephen Lendman: Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored StoriesEach year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, "Censored: Media Democracy in Action." The latest "Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008 - 09" just out is the subject of this review.
An Open Letter to John StosselJohn Stossel's move from ABC News to Fox News may be a blow to the popularization of Libertarianism, but Stossel may still spearhead a viable Libertarian presence on the air, and possibly a Fox revolution.
"By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent Charles J. Hanley, Ap Special Correspondent – 13 mins ago UNITED NATIONS – It happened in Rio, in 1992: The world officially woke up to the fact it was getting warmer outside. Seventeen years later in New York, the U.N.
President Obama regularly confirms what I say (which does worry me at times).
"Michael Moore screening 'Capitalism' in Mich. town"
Dateline NBC: To Catch an ACORN OrganizerWhich leads me around to my point: If soliciting a fictional teenager for sex is a violation of the law, then CERTAINLY, aiding and abetting the importation of fictional teenagers into a US sex ring, is a crime at least as heinous.
A comment that a friend made over the weekend got me thinking about how should we define "mainstream media" in this country. No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, Rush Limbaugh's audience is huge.
CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comOk, this is like a year old opinion piece by Glenn Greenwald. (May,2008) Its from his blog on salon.com I think its relevant today as it was in 2008 and as it was 2003.
Tim Wise: When are Republican Leaders Going to Reject Talk Show Hosts Stoking White Racial ResentmentTim Wise asks when the Republican Party is going to reject the racist rhetoric and dog-whistle politics coming from the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and other right wing radio and television hosts.
Debate Over Tea Party Protest Numbers Masks the Real History MadeFunny how the MSM never made a point of the astroturf groups such as "Not In Our Name" and MoveOn.org, but decry the first real mass consevative movement in the country to defend the liberties of the status quo as "fake".
CNN had a really bad week. Yes, I know. CNN has a bad week EVERY week, but last week (especially Friday) was really bad--even for CNN.
Why Did the Press Ignore the Van Jones Scandal?Now, the Times has failed to report another story, this time one that led to the resignation of a White House official much loved by many on the left, "green jobs" czar Van Jones. Times readers didn't know it, but the causes for Jones' departure included the fact that he signed …
New Statesman analysis of BBC Bias - too Right, not too Left, force acknowledgmentMehdi Hasan writing in the ostensibly Left of Centre UK New Statesman presents evidence that the BBC is not too left (as claimed by neocons) but actually too Right and that this must be publicly acknowledged.
The Coming Media BailoutThis ominous development ought to scare the pants off of anyone concerned with the maintenance of a free society – and the continued existence of dissent in an increasingly conformist profession where "journalists" are often reduced to the status of mere stenographers as they e …
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