Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

The columnist that helped the Bush Administration out Valerie Plame is calling it a career today. Chicago Sun-Times political columnist Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, the newspaper reported on its Web site Monday. The paper responded briefly, calling the situation "dire".

Manipulating Americans Has Never Been Easier, thanks to New Media The media was always prone to bias and influence, but it is facing a very stark challenge from bloggers that threaten its existence as we know it. "Citizen journalism" has become a strong delivery tool for propagandists to flourish while their words ...

Why isn't the media talking about it?  Hard to say, Pensito Review had a rather scorching account about the matter and offered this little tidbit: Five years from now, reporters will write books on why they chose to ignore the story of Cheney’s drafting of these immoral, unethical and un-Constitutional torture ...

Here's an article on the Democratic primary, headline reads: FOX News Poll: Obama Has Slim Edge Over McCain, Half Would Never Vote for Clinton If Clinton wins the nomination, 63 percent of Democrats think she should pick Obama as her running mate. If Obama wins, fewer Democrats think he should choose Clinton ...

Most 'sane' people are fed up with the b.s.  Fox News spends most of its time telling Americans how to vote, how to think, what to think and how to be "good Americans".  I'm among a growing number of dissatisfied Americans who would like to see Fox News used for ...

Every analyst in America has already declared Clinton dead. Just as quickly as the media and Clinton's camp picked up on Karl Rove's inevitability sound byte, Hillary Clinton has been ripped apart by the same group. They gave her the impossible task, fulfilling the "inevitability" role. For ...

In politics, I've always argued that you have to take the propaganda from the right and propaganda from the left and somewhere in the middle you'll find some semblance of truth. The problem with the media, now, is that most journalists have been either silenced or easily prone to ...

This morning I read an article about the Ron Paul movement and it was fascinating to read about the grass roots progress . In show business, they say "any publicity is good publicity," but I don't know if that's necessarily true in politics. So when I saw the ...

Is media political bias the future of corporate journalism? It must be bash on Giuliani week. If it was the White Houser online magazine, that's one thing... but when Politico outs the former Mayor and then the NY Times all but calls Rudy Giuliani a liar, you know he's in trouble. ...

"I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture." -- Stephen King Strange quotes to read in a prominent magazine like Time, but they are very powerful words. Stephen King, in an interview about his upcoming film "Mist", brought up ...

I've said before that I believe Fox News is pornography for Republicans. It is propaganda smut that is designed to cater to the right wing, nothing about it is "fair and balanced." Frankly, the stuff you read here is probably more credible and I admit that my articles ...