I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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Books make great presents.
Damn! blogwhored too soon.
OT, but I posted on WaPo's article yesterday on the Iraq debate.
Compared to the NY Times article, WaPo came off looking good. Additionally, WaPo listed the Dems who voted for withdrawal in 2006 (all six of them).
off to see the lizard ... maybe that's what my grandson would like....
It's amazing to me how much vitriol is directed to media matters. All they do is highlight corrections. You'd think the presstitudes would be happy.
It's amazing to me how much vitriol is directed to media matters.
Must mean MM is striking a nerve, huh?
It's amazing to me how much vitriol is directed to media matters. All they do is highlight corrections. You'd think the presstitudes would be happy.
ql in ny
Yeh, right! 
The so-called watchdogs of democracy don't like being watched, I guess.
Now why do you suppose that is?
Media Matters is no beach book. It puts appetizing
news front and center and the people manipulating the masses don't like it, understandably.
"It's amazing to me how much vitriol is directed to media matters. All they do is highlight corrections. You'd think the presstitudes would be happy.
ql in ny"
Happy is not the emotion they feel when the propaganda lies are pointed out. Oh well, maybe after Bush is out of office they will return to real reporting.
Bird Flu on PEI in Canada. Beware, Moe!
cockroaches, from WaPo
http://tinyurl.com/l3tvd
"We've been a major player in developing the law of national security vs. the First Amendment," the agency deadpans. "Or the Fourth Amendment. . . ." When "Americans [abroad] come across on our screen, they've got constitutional rights we've got to think about . . . . Or electronic surveillance . . . . In areas like that, we're helping to create the law, and that's a real rush."
And it's all true. The CIA is in the forefront of efforts to make sure that democracy, individual rights and stuff like that don't get in the way of our crusade for the spread of democracy, individual rights and stuff like that.
very warm 24°C (75°F) here again in Devizes.
watch the Queen's Birthday Parade this morning heh.
well my dad was watching because there was a RAF display, and my dad is an avid plane spotter, so thats what he really tuned into.
Am I just dreaming this, or was Jake Tapper once a seemingly solid lefty who did some great progressive journalism for Salon.com?
I could have sworn...
If so, the transformation has been... erm... remarkable. I think it's all the nitrates from the cocktail weenies.
Oh well, maybe after Bush is out of office they will return to real reporting.
Right, like the great work they did while Clinton was president.
well, the corporate media has been hell bent for years now on turning what once was the news into digestible lozenges of "product". so, since that has been their modus operandi, some of us consumers are sending back product as undercooked. when you're running a restaurant, do you file your patrons' complaints away into a folder? not if you want to stay in business. otherwise people will stop going to your restaurant, and go someplace where the food won't make them sick.
just to overextend a metaphor...
Am I just dreaming this, or was Jake Tapper once a seemingly solid lefty who did some great progressive journalism for Salon.com?
I could have sworn...
No, you're not dreaming. Back in the old "Adam Clymer is a major league a**hole" days, Jake turned in some wonderful muck-raking stuff for Salon.
Seems knowing what side one's bread is buttered
on can indeed affect reporting.
when you're running a restaurant, do you file your patrons' complaints away into a folder?
No, you spit in their food.
Oh well, maybe after Bush is out of office they will return to real reporting.
Right, like the great work they did while Clinton was president.
Yasonyacky
Unless and until the Democrats start calling out the press for its distortion the way the Republicans did, there won't be any changes.
Hell, given the corporate nature of the media, even then it might not happen.
It's like what's going on with MSNBC and Monica Crowley. They keep stringing her along with a promise of a show "in development." But the last thing they need is another rabid righty at the moment.
OT: Drugs firm blocks cheap blindness cure
Company will only seek licence for medicine that costs 100 times more
A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.
Ophthalmologists around the world, on their own initiative, are injecting tiny quantities of a colon cancer drug called Avastin into the eyes of patients with wet macular degeneration, a common condition of older age that can lead to severely impaired eyesight and blindness. They report remarkable success at very low cost because one phial can be split and used for dozens of patients.
Isn't it interesting that no such public admissions of disrespect are aired when right wing groups pressure the media? Yet if you peruse, say, NPR's ombudsman's reports, you'll see that complaints of conservative bias outnumber complaints of liberal bias by a considerable number. These predate that last presidential campaign, so it is highly doubtful that the complaints are generated entirely by blogs.
A few years back, the public radion station where I work was getting calls from folks wanting Democracy Now on the air, and from CAMERA folks who were accusing us (as an NPR station) of anti-semitism every time a report from the Middle East mentioned Palestinians. A fund drive was upon us, calls were expected from both groups--and the management put up a sign instructing volunteers to hang up on any of the Democracy Now callers who tried to stay on the phone too long (tying up the line). During the shifts that I oversaw, I told the volunteers (truthfully) that the CAMERA nuts were much more likely to keep them on the phone, and that they should be hung up on as well. As it turned out, during my shifts, all but one Democracy Now caller pledged money and none tried to tie up the line. Not a single CAMERA caller pledged and every single one tried to keep the line tied up.
The media really, truly want to be a bunch of right wing shills.
A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.
Once again, the enormous heart and altruism of the pharmaceutical industry takes center stage.
New York Times public editor Byron Calame recently said at a journalism conference that "cheapened" feedback from Media Matters readers goes "straight into a folder," and suggested that Media Matters readers are insufficiently "thoughtful."
I hate to say it, but it looks like the wingnuts weren't exactly off-base with their characterization of the "media elite".
I don't know any other term to describe reporters and editorial writers (I can't refer to them as "journalists") who openly brag about marginalizing and denigrating their readers.
Simply disgraceful.
Lord, it must be a slow-news day. How much more airtime can be devoted to the search for missing GI's in the neighborhood of Yusufiyia?
The media really, truly want to be a bunch of right wing shills.
Ding ding ding! We have a winnah! Here's yer kewpie doll!
No, you're not dreaming. Back in the old "Adam Clymer is a major league a**hole" days, Jake turned in some wonderful muck-raking stuff for Salon.
Seems knowing what side one's bread is buttered
on can indeed affect reporting.
plantsman, lowercase
That about sums it up.
On MTP tomorrow, "Wisdom of our Fathers" guru Timmeh hosts Jack Murtha. What happened, no Republicans were available?
A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.
what company is that?
where are its offices?
where's JR with the kerosene and matches?
tapper was the same at salon. Yes he did some good stuff, but he was desperately afraid of being tarnished with the liberal label and lashed out at liberal critics then too.
Working for Disney brings out the BEST in people!
Wasn't it Tapper who starred in those ads for Salon with the tv on his head, warning us about the single perspective of the major outlets such as, oh, ABC? Who would have guessed that his gig with Salon was just another rung on his way up the corporate ladder?
I don't know any other term to describe reporters and editorial writers (I can't refer to them as "journalists") who openly brag about marginalizing and denigrating their readers.
Yah, and reporters/editorial writers would be bad enough, but this is the Public Editor/Ombudsman. Whose sole task it is to be the readers'/listeners'/viewers' advocate at the media outlet.
On MTP tomorrow, "Wisdom of our Fathers" guru Timmeh hosts Jack Murtha. What happened, no Republicans were available?
Maybe Timmeh's experience with Jon Stewart turned his life around. Maybe he saw himself clearly for the first time, and decided that being a right-wing shill wasn't what he wanted to do with his life.
And maybe my balls are made of gold. You never know.
tapper was the same at salon. Yes he did some good stuff, but he was desperately afraid of being tarnished with the liberal label and lashed out at liberal critics then too.
Thanks A. I knew I had to be misremembering something.
Can Alito and/or Roberts be impeached--for lying to Congress during their nomination hearings, when they said stare decisis (sp?) is very important to them?
For example, this week, they began overturning settled law concerning announce/knock before entering with a search warrant. The Fourth Ammendment seems to be under assault, stare decisis be damned.
How large a majority would it take to get them on something like that?
The titty baby whining of Tapper, Calame et. al. proves we've won.
when you're running a restaurant, do you file your patrons' complaints away into a folder?
No, you spit in their food.
Yasonyacky, turrist magnet | 06.17.06 - 9:29 am
Damn--that's what all those MCMers are doing: spitting in our news, or shitting on it, or pissing it away.
Something like that, but in all cases very unusable, unappetizing, and undigestable.
Hell, given the corporate nature of the media, even then it might not happen.
Diane | Homepage | 06.17.06 - 9:30 am | #
That's why we need a new news media in the US -- the old media's too hopelessly corrupted by the right wing.
Timmeh was on Charlie Rose this week, and I caught a bit of him telling Charlie that he makes a point of knowing more about any topic than the person coming on his show.
Oh,yeah, that must explain why he never mentioned Cheney's having met Edwards when Cheney made that gaffe. Or challenged Cheney-kins on his Iraq WMD and ties to Al Qaeda crep.
I had to barf, so couldn't watch any more.
Professional 'journalists' or anyone for that matter don't really appreciate being shown how lazy they are. No doubt there are some good reporters and reporting out there. Except for their editorial page lunacy the WSJ is often very good. And Krugman is just the indispensable man (did I spell that right?). Keep it real y'all.
Boehlert or no, there will be no change in the conduct of the press until media consolidation has been stopped and reversed...
i favor a Constitutional Amendment:
No person or organization or partnership or any other association of persons shall be permitted to own, or own a determinative number of shares in, more than two media outlets anywhere in the USofA...
any other expedient is doomed to fail.
folks like boehlert and media matters may rail against the storm, but it will have ZERO effect until and unless the power of the corporation is decoupled from the power of the press...
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Why is the press, especially "liberal" papers like the N.Y. Times, in the pocket of Busho? Let me explain... no there is too much... let me sum up... Carlyle Group and the N.Y. Times have interlocking directorships.
This arrangement was made shortly after Republican operatives rigged the 2000 election and the Bush junta staged their coup.
I can't help but read what Tapper wrote and think...
"Facts have a well known liberal bias."
C. Corax | 06.17.06 - 9:32 am | #
Excellent!
Done!
Nice thread atrios. Thomas Paine's inkwell is reborn, online.
I'd love to listen to the book, but so much of my "reading" these days are via audible.com. I'm not going to spend bucks on books that will go into my reading list, I already have dozens of books available when I have the time to read...which is rarely. Ergo, I've resorted audilble books. For 4 to 8 hours a day I'm in my car or at car auctions just listening to my favorite authors. Ann's book is at audible for download, why not Lapdogs? Authors are missing a huge group of road warriors like myself.
Hey Jake is a great guy he's doing what it takes to put food on his family !!!!
Kagan, you want to go to Denny's parking lot for me !!!
Does that mean I can't know the Cubbies suck this year without interviewing them?
HAH!!!!
What are facts? They are "F"requently "A"dvanced "C"ommunist "T"heorical "S"tatements.
That's what they are...
Shrub and his Shrublings are right not to look at the "facts." After all, what is reality in the face of opportunism?
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