… of how we got here: Jill Abramson’s sad admission Why did the New York Times back down again and again and hold important stories? The reasons are infuriating. — Patrick L. Smith Also worthy of note: Heather Digby Parton on “Long slide into the abyss”: Cheney’s old pal Ahmed Chalabi is back And more media mess: Media Matters on How […]
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The News of the World debacle is a huge media story — and in typical fashion, our “Fair & Balanced” major news media organizations generally don’t know how to deal with it. Namely, by stating the facts. Such as: “It seems increasingly likely that the techniques of bullying, coercion, spying, and the politics of personal destruction […]
Tags: Faux News·Fixed News·James Murdock·News of the World·Nick Davies·Rupert Murdock
Where were all those supposedly liberal voices on Iraq? Michael Moore appropriately laments the betrayal by liberal voices that helped squander our national treasure and flush our economy down the toilet: Early liberal support for this war was the key ingredient in selling it to a majority of the public. I realize this is something that […]
Like Pat Tillman’s, stories such as U.S. Military Intelligence Spc. Alyssa Peterson’s break your heart. Especially because anyone not blinded by fear, ignorance and/or hate could easily see (despite the assurances of Judith Miller, Ahmad Chalabi, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and sadly, Colin Powell), that what our country was about to do to Iraq […]
Tags: Ahmad Chalabi·Alyssa Peterson·Colin Powell·Condoleezza Rice·Greg Mitchell·Judith Miller·Kevin Elston·Pat Tillman·The Nation
As Jason Linkins is latest to confirm, this is a media story as much as anything: Anatomy of an Epic Media Failure
So, it isn’t just our imagination? Thanks Randy Shaw: While right-wing media chooses stories that serve its political agenda, progressive media increasingly covers the same “news.”
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This piece limped to the finish. As if the editors feared catching flak too. But what a shame The New York Times wasn’t shedding this kind of light when Judith Miller and Ahmad Chalabi were cheerleading us into our disastrous invasion of a certain sovereign country that had no weapons of mass destruction, but does […]
Tags: Ahmad Chalabi·Cordoba Center·Daisy Khan·Debbie Almontaser·Feisal Abdul Rauf·Judith Miller·Michael Bloomberg·World Trade Center
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