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Did you know the corporate media has a varsity team?
I sure didn’t.
Last night on Anderson Cooper, talking head Joe Johns let slip the existence of a media corps varsity team “of the likes you have just never seen.”
This highly trained journalistic strike-force was known for its dogged persistence and ability to get the job done.
They never take no for an answer. Instead, these superheroes will hound presidents, always asking the difficult questions, and are never satisfied with a none response.
Here is the startling revelation, straight from the transcript:
JOHNS: Sure. And nobody wants to jump out there and start slamming him immediately. But I’ve got tell you, at the end of the day, this is a varsity media corps of the likes you have just never seen.
And people are going to hammer away at a question and an individual like Barack Obama doesn’t want to ask. It’s just the nature of the beast. Wherever you go, you’re going to get that question after a certain point.
Wow…at every turn…hammering away at the hard questions…it’s just the nature of the beast. Booyeah, I tell you.
This, of course, got me thinking. Where has the awesome varsity media corps been hiding for the last eight years?
You know, when Bush lied us into the Iraq War, a shredded Constitution, an economic apocalypse, and a climate crisis turned into a daily worldwide catastrophe.
Hmmm.
December 17th, 2008
The real reason the Iraq War was not a cake walk.
Clearly, the principal reason the story has received virtually no coverage on the television networks is because the story reflects so poorly on them. But as to his primary point, I don’t believe Collins is right. The public has long been inculcated with the notion that we have a "liberal media" that opposes and undermines whatever Republicans do, etc. etc. Yet here is mountains of evidence as conclusive as can be as to how the Government/media cartel actually functions — media outlets and their corporate parents rely on the Government for all sorts of favors and access and, in return, do nothing to displease them. To the contrary, the Bush administration itself here is proudly touting its ability to control media content and ensure the presence only of pro-Government voices with regard to war and military matters.
Amazingly, not everyone bought the round the clock Propaganda R Us coming out of the network news.
On the weekend of February 15-16th of 2003, anywhere between six and ten million people world-wide, came out to protest Bush’s plan to invade Iraq.
In Seattle alone, an estimated 50,000 people came out to try to stop Bush’s war, more than the number which made Seattle protest central after the WTO flare-up.
As Michael Moore recently said on Larry King, "I and 100 million other Americans knew that we were being played here and that they really wanted to go to war and this was about oil and that there was going to be a horrible catastrophe."
Now we know how Bush and Cheney pulled off the United State’s biggest foreign policy blunder–with a domestic propaganda program and an obedient, corporate press corps, more interested in currying favor with the powerful than protecting the interests of the people.
read more | digg story
May 10th, 2008
Click here to urge Congress to investigate the propaganda pundits.
April 25th, 2008
Enough already! If you’ve had it with the latest round of right-wing war mongering, click here to do something about it.
August 22nd, 2007
Fox News is the loudest denier of global warming. The network viciously spreads disinformation about the cause and consequences of climate change.
If you’ve had enough, click here to do something about it.
July 13th, 2007
Hermanphiles rejoice! Pee Wee Herman is back. Could a new adventure be far behind?
But to a public that remembers him with intense affection, Pee-wee is indelible. He has even become an unlikely fashion role model for a new generation of Hermanphiles who parade around town in slickly updated interpretations of their idol’s gray geek suits.
Mr. Reubens remains the hero of legions of post-adolescents and their parents, who recall him as an anarchic imp, a shrewd merchant of anticonformity. He routinely dispenses his signature at autograph shows.
read more | digg story
May 19th, 2007
I’m heart sick.
With two weeks to go before the network upfronts, we have some long-awaited and sad news regarding the fate of CW’s Gilmore Girls.
read more | digg story
May 4th, 2007
"But the more the society advances toward a super-symbolic economy, the more important it becomes to permit an extremely wide range of dissent and free expression. The more any government chokes off or chills this rich, free flow of data, information, and knowledge–including wild ideas, innovation, and even political dissent–the more it slows down the advance of the new economy." -Alvin Toffler, PowerShift: pg.362
Good comedy shocks you into looking at the world in a whole new way. Steve Martin said it best with his observation that, "Comedy is not pretty". However, I would add, it certainly is effective.
Case in point, Robert Smigel–who creates cartoons which mix biting social commentary with the benign world of 1970’s Saturday morning cartoons.
From the spoof of Saddam and Osama as a modern day version of The Wonder Twins-who defy American capture- to an Anna Nicole Smith inspired Smurfette Show, Mr. Smigel goes after the powerful and ridiculous with equal fury.
Milk and Cookies delivers a sample of the goods.
December 20th, 2006
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