- "The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." --Al Franken
- 8 New items including:
- The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
- A Word from Our Sponsor
- Obama Administration Seeks to Strengthen Rupert Murdoch
- Five Things You Should Know About the FCC's Big Media Giveaway
- Syria | Shameful Performance of Western Media
- How the Media Doesn't Give Peace a Chance
- Nygaard Notes #511 | "The New American Way of War" in the Media
- "Progressive" Journalism's Legacy of Deceit
David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
Randall Enos
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR, Thom Hartmann, Truthout
- It’s time to take back our public airwaves, and cut-off the corporate and billionaire control over them, so that David Koch and his buddies don’t get to choose what you watch on TV.
- A Word from Our Sponsor
A Word from Our Sponsor, Jane Mayer, New Yorker
- Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch.
- PBS Drone Coverage Brought to You by Drone Makers
Obama Administration Seeks to Strengthen Rupert Murdoch, Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism
President Obama's FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed relaxing media ownership rules to allow Rupert Murdoch to buy the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. This is part of a larger pattern -- media consolidation is one of the many structural problems that Obama promised to deal with. And indeed, this is the real arena where the battle over free speech is being fought. Corporate control over our communications infrastructure is the free speech question of our time.
Five Things You Should Know About the FCC's Big Media Giveaway, Josh Stearns, Free Press
- Murdoch has set his sights on the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune — the major papers in the nation’s second- and third-largest cities.
- Special Project | The Limbaugh and Murdoch Meltdowns: Week of December 2
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Syria | Shameful Performance of Western Media, As’ad AbuKhalil, Al Akhbar English
- There is no accountability and it is unlikely that someone is going to write a book on the shortcomings and failures of Western media. Western media also marketed the Libya story and they were never made accountable for the lies they peddled there.
- These media have failed their readers on many levels. Their shortcomings can be summarized as follows:
- How the Media Doesn't Give Peace a Chance
- Nygaard Notes #511 | "The New American Way of War" in the Media
- "Progressive" Journalism's Legacy of Deceit
How the Media Doesn't Give Peace a Chance, Richard Schiffman, OpEdNews
- Norwegian sociologist, Johan Galtung, the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 1987, believes that the media's institutional bias toward reporting "official sources" in the government and military means that we generally only hear from those with a vested interest in the use of force, rarely from the people on the ground who will pay for their decisions in blood. The arguments for military action are framed in abstract geopolitical terms and vague appeals to "the national interest" rather than focusing on the terrible human costs of organized state violence.
- Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like
- PBS's Dishonest Iran Edit
- How the Media Is Taking Us Toward War With Iran
Nygaard Notes #511 | "The New American Way of War" in the Media, Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes
- "The new American way of war" is but a new strategy in service to a very old goal, which is the maintenance of the global U.S. military hegemony that began after World War II and took on new life with the demise of its only perceived rival, the Soviet Union, 20 years ago.
- Special Project | The Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, & Iran: Week of July 29
"Progressive" Journalism's Legacy of Deceit, James Tracy, Global Research
- Given the backdrop of progressive-left journalists’ lengthy and ardent opposition to the Bush-Cheney policies of Nazi-like atrocities and plunder, venues such as Democracy Now are poised to serve as platforms for disseminating the necessary disinformation to make the Obama administration’s color revolutions and "humanitarian" policy of military interventions seem palatable to the very audiences whose sensibilities are most opposed to violence and imperialism.
- When War Is in the Air on PBS
- NATO's Presence Does Not Benefit Afghan Women
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 14:53 | PBS is blowing it, and their decision not to air a documentary on the Koch brothers is pretty horrifying proof of it.
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Koch, the conservative industrialist, has given $23 million to public television. Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg.
Among the wealthiest residents of 740 Park is David Koch, the billionaire industrialist, who, with his brother Charles, owns Koch Industries, a huge energy-and-chemical conglomerate. The Koch brothers are known for their strongly conservative politics and for their efforts to finance a network of advocacy groups whose goal is to move the country to the right. David Koch is a major philanthropist, contributing to cultural and medical institutions that include Lincoln Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. In the nineteen-eighties, he began expanding his charitable contributions to the media, donating twenty-three million dollars to public television over the years.
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