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  • MEDIA ALERT: BIASED, BLINKERED, CULPABLE
    21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Pilger, Hans von Sponeck, Dahr Jamail and Others Respond to BBC Statement Regarding The World Tribunal on Iraq
    "Why say more? Observe this distinction: between the fool who longs for his own advantage and the sage who acts for the advantage of others." (Shantideva, 8th century)
    Media Lens recently issued a media alert about the lack of British media coverage given to the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul last month. Our alert, The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing World (…)

  • The Wayward Media
    21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor
    Here are three mini-essays tied together with a common theme: the media. “Access” - To what?
    Its no secret: the former watchdogs of the American media have been transformed into Bush’s lapdogs. Whenever a potential White House or GOP scandal rears its ugly head, you can count on the news media to be otherwise engaged. If you’ve paid any attention to the Tom Delay outrages, Gannon/Guckert, the Downing Street Memos, the civilian casualties in Iraq, The World (…)

  • Letter to Corporate Media- About the London Bombings...When will you do your jobs?
    20 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Whom It May Concern:
    With all the coverage of the London bombings, it is extremely upsetting to me, but not surprising, that one detail is being left out of every mainstream media article: Visor Consultants, a security consultant firm, was conducting a "terror drill" in the London Underground on July 7, 2005, at the exact same time in the exact same locations that the actual bombs went off. Visor’s Managing Director, Peter Power, discussed this amazing coincidence in two separate (…)

  • When News Isn’t News
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I hope this is not too Inside Baseball for you, but I am truly hacked with what the bloggers call the MSM, or “mainstream media.” The New York Times and The Washington Post have both gone way out of their way to deny that the Downing Street Memos (it’s now plural) are news.
    Let me tell you something. Like many of you, during the entire lead-up to the war with Iraq, I thought the whole thing was a terrible idea. I bring this up not to prove how smart we are, but to emphasize that I followed (…)

  • A secret known, a cover blown
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The misinformation being spread in the media about the Plame affair is alarming and damaging to the long-term security interests of the United States. Republicans’ talking points are trying to savage Joe Wilson and, by implication, his wife, Valerie Plame, as liars. That is the truly big lie.
    Plame was an undercover operations officer until outed in the press by Robert Novak. Novak’s column was not an isolated attack. It was in fact part of a coordinated, orchestrated smear that we now (…)

  • The difference between Sibel Edmonds’ case and the Downing Street Memos
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    July 13, 2005-In a recent editorial, Online Journal writer W. David Jenkins III called on the Internet community to push the story of fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds back into the mainstream media, as they have with the so-called Downing Street Memos.
    Ms. Edmonds once had the pleasure of mainstream media attention in 2002, when she claimed that the FBI translation program was penetrated by a Turkish organization that deliberately mistranslated documents related to 9-11, but her story (…)

  • Mainstream Media Try to Hide the Impeachment Question
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The latest poll shows more support for impeaching Bush now, than there was for impeaching Clinton when Congress did so in 1998. But the mainstream wimpmedia are reluctant to report on this.
    Here are portions of an article that managed to sneak into the Washington Post. by Dan Froomkin More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him (…)

  • THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE VANISHING WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MediaLens, July 6th, 2005.
    "The best relationship with our viewers is no longer one of parent-child but of consenting adults trying to piece together the best picture of the world." (Roger Mosey, head of BBC TV news)
    "A good case can be made that propaganda is a more important means of social control in open societies like the United States than in closed societies like the late Soviet Union... This system of thought control is not centrally managed... It operates mainly by individual (…)

  • Karl Rove: Uncovered
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
    News from the DNC:
    Until recently, Karl Rove had denied even knowing Valerie Plame’s name. Now, after the release of emails from Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper revealing the name of the White House source, Rove’s lawyer confirmed that Rove did speak with reporters about the case. With his history of questionable campaign tactics and his penchant for leaking information critical of his rivals, Rove should come clean with the American people: Did he endanger our (…)

  • I never thought I’d miss Nixon
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s starting to get hot in Tucson, Arizona. Really hot. This July, it’s the political climate that is starting to sizzle, and it’s starting to be very apparent here in Arizona, the armpit of the Red States. Republicans and Democrats alike seem to be fed up with the lies that have been told to us by the current administration. Lies about the US winning the war in Iraq, lies about the number of war dead, lies about the number of soldiers critically wounded and maimed for life, lies about (…)