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  • The Pope Cartoon
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I never miss the Al Jazeera cartoons, which are almost always right on the money.
    After the passing of Pope John Paul II, Al Jazeera published a mildly critical cartoon alluding to the lack of action by the vatican in many world events. However I was quite surprised to realize that after the first day, the publishers modified the cartoon. I wonder if other viewers noticed the same thing.
    Why were these changes made and who made the final decision??
    Claude-Woof

  • United Vegetative States Of America
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    United Vegetative States Of America Anwaar Hussain April 6, 2005 After having lived for 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schindler Schiavo crossed over from here to the hereafter on the last day of March. With her blood scent up in the air, the feral American media went berserk in the last two weeks of Schiavo’s life. Using this so-called freest press in the world, the American public was led on a leash by the right-wing activists with a not-so-subtle help from the (…)

  • Whom to believe? US Media reports one death. Other sources say at least 29.
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Some of us don’t trust the US media since the election on November 2, so we have taken to looking elsewhere for accurate news accounts. Since the US media doesn’t seem very interested in telling us what’s going on in Iraq, some of us have found other sources, like the one from which this story was lifted below. (The link will take you to the original, so you can judge for yourself.)
    What is interesting is that the US media has reported ONE US death over the past two days. Maybe, if you’ve (…)

  • Bush’s Dangerous Propaganda Game
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This deliberate manipulation of our news is more than outrageous - it’s a frontal assault on our democracy and is totally disrespectful of the American people.
    You’re used to hearing television reporters give their signature tag lines: "In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting." "This is Jennifer Morrow reporting." "I’m Pat O’Leary reporting."
    But these days, you can’t know if your news presenter is a reporter ... or a ringer. Karen Ryan, for example, is a veteran of the government’s (…)

  • Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Undoing of America
    For the past 40 years or so of Gore Vidal’s prolific 59-year literary career, his great project has been the telling of the American story from the country’s inception to the present day, unencumbered by the court historian’s task of making America’s leaders look like good guys at every turn. The saga has unfolded in two ways: through Vidal’s series of seven historical novels, beginning with Washington DC in 1967 and concluding with The Golden Age in 2000; and (…)

  • Media Blackout on Congressional Report "Death of Deliberative Democracy"
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yes, Scott Peterson is going to meet his maker and Robert Blake is going to party hardy, and the president continues to lose more ground in his quest to destroy Social Security every time he speaks on behalf of his own program, but any number of stories of import continue to slip through the cracks of a media that have ceased to take their public educational role seriously. One such story can be found, rather surprisingly one must admit, in the release of a fascinating and insightful new (…)

  • WANTED: 250,000 Americans to Fight Fake News & Government Propaganda
    17 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Center for Media and Democracy is working with Free Press to gather a quarter million signatures on our petition mobilizing the American public to fight fake news and government propaganda. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that at least 20 federal agencies have made and distributed pre-packaged, ready-to-serve television news segments to promote President Bush’s policies and initiatives. Congress’ Government Accountability Office determined that these "video news releases" were (…)

  • Conyers’ Gannon Resolution: "When will we say enough is enough?"
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conyers’ Gannon Resolution: ’When will we say enough is enough?’
    Tomorrow’s Statement Tonight from the Second-Longest Serving Member of the U.S. House
    Tomorrow morning at 10am ET, the honorable John Conyers will issue a Resolution of Inquiry in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee forcing both Republicans and Democrats to go on the...
    Tomorrow morning at 10am ET, the honorable John Conyers will issue a Resolution of Inquiry in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee forcing both Republicans (…)

  • Save Democracy, Shut Off Chris Matthews
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D
    Sound the alarm! America, the land of the free, is now under attack, not by Al Qaeda, not by Iraqi "insurgents," not by an enemy confronted on foreign soil; not even by one that homeland security could ever stop. It is an insidious, invisible assailant, more hidden than a terrorist cell. It is one that invades virtually every American household on a daily basis without leaving a trace of its deceitful, dangerous nature. Its whores, draped in dignified apparel, sit (…)

  • America’s False Memories
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    by Anna Salleh
    Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science.
    Lewandowsky says the study, which was conducted in 2003 during the closing (…)