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  • How Free Is The US Free Press?
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How Free Is The US Free Press? Dr. James Zogby Friday, 21, January, 2005 Just how free is the US’ “free press?” Does the absence of direct government control, by itself, create a “free press?” In a paper I recently presented at a conference organized by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, I sought to make a contribution to this discussion by examining the influences that impact US media.
    While there is no direct political influence or control of US media, such as may (…)

  • Firings At CBS Don’t Vindicate Bush
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Firings At CBS Don’t Vindicate Bush Dave Zweifel January 17, 2005 The headlines in the newspapers and the 10-second snippets on radio and TV were similar to the one that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last week: "CBS News fires 4 in erroneous Bush story."
    Unfortunately, the headlines and summaries were wrong.
    Yes, CBS did fire four of its top news people after a two-person independent investigation concluded that the news network failed basic journalistic standards in putting (…)

  • We have met the enemy, and it is US (corporate media)
    13 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On December 18, I attended Gary Webb’s memorial service in Sacramento, California, along with about 250 other people.
    In 1996, Webb wrote a series of articles (“Dark Alliance”) for the San Jose Mercury News reporting that, in the 1980s, “a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to...street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to an arm of the contra guerrillas of Nicaragua run by the Central Intelligence Agency” and the “cocaine that flooded in helped (…)

  • Mysterious ‘George W. Bush : Our leader...Didn’t Saddam Hussein have his picture up everywhere?
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mysterious ‘George W. Bush: Our leader’ Clear Channel political public service billboard graces Orlando freeway
    By John Byrne
    A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling photograph of President Bush with the words “Our Leader” is raising eyebrows among progressives who feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda used by tyrannical regimes.
    RAW STORY confirmed the billboard’s existence Monday evening. The billboard pictured, which is on I-4, says that it is a “political (…)

  • Press Routinely Undercounts U.S. Casualties in Iraq
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E&P Staff
    NEW YORK As the toll of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq in November approaches record levels for one month in this war, is the press only telling part of the story?
    The Pentagon’s latest official count, provided on Wednesday, listed 1230 American military killed in Iraq and another 9300 U.S. troops wounded in action. How seriously? More than 5000 of them were too badly injured to return to duty. More than 850 troops were reported to have been wounded in action in (…)

  • It’s Time To Stick It To The Media
    22 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mainstream media must pay the price for news suppression
    The mainstream media - particularly the television networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and FOX - have failed the American people by neglecting the ongoing controversy surrounding the November 2 presidential election and especially the Ohio recount effort, public hearings and soon, the legal challenge.
    The networks have no problem reporting ad nauseum on a skirmish between basketball players and fans at an NBA game Friday night, or the (…)

  • Media downplays vote-counting problems
    20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media downplays vote-counting problems By Media Matters
    Washington Post columnist and editorial board member Anne Applebaum wrote a widely criticized column this week, suggesting that concerns over paperless electronic voting were unfounded because she doesn’t take a receipt when she uses an automated teller machine (ATM).
    At least, we think that was her point; it was a little difficult to tell for certain.
    In what CJR Daily called a "well-deserved smackdown to Anne Applebaum," the (…)

  • Media accused of ignoring election irregularities
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mark Jurkowitz
    Two weeks after Election Day, explosive allegations about a media coverup are percolating.
    There’s the widely circulated e-mail about a CBS producer who complained that a news industry "lock-down" has prevented journalists from investigating voting problems that cropped up on Nov 2. There’s the rumor that MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who has devoted serious air time to discussing Election Day irregularities, was fired for broaching the topic. There’s the assertion by Bev (…)

  • Mainstream media loses all credibility in attempting to cover vote fraud
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The only power that the mainstream media has is that the American people trust them to tell us the truth. As more an more Americans realize that the mainstream media is spoonfed news bites that they want us to hear, their propaganda becomes less powerful. Our democracy is based on a free press and fair vote and it is becoming obvious that in this country we have neither. As our supposed investigative reporters ignore the pile of vote irregularities favoring Bush, they are making (…)

  • Media Black Out on Vote Fraud Allegations
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "mainstream" media has fallen down on the job by failing to cover efforts since November 2 to ensure that all votes in the presidential election are accurately counted. The conclusion by John Kerry that an investigation could not possibly reverse the election may quite possibly have been premature. But the question that both activists and the media should be asking is not whether there was enough fraud and errors to decide the election, nor even whether there was more than is usual, but (…)