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  • Censoring The Military Embeds
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Censoring The Military Embeds Posted by Bradford Plumer 0/07/2006 One could devote a lifetime-or at least the better part of a year-to chronicling all the propaganda-like tricks the Bush administration and the military have pursued over the past few years. Here’s a new one, courtesy of Rod Norland, Newsweek’s former bureau chief:
    The military has started censoring many [embedded reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the (…)

  • “I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military”
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://harpers.org/sb-i-was-a-mouthpiece-1152219764.html
    “I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military” An embedded TV producer’s frank assessment Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006. By Ken Silverstein.
    In an interesting interview published this week in Foreign Policy, Newsweek’s Rod Nordland spoke about the difficulties of reporting from Iraq. He said that the Bush Administration has been largely successful in managing the news “to the extent that most Americans are not aware of just how (…)

  • AMERICA ALL FOXXED UP
    6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FOX NEWS is the self proclaimed network that America turns to for fair and balanced news’ ....Is hiring war-mongering DLC Democrats toface-off ’ against war-mongering GOP neocons an exhibition of balance ? ...FAIR AND BALANCED ?.... How are the paid ,debauched `on-air personalities’ at FOX NEWS able to utter such errant nonsense without cracking up on air ? ..... Where do they find human refuse - so desperate for face time on TV as to traduce their self respect ?... They are BOBBLE-HEADS (…)

  • Bush Busy Attacking Messengers As Terrorists Remain Unmolested
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Busy Attacking Messengers As Terrorists Remain Unmolested By Bill Gallagher July 3 2006
    Detroit - The attacks on the media, especially The New York Times, over revelations that the Bush administration has been secretly rummaging through international banking transactions, deflects attention from a far more serious issue. The real story is not that our government is looking at networks financing terrorist operations — a legitimate and necessary activity — but how poorly that job is (…)

  • The Neocon Battle For Media
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Neocon Battle For Media By Robert Parry June 30, 2006
    Since the 1980s, when the neoconservatives burst onto the Washington scene, they have always understood the power that comes from controlling the flow of information that passes from the U.S. government to the news media and then to the American people. This transmission of information through Washington was to these savvy neoconservatives what a key railroad junction was to Civil War generals, a strategic switching point to be (…)

  • BUSH: THE MISSING YEARS
    23 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.takebackthemedia.com/triwimp.html

  • COMMENTS ON JOHN PILGER’S NEW BOOK FREEDOM NEXT TIME
    16 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Comments on John Pilger’s New Book Freedom Next Time - by Stephen Lendman
    John Pilger is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker and one of the truly great ones of our time. For nearly 50 years, he’s courageously and brilliantly done what too few others in his profession, in fact, do - his job. John has also been a war correspondent, is the author of 10 books and is best known in his adopted country Great Britain for his investigative documentaries exposing the crimes of US (…)

  • GOP Takes Aim at PBS Funding
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    House panel backs budget reductions
    by Rick Klein WASHINGTON - House Republicans yesterday revived their efforts to slash funding for public broadcasting, as a key committee approved a $115 million reduction in the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that could force the elimination of some popular PBS and NPR programs.
    On a party-line vote, the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees health and education funding approved the cut to the budget for the Corporation (…)

  • Corporate Media’s Threat to Democracy:"Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples’ minds."
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Media/CorpMedia_ThreatDemocracy.html
    "Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples’ minds."
    "There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions out of (…)

  • MEDIAS : THE QUOTES
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.doublestandards.org/quotes.html
    “There is not one of you who would dare write his honest opinion. The business of Journalism is now to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, fall at the feet of Mammon and sell himself for his daily bread. We are tools, vessels of rich men behind the scenes, we are jumping jacks. They pull the strings; we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are the properties of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” (…)