If it can be said that there is one lord of worldwide corporate media, that person is Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch’s News Corporation reigns supreme in television and print media in his native Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Continue reading
The mainstream media blackout of the annual Bilderberg meeting is finally crumbling. Yet the prevarication machine continues to reinforce the delusional official line from on high. For decades, the sinister world cabal operated in the shadows of secrecy and disinformation. The timely analogy is the initial way the disgraced Anthony Weiner responded to his self-inflicted indiscretion. Ignore any rogue inquiry about the nature of their agenda or plots on forthcoming plans. High-handedness is the hallmark of their demeanor, just as arrogance is the basic character component of this pit bull congressional egomaniac. Continue reading
Speeding along city streets, going from somewhere to somewhere else, was the Sarah Palin “One Nation I’m Not Running for Anything But Follow Me Anyhow” bus chase. Continue reading
The Guantanamo files recently released by WikiLeaks to the New York Times offer a Dossier that Shows A Push for More Terror Attacks after 9/11. This is ground we have been over before, and whose Muslim participants ended up in Guantanamo Bay or other prisons. The focus this time is on Sailfullah Paracha, “a successful businessman and for years a New York travel agent, [who] appears to be the oldest of the 172 prisoners still held at the Bay Prison. His dossier is among the most chilling [itals mine].” I wonder if he’ll ever get to collect his Social Security. Continue reading
I guess I must be a glutton for punishment because I just snapped off CiaNN in frustration and anger for about the 5,000th time. Continue reading
As I perused the latest WikiLeaks releases Monday morning, a retweet from their Twitter feed caught my eye: “Gitmo: Compare the first paragraph of these two stories about the same thing.” One was a link to the BBC and one was CNN. Continue reading
(WMR)—The Japanese corporate- and government-run major media in Japan is downplaying the bad news on the earthquakes and nuclear radiation disasters that are affecting the world’s third largest economic power. Continue reading
Is there a journalism school somewhere that that teaches up-and-comers to put stories into little boxes? Continue reading
Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing classic Raging Bull, we are gluttons for punishment. So here we are again, third week in a row, defending NPR against the bare-knuckled assault of its critics. Continue reading
There has been a lot in the news this past week. Continue reading
There’s no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow—that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public policy. As he described in a special report last week how the United States Army is clarifying guidelines “that should make it easier for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries from explosions to receive the Purple Heart,” it was mind-boggling to think that right-wingers in Congress were at that very moment voting to eliminate the modest federal funds that make such essential and authoritative reporting available to anyone in America who cares to tune in. Continue reading
(WMR)—The powerful nuclear power lobby, which has the firm backing of one of its largest recipients of campaign cash donation, Barack Obama, in its corner, is conducting a full court press to mask over the seriousness of the latest nuclear disaster in Japan. Continue reading
Come on now: Let’s take a breath and put this National Public Radio (NPR) fracas into perspective. Continue reading
Horrors are committed by a National Security State each day unreported by a mass media working for Forces of Greed (FOG). The corporate mass media news is nothing more than a very sophisticated propaganda system which works against the public interest. Continue reading
As people across the Arab world take to the streets to fight for democracy, and an end to oppression and tyranny, the oblivious, uninterested and acquiescent American public has done virtually nothing. Continue reading
National Public Radio (NPR) was a good idea when it started. The plan was to have an alternative to the commercial radio, publicly funding it so that it didn’t have to tell lies like the other mass media, dependent as they are for corporate funding from polluters, defense cheats, banksters and other criminals who demand fealty on behalf of the investments of board members, advertising revenue, and of course, the interests of owners. Continue reading
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