Politicking
Barnum and Bailey and CNN
Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 2007-11-20 21:54Summary:
A shameless high-pressure pitch machine has replaced the once-responsible Cable News Network.
Read more.Democratic lawmaker pushing telco immunity is newly flush with telco cash
Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 2007-10-19 11:29Mexican Congress considers dramatic restrictions on campaign ads
Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 2007-09-14 08:31Comcast paid lobbyist firm $100,000 over last six months
Submitted by jonathan on Sat, 2007-09-01 09:07Karl Rove and the religion of the DC press
Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 2007-08-14 20:54Summary:
Savviness--that quality of being shrewd, practical, well-informed, perceptive, ironic, 'with it,' and unsentimental in all things political--is, in a sense, their professional religion. They make a cult of it. And it was this cult that Karl Rove understood and exploited for political gain."
Source:
journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2007/08/14/rove_and_press.html
Cynthia McKinney confronts corporate media malice in court
Submitted by jonathan on Thu, 2007-08-02 22:29GOP, media rewrite Iraq War history
Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 2007-06-08 10:01Summary:
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and radio personality Jay Diamond are right to wonder why Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney got away with rewriting a key chapter of the Iraq War history without political reporters raising a peep.
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