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POPSFox News isn't even pretending anymore The boldest innovator, however, has been Fox News. Since President Obama’s election, the cable news channel has dropped all but the barest pretense of objectivity. Billing itself as “fair and balanced,” Fox has turned itself into what White House communications director Anita Dunn recently called “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” Actually, that’s an extremely polite way of putting it. It’s closer to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth.” Fox openly promotes “Tea Parties” and other political demonstrations; it portrays every perceived White House defeat, such as Chicago’s failure to secure the 2016 Olympic Games, as a victory for something called “Fox Nation.” “Doublethink,” Orwell called it: the ability to “hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.” So it is with “Fox Nation” and “fair and balanced.”
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POPSIt's time to embrace American royalty About this latest hiring by NBC, Atrios observed: "if only the Villager values of nepotism and torture could be combined somehow." The American Prospect's Adam Serwer quicky noted that they already have been: "Liz Cheney." Liz Cheney is really the perfect face of Washington's political culture, a perfect manifestation of all the rotting diseases that define it and a pure expression of what our country has become and the reasons for its virtual ruin. She should really be on every political TV show all day every day. It's almost as though things can't really be expressed thoroughly without including her. Jenna Bush as a new NBC "reporter" on The Today Show -- at a time when every media outlet is firing and laying off real reporters -- is a very nice addition though.
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POPSU.S. Military Insults it's Captive Soldier.
It's not in this clip but on Sunday News TV Pentagon reporters quoted military info implying this soldier had emotional or mental problems. Bad. Gross.Despicable. In this clip it's quoted this soldier "walked off base." Walked off base? The TV reporters today said he left his weapon, helmet and body vest behind...as if he was crazy or deserting! Bad. Gross. Despicable Of course, too, while it remains unresolved (except Obama stopped it), we tortured prisoners, waterboarded prisoners, beat prisoners to death in their cells, hung prisoners by handicuffs till they died, etc.....well, of course our military now complains about the treatment of this USA captive. Gross. Despicable. One big reason, of course, is the soldier put out an anti-war message: Bring the troops home. So...he must be crazy or disloyal. So...he must be being mistreated and forced to say these things (like a confession under torture, like we've done). It's not the Taliban killing our troops,
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POPSThe Obama Show The use of planted questioners is a no-no at presidential news conferences, because it sends a message to the world -- Iran included -- that the American press isn't as free as advertised. He already has every press person in DC kissing his butt and he still has to stage questions.
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POPSOpposition Leader Expected to Attend Protest Outside Iran's Parliament Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is expected to attend at a rally Wednesday amid an intensifying government crackdown on protesters following the country's disputed presidential election. http://www.facebook.com/mousavi?ref=ts%2F Iran has ordered journalists for international news agencies to stay in their offices, barring them from reporting on the streets. Mousavi says he was the true winner of the election. Iran's electoral commission declared Ahmadinejad the winner by a landslide, ignoring Mousavi's claims of widespread and systematic vote fraud. Mousavi has been out of sight in recent days, but a short message posted on his Web site asserted that "all the reports of violations in the elections will be published soon." State TV reported that Ahmadinejad would be sworn in sometime between July 26 and Aug. 19.
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POPSObama Erases Pro-Democracy Money for Iran One key opponent of the funding, who weighed in at meetings to block specific grant requests aimed at helping pro-democracy groups inside Iran, was Suzanne Maloney, who is now at the Brookings Institution. Speaking at a Washington forum that the National Iranian-American Council sponsored Wednesday, Maloney applauded President Obama's do-nothing policy. The best thing we can do for Iranian democracy is sit back and let Iranians fight it out for themselves, she said, echoing the president's own words from a brief press statement the day before. These programs reached a limited number of people in Iran and that would indicate that their effectiveness was limited. When reporters asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Thursday about the president's hands-off approach, Gibbs said there was no debate in the White House over how to address the events in Iran. Everybody is on the same page. There's no difference of opinion.
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POPS12 Years Jail Sentences For 2 US Journalists Imprisoned in NKorea U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she was "incredibly concerned" about the plight of the two women. In working for their release, Clinton said she has spoken with foreign officials with influence in North Korea and explored the possibility of sending an envoy to the North, but suggested that no one would be sent during the trial. Another American who was tried in North Korea in 1996 was treated more leniently. Evan C. Hunziker, apparently acting on a drunken dare, swam across the Yalu River - which marks the North's border with China - and was arrested after farmers found the man, then 26, naked. He was accused of spying and detained for three months before being freed after negotiations with a special U.S. envoy. The North Koreans wanted Hunziker to pay a $100,000 criminal fine but eventually agreed on a $5,000 payment to settle a bill for a hotel where he was detained.
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POPSPolice: Carradine death may have been accidental It strikes me that it would have been very difficult for Carradine to tie off his own genitals, then thread the rope around a closet bar, and proceed to tie it around his own neck in a manner that would cause a "hanging".Think of the logistics of that.Impossible.
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POPSBedroom Pics: John and Yoko’s Bed-In For Peace 1969 FTA: Forty years ago today, John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged a bed-in for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada. Photojournalist Gerry Deiter captured it on camera, but his pictures have never been seen until now. They form part of an exhibition, Give Peace A Chance: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In For Peace, showing at The Beatles Story in Liverpool until 15 August, 2009
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POPSWorld Press Freedom Day Saberi, Lee and Ling are professional journalists who are neither spies nor criminals. Through them, press freedom and the right to report the news freely are being taken hostage by Iran and North Korea. Why don't we hear more about these 'hostage' situations in the American Press. These are political prisoners and anyone who cares about the freedom of press should be up in arms about their incarceration.
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6. He was genuinely curious about others. Mister Rogers was known as one of the toughest interviews because he'd often befriend reporters, asking them tons of questions, taking pictures of them, compiling an album for them at the end of their time together, and calling them after to check in on them and hear about their families. He wasn't concerned with himself, and genuinely loved hearing the life stories of others. And it wasn't just with reporters. Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec's house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver's home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night.
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POPS"Spin" by Brian Springer It was on - and then off - the Internet. Now it's back! Watch it while you can. Here's the deal... It's a film made about the 1992 presidential election and it explains just about everything that is going on now, 16 years later. The film shows: * viable candidates being eliminated by the news media * politicians being fed slick answers by spin doctors * hopelessly corrupt news reporters lying through their cosmetically perfect teeth The stars of the movie are Bush and Clinton. No, not junior and Hilary. The other Bush and Clinton show. Bill and Sr. Amazing film. If it fails to completely blow your mind I will be very surprised.
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POPSSanchez: Media's Reporting of Iraq War Endangered Soldiers' Lives Whoa! I hadn't heard this part of his conversation. I wonder why? And concerning this assessment....I could not agree more. Perhaps if the media hadn't been so aggressively portraying the situation in Iraq so inaccurately, the 'nightmare' would not have been such as he considered it.
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