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POPSDisinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep You In The Dark When we learn how to recognize disinformation methods, how to cut through them to the truth of the matter, we are better able to reclaim our stance as citizens (vs civilians) exercising the tools of democracy. Let's empower ourselves through developing our discernment. This article leads the way.
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POPSBob “The Blob” Beckel—Does He Have A Problem With Women? Uh, Actually, Yes Beckel discovered his young consort via the Internet and paid her by check, which proved helpful when cops began probing who was trying to shake down the 53-year-old Beckel. Giles suggests that a Republican, socially conservative or not, would never survive such drama. The irresistible tale of a greedy hooker and her Muslim pimp would forever resurface anytime the man entered the spotlight or made a major decision. The media would call into question his judgment, based on past events, and relentlessly attempt to taint his public image. You can read the rest of Giles' post here. Via Big Journalism http://bigjournalism.com/hgiles/2010/02/05/bob-youd-better-just-pull-back/ Via The Smoking Gun http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/beckel1.html Read more: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2010/02/bob-blob-beckeldoes-he-have-problem.html#ixzz0eivZqtiT
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POPSThe Demon Sheep Doesn’t Wear Prada ...... then see what the Left Coast Rebel said. Still not convinced. Damn, you’re hard to persuade. I viewed the video that the Carly Fiorina campaign team put up on YouTube™ called “FCINO: Fiscally Conservative In Name Only”. Enter the now viral “Demon Sheep”, a guy in a fuzzy hybrid terminator sheep suit with demonic laser-red eyes wearing Rockports, a lot of scary music and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell. I don’t mean to be critical, but couldn’t Carly’s crowd get someone to create a computer-generated demon sheep instead of the putz skulking around a pasture full of innocent-looking sheep? Having said all that, here is my Photoshop™ impression of some real demon sheep with poor Tom in the cab of the truck moments away from being dispatched. And if you want to put a demon sheep icon on your website, go here and here to get one. Then you’ll be able to say, “I knew the demon sheep when.” Read more: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com
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POPSCountdown Begins on "Countdown" Worst, Olbermann's network president, Phil Griffin, is publicly praising him, always an ominous sign in television. While referring to his host almost in the past tense. "Keith has been our tentpole," Griffin says, adding later, "I'm pleased with where we are." Where they are, as Jeff Bercovici points out over at Daily Finance, is way behind the big boys over at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly and gang. In fact, Keith is so far behind Bill, he can't even make out the state of the license plate, let alone the numbers. Bercovici thinks Americans may be outgrowing Olbermann's schtick. via http://bigjournalism.com Countdown to the End of ‘Countdown’ — Is This the End of the ‘Worst Person in the World?’ - Big Journalism http://bit.ly/a1FaNY
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POPSFLY | Do you know these people? If you are offended by tabloid journalism, you may wish to skip these links. But while browsing the web, THE FLY found and clipped this expose on internet celebrities in keeping with the theme: Who's who in social networking? ___ iWeb Blogger | FLY-on-the-WEB | http://me.twi.bz/j ALTACITIES | http://altacities.com | http://me.twi.bz/X ___ Help us reach 1,234 subscribers by 5:06 pm (7 sec) on 8-9-10 Matching the numerical sequence 12345678910 Details here | http://me.twi.bz/5 ___ 224 | A2G | Today, Tomorrow, Forever | According to Google
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POPSDid Reuters Yank Article “Backdoor Taxes Hit Middle Class”
I think it was the language used in the article that prompted Reuters to pull it. In particular, it was the series of phrases shown below that, combined with the one mentioned above, must have made the hair stand up on the back of Rahm Emanuel’s neck: “…effectively a tax hike by stealth.” “middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.” Perhaps the largest contributing factor to the article being yanked is a list of tax break provisions popular among middle-class families that Obama might allow to expire: * Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments instead of state and local income taxes. * The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies. * The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses. * Individuals who don’t itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid. * The first $2,400 of unemployment ....
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POPS Traitors to the Cause by Mark Steyn that is slowly filling with deadly fumes. To pass it off as journalism is professional negligence . . . I think they chose to ignore the only value that justifies our trade at all, and conceal the truth. We used to call that dishonest reporting " a fraud on the consumer. Oooh! With any luck, I'll be disbarred. As it happens, the NR column he links to is nothing to do with the East Anglian revelations, but one predating them by several months, and supports Conrad Black's assertion that global warming "is not, in fact, occurring at all," and hasn't been since 1997. My column was published on July 4th last year. In November, it was revealed that Dr. Phil Jones agreed with me but, for political reasons, declined to admit it in public: The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. Later that month, Copenhagen honcho Tim Flannery changed his tune .....
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POPSSimplicity Is Killing Us Western culture tells stories which resolve everything in two simple dimensions of right / wrong, winning / losing. In other cultures, stories are framed to raise open questions predicated on the mystery, complexity and uncertainty of the natural world. And if stories arise from a process of monitoring self signifying intelligence, only indicators, trends, comparisons, inferences and comments can be made. There can be no rights or wrongs, but there are implications and consequences. Thanks Justine and WildCat. (See also - www.openintelligence.wordpress.com for more on self signifying intelligence.)
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POPSBritish newspapers make things up More: I hope American and British readers (and readers throughout the world) will finally wake up to the reality of British journalism: You just cannot believe what you read in British newspapers. I’d further call on my academic colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic never to speak to British reporters. You have absolutely no control over what they say about you and your scientific research. Unfortunately, however, this does not always work. A reporter from the Sunday Times has recently requested an interview with me about one of my papers. Having already learned my lesson in 2006, I completely ignored his email and telephone messages. As a result, no interview took place. But that did not stop him at all. He went ahead and wrote his article, pretending that he had interviewed me and quoting me at length.
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POPS‘Ellie Light’: Indefatigable Letter Writer or Axelrod/Plouffe Sock Puppet? UPDATED: Who is ‘Mark Spivey?’ Dan Riehl has been doing some sleuthing, and finds some fingers pointing in the direction of the White House. Meanwhile, Left Coast Rebel is taking a hard look at Samantha Power " as so some of our commenters... Ms. Power, by the way, just so happens to be married to Cass Sunstein. The mind boggles. From Patterico.... Who is Mark Spivey? Another Obama Astroturfer Patterico @ 11:21 am I joined a Facebook group called “Who is Ellie Light?” This morning I was invited to join a new group: “Who is Mark Spivey?” Who is Mark Spivey? I know only this: that he is the author of this pro-Obama letter that has appeared in numerous publications 1.24.10 Who is Mark Spivey? Another Obama Astroturfer “Who is Ellie Light?” http://bit.ly/53nyKW big journalism.com Posted by Frank Ross Jan 23rd 2010 'Ellie Light' http://bit.ly/75RSoE
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POPSChicago Paper Runs Racist-Sexist Headline In Election Coverage In order to make MLK’s quote match the spirit of the article title above, it would need to read something like this: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged by the color of their skin, sexual orientation, and then by the content of their gender. Martin Luther King, Jr. big journalism.com Racist, Sexist Headline in Chicago Newspaper http://bit.ly/8VpwhX
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POPSSET | Over-the-counter meds facing huge recall
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POPSReal Time Video and Audio Journalism with Tvider Mobile Tvider is a free online Application that uses the power of Twitter Service to blend video, picture, text messages and audio in one service using your Computer or Mobile Phones. Tvider has a wide reach on all leading mobile devices and platforms viz. J2ME, BREW, Symbian S60, iPhone, Blackberry.
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POPS“The Overwhelmingly Liberal Tilt of University Professors” NYT Well, in the former list of jobs, it’s almost impossible to create guidelines for success. Look at modern artists, and you’ll see there’s no way to predict who will make it and who won’t. But in the jobs favored by the right " standards are clearly drawn. You can gauge the difference between a good doctor and a bad one by the number of sponges left behind in your lower intestine (three by my last count). But let’s cut to the chase. The real reason why professors are libs boils down to one word: tenure. I mean, imagine if you had a guaranteed job for the rest of your life. That means none of your ideas will ever be tested in the real world. Instead, you can blather all you want about how Bush orchestrated 9/11, how America is responsible for all that’s wrong with the world, and what a tremendous dude Che Guevara was. The fact is, if we actually kept score on the success of liberal ideas throughout history " it just wouldn’t be fair to liberals.
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POPSNew York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers They need to take care with the subscription fee. As noted in the article, with TimesSelect they lost many readers in China and India because $50 was too high a price as it equaled 1/4 of college tuition.
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POPSWhen war is peace and right is center Reporting on independent Bernie Sanders, the Boston Globe headlined its recent profile: "Sanders a growing force on the far, far left -- Vermont senator is gathering clout as he takes on the Fed's Ben Bernanke." Polls, mind you, prove that disdain for the Fed chairman transcends "the left." As a failed regulator and architect of unpopular bailouts, Bernanke is despised by the public at large. Even within the Senate, his renomination faces transpartisan opposition from Republicans like Jim Bunning (Ky.) and red-state Democrats like Byron Dorgan (N.D.).
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POPSFennakadt a Pollner szűrőn Ez az oldal http://mediablog.hvg.hu/ az agyik szűr'm az internet infozuhatagában, életbentartója, @pollner (aka Pécsi Ferenc) és az autósújságírói múltam miatt, eszméletlen szellemeset alkotva, pollner szűr'ként tartom nyílván a www.szem.tv blogomon is. Most ezt találtam a rostán és megelégedéssel tölt el a téma, amelyhez a médiablogból jutottam el. A The Guardian online szerz'jének jóslata szerint a hagyományos újságírásnak befellegzett.
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POPSA Welcome Note To Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller, From Our Friend and Neighbor Arianna That’s particularly true when the mainstream media are reporting and analyzing the news of the day in terms of right vs. left " the fallback canard of lazy journalism everywhere. Anyone looking at today’s political landscape with clear eyes can see that on issue after issue " the war in Afghanistan, the bailout, health care, the war on drugs, etc., etc. " the binary division of the debate into right vs. left obscures more than it reveals. John McCain and Maria Cantwell are joining forces to bring back Glass-Steagall-type banking regulations. Ron Paul and Alan Grayson are pushing through legislation to audit the Fed. George Will agrees with Russ Feingold that we should not escalate in Afghanistan. Howard Dean and Michael Bloomberg are both down on the health care bill. And on and on it goes. The outrageous news last week that the New York Fed under Tim Geithner told AIG to withhold from the public key details about payments that put billions of dollars into the coffers .....
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