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POPSMedia Bias in Career Articles Yahoo published the article, "Blue Collar Jobs in High Demand." The article itself is half-truths and a whole lot of rose colored glass bs. It is the 150 comments that I clipped. Real people, ALL over the country, telling their story. Don't believe in the recovery hype, this is just the beginning and now may be looked back at fondly.
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POPSThe Moment Social Media Became Serious Business I cannot, but take this opportunity to say that the title of our next 'Master Class' is 'Content analysis: Using taxonomies to improve collaboration' (see http://openintelligence.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/content-analysis-using-taxonomies-to-improve-collaboration/. The conclusion that Web 2.0 collaboration is the new game is timely too, since the link to the Harvard Business Review is fresh, through Twitter. And here I are doing a bit of business promotion on Amplify. How do people feel about that?
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POPSScott Brown’s Military Service Is Just a Pose To The LameStream Media
If Vennochi treats Brown’s military service as some kind of calculated political ploy, it’s no wonder. That’s the way some of the most prominent of the relatively few recent politicians on her side of the aisle who were involved with our military have treated it. I somewhat doubt that political calculations were entering into Brown’s head when he stood in the C-130’s door for his second qualification parachute jump at the Army’s Airborne School (The first jump is easy because you don’t know what the hell is happening" it’s the second jump that’s a killer). If Brown was anything like me, he probably thought those silver wings would be a great way to meet girls. But you don’t stay in the Guard for thirty years " giving up a weekend a month, having to run every day to meet the stringent fitness requirements, taking course after course on your own time to keep educationally qualified, wearing terrible haircuts " unless you are either crazy or you have a deep and .....
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POPSHad Enough of the Arrogance? Welcome to Big Journalism Like most newspapers, circulation at the L.A. Times has been plummeting for years. The paper’s parent company has declared bankruptcy. The L.A. Times now announces several rounds of layoffs every year. My spies tell me morale is basically nonexistent. The paper used to make a profit; I doubt it still does. Reporters and editors alike believe the paper’s days are numbered. And it’s only going to get worse. We’re watching death in slow motion. I have mixed feelings about this, because many of the individuals there are likable people. But the arrogance has to go. The disregard for facts has to go. If that means that the institution must die, then so be it. You can help kill it, and replace it with something better. That’s what I think Big Journalism is all about. Anybody can do what I do. You need only stay in touch with what’s going on and care about the truth. If you’re reading this, that probably describes you.
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POPSIn defense of jaywalking More: today the word jaywalking is often used as a sort of blanket justification for the dominating presence of cars on city streets. It also reflects a social bias against those people not in cars. (Note this comment in a Federal Highway Administration report: "Still, almost no one can avoid occasional pedestrian status," as if they were discussing exposure to a venereal disease.) …the Netherlands, which has essentially legalized jaywalking, has an enviable pedestrian safety record. …Finally, read newspapers very carefully. A number of studies have documented that media coverage of traffic crashes is selective, framed in certain predictable ways, and often misrepresents the true frequency or nature of actual risk. Jaywalking makes better copy for columnists than actually probing the complex nature of traffic safety.
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POPSWhat Media Bias? What Media Bias? Andrea Mitchell: I Wouldn’t Characterize George Soros As Leftwing (Video) Which begs the question, “Who is leftwing then, Andrea?”
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POPSNew Metrics for Social Media Measurement It's about more than pageviews, visitor loyalty, and referral links. Real social media measurement is about brand reputation and relationships. This is an example of some of the measurements that www.padennoble.com captures with their technology and service.
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POPSCan You Hear Us Now? Chicago March on the Media The Chicago Tea Party Patriots held a protest March on the Media. They protested media bias outside the studios of ABC News and CBS News in Chicago during their live broadcasts. This event was part of the "Operation Can You Hear Us Now" nationwide media protests: http://www.operationcanyouhearusnow.c... For more information on the Chicago Tea Party, please visit: http://chicagoteapatriots.com
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POPSObama controls your TV "...this EIF initiative fits into a broader White House plan, including the push to politicize the NEA, to redefine “art” as “service” and engage an all too compliant news, entertainment, and artistic community to start a volunteer army through these online portals."
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POPSWho’s Behind the White House War on Fox News? Or about the joint White House-ABC News health care reform infomercial that aired earlier this summer. Some “opinion journalism” is more equal than others. Debates about the blurred lines between opinion and journalism are all well and good. But don’t the talking points-crafters in the Oval Office have something better to do than carp about the talking points they don’t like hearing on the one cable network that hasn’t been completely overrun by Obama sycophants? The corruptocrat affiliations of Obama’s communications team are illuminating. His press shop can’t rise above the fray because they’ve been entrenched in the Beltway fray for years. They can’t help themselves. Democratic media consultant Dunn’s claim to fame is her decade-long service as chief strategist for disgraced Democrat and former Senate Majority Leader-turned-health care lobbyist Tom Daschle. She was in the thick of his failed re-election campaign as Daschle asserted a bogus property-tax
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POPSBill O'Reilly Claims, "There was no cheerleading of President Bush on this network" Oy. Where to begin. Over the years, there's been a mountain of evidence amassed -- both here at C&L as well as such sites as Media Matters and ThinkProgress -- demonstrating Fox News' extraordinary right-wing bias, and its utter lack of anything approaching fairness or balance. Indeed, Fox's adoption of the phrase "fair and balanced" has transformed it into a popular reference to up-is-down Newspeak. The fact that O'Reilly blithely dismisses this mountain as the product of a "far left bias" by those groups is itself clear evidence of his own bias: It's clear he a priori dismisses any facts produced by such groups, regardless of their actual validity.
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POPSMeet The Owners Of CNS News Another Unfair And Unbalanced "News" Source. Notice that they also champion the corporate agenda. And look who praises it What Others Say About the MRC. Read what Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, Bob Novak and other leading conservatives say about the Media Research Center.
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POPSMedia Links, Links, & More Links Participate, listen, call the 2nd tier talkers. Dozens of newspapers and magazines, of course mostly all blindly framed to the left. Links to e-mail all on site.
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POPSMuch Of Traditional Journalism Went Backwards and were so badly in the tank for one candidate in 2008 that 90 percent of the public can see it. As ABC’s Michael Malone wrote in October of 2008: I also happen to believe that most reporters, whatever their political bias, are human torpedoes . . .and, had they been unleashed, would have raced in and roughed up the Obama campaign as much as they did McCain’s. That’s what reporters do, I was proud to have been one, and I’m still drawn to a good story, any good story, like a shark to blood in the water. So why weren’t those legions of hungry reporters set loose on the Obama campaign? Who are the real villains in this story of mainstream media betrayal? The editors. The men and women you don’t see; the people who not only decide what goes in the paper, but what doesn’t; the managers who give the reporters their assignments and lay-out the editorial pages. They are the real culprits. Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years
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POPSJake Tapper's ACORN Posts at his ABC Political Punch Blog ABC's Charles Gibson --- "Unaware" of Five Day-Old ACORN Controversy, Senate Vote to De-Fund ACORN Gibson, as John Stephenson and P.J. Gladnick of NewsBusters noted in September of last year, as a result of his interview with GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, twisted her words, with the help of selective editing, to portray her as some kind of out of touch, excessively religious, militaristic rube. With the above interview, no editing is required. Who’s out of touch now, Charlie? Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org. _______________________________________ UPDATE: Rush and some NB commenters are speculating that Gibson may have said “I haven’t heard about it” because the only other alternative would be to say a completely damning “We didn’t think it was important.” Gibson’s laugh at the beginning of his response does seem to be a bit nervous.
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POPSFAIR's Media Activist Kit Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: “Media have tremendous power in setting cultural guidelines and in shaping political discourse. It is essential that news media, along with other institutions, are challenged to be fair and accurate.” The site gives advice on how to detect bias in the media, offers guidelines on writing to journalists who show signs of bias, lists world’s 10 biggest media companies, provides a list of Media Activism Groups, as well as a Media Contact List (top network/cable television, radio, newspapers and magazines) addresses, phone numbers and websites. The increasing number of people using social media sites are proof that we are no longer the ‘silent majority’. Now let’s carry this progress one step further. When we find bias in the media let’s make sure the people responsible for passing their lies on as news learn that we are not going to take it any more.
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POPSWhat I Saw at the 9/12 March Wow! There is still a lot of misinformation floating around out there. Most people have good hearts and are fearful of what direction they think the government is headed, and rightly so. They should always question the government’s motives but they should also question their sources of information. One of the biggest dangers of any democratic society is to follow unquestioningly what you are told by the mainstream media. Especially a corporate controlled media that embraces bias and plays on your fears to get your attention. The author mentions many things these people are either against or fearful of. I am given the impression that these people are against them simply because they are perceived to be democratic principles. The truth is many of these things were started under a Republican administration. Some of these things fall directly onto Barack Obama.
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