For the Media, It's Tea Party On, Health Care Protest Off
Hey, did you hear about yesterday's pro-health care reform rally in Washington, DC? You might not have if you watched any of the cable news networks.
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These two men will never stop feeding the Beast: not now, not ever! Welcome to Washington, DC. Everyone's right and nobody's sorry, that's the start and the end of the story.
Hey, did you hear about yesterday's pro-health care reform rally in Washington, DC? You might not have if you watched any of the cable news networks.
Is it really possible that a paper with the stature of Newsday could succumb to the pressures of a crude nativist bully of a politician like Steve Levy?
While the recent spate of Rahm Emanuel profiles offer some insight into the workings of the Obama presidency, they're simply not interesting. They reveal more about the media than our current political predicament.
Glenn Beck says Christians should leave their social justice churches, so I say Christians should leave Beck. Beck attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show.
Until recently, the erosion of CNN's audience might have been attributed to the lure of Olympic competition. But now CNN trails every other news network in every Nielsen demographic category.
Let the first blogger who dies in prison be the last. In fact, expand that remit. Let the next person who dies in prison for exercising expression in any form be the very last. Ever.
Poop Is Popular. CBS's Harry Smith is having an on-air colonoscopy. This is just one example of the media embracing what I predict will become a Poop Is Popular national "movement."
Strangely, CNN devoted most of the segment on the fact that Alcala was on the Dating Game and very little time on the actual people he murdered. The idiotic soundbites came one after another.
That Republicans lie and adopt positions that directly contradict positions they've previously adopted. is bad enough. Much worse is the liberal media treating falsehoods as if they're merely just a "side" in a debate about politics.
Under scrutiny for the anti-government rhetoric of the Tea Party movement and its often violent imagery, right-wingers seemed anxious to hold up the Pentagon killer as proof they weren't responsible for every political act of violence.
Murdoch is right: we can be blind to what is real and valuable. What's real and valuable is that we are awash in content.
Student journalist Cameron Burns got arrested, but he got the story -- no less than what student journalists are accomplishing daily, often without fear, for little to no pay, and at times in between classes.
