by Noam Chomsky
Open Media Series: City Lights Books, 232 pages
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A new FAIR report profiles the 12 top Islamophobes in U.S. media.
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11/13/08
Fox News Channel senior vice president John Moody took issue with FAIR's action alert, "Fox News Nailbiter! Conservative Channel Pushed Notion of a Tightening Election." But Moody's claims--and his suggestion that FAIR "retract your article and provide an appropriate apology"--are based on a peculiar argument.
CounterSpin: Maurice Carney on the Congo, Sasha Lilley on The War Comes Home (11/14/08)
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- Posted by Steve Rendall on 11/20/08 at 10:38 am
Glenn Beck has been telling a personal story illustrating what he says is a particularly intense level of hatred on the left.
According to the newly signed Fox News host, he was verbally assaulted by a truck driver while standing in line at a Wendy's restaurant at a truck stop. [...] Read more»
- Posted by Peter Hart on 11/18/08 at 4:36 pmIn "Clout Has Plunged for Automakers and Union, Too," the New York Times' Micheline Maynard makes this curious observation: [GM CEO Rick ] Wagoner and Ron Gettelfinger, head of the U.A.W., appeared on local TV in Detroit this week, but no Detroit representatives landed spots on the Sunday morning talk shows out of Washington. Senator Levin was [...] Read more»
- Posted by Gabriel Voiles on 11/18/08 at 4:33 pm
Via A Tiny Revolution, a reminder from Vanity Fair website contributor Peter Newcomb (11/14/08) of the unspoken motivations of a bazillionaire pundit writing an enormously influential column on economics:
[...] Read more» - Posted by Gabriel Voiles on 11/18/08 at 4:32 pm
Posting on Editor & Publisher's E&P Pub blog (11/17/08), Greg Mitchell has more on "Misleading Parents After Their Kids Are Killed in War":
[...] Read more» - Posted by Gabriel Voiles on 11/18/08 at 4:31 pm
From his perch over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald (11/18/08, ad-viewing required) sees "nothing new" in the current media craze for "bipartisanship": "To the contrary, the last eight years have been defined, more than anything else, by overarching bipartisan cooperation and consensus."
[...] Read more» - Posted by Gabriel Voiles on 11/18/08 at 4:30 pm
Dean Baker makes a particularly sharp point (Beat the Press, 11/18/08) when trying to "imagine that the economy in Venezuela gets really bad in the next few years." He asks if the Washington Post would then "write about how Hugo Chávez had to cope with enormous economic turmoil?" but decides "that's unlikely. The Post would most likely be running articles that tell readers how Chávez's policies led to an economic disaster."
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