Thursday, October 9, 2003
What media to trust and distrust.
Recently Brit Hume of Fox News tried to compare the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq to the deaths of Americans in California and by using statistical sleight of hand he concluded that the death rate in California was higher than that for Americans in Iraq. Of course, he left something out that made...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2003
The Republican dominated FCC issues last rites.
With total disregard for the wishes of the American people, the Federal Trade Commission (FCC) yesterday authorized the conglomeratization of the American media. Now it used to be thought that the airwaves were owned by the public and were to be used for the benefit of the public, but according to...
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Friday, April 11, 2003
MENACE: Rightwing Pundits & Talking Heads in America.
The American media has undergone a major transformation in the last few decades. Whereas, there were hundreds of radio and TV stations and outlets in the 1970s, today the TV networks are virtually all controlled by six large corporations (GE, Viacom, Disney, Westinghouse, Fox & AOL/Time/Warner and...
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Sunday, March 9, 2003
American Journalism: RIP
If you have ever read the book, "All The President's Men," or seen the movie, you would know that the reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, had to provide at least two sources or corroberation for every claim they made in their stories in the Washington Post back in the 1970s. This was demanding...
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