Thu 17 Apr 2008
Between Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the designated inquisitors, not a single intelligent question was put to either candidate during ABC News’ so-called “debate” in Pennsylvania last night. (more…)
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Mon 14 Apr 2008
Winter Soldier on RadioActive
Posted by kevin under it's the stupid media , anti-war , radioNo Comments
This week HIMC presents audio testimony from Winter Soldier 2008. This week’s segment comes from the panel Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy, Part One. The Winter Soldier panels were largely censored by the mainstream media. In the coming weeks, RadioActive will rebroadcast some of these testimonies to help disseminate these eyewitness accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information go to www.ivaw.org
Tune to WWUH 91.3 fm Wednesday April 16 at noon, then again on WESU 88.1 fm Tuesday April 22 at 1pm.
Fri 28 Mar 2008
Friends of Tibet . . . but henchmen for the CIA
Posted by Peter G under it's the stupid media , global1 Comment
Progressives are often heard to complain that the corporate-owned media fails to carry news about campaigns for human rights or struggles against police repression, much less news of developments in revolutionary struggles. This “self-censorship” really shouldn’t be a big surprise: only a handful of huge corporations control most of the print and network news media and they obviously have a stake in the class struggle that puts them on the other side of the fence from most liberation fighters.
But as we are now learning, there is one thing even more nauseating than the corporate media remaining silent . . . and that’s when it decides to speak out. Just look at the drumbeat of media coverage about Tibetan “resistance” to China’s “occupation.” (more…)
Thu 20 Mar 2008
Courant Boycotts Winter Soldiers’ Testimony
Posted by steve fournier under it's the stupid media , anti-war[4] Comments
This is the text of a letter I sent to The Hartford Courant a few days ago. They didn’t print it.
“You wouldn’t know it from reading this paper, but there was a four-day conference last week in Washington featuring the testimony of dozens of veterans of the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. For some reason, we’d never heard what they had to tell us. (more…)
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Producers at Large
Posted by steve fournier under Hartford , it's the stupid media , culture1 Comment
I had a brainstorming session Wednesday with a couple of independent TV producers who were recently liberated from long-term assignments. (more…)
Tue 22 Jan 2008
The hyperbole of Three Strikes…
Posted by jerimarie liesegang under it's the stupid media , justice[21] Comments
As we approach Tuesday’s special session, ironically following the National holiday honoring the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, it may prove informative to look at some of the facts. For clearly the mass media has and will not go to the facts of this issue. The following is my small and maybe naive reading of the facts from a number of reports available through the CGA website. Though hopefully these thoughts may help stir the dialogue to pre-cheshire re-entry and reduction of recidivism implementation plans rather to the drum beat of enhanced penalties, mandated 60 yr prison sentences and expansion of the crime of burglary.
Life imprisonment for 3-time offenders:
First, I hope someone reminds our legislators, (more…)
Thu 27 Dec 2007
Pakistan May Be Closer Than You Think
Posted by kevin under it's the stupid media , politics1 Comment
President Bush may have condemned today’s assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but his administration has done little to curb the corrupt rule of Pervez Musharraf. Bush and company are happy to keep friendly relations with Musharraf’s regime as an ally in the war on terrorism, despite what now is clearly a terror-inspired state where political opposition will be violently suppressed. There have been reports that Bhutto feared assassination at the hands of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani counterpart to the CIA. Now conveniently, al-Qaeda and/or other extranational extremists are blamed for the killing. (more…)
Mon 17 Dec 2007
A Very Special FCC X-MAS
Posted by Josh under it's the stupid media , government , activism[5] Comments
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is set on having a very special media consolidation Christmas. Martin has proposed lifting the longstanding ban on one company owning both the daily newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same market. He has pushed for a vote on his proposal by Dec. 18.
Time is running out!
S 2332, the “The Media Ownership Act of 2007,” is a bill that would direct the FCC to conduct a separate proceeding on localism and create an independent minority and female ownership task force before moving forward with any changes to media ownership limits.
Thu 13 Dec 2007
Accounting for Hard Times
Posted by steve fournier under it's the stupid media , economics , government , culture[4] Comments
Hard times lie ahead. We blew everything we had on diversions, including two wars, and now the tab is coming due.
Sat 8 Dec 2007
Hartford Cable subscribers no longer have C-SPAN 2. There’s just a test pattern at channel 23 now, but I’m guessing we’ll have additional coverage of sports like poker and street-fighting in due course. (more…)