My friend Andrew has brought it to my attention that Luke Russert was “c*ck blocked” by Brian Williams live on NBC during their election coverage.
You can check it out in this clip:
(A higher quality version is available here.)
I may be imagining things, but it seems to me that the girl on Russert’s right, or our [...]
On Friday, Jazz Shaw of TMV asked if Barack Obama was the story the media wanted to tell and did they inject themselves into the plot to keep the story on script?
I think that answer to that question is an unequivocal “no.”
I’ve said before that removing bias or unfairness from news is an impossible task. [...]
If you’re familiar with the arguments made by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, or even Glenn Greenwald, I think you’d be familiar with convincing arguments that the U.S. has ceased being a functional democracy. Our country is ruled largely by a cabal of wealthy businessmen and their puppet politicians. When’s the last time [...]
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CNN’s Jack Cafferty delivers the brutal verdict on Sarah Palin’s candidacy:
Cafferty’s conclusion for those of you without video or audio: “If John McCain wins this woman will be one 72-year-old’s heartbeat away from being President of the United States. And if that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, it should.”
And you know what [...]
Yesterday I said (in the site subhead) that I didn’t have anything to say about the anniversary of 9/11. That’s still mostly true, but I wanted to share two posts from elsewhere that I think are excellent food for thought.
First up, and most provocatively, is Paul Campos from Laywers, Guns and Money, who posits that [...]
I’m a little late on this one, but watching MSNBC’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention (which is mind numbing; McCain should watch it if he really has sleeping trouble) reminded me that NBC hired Luke Russert as a correspondent in the wake of his father’s death.
Giving him a job is sorta sweet and everything. [...]
I’m going to be bold here and say we’re going to look back at this week as a milestone. It’ll be the week - drumroll please - Obama ended the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Pretty amazing for someone who isn’t even the president yet. But how did Obama do it? Let me explain…
This weekend Iraqi Prime [...]
They say “they never really miss you til you dead or you gone”
So on that note I’m leaving after the song
I’m going to beach for a few days, so I’m not going to blog until Monday unless I get bored.
But I don’t want to leave you without something to mull over. So, check out this [...]
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In a scathing post yesterday, Glenn Greenwald accused MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann of carrying water for the Obama campaign. Greenwald says Olbermann abandoned his rhetoric on telecom immunity / warrantless domestic spying now that Obama supports it.
Here was Olbermann addressing Bush in January:
There is not a choice of protecting the telecoms from prosecution or [...]
This news from the NY Times just blew my mind when I read it:
CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.
Paul Friedman, a senior vice president at CBS News, said the news division does not get reports from Iraq on television “with enough frequency [...]