Category: 6. Controlled Mass Media

  • New Study Documents Bill O'Reilly's Fearmongering

    (from ThinkProgress) A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls “a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.” Fear was used in more than half (52.4 […]

  • American Family Association Blames VTech Shootings on Lack of Prayer

    Condoms, spanking, porn, abortion, no prayer, banned Bibles, gay teachers, Hollywood, profanity:

  • Does the President Have a Right to Not Encounter Disagreement?

    Alex Young and Leslie Weise attended a presidential forum on Social Security in Denver back in 2005 and were ejected after security noticed they had an anti-war bumper sticker. The forum was funded with taxpayer money. From the briefing for the White House: The president’s right to control his own message includes the right to […]

  • Press Aims at Hip-Hop, Misses Shock Radio?

    Watching AC360 podcast – now they are all focusing the Imus fallout on rap and hip-hop… it seems to me this is really missing the real issue – of conservative talk show hosts known to say outrageously racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic things. Anyone else see an obvious disconnect?

  • Orwell Reads the Finale of 1984

    Bouncing around YouTube on a Friday night:

  • Trailer for THX 1138

    George Lucas’s first film – with some of his most subversive imagery and amazing soud design – I found the overall pic a bit slow but the themes and visuals are worth it.

  • Released Emails re: Attorney Scandal 'We Are Trying to Muddy the Coverage”

    Think Progress Right now the coverage will be dominated by how qualified these folks were and their theories for their dismissals. We are trying to muddy the coverage up a bit by trying to put the focus on the process in which they were told — I suspect we are going to get to the […]

  • Don Imus: I'm Sorry I'm a Bigoted Asshole

    I really don’t get this at all. It took how many days for the leadership at MSNBC to respond to this? But now he says that he is sorry… well that just totally excuses the remarks. He’s sorry. And I can’t believe this is the top story right now. This is an easy reach story, […]

  • The Other Martin Luther King, Jr

    Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But […]

  • Newsweek Int'l Editor Attended Secret Pre-War Meeting

    In State of Denial, Bob Woodward delivers this sparkling scoop: Fareed Zakaria attended a secret gathering convened by Paul Wolfowitz in late 2001. The task at hand, according to a fellow participant, was to draft “a forceful summary of the best pro-war arguments” which became a blueprint for the Bush Administration’s PR campaign. Although he […]