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The Ten Reasons The Banksters Get Away With It By Danny Schechter
There is no doubt that Administration policy gave crooks great latitude, as financial journalist Yves Smith explains, “The overly generous terms of the TARP, and the failure of Team Obama to force management changes on the industry in early 2009 was a fatal error. It has embedded and emboldened a deeply corrupt plutocracy.” Continue reading
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NYT’s Fisk Factcheck Fail By Peter Hart
The United States sent former ambassador Frank Wisner to Egypt to talk to Hosni Mubarak. Wisner garnered headlines when he declared support for Mubarak staying in power, causing the White House to try and argue that wasn’t the message the White House was trying to send. Continue reading
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His Master’s Voice By William Bowles
The imperial line is clear: wait it out and in the meantime try to engineer a ‘solution’ favourable to the Egyptian people but one that doesn’t alter status quo, especially in the Region, an almost unlikely outcome but one that depends on the passage of time for it to have the best chance of success.… Continue reading
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Who is the Real Opposition in Egypt? By Shamus Cooke
The revolution in Egypt erupted like all revolutions do, from the bottom up. It was unemployment and high food prices that propelled working and poor people into action. Now, the media reports that the ‘opposition’ in Egypt is a group of well-to-do folks who have very little in common with the poor of Egypt. Continue reading
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As things fall apart By William Bowles
Are you not amazed by the total synchronicity that exists between the media and the political class? The idea that the US has absolutely no business sticking its nose into other country’s affairs has been airbrushed out of the situation completely. Elsewhere of course the real reason will be articulated, namely ‘US strategic interests’ but… Continue reading
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Smell Something Rotten? 2010 P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize the worst of U.S. journalism
At the end of every year FAIR rounds up some of the stinkiest examples of corporate media malfeasance. This year brought no shortage of contenders; indeed, the hardest part of the P.U.-litzers is narrowing down the list. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks and the press By Paul J. Balles Ph.D.
The press is down on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for all the wrong reasons. They ought to be after Assange for giving governments reasons for censorship–just the opposite effect of the transparency he presumably wanted to promote. Continue reading
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The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired By Glenn Greenwald
For more than six months, Wired’s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks’ source. In late May, Adrian Lamo — at the same time he… Continue reading
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NATO denies plans to run special-ops in Pakistan — RT
The US-led coalition in Afghanistan has denied reports that it is pushing to extend its special operations into neighboring Pakistan. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Prelude to a new wave of ‘legal’ repression? By William Bowles
What is dangerous about the turn of events…is that it if there is an ulterior motive to the release of the cables it might be a new wave of repressive laws, in all likelihood under the infinitely expanding umbrella of the ‘war on terror’. Already, it’s illegal in many countries to ‘assist terrorists’ by putting… Continue reading
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Who is Behind Wikileaks? By Michel Chossudovsky
Wikileaks is not a typical alternative media initiative. The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel are directly involved in the editing and selection of leaked documents. The Economist and Time Magazine have also played an important role. While the project and its editor Julian Assange reveal a commitment and concern for truth in… Continue reading
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Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks has given the mainstream media yet another opportunity to vilify Iran. A typical headline, from the New York Times was: “Around the world distress over Iran.” And, ironically, it is true, but not in the way the headline writer meant. Around the world there is distress over Iran, distress at the way it is… Continue reading
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Jay Rosen on Wikileaks: “The watchdog press died; we have this instead.”
In this video I grapple with my own thoughts about that novel formation in press and politics: Wikileaks. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Shows Diplomats Lie to Themselves Before They Lie to Journalists By Peter Hart
The fact that U.S. diplomats and U.S. media were mostly in step is not a coincidence. It reminds me of that Karl Kraus quote: ‘How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.’ Continue reading
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FAIR Action Alert: NYT's Iran Missile Fizzle – Paper cites WikiLeaks cable, but omits doubts
A November 29 New York Times article alleging that Iran possesses powerful missiles with “the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe” appears to rest on incredibly shaky evidence–amounting to a German newspaper article that did not fully corroborate the U.S. claims the Times was touting Continue reading
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FAIR Action Alert: NYT’s Iran Missile Fizzle – Paper cites WikiLeaks cable, but omits doubts
A November 29 New York Times article alleging that Iran possesses powerful missiles with “the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe” appears to rest on incredibly shaky evidence–amounting to a German newspaper article that did not fully corroborate the U.S. claims the Times was touting Continue reading
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New York Times Oversells WikiLeaks/Iranian Missiles Story By Peter Hart
WikiLeaks document dumps are largely what media want to make of them. There’s one conventional response, which goes something like this: “There’s nothing new here, but WikiLeaks is dangerous!” But there’s another option: “There’s nothing here, except for the part that confirms a storyline we’ve been pushing.” In those cases, WikiLeaks is deemed very, very… Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Media Misreading Midterms. As usual, press urge a move to the right
With the Democrats suffering substantial losses in Tuesday’s midterms, many journalists and pundits were offering a familiar diagnosis: The Democrats had misread their mandate and governed too far to the left. The solution, as always, is for Democrats to move to the right and reclaim “the center.” But this conventional wisdom falls apart under scrutiny. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Wikileaks – The smear and the denial – Part 1
The rising level of dissent really is wonderful news. It is a sign that a public empowered by the internet is beginning to seriously challenge the propaganda, lies and smears of the “responsible” media that make mass killing possible. Life will never be the same again – the Burnses, Baronets and Rifkinds +are+ going to… Continue reading
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The secret war between Wikileaks and the Pentagon, (and some media outlets) By Danny Schechter
Wikileaks introduced the significance of their immense treasure trove of secrets on their website this way: “The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United… Continue reading
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