All Posts Tagged With: "Complicit Media"
ACA Repeal Stunt Amendment Fails in Senate Tonight
The GOP brought up their amendment to repeal the ACA on a bill meant to reauthorize the FAA. It failed pretty spectacularly — largely because the GOP amendment didn’t propose a way to *pay* the $1+ trillion cost of repeal.
2Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 29 comments | Continued
More Like This Please
It must be nice to have a functioning media in a state. Look what happened in Illinois:
In the race for President Obama’s old Senate seat, Republican candidate Mark Kirk has spent the past couple weeks hammering Democrat Alexi Giannoulias over the failure of his family’s Broadway Bank. On Monday, Ed Marshall of the local [...]
In Which We Find Ron Williams Losing All Journalistic Integrity He Had Left
Sunday’s editorial page had another piece from Williams, this one not just carrying water for the Insurance Commissioner, but inexplicably injects her current round of excuses into the debate without a single comment from Matt Denn.
5Apr2010 | cassandra_m | 48 comments | Continued
The Secret Doings of the Politico Editorial Meeting
This is damned awesome — a very cool website and a damned funny take on the ohsoinsidery Politico:
2Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
How the Media Gets Suckered by the Media Lobbying Complex
Sebastian Jones writes an excellent piece of investigative journalism — The Media-Lobbying Complex — documenting the various (and many) undisclosed conflicts of interest that seem to power much of the media narrative:
President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the [...]
Calling ‘Em Out
Time Magazine reports that the White House is getting more aggressive in taking on the disinformation that gets into the press:
9Oct2009 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
President Obama Highlights a Favorite Cause of Bloggers
At his Town Hall at the DNC the other day, President Obama took notice of how dysfunctional the media’s role has become:
23Aug2009 | cassandra_m | 11 comments | Continued
This Is How It Gets Done
Brendan Nyhan wrote recently about the proven playbook of getting misinformation (lies, really) about Obama’s birth certificate and about some details of the health insurance reform actually get into the media rotation:
13Aug2009 | cassandra_m | 18 comments | Continued
Bush: ‘Gog and Magog Made Me Do It’
Invade Iraq, that is. And just one more story the MSM didn’t cover: A raging born-again religious fanatic lunatic was President.
El Somnambulo cannot make this stuff up. But here’s the sourced inside skinny, starting w/Daily Kos, and continuing with an account from the Council for Secular Humanism:
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques [...]
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