Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
By John Pilger | Friday, September 03, 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in [...]
Now even the New York Times is talking about it— By FRANK RICH | August 28, 2010 [ print_link ] ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero [...]
WAY OVERDUE DEPT.— The Big Lie machine built by the right (and the establishment) must be broken. But that important feat won’t be achieved until progressives get serious about building their own media and mass communications structure. By Don Hazen, Crossposted with http://www.alternet.org/story/21192/ ® THIS IS AN ARCHIVAL PIECE OF LASTING INTEREST See also this [...]
New York Times minimizes Gulf oil spill By Tom Eley 5 May 2010 The April 20 blowout on a BP oil rig 50 miles off Louisiana’s coast, which claimed the lives of 11 workers, continues to gush millions of gallons of heavy crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico with no clear end in sight. [...]
When tedium is totalizing Many J-schools continue to regard PBS’ Mac Neil-Lehrer Report as the gold standard for “professional journalism” but this adoration only underscores the myopic acceptance of corporate values in the reporting of reality. Meantime, the Report continues to exude the priggish civility of those who can speak of great injuries at several [...]
Can anyone be shocked at this point? Unbridled careerism is so commonplace in American “journalism” as to be taken for granted. As usual, the corporate values of “me first, and to hell with everybody else”, defeat the profession’s mission to buttress democracy through the presentation of truth. By David Sirota No matter how much this [...]
Is Israel Controlling Phony Terror News? The authors pose important questions which, of course, are not being asked by the mainstream media By Gordon Duff and Brian Jobert W H O SAYS Al Qaeda takes credit for a bombing? Rita Katz. Who gets us bin Laden tapes? Rita Katz. Who gets us pretty much [...]
By Case Wagenvoord W H E N The New York Times says, “fit,” it means all the news that’s fit to print if its reporters want to continue to have “access,” the door that opens and ushers a reporter into the multiple seats of power, both public and private, that control America. And the [...]
By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Report | 7 April 2010 WITH SPECIAL VIDEO Whether or not the old excuse, “I was just following orders” applies to these horrific circumstances, there’s little doubt that what our troops are doing in our name was concocted at the highest levels [...]
Gingrich: Obama Is the ‘Most Radical President’ Ever Editor’s Note: In this new section, “Annals of Scum”, we simply present the inflammatory nonsense and falsehoods being spread around by figures like Newt Gingrich, which the corporate media continues to treat with respect. Likewise, we remind our readers, those with a strong stomach and the ability [...]
