My Dream of a Media Watchdog

I enjoyed this clip. It’s short and doesn’t go into enough detail, but I liked the comparisons made. I’d appreciate a show entirely about keeping tabs on the media: showing which stories reported and not reported by which news outlets and why doing investigative journalism into who owns and manages each news outlet, the financial [...]

FOX ‘News’ Viewers Again Found Significantly more Disinformed and Misinformed

I posted this for two reasons. First, it’s further evidence that Fox News is not a reliable source of information… or else that Fox News attracts a very low quality viewer (and doesn’t manage to increase their quality)… not that this should surprise anyone who has been paying attention. Second, it’s further evidence that Fox [...]

Media, Race and Obama’s First Year

I think this is what fairly could be labelled as institutional racism. http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=60139 As a group, African Americans attracted relatively little attention in the U.S. mainstream news media during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency — and what coverage there was tended to focus more on specific episodes than on examining how broader issues and [...]

Trading coverage for access?

Cantor Lying with a Straight Face

Here is a boring and stupid video. There isn’t much point in watching except it’s a representative example of Republican behavior (see commentary below). Cantor, with a straight face, does nothing but lie and mislead. This is common behavior for Republicans because they know the facts don’t support their ideology and their own self-interest. There are [...]

Segregation in 2010!

This is the type of issue that libertarians have no practical answer for. If government was smaller with less tax funding and with less power, incidents like this would happen all of the time and there wouldn’t be anything that could be done about it. If our country had been libertarian from the beginning, it’s possible [...]

What You Should Know About Roger Ailes, President Of Fox News

I don’t know if I’ve posted the following video before, but I just came across it again. It’s a very impressive analysis of Roger Ailes and Fox News. This is the only news show I’ve ever seen which mentions Roger Ailes’ “Orchestra Pit Theory”. Cenk is correct in this video that, what ever else can be said, Ailes [...]

Pro-Israel: Narrative vs Reality

Here is an interview discussing the Israeli two state option. Most people who are pro-Israel support a two state solution. Most American Jews support a two state solution. However, a minority of hawkish Jews, neocons, & white end-times evangelicals dominate the political discourse, control the media narrative. A minority position gets presented in the media [...]

Democrat Corruption? Liberal Scandals?

I’m an unrepentant liberal with strong interest in liberal views and interests. I do, however, go out of my way to try to see the world from other views as well. I check out the views of anarchists, libertarians, Tea Party protesters, rightwing bloggers, intelligent conservative news (such as Wall Street Journal), etc. I even stay moderately [...]

Afghanistan War: will it ever end?