Media Bias
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this is missing fox news guys, but otherwise pretty good
DriveInDriveOut
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rt has a lot of kick ass shows:
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never knew this about amazon. i heard these internet companies were starting to engage in censorship. wow just reading more into this article theyve really censored the internet. the commentors on amazons site are even saying their reviews have been deleted several times. very dangerous letting rich people control information:
The owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, also the founder and CEO of Amazon, has a $600 million contract with the CIA. Google, likewise, is deeply embedded within the security and surveillance state and aligned with the ruling elites. Amazon recently purged over 1,000 negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book, “What Happened.” The effect was that the book’s Amazon rating jumped from 2 1/2 stars to five stars. Do corporations such as Google and Amazon carry out such censorship on behalf of the U.S. government? Or is this censorship their independent contribution to protect the corporate state? - chris hedges
The owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, also the founder and CEO of Amazon, has a $600 million contract with the CIA. Google, likewise, is deeply embedded within the security and surveillance state and aligned with the ruling elites. Amazon recently purged over 1,000 negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book, “What Happened.” The effect was that the book’s Amazon rating jumped from 2 1/2 stars to five stars. Do corporations such as Google and Amazon carry out such censorship on behalf of the U.S. government? Or is this censorship their independent contribution to protect the corporate state? - chris hedges
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stunning article on internet censorship by big corporations like google. gonna have to find an alternative to them.:
The Silencing of Dissent - Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists
The Silencing of Dissent - Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists
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Nice spin.
2 garbage corporations censoring the web.
Matt StollerVerified account @matthewstoller 32m32 minutes ago
Progressive and independent media are getting crushed by Google and FB control of web traffic. This is from Alternet.
Matt StollerVerified account @matthewstoller 32m32 minutes ago
Progressive and independent media are getting crushed by Google and FB control of web traffic. This is from Alternet.
The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges
CH: The commercial broadcast networks, and that includes CNN and MSNBC, are not in the business of journalism. They hardly do any. Their celebrity correspondents are courtiers to the elite. They speculate about and amplify court gossip, which is all the accusations about Russia, and they repeat what they are told to repeat. They sacrifice journalism and truth for ratings and profit. These cable news shows are one of many revenue streams in a corporate structure. They compete against other revenue streams. The head of CNN, Jeff Zucker, who helped create the fictional persona of Donald Trump on “Celebrity Apprentice,” has turned politics on CNN into a 24-hour reality show. All nuance, ambiguity, meaning and depth, along with verifiable fact, are sacrificed for salacious entertainment. Lying, racism, bigotry and conspiracy theories are given platforms and considered newsworthy, often espoused by people whose sole quality is that they are unhinged. It is news as burlesque.
I was on the investigative team at the New York Times during the lead-up to the Iraq War. I was based in Paris and covered Al Qaeda in Europe and the Middle East. Lewis Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle and maybe somebody in an intelligence agency, would confirm whatever story the administration was attempting to pitch. Journalistic rules at the Times say you can’t go with a one-source story. But if you have three or four supposedly independent sources confirming the same narrative, then you can go with it, which is how they did it. The paper did not break any rules taught at Columbia journalism school, but everything they wrote was a lie.
The whole exercise was farcical. The White House would leak some bogus story to Judy Miller or Michael Gordon, and then go on the talk shows to say, ‘as the Times reported….’ It gave these lies the veneer of independence and reputable journalism. This was a massive institutional failing, and one the paper has never faced.
CH: The commercial broadcast networks, and that includes CNN and MSNBC, are not in the business of journalism. They hardly do any. Their celebrity correspondents are courtiers to the elite. They speculate about and amplify court gossip, which is all the accusations about Russia, and they repeat what they are told to repeat. They sacrifice journalism and truth for ratings and profit. These cable news shows are one of many revenue streams in a corporate structure. They compete against other revenue streams. The head of CNN, Jeff Zucker, who helped create the fictional persona of Donald Trump on “Celebrity Apprentice,” has turned politics on CNN into a 24-hour reality show. All nuance, ambiguity, meaning and depth, along with verifiable fact, are sacrificed for salacious entertainment. Lying, racism, bigotry and conspiracy theories are given platforms and considered newsworthy, often espoused by people whose sole quality is that they are unhinged. It is news as burlesque.
I was on the investigative team at the New York Times during the lead-up to the Iraq War. I was based in Paris and covered Al Qaeda in Europe and the Middle East. Lewis Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle and maybe somebody in an intelligence agency, would confirm whatever story the administration was attempting to pitch. Journalistic rules at the Times say you can’t go with a one-source story. But if you have three or four supposedly independent sources confirming the same narrative, then you can go with it, which is how they did it. The paper did not break any rules taught at Columbia journalism school, but everything they wrote was a lie.
The whole exercise was farcical. The White House would leak some bogus story to Judy Miller or Michael Gordon, and then go on the talk shows to say, ‘as the Times reported….’ It gave these lies the veneer of independence and reputable journalism. This was a massive institutional failing, and one the paper has never faced.
ben norton offers and interesting perspective on RT news:
"I'm not a fan of RT,"
"Now if only RT would stop doing positive coverage of the National Front & AfD and stop its Breitbart-style coverage of Muslims & refugees..."
"On Contact and Redacted Tonight are excellent shows. But they're editorially independent from RT's news coverage, which is not left-wing"
"I'm not a fan of RT,"
"Now if only RT would stop doing positive coverage of the National Front & AfD and stop its Breitbart-style coverage of Muslims & refugees..."
"On Contact and Redacted Tonight are excellent shows. But they're editorially independent from RT's news coverage, which is not left-wing"
Since then, thirteen leading left-wing web sites have had their search traffic from Google collapse by 55 percent, with the World Socialist Web Site having had its search traffic plunge by 74 percent.
“Just speaking as a journalist, it’s terrifying,” Hedges said. “Those people who still try and do journalism, they’re the ones getting hit; especially those journalists that attempt to grapple with issues of power and the corporate state.
“This shows not only how bankrupt the state is, but how frightened it is,” Hedges said.
“Google is developing ever more intensive methods of targeting, aimed at blocking any dissenting critical voices,” said David North, the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site.
“This is an unprecedented attack on free speech. In the history of the United States, censorship on this scale has never been imposed outside of wartime,” he added, pointing to the blocking of Trotskyist publications during World War II.
Google escalates blacklisting of left-wing web sites and journalists
“Just speaking as a journalist, it’s terrifying,” Hedges said. “Those people who still try and do journalism, they’re the ones getting hit; especially those journalists that attempt to grapple with issues of power and the corporate state.
“This shows not only how bankrupt the state is, but how frightened it is,” Hedges said.
“Google is developing ever more intensive methods of targeting, aimed at blocking any dissenting critical voices,” said David North, the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site.
“This is an unprecedented attack on free speech. In the history of the United States, censorship on this scale has never been imposed outside of wartime,” he added, pointing to the blocking of Trotskyist publications during World War II.
Google escalates blacklisting of left-wing web sites and journalists
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Funny tale with a great closing video clip.
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Babagounj
Strength through joy
Now who's promoting fear ?
Incredibly Offensive Anti-Trump, Anti Gillespie Ad Put Out By Democrats In Virginia | Weasel Zippers
Incredibly Offensive Anti-Trump, Anti Gillespie Ad Put Out By Democrats In Virginia | Weasel Zippers
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Fox to Offer Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage of Bill Clinton’s Impeachment...
...NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it a story “too hot for the other cable-news networks to handle,” Fox News Channel announced on Tuesday that it would begin airing twenty-four-hour coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1998–99 impeachment...
...NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it a story “too hot for the other cable-news networks to handle,” Fox News Channel announced on Tuesday that it would begin airing twenty-four-hour coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1998–99 impeachment...
Babagounj
Strength through joy
What I find about this ad was that they used such a small flag. And who mounts a flag on the rear ? Everyone that I have seen is proudly mounted high up on the sides of the truck.
