Media
Did NBC Give Sarah Palin's Stand-Up Debut A Little Audio Encouragement?
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:06 — Dave Culver
Palin's whole stand up routine the other night on The Tonight Show was more than a little surreal. But I thought it was odd how boisterous the audience was for such lame jokes. -- TBTM Julie, Daily Kos
Nicole Belle, Crooks and Liars
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
As TBTM Julie wrote in her Daily Kos blog:
Who needs teleprompters when a studio can simply insert canned laughter?
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 17:42 — Dave CulverIn the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account. Increasingly, the issue is treated as a scientific controversy worthy of debate, rather than as a "conspiracy theory" ignoring science and common sense. This essay, by Elizabeth Woodworth, presents these media analyses in the form of 18 case studies.
Elizabeth Woodworth, Voltaire Network, in Axis of Logic
A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010
Eight countries – Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Russia – have allowed their publicly-owned broadcasting stations to air the full spectrum of evidence challenging the truth of the official account of 9/11.
This more open approach taken in the international media – I could also have included the Japanese media – might be a sign that worldwide public and corporate media organizations are positioning themselves, and preparing their audiences, for a possible revelation of the truth of the claim that forces within the US government were complicit in the attacks – a revelation that would call into question the publicly given rationale for the military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Maddow Slams Orrin Hatch For Lying, Washington Post For Printing It
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 09:18 — Dave Culver
[Hatch's op-ed] has so many blantant, out-right falsehoods in it that it made me wonder if maybe there's a deal or something. Where if maybe you're a United States Senator who's been in office for 33 years like Orrin Hatch has, you just don't get fact-checked anymore in the Washington Post.
Huffington Post
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
Rachel Maddow took aim at Sen. Orrin Hatch Tuesday (March 2) for lying about health care reform and reconciliation in an op-ed written by the senator and published by The Washington Post. Maddow called Hatch a hypocrite and wondered aloud why the Post published his falsehoods:
Stop The Nukespeak: Tell Us The Truth About Nuclear Power!
Mon, 03/01/2010 - 21:29 — Dave Culver- Corporate Media Are Using Industry Talking Points to Lie to Us About Nuclear Power
- The media should reject the use of industry rhetoric, stop using Nukespeak talking points, and start telling us the truth about nuclear power!
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org
Photo Credit: MediaChannel.org
Nearly twenty years ago I co-wrote Nukespeak, a cultural history of the selling of nuclear technology for both peaceful and military purposes.
My co-authors and I dedicated the book to George Orwell, whose literary creation of 'newspeak' in the classic novel 1984 illustrated the power to control reality through the adroit manipulation of language. The euphemisms, obfuscations and omissions employed by nuclear boosters throughout both industry and government -- what one writer has called the "linguistic cosmetics" used "to avoid communicating uncomfortable or threatening thoughts so that the nuclear industry can control the images and perceptions of nuclear power" -- were so clearly reminiscent of Orwellian thought control that the homage seemed, if anything, perhaps a little too obvious.
Is the Future Bright for Progressive Media?
Mon, 03/01/2010 - 21:05 — Dave Culver- A new book highlights how progressive media has achieved more influence than ever before. But there's still work to be done.
- Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (New Press) ~ Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke