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Hasan Was Worried About Results of HIV Test
By GottaLaff The suspected gunman in the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, Nov. 5, 2009, was identified by ABC News as Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. He appears here in a Defense Department photograph....
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Google To Let News Groups Set Daily Reader Limits
By GottaLaff Breaking: Google said [...] it will let publishers set a daily limit on the number of articles readers can view for free through the Internet giant's search engine. The change, which will...
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Teen idles
By GottaLaff As some of you know, I am what they call an "artist in residence" at a performing arts high school. I don't have a credential, so I teach classes along with a credentialed teacher. I've...
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Phony indignation = news
By GottaLaffThis is one of my pet topics. What was once hard news has gradually morphed into tabloid gossip, shouting matches, and bi-polar self-righteousness that is passed off as fair and balanced...
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Journalistic Malfeasance, Harry Reid and The Negro: It's All Entertainment
By GottaLaffEarlier I posted about the abysmal state of the news media. Once it devolved into a business of reporting for profit, instead of allowing the news to be independent of commercial media, we...
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VIDEO: Tennessee TV News Runs Hysterical Piece Painting Muslim Community as...
By GottaLaff Via Spencer Ackerman, we get this insanity (Tennessee Tee Vee insanity, not Spencer's): A Tennessee TV news report portrays an entire Muslim community in the state as a possible terrorist...
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When Fake News Goes Viral
By GottaLaffIf only fake news were the Jon Stewart kind: The New York Observer notes that 13 different news organizations ran unsourced stories about the supposed blockbuster New York Times story about...
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"Citizens still hear & see their president constantly, but with fewer facts...
Budget cuts, budget cuts: That's what got me laid off after 13 years of working at a public high school, and that's what may be cutting into the information we get about President Obama: There is...
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Hosni Mubarak loses control of state media
I'm watching Al Jazeera TV report that Tuesday's gathering is the largest so far, and that the protests are gathering momentum. They want Murbarak gone. Looks like they have a new fan: ...Mr Mubarak...
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PhotOh! Pro-Democracy Demonstrations Ongoing Across Egypt
Today's screen grabs from Al Jazeera TV. As I said in an earlier post, Al Jazeera TV reported that Tuesday’s gathering is the largest so far, and that the protests are gathering momentum. The post...
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Freedom of the drek
When the news dee jays have nothing to say, they say it a lot, a whole lot. They give us a heaping, steaming, bucketful-o'-nothing, over and over and over, 24/7. They blanket the Tee Vee Machine, the...
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Quickie- News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB
Hopefully the beginning of the end. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has announced that it is dropping its planned bid to take full ownership of BSkyB. The announcement came as the House of Commons...
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"I am so mad at the press [that] I could just strangle them!" Turn that frown...
Via multiply.com Now now, Mrs. Willard, you knew damn well that if your husband (and apparently, you) ran for president, you'd have good bad days and bad days. After all, you've both had plenty of...
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Washington Post Upchuck Teaser of the Day: "Is Mitt Romney Loosening Up?"
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: So the Washington Post today touts a story which is so full of fluff, it makes cotton candy look like a nutritious meal. The e-mail...
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Team Romney attacks media after fumbling overseas trip. "But then it's not...
Earlier, Paddy posted this video- Romney Aide Explodes At Media In Poland: ‘Kiss My A**’. Way to ingratiate yourselves to the very people who could give you a boost (or as the American press does,even...
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PhotOH! Mitt Romney's European Vacation
Just excellent. Via Think Progress. For a dose of brilliance and hilarity, read The Prayer Mitt Romney Left in Israel's Wailing Wall. For our posts about Willard's Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad...
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Romney promising to become more media-friendly after disastrous trip. You can...
From this... ... to this: It had to happen. Now Team Romney is Etch A Sketching their minimal media accessibility. Yes, they're even flip-flopping on that, which was to be expected considering how they...
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How our political pooped-outitude works for Republicans
There was a time not too long ago when I couldn't wait to get to Mr. Computer and type my little fingers off about the political events o' the day. Lately I've had to drag myself into my little...
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Banishing the Poor, Unemployed and Working Class from the Mainstream Media...
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin; How often do you come across an article or a television news story that presents a poor person in a positive light? Or for that...
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Danziger Bridge Is Falling Down And Taking New Orleans With It
What is the Danziger Bridge trial? It's a momentous case of police misconduct right after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE: Seventeen-year-old James Brissette was killed,...
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