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Laxon Yesterday 10:50 PM I can not agree more with this author. There is a big problem with journalism of today, before you had the government cooking up all the propaganda for the press. Now it is the press itself that is choosing the next scapegoat to bait. Remember to always seek at least two opinions in any argument.
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POPSThe EPA Report Obama Didn't Want You To Know About On March 12, Carlin’s director, Al McGartland, forbade him from having “any direct communication” with anyone outside his office about his study. “There should be no meetings, emails, written statements, phone calls, etc.” On March 16, Carlin urged his superiors to forward his work to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which runs the agency’s climate change program. A day later, McGartland dismissed Carlin and showed his true, politicized colors: “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision… I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.” Contrary comments, in other words, would interfere with the “process” of ramming the EPA’s endangerment finding through.
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POPSGod Comes Cheap These Days For eight years, Christian conservatives had "Lord Bush." Now, liberals have "Lord Obama." Seems to me that gods come pretty cheap these days. As a non-American, this is very much the way it seems. Nothing really matters, but beating the other side. Left vs right feuding, instead of right vs wrong. So much time wasted fighting each other, instead of fighting for your supposed values and principles Is this really what America is all about? Think about it.
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POPSFour Reasons Mainstream Media is Worthless Censorship is the biggest threat to any media tasked with ensuring transparency from our government. The simple act of self-censorship is the act of selling itself out to its corporate masters. Any journalist who takes it upon themselves to ‘protect’ the compromised politician or the renegade police officer does not deserve to wear the title journalist. Any news media corporation that suppresses stories to protect personal relationships or refuses to criticize any government entity for fear of losing sponsors or favored standing should be banned from the industry. As anyone can plainly see I hold the journalistic profession to the very highest of ethical standards because they all speak for us. We, the citizens of any country, cannot appear in the press conferences held by public officials to ask for the truth, we depend on journalists to keep us informed, fully informed. We depend on them to take us where ever the facts lead.
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POPSFakhravar: Obama Will Not Have Any Success Talking With The Iranian Regime Amir Fakhravar understands that you cannot hold talks with the brutal regime in control of Iran. CNN interviewed Amir recently on his time in the notorios Evin Prison. Amir also discussed what he thinks of Barack Obama's plans to talk with the brutal Iranian Regime. He is known for his political activism and has been described as one of Iran’s student leaders. Fakhravar has been imprisoned in Iran for his political activism 19 times, with his first experience at the age of 17, when he was still in high school. He is currently based in Washington, DC. This photo was taken at the Democracy and Security Conference in Prague, Czech Republic in June 2007 where I spoke with Amir. video at link: Posted by Gateway Pundit at 11/08/2008
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POPSIran: BBC and VOA "Broadcasting Fake Reports" BBC had their correspondent expelled. The BBC and Voice of America are accused of interference and "seeking to engineer ongoing riots" through broadcast media, acting as agents of their government's policies.
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POPSIranian Citizen Journalism
Most of the police empathize with their own; the government knows this, and thus they’ve brought in foreigners (as they have for past protests) to take care of the dirty work. The shooting earlier today was an example of this. I asked him how social life in Iran is right now, ie if people are going to work, etc. He said that probably half the stores are closed, but that unemployment is 40% anyway, so its not like protestors have anything better to do. These people are mostly young, unemployed, have poor access to higher education, and no foreseeable future prospects. All they had was their perceived voice in government, and since that has been so blatantly taken away, the situation is ready to explode. He’s also heard that in smaller cities around the country, the protests have become much more violent with a lot of skirmishes between the Basij and protestors. The focus right now seems to be in trying to channel all this frustration and anger into something positive and co
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POPSHOW FOX NEWS OPENED AMERICA Charles is a great journalists, and his sincerity in this article is genuine. Liberals will spit at the thought of this perspective. but like it or not, the truth is in the viewers. and they obviously agree.
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POPSCharles Krauthammer Wins Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism Breindel, a former editorial page editor of the New York Post and senior vice president of the News Corporation, died of liver complications in 1998. Past winners of the award created in his honor include Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal and Max Boot, now a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. "If we look at the past winners, it's for years now honored people are swimming upstream rather than taking the easy way down, politically and ideologically speaking," Krauthammer said. "It's a special award."
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POPS Bloggers Get Budget Briefing This booklet contains a series of 40 charts on federal spending, taxes, debt and deficits, and entitlements. The charts outline the increases in federal spending that are projected to occur during the Obama administration. Nicola Moore of the Heritage Foundation described the new material as “blogger-friendly.” Bloggers will be able to “save it and embed that image directly on blog,” Moore said. Moore added that this year, there is a new interactive feature with a flash graphic version of one of the charts. Moore also welcomes input from those who have new ideas for charts and other suggestions. The contents of the book can be found online at www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook. Brittany Fortier is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.
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POPSHOW RELEVANT IS TWITTER? Beyond relevance is significance. Twitter produces data which is almost impossible to interpret from the content after the fact, simply because there is too much of it, and its "granuality" is too small. It is, however, possible (indeed unavoidable) to infer significance from this data: e.g. waxing and waning group concerns (which can then in turn be analysed using # words, or by types of sources, etc.) It is the stats themselves which are the object of inquiry, as such, they are "self signifying". Types of content can be treated as indicators which can be counted, the results of which are simply another (meta?) level of information which consciousness can use in its sense making quest. See also - Against Interpretation 2.0
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POPSDoes The O'Reilly Factor Create Killers? MORE: when crimes like the shooting of Dr. Tiller occur, Mr. O'Reilly bears a strong responsibility. He has used his great influence to create a climate of hatred in the parts of the American right, a hatred which is naturally likely to bubble over into extreme violence now and then. The Tiller and Tennessee shootings are the logical consequences of buying into O'Reilly's dehumanizing rhetoric. If those that disagree with us politically become monsters and murderers, shooting them can seem an act of great heroism. And it is O'Reilly, more than any other conservative host, who crafts the images of liberals and "abortionists" as monsters.
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POPSRight-wing military writer: We may have to kill war journalists According to Peters: "The point of all this is simple: Win. In warfare, nothing else matters. If you cannot win clean, win dirty. But win. Our victories are ultimately in humanity’s interests, while our failures nourish monsters." I would say the opposite. Victories in Imperial wars simply breed more Imperial was of conquest.
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POPS Horse Soldiers Rode Into War Against The Taliban and commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne), 2001-2003 "Not just an epic war story, Horse Soldiers is a beautifully written, intimate portrait of the men and women who lived the battle on the fields of fire -- and at home, too. Their secret mission against the Taliban was intelligent, brave, and undertaken with great care for the good people of Afghanistan. Doug Stanton's superb account is an invaluable insight for policy makers and the public for years to come." -- Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea "In the spirit of Black Hawk Down and Flags of Our Fathers, Doug Stanton plunges into the heart of a single mission and returns with a stark understanding not only of what happened but what was truly at stake. Through precise reportage and hauntingly rendered battle scenes, Stanton shows that we may ignore this 'forgotten' theater only at our own peril." -- Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder
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