Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2004
‘HATE-RIOTISM
I updated my previous reference to Michael Moore’s great speech in Cambridge, and now we have the link:
The way that you don’t support the troops is to send them into harm’s way when it isn’t necessary. The way that you hate the troops is when you send them off, some of them, to their death, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
“Hope is on the way.” - John Edwards.
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
STAR POWER
Al Sharpton rocked out tonight.
I said it before and I’m not kidding: I’d love to see him as Kerry’s press secretary. Can you imagine the press conferences?
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR
Well, golly! Who ever heard of political cronyism in the Bush family enterprise?
An audit shows Gov. Jeb Bush’s technology office may have improperly awarded contracts to vendors who used politically connected lobbyists, but officials said Wednesday the agency has since changed the way it does business.
The audit said the technology office, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
HENS GUARDING FOXES
Good post on women in the political media from Jenny Greenleaf over at The American Street (thanks, Joyce):
When will we have a woman president?
EC: Few women in politics today that have the money and power base to run for president. I have to wonder though, if we had 86 female senators, would we [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
CHAIN OF COMMAND
A few bad apples? How about the whole damned orchard?
FORT CARSON, Colo. - One of four soldiers charged with pushing two Iraqi civilians into the river, where one of them drowned, says he was ordered to do so and told what to say to officials looking into the death, an Army investigator testified [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
RAIN FOREST
It’s raining. Again.
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
LIVE FROM BOSTON
Can’t… stop…. laughing….
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
OUR BRAVE MEDIA
In the impassioned speech Michael Moore delivered yesterday in Cambridge, he said the other villain of “Farenheit 9/11″ was the national media. He proceeded to upbraid them for not doing their job, and shared this story.
Apparently a rather major media figure who interviewed him at the convention (I’m guessing it was Ted Koppel) [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
THAT LIBERAL MEDIA
Eric Alterman gets it exactly right:
Let’s get this straight everybody. Journalists are socially liberal, just like every single well-educated, well-paid group of urban professionals. On occasion this shows up in the coverage, when it comes to say, creationists and people who think homosexuals should burn in Hell sooner rather than later. [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
HOW… CONVENIENT
You know, everyone predicted Saddam Hussein would never be allowed to testify publicly because he had too much dirt on the U.S.
So if this is true, I’m not surprised:
SADDAM Hussein has suffered a stroke and could die before facing trial, a member of his legal team has claimed.
Jordanian lawyer Mohammed al-Rashdan said a brain [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
FRESH
New “Get Your War On” is up.
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
HISTORY JOKE
You have to wonder: Just how old is this headline?
NBC: Stage set for political dynasty in Egypt?
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
THEY CHOOSE SO WE DON’T HAVE TO
I wrote the other day about the media panel on C-SPAN. Here’s the Times coverage of the event:
In a particularly uncomfortable moment, the three men found themselves on the wrong end of a lecture on Sunday about their networks’ paltry convention plans in a panel discussion at Harvard University. [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
AT LEAST THEY’RE CONSISTENT
Doesn’t this say it all?
PHOENIX - An internal investigation into Arizona’s election of a GOP national committeeman has found ballot fraud.
However, the Republican Party will be content to let the fraudulent results stand unless someone files suit.
In a letter to state Republican Party Chairman Bob Fannin, the party’s general counsel. [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
WAR ON DRUGS
Okay, it’s from Capitol Hill Blue, which often prints rumors that fall into the category of “we’ll never be able to verify this” but what the hell:
President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.
The prescription drugs, administered by Col. [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Jul 28th, 2004
Your Corporate Media hard at work reading those the RNC talking points:
10:40 a.m.: CNN’s Daryn Kagan, pressing Kerry spokesman Tad Devine on Heinz Kerry’s comments, asks, “Is that the kind of behavior we want to see from a future first lady?” Kagan then jokes about Kerry’s ceremonial first pitch at a recent Boston Red Sox [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
PHILLY LOVES KERRY
Last year, the media whores were saying Kerry was an elitist who’d never connect with a blue-collar town like Philadelphia because he had the audacity to ask for Swiss cheese on his cheesesteak.
Yesterday, despite some very ugly weather, 10,000 Philadelphians turned out to hear him.
IT RAINED. Hard. And then it turned muggy. It [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN
Funny, how that always happens. Seems like the Bush family has some sort of weird effect on otherwise relatively stable media:
MIAMI (AP) - A computer crash erased detailed records from Miami-Dade County’s first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines, raising again the specter of elections troubles in Florida, where the new [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
AND YET, HE HAS A RADIO JOB AND I DON’T
Wingnut talk-show host Neal Boortz on Kerry supporters:
Neal Boortz to Kerry supporters: “I deeply, deeply, feel that you present a danger to this country. … Just as the Islamic terrorists do”
Unprompted, and insistent that he was “not saying this for effect,” right-wing radio host Neal Boortz, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
THERE’S LUCK, AND THEN THERE’S LUCK
How about this?
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The CEO’s at the nation’s largest companies saw their raises more than doubled in 2003 as the median raise handed out by S&P 500 companies to their top executives was 22.18 percent, according to a study by The Corporate Library.
Meanwhile, back in the real [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
G.E. WHORES
From Lawrence Lessig’s “Copyrighting of the President” [P. 94, August issue] in this month’s Wired (sorry, no link):
In August, Robert Greenwald will release an updated version of his award-winning film, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War. Greenwald has added a clip of President George W. Bush’s February interview with Tim Russert in [...]
Posted in General on Jul 28th, 2004
HA HA
The inimitable Neal Pollack, live from Boston:
I’ve got my laptop and I’m staying just over the state line, close enough to smell the democratic process! I saw Janeane Garofalo today and she’s shorter than me! OK, time for bed!
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
TERESA THE GREAT
Wow. And they were worried she wasn’t going to give a great speech? I love this woman. Wouldn’t it be nice to see someone like her as First Lady? As compared to you-know-who.
A bonus is, as far as we know, Teresa never killed anyone, either. (Really. What are the odds of you [...]
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
OUR AMERICA
Billmon:
In the end, though, the show - the speakers and the videos and the repetitive feeds of selected average Joes (or Juans) from Canton or Los Angeles or Little Rock - didn’t matter much. It was mindless fluff, but harmless.
What was important to me was what I saw when the camera panned the [...]
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
“The vice-president, in a disagreement with a Democratic senator, used a very bad word. If I said that word, I would be put in a time-out. I think he should be put in a time out.” - Ilana Wexler, Kids for Kerry founder.
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
‘SEND ME’
Okay, here’s the first convention blogging piece I really like; it really captures the flavor of what we do best - providing context. (And it doesn’t once mention who’s sitting next to her.) It’s from Amy Sullivan, and she’s writing about the Democrats’ use of religious imagery in their speeches:
What were the religious code [...]
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
BLOGGER-ESQUE
Like blogging, only not… I have to agree with this.
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
A STAR
Barack Obama kicks ass. (I was especially impressed with how deftly he handled the Talking Head Sand Traps last Sunday.) What an inspiring story! Illinois will do well with a senator of his caliber.
“We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, defending the United States of America.”
Amen.
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2004
MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS
Richard Dreyfuss ripped Shrub a new one. Thank God, I was getting tired of all that niceness:
In a speech that went on so long that California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres began to hover nervously at his side, Dreyfuss called Bush “arrogant and incompetent” and said “his appeal to patriotism is simplistic and [...]
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