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PATH: BS | Media | As NOT seen on TV

News Media Would Ignore "Deep Throat" If This Happened Today Posted by Pile (7755 views) [E-Mail link]
London editor of Vanity Fair, Henry Porter has written an insightful piece on the sorry state of the media and their corporate and government overlords. "I visit the States three or four times a year, and watching the television news in hotel rooms in the last three years has been like witnessing a time-lapse study of emasculation," explains Porter as he ruminates over the unmasking of the infamous government insider who exposed the Nixon administration's illegal activities.
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US Takes 7 Months Before It Buries Mad Cow Story On A Friday Posted by Pile (7825 views) [E-Mail link]
Late Friday, June 24, is a perfect time to bury bad news in Washington, DC. That's when Mike Johanns, the United States Secretary of Agriculture held a news conference. He announced that a beef cow suspected last November to be positive with mad cow disease, and finally properly tested, was indeed positive. Even now the USDA is keeping secret which state the cow was from, but Texas has long been mentioned in media articles. The initially-botched finding of a second mad cow in the United States emphasizes the failure of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to protect Americans from the deadly dementia called mad cow disease.
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British: Let's Get This Straight On Terrorism and Lies Posted by Pile (8110 views) [E-Mail link]	[Terroir-ism]
George Galloway is a member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow and stands (falsely) accused by conservative US senators of taking bribes from Iraq in an oil-for-food scandal. His statement before the US Senate is a truly righteous, withering, and devastating critique of the US position in Iraq: I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning. Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.
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Mainsteam Media Still Ignoring the Infamous Downing Street Memo Posted by Pile (7851 views) [E-Mail link]
The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the summer 2002 and�determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies�"fixed" the intelligence and facts. Meanwhile the American press keeps this story low profile.
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Schiavo Parents Sell-Out List Of Their Supporters Posted by Pile (7292 views) [E-Mail link]
Just in case there was any doubt among the integrity or intent of the "save Terri" movement, the parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.
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New Orleans Flavor is Killer Posted by Pile (9146 views) [E-Mail link]	[Junk Food]
In a story coincedentally related to the fact that Louisiana ranks near the top in toxic pollution, KFC outlets in China have apologized to customers and stopped selling "New Orleans" flavor roast chicken wings and chicken burgers after finding a seasoning used in the products contains an industrial dye linked to cancer. Of course, is the American media covering this? Nope but Canada is.
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Uncensored Pictures From Iraq Posted by Pile (10438 views) [E-Mail link]
A new site has begun compiling photos from soldiers and others in Iraq, all in their uncensored and potentially gory glory. If you want to see the side of Iraq and the military occupation the media won't show you, check this out.
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Fries Give You Cancer Posted by Pile (9791 views) [E-Mail link]	[Junk Food]
The World Health Organization said Friday that people should eat less food containing acrylamide, a chemical associated with fried foods that has caused cancer in laboratory rats. WHO called on governments to urge the food industry to "lower significantly" the acrylamide content in foods such as french fries, potato chips, coffee and grain-based products including bread.
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Bush Plants Gay Christian Prostitute In White House Press Corps Posted by Pile (19484 views) [E-Mail link]
Another big scandal that mainstream media will gloss over? How about the planting of a fake news reporter, from a fake news agency, in the White House Press Corps by the Bush administration? A paid operative, Bible-preaching Christian that's apparently into gay porn, that didn't even use his real name, but is associated with a number of right-wing propaganda operations! As the plot thickens and internet cyber sleuths try to track down the "rats nest" of conservative schemers, hiding behind pseudonyms and dummy corporations, Some in Congress are requesting an immediate formal investigation. UPDATE: Washington Post picks the story up from Bloggers. Score another for alterna-media doing the work of emaciated journalists. Another good expose can be found here. I especially like the guy's interesting collection of domain names: Thepeopleschurchdc.org Dcbiblemarathon.org Faithfullyspeaking.org Theconservativeguy.com Theconservativelegal.com The-conservative-guy.com conservative-guy.com Hotmilitarystud.com Militaryescorts.com Militaryescortsm4m.com Nothing like a Bible-preaching, conservative white house "journalist" who doubles as a pimp for gay military prostitutes. UPDATE: Editor and Publisher has exposed the guy's real name as James Guckert and that WH Press Secretary knew about his deception. UPDATE: More evidence of Guckert's lies to CNN and his gay prostitution site. He can't hide the fact that the site was archived and still viewable even though he took it down BUSTED! UPDATE: Joe Conason asks Where is the 'Liberal Media' that should be covering this story? UPDATE: Washington Post Continues the saga now that nude pictures are floating around. UPDATE: Gannon may be the thread that unravels the CBS "memo-gate" scandal, and more Sex, Lies & Jeff Gannon.
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U.S. Was "One Word Away" From Nuclear War Posted by Pile (10758 views) [E-Mail link]
Historians have long noted that the United States and the Soviet Union came within a whisper of nuclear war during the 13-day standoff after the United States discovered that Moscow had secretly installed nuclear missiles in Cuba. However, what was discovered last year (and apparently not widely covered in the media) was that Russia was in the process of approving a nuclear strike, but one of the three submarine commanders involved decided to not go along with the order. The information came to light during an assembly of U.S. and Russian authorities for an event commemorating the 40th anniversary. Interesting that the mainstream media last year didn't think that coming so close to world destruction was newsworthy?
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Gannongate: New Media Refuses To Let Story Be Marginalized Posted by Pile (10223 views) [E-Mail link]
On HBO's Real Time (click read more for video clip) Senator Joe Biden claims the mainstream media is ignoring the serious implications of the Jeff Gannon (aka James Guckert) news story and keeping it from the people. In the meantime, the independent media who do have influence in small areas of the market are not letting go of this story until the mainstream media gives it the attention it deserves. Read more to see what Bill Maher thinks would have happened if this situation unfolded under any democratic administration. Update: While American MSM is still ignoring the story, British press are all over it: "White House's loyal reporter once worked as gay hooker."
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T-Mobile's servers/subscribers compromised for more than a year Posted by Pile (6740 views) [E-Mail link]
UPDATE: More than a year later, it appears T-Mobile still has serious security problems. A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers' passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users. The hacker had access to T-Mobile's 16+ million customers' information and was involved in efforts to sell the information online. T-Mobile has been backpedaling on details over the security breach.
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Tobacco Companies Score Big As News Media Looks Other Way Posted by Pile (6408 views) [E-Mail link]
The tobacco industry won a big victory Friday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in its favor, against the U.S. Justice Department. The court's ruling means that the Justice Department cannot force the industry to disgorge $280 billion in past profits, even if it wins its fraud and racketeering case against the cigarette makers.
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Media lights "bloggergate" smoke bomb over Bush media payoff Posted by Pile (9975 views) [E-Mail link]
We broke the story here about conserva-pundit Armstrong Williams' humongeous payola received from the Bush administration for promoting his "No Child Left Behind" scheme, and how the whole operation, funded with taxpayer money was kept quiet originally. Well, the "liberal media" has countered with a story about how the Dean campaign paid a few thousand bucks to a few bloggers online as if that's a tit-for-tat nullification for the dishonorable acts on the part of the administration. Many prominent cyber-pundits have pointed out this is totally a non-issue and far from comparable and that, unlike in the Armstrong Williams debacle, such endorsements were disclosed and not funded with taxpayer money. Nonetheless, mainstream media is launching this big steaming pile as a smokescreen over the much more grevious, unethical acts on the part of the Administration.
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More Mad Cows: It's What's For Dinner Posted by Pile (7709 views) [E-Mail link]
Canadian officials Tuesday confirmed the discovery of a new case of mad cow disease in a Charolais beef cow from the province of Alberta. It also comes as the United States considers reopening its border to Canadian cattle. Imports were stopped in May 2003 after the discovery of Canada's first case of mad cow. Why do they get this disease? Don't ask what these cows are fed. You don't want to know what's in your burgers, and thanks to the U.S. Media(tm), you probably never will.
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Newsflash: Mainstream Media Sucks Posted by Pile (7556 views) [E-Mail link]
The "most important media story of the year," according to Steve Lovelady, managing editor of Campaigndesk.org, was "the way in which the press was so easily manipulated by spin machines all the way through the election campaign, partly thanks to the fact that it was hopelessly hobbled by some of its own outdated conventions and frameworks. And that, in turn, is related to its embarrassing performance in 2003 on weapons of mass destruction and on the question of an Iraqi tie to 9/11."
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2004 Falsies Awards Posted by Pile (6242 views) [E-Mail link]
This year marks the beginning of a new tradition for the Center for Media and Democracy. To remember the people and players responsible for polluting our information environment, they are issuing a new year-end prize that they call the "Falsies Awards." The top ten finalists will each receive a million bucks worth of free coupons, a lifetime supply of non-fattening ice cream, an expenses-paid vacation in Fallujah, and our promise to respect them in the morning.
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Washington Post accuses Bush administration of war crimes Posted by RantMaster (6304 views) [E-Mail link]
The Washington Post blows the lid off the recent expose of torture activities in Iraq: The Bush administration refused to release these records to the human rights groups under the Freedom of Information Act until it was ordered to do so by a judge. Now it has responded to their publication with bland promises by spokesmen that any wrongdoing will be investigated. The record of the past few months suggests that the administration will neither hold any senior official accountable nor change the policies that have produced this shameful record.
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Inauguration to be rife with protests Posted by Pile (6214 views) [E-Mail link]
Groups targeting President Bush's economic agenda, the legitimacy of his election and the war in Iraq plan a week of events to counter his inauguration Jan. 20. "Our intention is to show President Bush and the world our movement is energized, mobilized and determined to fight back," said Gael Murphy, of the activist group Code Pink. Inauguration week will feature rallies, marches and demonstrations with the focus on peaceful, family-friendly gatherings, none of which you'll probably see on network television news.
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Did the US use napalm in Iraq? Posted by wizeGurl (7058 views) [E-Mail link]	[Military]
The British are upset because it seems that the U.S. may have used napalm in Fallujah. "And last night Tony Blair was dragged into the row as furious Labour MPs demanded he face the Commons over it. Reports claim that innocent civilians have died in napalm attacks, which turn victims into human fireballs as the gel bonds flames to flesh."
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