We have heard that phrase a lot lately when it comes to the banks, but what about the media? What would happen if 1/4 of the U.S. media went bankrupt? With a proposed take over of NBC by Comcast that could easily become a reality: By next week, cable giant Comcast is expected to announce […]
The Republicans have been planning all along to use this bailout as an issue against Democrats, despite the fact that it is a bill by a Republican administration. They were so intent on using it that the RNC already had made attack ads and sent them to key states: The Republican National Committee’s new advertisement […]
So here we are – the 6th anniversary of 9/11. All the television stations are replaying their coverage of the attacks and we will be reminded of it all day. I think it is an insult to Americans to constantly remind them of the attacks. There isn’t any other nation that goes through this kind […]
This story appeared yesterday in the U.K.’s Independent and is very disturbing: Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or […]
CNN was originally posting as this would be tonight. It is actually being done Thursday night At 9:00 pm eastern Thursday, President Bush will take over the television stations and address the nation from Louisiana. Ironically he is doing this on the fourth anniversary of his infamous “bullhorn†speech. Perhaps he feels that making the […]
Good old Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (see this ap article). Pretty chilling coming from someone who is considered a religious leader. True this same “leader” also was holding prayer vigils for the vacancies of Supreme Court Justices, which would either mean deteriorating health or death. Venezuela’s vice-President has […]