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   Arry said on 4/25/2007 @ 5:01pm PT: [Permalink]

   We don’t have to give them enough rope. They are handing it out themselves by the yard. Considering the public opinion of the war and the total rewrite of the piece, the NY Post should be the laughing stock and joke of print media. (Oh, they are already?)
   Somebody is reading it.

   What the hell are we going to do with all this rope?

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   JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 4/25/2007 @ 5:11pm PT: [Permalink]

   Credible sources say the NY post is better known as the NY ComPost. . .

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   big dan said on 4/25/2007 @ 8:45pm PT: [Permalink]

   The corporate fascist rightwing media are: Washington Times (owned by Moonies), the NYPost (Murdoch), the Wall Street Journal Editorial page, FOX, Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, and much, much more. Part of the so-called “Republican Noise Machine”…I think more accurately, the “Corporate Fascist Noise Machine”. “Republican” doesn’t mean “Conservative” anymore. “Republican” means “Corporate/Fascist”. The few conservatives left in the “Republican” party, should pull out and start a party called “The Conservative Party”. The GOP had rendered conservatives useless. “Self-proclaimed” conservatives like Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, and O’Reilly, are not conservatives. No one in Bushco is a conservative. Cheney isn’t a conservative. Bush’s cabinet isn’t conservative. Ron Paul is a conservative, and he hates them all. I wouldn’t mind, if they didn’t call themselves “conservatives”. I question why real conservatives, save for a handful, aren’t openly calling them out on not being conservatives!

   And the Democrats aren’t liberal, either. Maybe Kucinich is the only one.

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   gtash said on 4/26/2007 @ 4:21am PT: [Permalink]

   After reading the two sets of copy side-by-side, I think AP ought to sue Murdoch’s ass. This was essentially fraudlent attribution which jeopardizes the credibility of the wireservice.

   But of course that won’t happen. Murdoch and the wireservices need each other so much.

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   Dredd said on 4/26/2007 @ 4:48am PT: [Permalink]

   I watched the Bill Moyers new season episode last night on PBS.

   He fully and completely exposed the current MSM for what it is … murderjock inc.

   They have blood on their hands and if they do not clean up they have blood on their souls.

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   big dan said on 4/26/2007 @ 8:54am PT: [Permalink]

   The book, “The Republican Noise Machine” by David Brock (of http://www.mediamatters.org )

   From Publishers Weekly
   The author, once notorious as a conservative attack-journalist trashing the likes of Anita Hill and the Clintons, repudiated his past in the confessional Blinded by the Right. In this blistering j’accuse, Brock mounts a less gossipy and more systematic assault on the right-wing media juggernaut of think tanks, publishers, talk radio shows, Web sites and cable networks. He treats it as a disciplined political movement, inspired by Communist subversion techniques, bankrolled by a handful of right-wing zillionaires through corporate and foundation spigots, tightly yoked to the Republican policy agenda and masterminded by arch-conservative Grover Norquist at weekly strategy meetings. By Brock’s account, it constitutes a seamless propaganda machine conveying dubious scholarship, Republican talking points and antiliberal smear campaigns from think tanks and Internet rumor mills to the FOX News and talk radio echo chambers and thence through a network of conservative pundits into the quality press. Meanwhile, Brock charges, the mainstream media, cowed by spurious charges of “liberal bias,” have abandoned their role as objective arbiters of truth in favor of an uncritical airing of partisan ideology in the name of “balance.” The result, he says, is a public discourse in which the line between fact and opinion is blurred, poorly funded liberal voices get shouted down, “no issue can be honestly debated and no election can be fairly decided.” Brock’s critique echoes that of other liberal media critics like Eric Alterman and Al Franken, and cannot be accused of nonpartisanship. He is dismissive of the conservative nostrums whose purveyors he pillories, and his biting takedowns of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and their ilk show he hasn’t lost his taste for blood. But Brock’s incisive, well-supported analysis and his street cred as an apostate from the conservative press make this a spirited challenge to the contemporary mediascape.

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   big dan said on 4/26/2007 @ 8:58am PT: [Permalink]

   David Brock:
   “””I know there is a Republican Noise Machine because I was once part of it. From the Washington Times, to a stint as a “research fellow” at the Heritage Foundation (the Right’s premier think tank), to a position as an “investigative writer” at the muckraking magazine The American Spectator, and as the author of a best-selling right-wing book, I forwarded the right-wing agenda not as an open political operative or advocate but under the guise of journalism and punditry, fueled by huge sums of money from right-wing billionaires, foundations, and self-interested corporations. “””

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   big dan said on 4/26/2007 @ 9:05am PT: [Permalink]

   a review of the book:
   “””Brock begins at the beginning, with a treatise by a woman named Efron arguing that the GOP and business interests need their own distinct media. Efron gets Nixon’s attention, Nixon tries to put Efron’s plan into action, Nixon runs into the Watergate buzzsaw. But the seed is planted, back in the 1970’s, and then cultivated by GOP activists like William Simon, financed heavily by Richard Mellon Scaife, Olin, Coors dynstasties etc. (who Brock calls the four sisters). Until the whole thing flowers: all of a sudden a huge battery of propaganda houses like Heritage and American Enterprise, funded by oil companies and GOP financiers, are churning out a counter history of the American experience. ANything counter to GOP orthodoxy is branded ‘liberal’; Murdoch and Sun Myung Moon’s media empires swiftly join the cause, whose committed purpose is to subdue America’s independent media and convert it into service of corporate interests generally and GOP political figures specifically.”””

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   big dan said on 4/26/2007 @ 9:06am PT: [Permalink]

   The seed is planted in the 70’s, during the Nixon era, and so were Cheney & Rumsfeld…

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    Larry Bergan said on 4/26/2007 @ 2:06pm PT: [Permalink]

    The new Bill Moyers show was great. He interviewed at lot of reporters who screwed up on WMD rush and gets a lot of mea culpa’s. Some others refused to come on the show including the “liberal” Tom Freidman.

    Tim Russert went on with Bill, but came out looking pretty bad in my opinion.

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    Dredd said on 4/27/2007 @ 5:39am PT: [Permalink]

    Larry #10

    Agreed. Moyer was refreshing.

    Rupert Murderjock is a fraudulent propagandist of the neoNazi type. In his world the hero of the people is portrayed as the villian.

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    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 4/27/2007 @ 9:29am PT: [Permalink]

    Cool Blog – Larry,
    Now what da ya expect from Tim “Mr. PotatoHead” Russert . . .

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    Larry Bergan said on 4/28/2007 @ 10:12pm PT: [Permalink]

    It was extremely hard to find out when the Moyers program was going to be on here. Some of the print TV guides just listed it as “to be announced” and the online Yahoo guide didn’t even say THAT. It was blank. Even the PBS website listed it at 9:00pm, but said to check the local listings. But isn’t it customary to list as EST so everybody knows to set their VCR accordingly. That would have been CST here.

    There was supposed to be a rebroadcast at 2:00am which was and still is listed on Yahoo, but when I tried to record it again on a DVD+R it came in on the middle of “The Smartest Men in the Room.” The liberal, (truthful, in other words), media is real hard to find, even when you know it’s there somewhere.

    It is quite normal for PBS to shift programs around and have them disappear since Bush “took” office. I hate this! Why is PBS protecting the commercial media.