Tag Archives: media
quickie
just had to stifle a laugh at the latest ‘breaking news’ on Fox.
apparently a California Rep, Xavier Becerra, smiled when an ‘operative’ for a Republican Congressional candidate stood up in the middle of a Union Meeting and insisted that everyone stop what they were doing and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Fox’s breathless coverage includes [...]
McCain vs. Ware vs. Drudge vs. Truth
CNN’s Michael Ware suuuure is controversial, and frankly i’m shocked that CNN hasn’t abandoned him in Baghdad (yet).
no, he hasn’t been drawing maps in the sand to give away troop locations. he hasn’t been maligning Retired members of the US Military. he’s been reporting the ground truth from Iraq, since before the war even began. and some [...]
obit
anna nicole smith died on Thursday.
on that same day, a US airstrike killed 13 ‘militants’ west of Baghdad.
great, right? well, sure - until you find out that the same airstrike also killed up to 45 civilians.
that’s 45 CIVILIANS - women, children, etc…
what? you hadn’t heard about that story, because of the minute-by-minute ‘breaking news’ coverage of the [...]
all hail the mooninites
Gentlemen… BEHOLD! - wait, i mean
…Spacecataz…
o my freaking god… if ever an event could shake me from four months of braindeath, rekindle the flickering embers of chaos and more importantly convince me to sit here for a second and type out a few words, it is this. the biggest rush of exuberant joy i’ve felt [...]
here we go again, again. again.
so the 48-hour airstrike suspension was a joke - less than one day into it they’d killed a Lebanese Officer. another ‘tragic mistake’, no doubt.
and in the PR battle, Olmert came out and said that hezbollah was ’seriously damaged’, to which Hezbollah responded with 200+ rockets (a new single-day record and nearly DOUBLE the previous [...]
a million to one…
it’s one of those things i had thought was an urban legend.
when you spend as much time as i do on the internet, researching what’s happening in the world, and what happened to bring us to this point, you’ll come across some wild, speculative, ‘fringy’ stuff on a regular basis. like the claim that a [...]
full disclosure
ok, in the wake of Massacre II in the Lebanese village of Qana (as opposed to Massacre I, the 1996 Israeli shelling of a UN facility which killed 102 Lebanese refugees), the failure-by-design of condi’s pseudo-diplomacy, the repetition ad infinitum of ‘1559′ by bolton, gillerman, and FoxNews, and in keeping with the recent announcement of [...]
a special brand of journalism
maybe it should be called sigh-ops.
day 16 of Operation Extreme Makeover: Lebanon Edition, and my buddy shep smith has just learned how to pronouce Kiryat Shmona.
then he goes to get some insight into the fighting across the border from ‘one of the troops’, identified onscreen as ‘Major Michael Oren’. first i was struck by the [...]
censorship vs. stupidity
Tookie is dead (RIP), Richard Pryor is dead (RIP), the Iraqi election has come and gone, polar bears are drowning in the Arctic (RIP), the NSA’s been wiretapping Americans with the President’s blessing, Bush low-balled the Iraqi death toll by nearly 100,000 in a recent press event, Australians are trying to out-do the French on the race-riot front, and Robert Novak’s moving [...]
Iraqis insist on insurging despite positive press spin
like the old saying goes, if you can’t say something nice, wait for an American to bribe you.
yesterday, the LA Times broke the story of the Lincoln Group, a DoD contractor formerly known as “Iraqex”(?), and (probably) the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element (a division of USSOCOM, and completely different from the Office of Strategic Influence!) paying Iraqi newspapers to run [...]
