Update 2: It appears NPR corrected the record. It was a barge, not a tugboat. Not sure who else has corrected themselves. Well, there was a reason for my questions, and while at the time it seemed to have been less important with relation to media than I thought, it WAS important with regard to [...]
July 27, 2010
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So asked and answered Jay Rosen. “Ask yourself: Why didn’t Wikileaks just publish the Afghanistan war logs and let journalists ‘round the world have at them? Why hand them over to The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel first? Because as Julien Assange, founder of Wikileaks, explained last October, if a big story [...]
July 27, 2010
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My very closest human friend took his life on Monday. Here is what I remember: ● Embrace who you are and write it on your soul … or your body. ● Be kind, and be childlike in your approach to new things in life. ● Don’t yell. ● If you want to keep it, take [...]
July 23, 2010
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The proof is in not in the pseudo body language analysis that Bill O’ Reilly brings, but instead in ACTUAL body language. Also, who wants to talk about race when it’s hot outside and summertime? Andrew Breitbart revealed himself in the second half of a segment that Think Progress caught. At about the three minute [...]
July 23, 2010
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Three MAJOR news media outlets declined to pick up a phone, Monday, to ask Shirley Sherrod about what she spoke about at a NAACP meeting. Still, bloggers, newsies, and Twitter alike continue to BLAME NAACP for not doing a fact check of more than 450,000 members of the organization to find out who owned the [...]
July 21, 2010
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The animal rights activist who filmed the horrific abuse of dairy cows on the Conklin farm purportedly admitted he participated in abuse of the cows to remain undercover. Farm and Dairy online reports: “Smith reportedly told law enforcement that he did not witness any abuse by Conklin, and that Conklin did not know of the [...]
July 19, 2010
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Rachel Maddow – Thursday – on her ever brilliant show on MSNBC, was spot on with regard to Afghanistan … but so was Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Rachel, in summation, was not really speaking of ‘humanitarian intervention’ but her ideas about what is really going on in this war were astoundingly correct, and had more to [...]
July 15, 2010
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I have to begin by saying: “I hate war.” While I am not dogmatic about it, I truly believe there are some instances where intervention – in cases of human atrocities, etc. – may be the right thing to do. On that note, we are in two wars. Like it or not … we are [...]
July 13, 2010
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In Michael Hastings’ Rolling Stone piece that ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal, he cites internal disputes between civilians and military leadership. One example: “The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people,” says Douglas Macgregor. Well it could be … but it wasn’t McChrystal’s idea according to him. Fast forward to about the [...]
July 9, 2010
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(My apologies for the incorrect spelling in the headline earlier) This week, a ProPublica photojournalist got intimidated by the Texas City, Texas Police. Admittedly, in a rush, he went ahead and turned over his camera – rather than be arrested (for who knows what, really) he acquiesced. He went on to explain: Hm. Well. According [...]
July 7, 2010
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