Tag: Media
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 17 Edition
LEAD STORY: The (UK) Guardian: Wingnuts’ Ultimate Fate…To Be Eaten By Liberals? It’s happened once before! Now, it all becomes clearer to El Somnambulo. Vegetarianism is but a sinister plot by the wingnuts to prevent a repeat of what happened to their predecessors, the Neanderthals: One of science’s most puzzling mysteries – the disappearance of the […]
Torture Architect Yoo to Write Column for Inquirer
Some things El Somnambulo just cannot make up. At a time when newspapers are at death’s door, the Philadelphia Inquirer has hired Bush’s point man on torture to write a monthly column. Philly Daily News’ Attytood columnist Will Bunch is not too thrilled with the move. The Inquirer thus handed Yoo a loud megaphone on […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 10th
LEAD ARTICLE: Washington Post- Smithfield vs. Mexico…The Dark Side of Agribusiness Come to think of it, is there a bright side to agribusiness? While there may not be a proven link between Smithfield and the swine flu outbreak, Steve Fanairu paints an excellent portrait of how Smithfield runs roughshod over scores of people and endangers […]
Anna Quindlen’s Classy and Optimistic Goodbye to ‘Newsweek’
It really doesn’t get any classier than this. Reading submissions from outstanding young reporters vying for the Livingston Prize convinced Quindlen that new voices needed to be heard: The last bit of evidence arrived in the form of three binders of news clippings. Because all the submissions for the Livingston Awards have to come from […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 3
LEAD STORY-McClatchy Papers: U. S. Refugee Allies Face Deportation Due to Bush Administration Inertia Another serious mess left by the serial incompetents of the Bush Administration, this time featuring the sinister Michael Chertoff. WASHINGTON — Forced to flee his homeland because he supported America’s ideals, Tsegu Bahta thought he’d be embraced by the country he […]
Media Question of the Evening
A torture related media observation/question from Eric Boehlert: Does anybody else think it’s odd, albeit telling, that for chunks of the corporate press corps, the emphasis surrounding the release of the Bush era torture memos is now centered on the political problems they’ve created for the Obama administration–how the memos reflect poorly on the current White House—and not, y’know, what […]
Media Question of the Evening
Ana Marie Cox wrote this as part of a Spring Cleaning series at the WaPo (institutions that could be thrown out): It’s not that the reporters covering the president are bad at their jobs. Most are experienced journalists at the top of their game — and they’re wasted at the White House, where scoops are […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-April 26 Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: US Major Claims US Torture Has Caused More American Deaths than 9-11 Patrick Cockburn, winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize for Journalism, shows the counterproductivity of torture through the experienced lens of US Major Matthew Alexander. Alexander’s interrogation team located the hideout of al-Zarqawi without the use of torture. The use […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers: April 19 Edition
LEAD STORY-The Times of London: British Scientists Use Stem Cells and Find Cure For Blindness Wow. Good thing that Bush and the Wingnuts had such an abiding ‘respect’ for ‘human life’. Who ever would have wanted this to happen? British scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Easter Edition
LEAD STORY-New York Times: “States Shredding Social Safety Nets to Balance Budgets” Maybe Pierre duPont should come on here to explain how raising taxes on the Silverspoonistas is engaging in ‘class warfare’, while cutting vital services to the most vulnerable is not: Perhaps nowhere have the cuts been more disruptive than in Arizona, where more […]
Breaking! ‘Real’ People in Nat’l Org. for Marriage Spot Are Actors. And Here are the Auditions…
Pandora ran a ‘Pointless/Counterpoint’ thread below featuring ‘real’ people reallyreally concerned about the so-called homosexual agenda. Well, yes, they’re real people as long as actors are considered real people (Alfred Hitchcock on actors: “I never said they were cattle. I said they should be treated like cattle”). You doubt the Beast Who Slumbers? Allow ‘bulo […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-April 5, 2009
LEAD STORY-BOSTON GLOBE: Bush Steered Investors Involuntarily into Risky Funds With Predictably Disastrous Results There comes a point where you have you ask yourself, as Keith Olbermann has, whether the Bush Administration deliberately set out to destroy the country. There’s almost no other explanation for stories like this. Shortly before the first signs of the stock […]
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