It couldn’t, to paraphrase, happen to a nicer newspaper. After 168 years the British News of the World has closed down in the face of a momentous scandal regarding phone hacking and corruption. That scandal is touching every aspect of British society, …
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LeDaro: Glenn Beck’s departure from Fox News
Some hilarious clips from Beck’s tenure at Faux News. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economySource: Lawrence O’Donnell show “The Last Word”, MSNBC.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: When Facts Don’t Matter: Proving The Problem With Fox News
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My two posts about Fox News and misinformation are probably the most popular items I’ve contributed here. They’ve been widely linked, Twee…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Jon Stewart 1, Politfact 0: Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed
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I have a lot of respect for political fact checking sites. I think they play a critical role, especially in our misinformation-saturated political and media environm…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Fox News Effect: Sea Level Edition
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Climate scientists–and other scientists–are always improving and updating their methods. That’s how science works. And it’s a very good and honorable thing–or at …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Media Matters Report Shows Network TV Preference For Anti-Environment Guests
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Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act, R…
Continue readingArt Threat: A left-leaning take on political portraits – Michael Caines’ depictions of US leaders are sincere yet ridiculous
Caines’ work succeeds because it comes across as both sincere and ridiculous. It’s a grotesque, and yet an accurate portrayal of political pomposity.
Continue readingpunditman: FOX News Creates Fraudulent Video to Discredit Ron Paul
Peacenik isn’t a supporter of Ron Paul. Nor is Fox News. But this example shows how blatant the media’s manipulation of news is. And meanwhile the CRTC thinks having Fox News, or Fox News wannabes, is ok in Canada. You want to know why most Republicans think Obama is a Muslim? It is because of media distortion/propaganda like this. Follow the link. Watch the video.
As Paul Joseph Watson of PrisonPlanet writes:
Continue readingIn a shocking act of mass public deception, Fox News attempted to skew Ron Paul’s 2011 CPAC straw poll win by representing it with footage from the previous year’s CPAC event, at which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed the result, another example of the continuing dirty tricks campaign being waged against Paul by the establishment media.
Congressman Paul replicated his 2010 victory over Mitt Romney by defeating the former Governor of Massachusetts for a second consecutive year at the annual CPAC conference.
However, before anchor Bill Hemmer introduced a segment concerning the story, Fox News played a clip of the 2010 announcement of the poll results, during which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed Ron Paul’s victory, passing off last year’s footage as representative of this year’s event.
Hemmer then proceeded to state, “In the end he was the winner, probably not the reaction he was hoping for,” describing the reaction as “mixed applause and boos,” before directly asking Ron Paul if he knew who was booing him.
punditman: FOX News Creates Fraudulent Video to Discredit Ron Paul
Peacenik isn’t a supporter of Ron Paul. Nor is Fox News. But this example shows how blatant the media’s manipulation of news is. And meanwhile the CRTC thinks having Fox News, or Fox News wannabes, is ok in Canada. You want to know why most Republicans think Obama is a
Continue readingpunditman: FOX News Creates Fraudulent Video to Discredit Ron Paul
Peacenik isn’t a supporter of Ron Paul. Nor is Fox News. But this example shows how blatant the media’s manipulation of news is. And meanwhile the CRTC thinks having Fox News, or Fox News wannabes, is ok in Canada. You want to know why most Republicans think Obama is a
Continue readingA. Picazo: Ezra Levant vs Reality – A Prelude To Fox News North
The battle between supporters and opponents of Sun TV News – the Fox News style channel headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former communications director Kory Teneycke – reached new heights when members of the ‘Fox News North’ team took issue with a growing online petition urging the CRTC to reject Quebecor’s (QMI) request to
Continue readingPop The Stack: Beware the Power of the Dark Side
Sometimes, when I see the crazy places some people want to take our country or other countries I wonder to myself, are they serious? Do they really believe that government is a sham, that it would truly be better for everyone if we paid no taxes and just lived off our own initiative and money? […]
Continue readingbastard.logic: “Roger Ailes as Howard Hughes”?
by matttbastard Let’s hope the ugly SOB still clips his toenails. Seriously — producing daily crypto-fascistic dispatches carefully crafted to rile up the rubes while scoring mega ad rev? Understandable. Poor hygeine? Absolutely unforgivable. h/t Krugman (who, speaking of unforgivable … Continue reading →
Continue readingbastard.logic: War is Over (OK, Not *Over*, But…)
by matttbastard Was going to pick up on what BooMan, Jed Lewison & Jeff Fecke had to say re: Jane Hamsher’s unholy alliance with Grover fucking Norquist and the more-progressive-than-thou campaign to unseat that notorious corporate shill, Bernie Sanders (and … Continue reading →
Continue readingJacked Up: Obama is responsible for the Holocaust Museum Shooting!
That’s according to Glenn Beck and Fox news. Joseph Palermo at Huffington Post had quite a take on this kind of spin. From his article: In Beck’s world President Obama brings “identity politics” and “political correctness” to the White House, and it’s the “Left” that is “racist” because unlike conservatives,
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