Influence & publicity concern for NYS OCFS Commissioner Carrion

Influence and publicity are apparently a major concern for  New York State Office of Children and Family Service's (NYS OCFS) Commissioner Gladys Carrion who recently came under fire by the U.S. Department of...

Major Media Outlets Ignore Report on Energy

Members of the mainstream media -- people who call themselves "journalists" -- seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 -- this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and...

ACORN - destablising America?

I want you to watch something - whether you are Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Left-Wing - watch it because what you think afterwards says more about you than anything else.This is what I want you to watch. What you think will put you into any number of camps. Those...

Sibel Edmonds Deposition: Deep Corruption Beneath the Surface

By Erik LarsonEDIT 8/25/09: Deposition Video and Transcript Released! http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7374Aug 8, 2009, Sibel Edmonds gave a sworn deposition in which she testified to her knowledge of treasonous...

AP (Associated Press) Charges $2.50 Per Word to Quote Stories

Lately, the Associated Press (AP) has truly been going out of their way to show that traditional journalists really do understand social media.Open-source, cross-linking, going viral? They're down with that. The AP is with it. Fo' shizzle.For instance, the AP understands that...

Rachel Maddow on Obama, Brzezinski and 9/11 Conspiracy

An Open Letter to Rachel Maddow; June 5, Maddow gave a softball interview to war criminal Zbigniew Brzezinski, in which which both tacitly approve of Obama's equating 9/11 inquiry with Holocaust denial, even while...

Sibel Edmonds Dissects the US Mainstream Media

Sibel Edmonds has started a blog; discussion ongoing on with her at her latest article: "In the next few days I’ll be posting a series of either 4 or 5 pieces on the MSM, examining brief important historical...

Time Warner Seeks to Spin Off AOL

Time Warner is going to focus on traditional media, and aims to spin off its AOL property. Google currently owns a 5% stake in AOL, which Time Warner will have to buy back. Ultimately, AOL-based ad revenues are far more volatile to Time Warner than the subscription income...

Newsprint Giant AbitibiBowater Files for Bankruptcy

AbitibiBitowater, the world's largest newsprint manufacturer, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, and will file for Canadian bankruptcy protection tomorrow. Faced with mounting debt and...

Doug Ross Exposes Media's Pack Mentality

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary offers several definitions of the word, "pack." When it comes to members of the mainstream media and their treatment of the subject of Americans without health insurance, blogger Doug Ross found that one definition is most applicable: "A...

Pakistani Military Torpedoes Pro-U.S. Govt.’s Case On Mumbai

" Two public officials – the Navy chief and a deputy attorney general – together have destroyed Rehman Malik’s case of ‘admission of guilt’ in Mumbai attacks. The government has fired the deputy attorney general for taking a stand, but no one in the Pakistani media...

Pakistan’s Security Advisor: Traitor Or Downright Idiot?

BrassTacks analysis and rebuttal to Rehman Malik’s ‘admission of guilt’ on the Mumbai drama. On Monday, Feb. 9, FIA, which conducted the investigation under Mr. Malik, said it needed more information from India to take its investigations further. What was the radical...

Is India Planning To Announce Kassab’s Death?

" Reliable sources in the Indian capital with links to Indian police told a Pakistani Web portal that senior Indian officials have discussed the elimination of Ajmal Kassab, the lone surviving terrorist in the...

Is News Media to Blame for Making Economic Crisis Worse?

Is the news media to blame for making economic crisis worse?  According to new poll results released by the Opinion Research Corporation today, they are.An overwhelming 77 percent of Americans believe that...

Mumbai Terror: Twitter, Flickr & YouTube = Cutting-Edge News Media

Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other people-driven new media are increasingly the front lines of news coverage on important breaking events. While they sometimes include erroneous information, they are proving to be a valuable resource for firsthand reports, and local knowledge...

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