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...
In my article I write about Hinton Communications previously slamming 60 Minutes for a report that unfairly characterized one of its clients. Hinton Communications, now the pr firm for the Amazon Defense Coalition (ADC), uses the same news organization to aggressivly...
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In a well-crafted statement, a Hinton Communications press release reads as follows:“The 60 Minutes segment was flat wrong in many respects. In typical fashion, 60 Minutes glossed over or failed to report facts that complicated its simplistic format — facts that would...
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Chevron and other “big oil” companies have been routinely criticized by politicians, commentators, and the media as greedy and heartless for making obscenely large profits. Apparently Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff now has a problem with Chevron contributing millions of...
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When President Obama made his unannounced detour to Iraq, the White House press pool was momentarily left in the dark and clueless as their on-board map was left blank. CBS News Producer, Jeff Goldman was one...
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Members of the mainstream news media seem to have no interest in Leon Panetta’s past open involvement with the Institute for Policy Studies, an anti-CIA think tank closely linked to the former Soviet Union’s...
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...
• Still no convincing reason why McCain picked someone so untested• Did he choose her it because he felt he had to?Could John McCain's odd GOP convention adventure of the past week be subtitled, "The politics of induced schizophrenia?"He headed to the twin cities after a...
Barack Obama’s photo op tour across the Middle East and Europe has generated a great deal of news media attention for the presumptive Democrat Party presidential nominee. One article, however, caused me to buy...
If nation's were living organisms (and they are), the news media would constitute the histamines of those poor afflicted bodies they "serve". Histamines, which cause no end of aggravating irritation by...
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The NHL is in the midst of winnin’ time. The NBA nears
winnin’ time. The MLB schedule is budding. Yet, because of Don Imus’
statements, because of the Duke Lacrosse team, most of the sports world
remains in the permafrost of a silent spring.At first glance, one...
We Media holds its 2007 conference in Miami Feb. 7-9. and its blog is already busy with baffling brainbusters. Travis Smith asks a very interesting question in a posting to the We Media conference Blog: is it...
The article I wrote below, first appeared over at Newsvine. After reading the story The Newspaper Dead Pool Growing on NowPublic, I thought I would repost it here.
I’m old world. I love ink on...
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NowPublic editor Victoria Revay was one of the first journalists to make connection with William Kerr. He began to pour his soul out to her in a series of emails and IM chats. Here is his story as told by...