Archive for 'media attention'
Where Are My Spectacles I: The Death of News That's Fit to Print
Christopher Hedges extemporized about his new book, The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle, when he stopped in Berkeley, CA on his tour last summer. But his take on the spectacular is not without some convoluted ironies. First, I feel that I should disclose that I have not read his book. In that [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Media, media attention, media bias.
Tags: bailout, berkeley, chris hedges, christopher hedges, conde nast, cuts, economy, eyesight, fact-checking, firing, hypocrisy, inquiry, irony, journalism, layoffs, literacy, magazines, Media, media bias, media polarization, nostalgia, polarization, print media, publishing, recession, soapbox, spectacle, spectacles, the new york times, the spectacle
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Faux News: Conservative Media Spin vs. Obama's Rick-Roll
Welp, bro-hemes, it’s no news to most of us that Faux News is not all it’s cracked up to be – for instance, a Google image search for ‘faux news’ turns up a lot of interesting variations on this graphic. Yet at the same time, a newer report on Faux’s antics sees its standard of [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under 80's, Fox News, Media, ellen, media attention, media bias, obama, politician, politics.
Tags: 1987, 80's music, barack obama, bias, bro-hemes, brohemian rhapsody, charlie reina, conservative, ellen degeneres, faux news, Fox News, John McCain, jon stewart, media bias, medical history, never going to give you up, rick astley, rick-roll, the daily show
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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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