Archive for 'media bias'
Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
Tags: 9/11, Aborigine, afghanistan, apartheid, australia, barack obama, bombing, border, bystanders, church, communism, communist, consciousness, crime, democracy, disobedience, diversity, dominance, Eddie Murray, Edmund Burke, edward bernays, First Australians, freedom, george bush, harold pinter, hypocrisy, illegal immigrants, illusion, incarceration, insurrection, Iran, Israel, john howard, john pilger, journalism, justice, Kevin Rudd, malnutrition, media bias, Milan Kundera, NATO, Nobel Prize, palestine, peace, pedophilia, Percy Shelley, poetry, poverty, PR, propaganda, public relations, Puggy Hunter, racism, Rupert Murdoch, russia, Saddam Hussein, sex slavery, social class, stalin, stock, terrorism, terrorists, Thomas Paine, thrachoma, truth, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, war, WMD
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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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Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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Muslim Community Liaison Resigns Over Alleged Ties to the Muslim Community
Recently I was listening to this episode of This American Life (Act Two, to be precise) and realized that the American Muslim community is experiencing a frightening witch hunt. In short, Masan Azbahi was an Obama campaign liaison to Chicago’s Muslim community until he was accused of being a terrorist. Why? Because he had once [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Islam, Media, This American Life, discrimination, irony, media bias, muslim, obama, objectification, religion, religious extremists, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists.
Tags: anti-semitism, chicago, dow jones, fundamentalist, imam, investment, ira glass, irony, Islam, jamal said, masan azbahi, muslim, obama, racism, radical islam, terror, terrorism, wall street journal. this american life, war on terror
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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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