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Media Misinforms Because We Allow It

 
NOI's Joel Silberman explains that the media doesn't really want you very well informed.
You need to watch this twice.

You need to watch this twice.

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Fox’s 24 Casts “Markos” as a Terrorist

The Fox wingnut soap opera 24, has cast a middle east suicide bombing terrorist character (with an American mother… who won't arouse suspicion) who curiously enough, bears a very strong physical and facial resemblance to DailyKos founder, Markos Moulitsas. The actor's name is Rami Malek.

Oh, and funny thing: The character's name is "Markos." Must be

How to Fix Talk Radio Without a Fairness Doctrine

Back in the summer of 2007, Josh Silver's FreePress.org, and the Center for American Progress published a very important, and little discussed report called

The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio

It found that:

In the spring of 2007 of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top
five commercial station owners reveals that 91 percent of the total

Urban Dictionary Contributions

My Definitions

These are definitions I have created at UrbanDictionary.com.  If you visit them, please vote them "thumbs up?" Thanks!   Note: All terms are to the best of my knowledge, my creations, except where indicated by "*", in which case, I was defining a term coined by others.

MediaMatters releases powerful new video

VIDEO: Rise Of The Conservative Media

Media Matters releases new video showing right-wing media's leading role in driving movement. Very  powerful, and more than a little scary.   I really hope @mmfa will start releasing stuff like this far more regularly.  It's way past time we take the fight to the Conservative agenda, instead of waiting

Liberal Media Myths Primer

"I admit it — the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures." William Kristol, New Yorker, 5/22/95

Articles and Essays

The Price of the Liberal Media "Indeed, if an honest history of this era is ever written, one of

Conservatives Dominate Op-Eds in U.S. Newspapers

In 2007, MediaMatters did an extensive survey of conservative voices in American newspapers. While this may sound like old news, the fact is, that Twitter and other social media are making it possible to excite people about information that was published, but never got much traction with the media–or the public.  It's making many old

Conservatives Dominate Op-Eds

Introduction

This project did something that has never been done before: It amassed data on the syndicated columnists published by nearly every daily newspaper in the country. While a few publications, most notably Editor & Publisher, cover the syndicated newspaper industry, no one has attempted to comprehensively assemble this information prior to now. Because the syndicates

Morning Joe Propaganda

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" (@JoeNBC) this morning (7/24/09), we saw the most inexcusable health industry propaganda get voiced without any comment or correction whatsoever by at least four pundits on the set. In a segment with Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), the Republican congressman