Commentary

Started July, 2009

 

 

 

The Media

"Media, the plural of mediocrity"
 
Jimmy Breslin

Related Issues Resources Relative Links

 

 

"If you don't read the NewsPaper you are uninformed.
 

I
f you do read the NewsPaper you are misinformed."

   - Mark Twain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

 

Lonnie J. Burris

Activist & Concerned Citizen

 

"Freedom of the Press is limited to those who own one"

   ◊  A. J. Liebling

 

 

 

Related Issues:

 

GOD

Economy
Education

Immigration

War In Iraq

War On Drugs

Animal Rights
Factory Farming

Ethics & Morality
Orthodox Religion

Political Corruption

Corporate Corruption

Legislating Morality

 

 

 

Resources:

 

Alternet

StopBigMedia

SaveTheNews

PolitiFact.Com

The Real News

Consortium News

ThinkProgress.Org

MediaMatters.Org

BillMoyers.Com

 

 

 

Relevant Links:

 

Is the Media Ready to Stop Letting Politicians Lie?

 

Why the Era May Be Over for Blow Hard Right-Wing Extremists

 

Rush Limbaugh, The Koch Brothers and the Right Wing Echo Chamber (Video)

 

Right-Wing Lunacy: The Shameless Lies Conservative Media Tell Their Audience

 

Why We Should Thank Steven Colbert: 3 Ways the Culture-Jammer Exposes Our Rotten Corporate State

 

Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash

 

How the Media Lost the Plot on US Taxation

 

The Post-Truth Campaign

 

8 Stories Buried by the Corporate Media That You Need to Know About

 

Democratic Governance Is Becoming Discredited (Video)

 

Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month's Biggest Story You Never Read

 

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

 

Big Lies Launch Wars. "All Wars Are Based on Deception"

 

The 'Media Circus' of Occupy Wall Street Coverage

 

4 Polls that Show Occupy Wall Street is Just Getting Started

 

US: Did You Know that Feds Will Temporarily Cut Off All TV and Radio Broadcasts on Nov. 9?

 

Occupy Wall Street is Not Difficult to Understand

 

Morning Mix: Media Hates Obama

 

Occupy Wall Street - Chris Hedges Shuts Down CBC Kevin O'leary

 

Cowards and Presstitutes

 

9/11 and the Mainstream Media, are there Such Things as Stupid Questions?

 

Why Are the Corporate Media in Denial About the Right-Wing Terrorist Threat?

 

The Centrist Cop-Out

 

Alan Sabrosky, US Marine Corp Veteran, Implicates Israel in 9/11 Attack

 

Connecting the Dots from New Corps Scandal to the Dangerous Lies of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal

 

Stealing from Social Security Is NOT a Debt Solution -- Why Do the Media Promote This Dangerous Myth?

 

14 Propaganda Techniques Fox News "Uses" to Brainwash Americans

 

The War You Don't See

 

Lies Become Truths: The Demise of the Newspaper Leaves Americans Dumber, Blinder and Prone to Ideological Manipulation

 

The Real News in the Middle East

 

Senator Sanders Breaks Down the Koch Echo Chamber

 

5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That are Turning the World on Its Head -- And that the Media Are Ignoring

 

The Public's Wishes on Economy are Kept Out of the Media

 

The Fascinating Story of How Shameless Right-Wing Lies Came to Rule Our Politics

 

Vision: How to Make Media Reflect the Popular Vies of Americans, Not Those of Elites

 

The Collapse of Journalism and How to Fix It (Video)

 

The Rights 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History

 

How Graphic Journalism Is Changing the Face of News

 

Progressive Media Suffer Loses in the Fight Against the Right-Wing Media Machine

 

The Social Security Scam: How Media Driven Misdirection Is Being Used to Hijack Your Future

 

Fox News Insider: "Stuff Is Just Made Up"

 

What the Media Would Look If It Were Actually Liberal

 

John Pilger: Why Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly?

 

The Largest Prison Strike In American History Goes Ignored By US Media

 

Tony Lawson: Sex, Lies, Iran.Israel and WikiLeaks (Video)

 

Internet Was Never Free or Open and Never Will Be, Media Studies Prof. Says

 

Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States

 

Helen Thomas Stands by Her Remarks on Israel

 

Helen Thomas on Her Resignation and Middle East (Video)

 

Hedges: We're Losing Our Intelligence -- How the Purge of True Dissent Has Starved Our Discourse

 

What Keith Olbermann's Suspension Says About Our Cowardly Corporate Media

 

The Phantom Left

 

Hedges: "Death of the Liberal Class"

 

The Heart of Journalistic Mythology (Video)

 

Controlled Media is a Conspiracy Fact

 

Is America's Military Prepared for the Israeli Threat?

 

Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens

 

The Crisis Will Deepen, We Need Real News

 

5 Things the Corporate Media and Government Don't Want You to Know About Marijuana

 

Why Iran's Jews Are Better Off Than Gaza's Palestinians

 

Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed

 

Verizon and Google Want to Kill Up the Open Internet - Media Mogul Confirms Their Bad Intentions

Oliver Stone: Jewish Control of the Media is Preventing Free Holocaust Debate

Non-Profit Investigative Journalism to The Rescue

Announcing the 2009 P.U.-litzer Prizes

The Award for Nonexcellence in Climate Journalism Goes To...

Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism

5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis

New York Times Blames Workers for Unemployment

FOX's Political Witch Hunt Against ACORN Exposed (Video)

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization

A Media Failure Compounds the Financial Failure

Obama: We Need to Bail Out Newspapers or Blogs Will Run the World

Glenn Greenwald: Right-Wingers and Corporations Benefit While Media Stays Distracted with ACORN

FCC to Take on Telecoms in Fight for the Future of the Internet

Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance

Corporate Media Continue to Play to Conservative Arguments on Health Reform

Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

Prince of Pot Marc Emery on Farwell Tour as US Prison Term Looms

NBC, CBS, ABC, & Fox Happy to Profit from Marijuana, as Long as Nobody Talks About Legalizing It

Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

Corporate Dominance in Every Aspect of Our Lives is Suffocating Us

Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Groups Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

What's the Future of Journalism? Anything's Better than Advertiser-Financed Corporate Media

Censored on TV: Why Are Some Stations Keeping Pot in the Closet?

Corporate Media Runs with Half the Story on Health Bill

If You Love the Internet, Fight for It

Taibbi's Scream: Stop the Political System That Has Let Goldman Sachs Fleece Us for 90 Years

'Green Shoots' of Recovery? Don't Fall for the Media's Economic Triumphalism

Next on the Endangered Species List: Your Hometown Newspaper

Food Inc: Michael Pollan and Friends Reveal the Food Industy's Darkest Secrets

Obama's "Open Government" Project Censors Popular Proposal to "End Imperial Presidency"

Neocon US Colonel Calls for Military Attacks on "Partisan Media"

Baby Boomer Alert: The Truth Behind Social Security Propaganda

Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid Raw Anger

Why the Press Is on Suicide Watch

3 Good Reasons (and 1ne Bad One) Why I Don't Buy Into Your Conspiracy Theories

Newsflash: Populism Is Popular

'60 Minutes' Blows It on Coal Segment

Wired Less: Disconnected in Urban America

Five Days on the Digital Dirt Road

Massive Protests Organized Through Twitter and Facebook

Bageant: We've Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls -- It's Time to Do Something Meaningful

Will Your Hometown Newspaper Still Be Around in 6 Months?

How Obama Won: The Rise of Web 2.0

CNBC's Marijuana, Inc.: An Odd Mix of Weed Porn and Anti-Drug Propaganda

Facebook and Twitter Are Reshaping Journalism As We Know It

Social Movements 2.0: Harnessing the Power of the Web for Change

Is America's Love Affair with Stupidity Finally Over?

Could the Media Derail Health Care Reform?

Online News Overtakes Print Journalism

Announcing the 2008 P.U.-litzer Prizes

Fox News Spins History (Again)

The Newspaper Industry Is Dying Before Our Very Eyes

The Time Has Come to Create a Real 'Liberal Media'

How Our Gutless Media Helped Trigger the Credit Crisis

Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled By Propaganda

News Media Propaganda Helped Push Through Failed Bailout

The 10 Most Talk-About Election '08 Viral Videos

Only Two Newspapers Put 4,000 US Troop Deaths on Front Page

Fighting Words: How to Humiliate -- and Convert -- a Right-Winger

 

The Media's Election

 

Corporate Media's Virtual Blackout on Iraq Atrocity Hearings

 

Why I Called Fox News "Propaganda" while Live on Fox News

 

The Iraqi Civil War Bush and the Media Won't Tell You About

The Road to Better Media

What Liberal Media?

 

For More Relevant Links...
Google "The Media"