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20080702
 John
McCain -  Karl
Rove -  Rick
Davis -  Arizona
-  2004
Election - 2008
Election - Media
-
"McCain
camp puts Rove man in charge: New chief Steve Schmidt,
right, a veteran of the [Republican President] Bush campaign, will focus
on honing McCain's message. Republicans have complained the campaign lacked
clear themes." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and
Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has gone through
its second shake-up in a year. Responding to Republican concern that his
candidacy was faltering, McCain put a veteran of President Bush's 2004
campaign in charge of day-to-day operations, and stepped away from a plan
to have the campaign run by 11 regional managers, McCain's aides said Wednesday."
... "The elevation of Steve Schmidt -- who worked closely with Karl Rove
-- at McCain's headquarters represented a sharp diminishment of the responsibilities
of Rick Davis, who has been McCain's campaign manager since the last shake-up
nearly a year ago." ... "The move is the latest sign of increasing influence
of veterans of Rove's shop in the McCain operation. Nicolle Wallace, who
was communications director for Bush in the 2004 campaign (and in his White
House) has joined the campaign as a senior adviser, and will travel with
McCain every other week. Greg Jenkins, another veteran of Rove's operation
who is a former Fox News [TV] producer and director of presidential advance
in the Bush White House, was hired by Schmidt last week after a series
of what McCain's advisers acknowledged were poorly executed campaign events."
(1, 2,
3)
-NYTimes -WashingtonPost
via -StarTribune
20080630
John
McCain -  Barack
Obama - 2008
Election -  Military
- Media
-  Politics
"“Attacking”
McCain’s Military Record: What [General] Wesley Clark
really said; how the press missed it." ... "So: The latest round of mock
outrage—in a presidential race that has turned the tactic into an art form—now
comes in response to comments made by General Wesley Clark. Appearing as
a surrogate for Barack Obama on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, Clark, in reference
to John McCain, said:"
"I
certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war…But he hasn’t held executive
responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded—that
wasn’t a wartime squadron. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to
fall." ... "When moderator Bob Schieffer interjected that “Barack Obama
has
not had any of those experiences, either, nor has he ridden in a fighter
plane and gotten shot down”, Clark responded: “Well, I don’t think riding
in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”"
"The
McCain camp, sensing an opportunity, complained that Clark had “attacked
John McCain’s military service record.” Of course, Clark had done nothing
of the kind. He had questioned the relevance of McCain’s combat experience
as a qualification to be president of the United States. This is a distinction
that you’d expect any reasonably intelligent nine-year old to be able to
grasp." ... "But many in the press have been unable to." -By
Zachary Roth -CJR.org
 WATCH:
General Wes Clark on John McCain on Face the Nation June 29, 2008
20080623
Media
-
-  Radio
-  Communications
-  Corporations
-  Government
- Politics
"July
18 Deadline for Cross-Ownership Move Requests: Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals Gives Broadcasters, Media Activists Until July
18 to File Requests for Moving Appeal of FCC Decision." ... "The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals gave broadcasters and media activists
until July 18 to file their requests for moving the appeal of the Federal
Communications Commission's decision
to loosen the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership." ...
"That's according to one of the parties involved." -By
John Eggerton -BroadcastingCable.com
John
McCain - Political
- Media
- Television
- Censorship
- 2008
Election
"FOX
Erases McCain Saying He "Really Didn't Love America"."
... "On March 13, 2008, FOX's Sean Hannity interviewed [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] John McCain for the full hour. The interview started
with questions about McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. At
one point, this was said: HANNITY: You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year
period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend
that much time in solitary confinement? MCCAIN: I think it makes you a
better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love
America until I was deprived of her company." ... "Get that? McCain "really
didn't love America" until he was a POW." ... "Jedreport.com
discovered that the transcript of the McCain/Hannity interview on FoxNews.com
had no mention of McCain saying he "really didn't love America" until he
was a POW. I checked and sure enough, it wasn't there. So I started watching
the video of the interview of FoxNews.com — it wasn't there either." ...
"FOX has completely erased the first segment to hide McCain's statement
that he "really didn't love America"." ... "They [Rupert Murdoch's Fox
News television stations] are the republican propaganda machine." ... "PS
This isn't even the first time McCain has said he "didn't really love America"
until he was a POW. He's been saying it for years." -YouTube
user Jsjkim
WATCH
"FOX Erases McCain Saying He "Really Didn't Love America""
20080622
 US
-  Iraq
-  Afghanistan
- Military
-  Terrorism
- Media
- Politics
- McCain
- 2008
Election
"Now
That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home." ... "The Iraq
war’s defenders like to bash the press for pushing the bad news and ignoring
the good. Maybe they’ll be happy to hear that the bad news doesn’t rate
anymore. When a bomb killed at
least 51 Iraqis at a Baghdad market on Tuesday, ending an extended
run of relative calm, only one of the three network newscasts (NBC’s)
even bothered to mention it." ... "The only problem is that no news from
Iraq isn’t good news — it’s no news. The night of the Baghdad bombing the
CBS war correspondent Lara Logan appeared
as Jon Stewart’s guest on “The Daily Show” to lament the vanishing television
coverage and the even steeper falloff in viewer interest. “Tell me the
last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier,” she said. After
pointing out that more soldiers died in Afghanistan than Iraq last month,
she asked, “Who’s paying attention to that?”" ... "Should voters tune in,
they’ll also discover that the [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
John] McCain policy is nonsensical on its face. If “we are winning” and
the surge is a “success,” then what is the rationale for keeping American
forces bogged down there while the Taliban regroups
ominously in Afghanistan? Why, if this is victory, does Mr. McCain
keep threatening that “chaos and genocide” will follow our departure? And
why should we take the word of a prophet who failed
to anticipate the chaos and ethnic cleansing that would greet our occupation?"
... "Vanished into the memory hole are such earlier
examples of the McCain Iraq wisdom as “the end is very much in sight”
(April 9, 2003) and “there’s not a history of clashes that are violent
between Sunnis and Shiites” (later that same month)." -By
Frank
Rich -NYTimes
[Note: there is a very long history
of violent clashes between the Sunnis and Shiites.]
20080617
Obama
- 2008
Election -  Internet
- Media
- Cable
Networks - Politics
- Religion
-  Women
- "Jon
Stewart Mocks Media For Peddling Insane Obama Rumors."
... "On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart mocked the media's willingness
to peddle insane rumors about [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate]
Barack Obama — and their tendency to blame the rumor-mongering on internet
sites. Calling it "Baracknophobia," Stewart showed clips of anchor and
pundits from all three cable networks repeating baseless rumors (Muslim,
plagiarist, sexist, etc.) about Barack Obama (and his wife Michelle)."
-HuffingtonPost.com
WATCH!-)
Jon Stewart on "Baracknophobia" ... "The irrational fear of hope."
20080616
 Kevin
Jeffrey Martin - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
-  Satellite
- Spectrum
-  History
- Communications
- Media
- Minorities
- Women
-  Lawmakers
-  Md
"Radio
Merger Under Fire From Black Lawmakers: Caucus, FCC
[Federal Communications Commission] Chair Differ On Setting Aside XM, Sirius
Channels for Minorities." ... "Senior members of the Congressional Black
Caucus yesterday criticized a compromise plan for the proposed merger of
the XM and Sirius satellite radio companies, saying the deal does not provide
enough opportunities for minority-owned programming." ... "[Republican
President Bush's] Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin
said over the weekend that he would support the merger after XM Satellite
Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio voluntarily agreed, among a series
of other concessions, to lease 4 percent of their radio spectrums, or 12
channels, for programming run by minorities and women." ... "Members of
the black caucus on Capitol Hill have been arguing for the merged company
to lease five times that amount of spectrum to companies owned by racial
minorities." ... "[Maryland Democratic Representative Elijah E. Cummings:]
"It's shocking to the conscience in this day and age, where the minority
populations comprise a significant part of the satellite radio audience,
that Mr. Martin would settle for what I deem to be crumbs that have fallen
off the table," Cummings said." ... "If the merger is approved, it would
be a major reversal of FCC rules. The agency distributed licenses to XM
and Sirius in 1997 on the condition the two companies never combine." -By
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum -WashingtonPost
20080613
 Tim
Russert - Barack
Obama - John
McCain - Internet
-  EMail
- Media
-
- Politics
- Religion
-  Indiana
-  Illinois
- US- Iraq
-  Iran
- Military
- Money
-  Social
Security - 2008
Election
[NOTE:
On the day MSNBC's Meet
the Press television political journalist Tim Russert died, MSNBC published
this interview with Tim Russert:]
"Vigilance
needed on campaign claims: Big issues, not smears,
need to be the focus." ... "Msnbc: Tim, www.fightthesmears.com
is a web site launched by the [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate]
Barack Obama campaign to combat potentially damaging rumor about the candidate
and his wife, Michelle. Is this necessary? How big of a problem is
this really?" ... "Tim Russert: It’s amazing how much the Internet
has changed our lives. People get emails that make accusations without
foundation and they are circulated around the country within seconds and
suddenly become topics of conversations around water coolers or in lunchrooms."
... "I remember being in Indianapolis [Indiana's capital] covering the
Indiana primary and a man came up to me and said he wasn’t going to vote
for [Illinois] Senator Obama because he was very concerned about the comments
made by Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor. I said, “That’s interesting.
As a reporter, I’m curious what comments particularly bothered you?”
He said, “Well, I can’t think of any that come to mind, but I also read
on the Internet that he’s a Muslim.” And I said, “Now wait a minute.
You can’t have both. You can’t be offended by his Christian minister
and then say he’s a Muslim. You’ve got to pick one.”" ... "But that
just underscores what we’re dealing with in this modern era." ... "Now
I’m told there’s a counter organization with a very similar name that is
going to be positioned and posted to spread the rumors, so that people
that go to the Internet to get clarification will go to the wrong web site
and get confused." ... "It’s a virus. You have bloggers on both sides,
liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats all trying to utilize
this vehicle without any kind of fact checking and without any kind of
editorial control." ... "Msnbc: Given the way people use the
Internet, do you wonder if there are going to be some things said or done
during the course of this campaign that will be very unsettling?" ... "Russert:
That’s what we have to be conscious of and vigilant against, particularly
at the end of the campaign as things are put out there. We’ve already
had a few fake videos with different words dubbed in and people say, “This
must be true because I saw it on the Internet.”" ... "What we hope to do
in this campaign is recognize there are big differences on big issues between
John McCain and Barack Obama – the war in Iraq, Iran, Social Security,
taxes. You don’t need to get into this other stuff. If it does
surface, then I think the mainstream media has an obligation not to just
instinctively put it out there without vetting it. Or, if it is something
that is manufactured as a virus, report on that – who did it and why.
But sometimes it’s very hard to trace it back to its original source."
-MSNBC
20080611
Racist
- Media
- Politics
-2008
Election - Obama
-  Family
- Mom
"Fox
News calls Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama"." ...
"An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about
something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment
discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of [2008
Election] presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described
the former as "Obama's baby mama."" ... "I checked, and sure enough, as
you can see below, our e-mailer was right. In fact, that description was
displayed on-screen several times during the segment, which featured anchor
Megyn Kelly and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, an FNC contributor.
" -By Alex Koppelman -Salon
20080609
John
McCain - Racism
- Homophobia
- Sexism
- Language
- Politics
- Internet
- Media
- Obama
- 2008
Election
"McCain's
Web site talks about the anti-Christ being 'a Jew,' Hillary being a 'bitch,'
Obama being a 'Muslim fag,' and America bringing 9/11 on itself."
... "UPDATE: Jed
finds more on other McCain sites, including a reference to Obama as
a n*gger." ... "Some folks on the right thought they'd pull an "I gotcha"
on Obama by trying to find kooky things visitors have written on [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's blog. So, I
thought I'd take a look at [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate]
John McCain's campaign Web site and do a search for words like "fag," "bitch,"
and "Jew," for starters. What I found wasn't pretty. It's interesting to
note that each comment has a "flag as offensive" button next to it, so
that readers can inform the moderator that the comments are offensive.
Either McCain's readers don't find any of this offensive, or McCain's staff
was informed and didn't care." -By John Aravosis
-AmericaBlog.com
20080529
-
John
McCain -
 Rod
Parsley -  John
Hagee - Military
- Terrorism
- Religion
- Politicians
- Homosexuals
- Racism
- Television
- Media
-  Ohio-  Texas
- 2008
Election - "In
Rebuking Minister, McCain May Have Alienated Evangelicals."
... "The [Republican televangelist, Reverend] Rev. Rod Parsley paces the
stage, wiping his forehead and shouting to his congregation in a taped
sermon that marriage is under attack by "tortured and angry homosexuals.""
... "During another of his nationally broadcast television shows, he compares
Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan, saying that its goal is to "eliminate"
blacks. And at another service at his 12,000-member World Harvest Church
in Columbus, Ohio, he punches the air and calls Islam a "false religion"
that God has told America to destroy." ... ""We were built for battle!
We were created for conflict! We get off on warfare!" he adds."
... "Images of one of the nation's rising stars of television evangelism
are widely available on DVDs and Web sites, with sermons that are almost
certain to inflame some segment of the voting public. But in its quest
to secure support from evangelical Christians, the campaign of presumptive
[2008 Election] Republican presidential nominee John McCain did not note
a long record of inflammatory statements by Parsley and the [Republican
televangelist, Reverend] Rev. John Hagee of Texas, another TV evangelist,
until long after McCain had accepted their endorsements." ... "The move
backfired last week when clips of the ministers' sermons gained national
attention, prompting McCain to reject their support. The candidate's abrupt
turnabout brought criticism not only from secular viewers, who questioned
why he had aligned himself with controversial religious voices, but also
from evangelicals, who said he may have alienated a powerful bloc of potential
Republican voters." ... "In February, McCain appeared with Parsley to accept
his endorsement and called him a "spiritual guide."" ... "He [Parsley]
and his family reside in a 7,462-square-foot house, valued at more than
$1 million, on a 24-acre gated property." ... "In 2005, Parsley created
a voter registration organization called Reformation Ohio, telling Christians
that it was time to "lock and load" and to prepare for a "Holy Ghost invasion"
of government." (1, 2)
-By Kimberly Kindy with contributions by Alice Critics,
Meg Smith, and Madonna Lebling -WashingtonPost
WATCH
Rod Parsley, McCain's "Spiritual Guide" who claims God wants America to
destroy Islam, and screamed, "We get off on warfare."
McCain Parsley
McCain's "Spiritual Guide"
Rod Parsley
"We get off on warfare!"
|
20080528
-
 Scott
McClellan -  Book
- Noteworthy
- US
- Iraq
- Corporate
- Media
- Military
- Government
- Politics
- Marketing
- Television
- History
-  Gore
- Obama
- McCain
- Russert
-  Cheney
- "Scott
McClellan on the "liberal media"." ... "In a minimally
rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott
McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political
culture: The "Liberal Media":"
"If
anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the
[Republican President Bush] White House and to the administration in
regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years
in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq."
"The
collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent
months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. .
. . In this case, the "liberal media" didn't live up to its reputation.
If it had, the country would have been better served."
"Just
consider how remarkable that is. [Republican President] George Bush's own
Press Secretary criticizes the American media for being "too deferential"
to the Government. He lays the blame for Bush's ability to propagandize
the nation on the media's uncritical dissemination of the Republican administration's
falsehoods. And most notably of all, McClellan actually uses cynical scare
quotes when invoking the phrase which, in conventional political discourse,
is deemed the most unassailable truth of all: The Liberal Media." ... "How
much longer can this preposterous myth be sustained when even the White
House Spokesman not only mocks the phrase but derides the media for being
"too deferential" to the right-wing Government "in regard to the most important
decision facing the nation during [his] years in Washington"? If one were
to set about with the goal of debunking the "Liberal Media" myth -- as
Eric
Alterman specifically did four years ago and other
media critics have more generally done before that -- one couldn't
dream up evidence more conclusive than McClellan's admissions." ... "Blindingly
conclusive evidence which would -- for any rational person -- forever negate
the "Liberal Media" myth has been piling up for years. The extraordinary
(though woefully incomplete) 2004 mea
culpa from The New York Times acknowledged that not just
Judy Miller, but the paper as a whole, re-printed pro-war government claims
that were "allowed to stand unchallenged." The Washington Post's
own media critic, Howard Kurtz, documented
that anti-war views were systematically buried at that paper. The NYTrecently
exposed that network and cable news shows for years continuously allowed
Pentagon-controlled operatives to masquerade as "independent analysts"
spouting the pro-government line with virtually no challenge. And the media's
pathological fixation on the Clinton sex scandals -- which led to his impeachment
-- stood in stark contrast to the widespread indifference among the citizenry."
... "Beyond all that, are there any reporters left who deny that the campaign-covering
media in 2000 was gushingly
enamored of [Republican] George Bush and oozing
with contempt for [Democratic] Al Gore? Identically, their intense
affection for [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain
is something they openly proclaim; as they
shamelessly acknowledge, they're his "base." And while some journalists
undoubtedly harbor admiration for [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] Barack Obama, the non-stop coverage of one anti-Obama narrative
after the next -- Jeremiah Wright, lapel pins, patriotism "questions,"
"Bittergate," "problems" with Jewish and white voters -- simply has no
parallel in any coverage of McCain." ... "Beyond that objective evidence,
just look at the claims which "Liberal Media" complainers make to support
their grievance. As examples of "liberal" journalists, they'll cite people
like Chris Matthews -- who voted
for [Republican] George Bush, and did
more than anyone to prop up his image as our Great War Leader and demonize
Bush critics. One of the leading examples of a biased "liberal" journalist
is therefore someone who actually went on television in late 2005 and said
this:"
"I
like [Bush]. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real
whack-jobs, maybe on the left -- I mean -- like him personally."
"Or
they'll point to "liberal" Tim Russert -- Tim Russert -- about whom
[Republican Vice President] Cheney press aide Cathy Martin said:
"I suggested we put the vice president on 'Meet the Press,' which was a
tactic we often used. It's our best format, as it allows us to control
the message." That's the same "liberal" Tim Russert who confessed that
he operates by the defining
law of the Government propagandist: "When I talk to senior government
officials on the phone, it's my own policy -- our conversations are confidential.
If I want to use anything from that conversation, then I will ask permission.""
... "Or look at the recent "controversy" reported
by the Associated Press over whether NBC News' reputation as an objective
news outlet is being tainted by virtue of the "liberal" commentators MSNBC
features. Nobody questioned whether CNN's objectivity was imperiled by
featuring the likes of [right-wing commentators] Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs,
nor, for that matter, did anyone raise these questions about NBC when,
for years, MSNBC shows were hosted by the likes of Tucker Carlson, Joe
Scarborough and Michael Savage." ... "But a single unapologetic Bush critic
appears on the TV -- Keith Olbermann -- and this rarest of occurrence suddenly
leads to controversy over whether the "respectability" of television news
can survive while allowing a single "liberal" voice to be heard."
-By Glenn Greenwald -Salon
20080524
-
John
McCain - Media
- Politics
- Arizona
- 2008
Election - "Tight
Control on Files and Shortened Question Period."
... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona] Senator
John McCain released his medical records on Friday under tightly controlled
circumstances, allowing them to be reviewed by a small group of reporters
from news organizations that his campaign chose." ... "From 7 a.m. to 10
a.m. Pacific time, about 20 reporters were permitted to view more than
1,000 pages of records in a room at a resort near the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
in Arizona. The reporters had three hours to review and take notes on the
documents, from 2000 to 2008. They were not permitted to remove the documents
from the room or photocopy them." ... "At 11 a.m., Mr. McCain’s doctors
made themselves available in what was scheduled as a 90-minute conference
call. But the questions were stopped after 45 minutes." -By
Elisabeth Bumiller and Lawrence K. Altman -NYTimes
20080519
-
 Entertainment
- Political
-  Humor
- Corporate
- Government
- Military
- Halliburton
-  Blackwater
-  Foreign
- Law
- Noteworthy
- Women
- Journalists
- Writers
- US
- Iraq
- "John
Cusack: Outsourced Warfare Represents a "Radical, Dangerous, Disgusting
Ideology": An interview with Cusack about his latest
film, War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations
to the absurd." ...
"Joshua
Holland: Tell me a little bit about your new project." ... "John
Cusack: Well, we thought of it as an incendiary political cartoon that
would hopefully put America's current imperial adventures in Iraq into
a kind of a larger context. And maybe put a different lens on what privatization
means; what this plan has been and what it's been like when people try
to privatize the very core things it means to be a state. And what it means
to spread an ideology like that across the globe." ... "There are 180,000
contractors in Iraq and about 160,000 troops, right? And if one just takes
that trend to its logical conclusion, well that's where "War, Inc." is
set. It takes place at a time in the near future when warfare us an entirely
corporate affair." ... "Holland: As a political nerd, it struck
me as a highly referential film. I felt like your character, to some extent,
was loosely patterned maybe on John Perkins, who wrote Confessions of
an Economic Hit Man." ... "Cusack: You know, that book came
out when we were already making the film, I believe. And I know we were
writing it when Naomi Klein's groundbreaking piece called "Baghdad Year
Zero" came out in Harper's. She's a journalist I've always greatly
admired and respected. And then as we were making the movie, she was writing
the Shock Doctrine. I remember being aware of it while we were writing
it. And I remember talking about it. But you know, this character was also
based on [former U.S. Envoy to Iraq] Paul Bremer flying in while Baghdad
[Iraq's capital] was still burning and literally ruling by Fiat. Sitting
down in Saddam's old palace and banging out 50 or 60 new laws that would
allow 100 percent foreign ownership of previously state-owned industry
by these outside corporations. And he was running around in those Brooks
Brothers suits and the military boots when he did it." ... "Holland:
I thought that I saw a lot of Naomi Klein in Marisa Tomei's character."
... "Cusack: Yeah, I think it wasn't Naomi straight up, but I think
it was Katrina Vanden Huevel. It was Lara Logan and it was Naomi. It was,
you know, any of the great journalists out there who are women ... Christiane
Amanpour." ... "Holland: Now, the film presents kind of a dystopian
vision of where we're at or where we're heading -- tell me a little bit
more about this central theme, this idea of outsourcing warfare to this
kind of Halliburton-like mega corporation." ... "Cusack: Well, it
was an ideological viral disaster -- that's what this war was. It wasn't
Paul Bremer, although a lot of people would like to paint him as the fall
guy. It's the entire system of thinking that is insane. The Shock doctrine
does a great job chronicling what's essentially been a 35-year campaign
to destroy the New Deal and privatize everything, and the use of disasters
and wars to justify "shock therapy" -- to pass legislation that would never
get passed in any country that wasn't reeling from trying to bury their
dead or stop from being tortured or killed or trying to get water or food."
... "So I think it's really about the entire system and that entire ideology.
There seems to be these companies that helped create a new market by creating
a war, and then they bar the competitors from entering into the clean up.
In the meantime, they've privatized the entire country, which is basically
strip mining it. Basically, it's a land-grab. So not only are we looking
at a murder scene, but it's the scene of an armed robbery." ... "And that's
the version of democracy ... the version of a free market that we're not
only supposed to worship, but into which we're also supposed to keep feeding
bodies. We have to kill to feed this kind of twisted version of their free
market. And [American political leaders] seem entirely unconcerned that
Halliburton and Bechtel -- and Parsons and KPMG and Blackwater and the
rest -- are kind of madly gorging off of this protectionist racket." ...
"If you really think about outsourcing all the essential things it means
to be a state, like armies, disaster relief, interrogation, border patrol
-- all of these functions -- then I don't really know what's left in terms
of the sovereignty of a country. I don't really know what's left." ...
"So it's not even about free markets. I mean, if these [corporations] want
to just go invade a country and take it over, and take their chances on
the open market, that's one thing. But to use the U.S. military and our
Treasury Department as their ATM to do it -- that's ... that's cause for
revolt." (1, 2,
3,
4)
-By Joshua Holland -AlterNet.org
WATCH
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- "Media
ownership study ordered destroyed: FCC draft suggested
fewer owners would hurt local TV coverage." ... "The Federal Communications
Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that
suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV
news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says." ... "The report, written
in 2004, came to light during the Senate confirmation hearing for FCC Chairman
Kevin Martin." ... "Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State
University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that "every last
piece" of the report be destroyed. "The whole project was just stopped
- end of discussion," he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC's Media
Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with
its authors, he said." ... " ... "The analysis showed local ownership of
television stations adds almost five and one-half minutes of total news
to broadcasts and more than three minutes of "on-location" news. The conclusion
is at odds with FCC arguments made when it voted in 2003 to increase the
number of television stations a company could own in a single market."
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