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They Just Don't Get It

By Richard C. Cook

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008-Stephen Pearlstein is the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist. In print and as a TV talking head-like on Chris Matthews’ Hardball late last week-Pearlstein is one of the foremost media cheerleaders for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill.

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Canadian media attempt to silence on Israel

Robert Jensen, The Electronic Intifada, 30 September 2008

When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of expression. In capitalism, freedom is too often just another word for ( Read more... )

By ADAM GOLDMAN |Associated Press Writer

September 29, 2008 NEW YORK - The New York Sun is shutting down after running out of money, ending a six-year run in which the newspaper provided an alternative conservative voice ( Read more... )

Truth and war mean nothing at the party conferences

John Pilger

Published 25 September 2008

The media turns the other way, or perverts the truth, while an increasingly imperialist United States, with Britain in tow, pursues its expansionist interests


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McCain stands up David Letterman

The candidate claims he needs to head straight to Washington to deal with the financial crisis, but he finds time to stop for a chat with Katie Couric.
September 25, 2008

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Introduction to The Battle for Discourse

On an American tank photographed on Iraqi soil, one can discern a motto: Today Baghdad, Tomorrow Paris. In the days of the Iraq war and Jacques Chirac’s objection to the US aggression, this feeling was common among the Yanks: they perceived France as their greatest enemy. “The worst they could do was to ( Read more... )

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Palin bars, then admits reporters to UN meetings

Palin press may boycott UN conference

Kenneth P. Vogel1 hour, 9 minutes ago

NEW YORK - Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin’s efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're ( Read more... )

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By BEN SMITH | 9/22/08 3:58 PM EDT
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Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record.

But the call was so rife with simple, often ( Read more... )