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December 31st, 2002
Activism

More on Dye

Dye is fascinating… his book constantly has me thinking… although, possibly, the thoughts induced are not what he’d expect. I really want to get ahold of a copy of the 12th edition, and see what he has to say about the various events that have happened over the last twelve years.
Reading through the section on […]

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December 31st, 2002
Activism

Destroying the forest to save it…

[Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees… the hypocrisy and crimes against the heritage of humanity of the Bush Administration proceed apace. Click on the link above to hear some ideas on how to deal with this! Note: the difference between the Bush and the Clinton Administration is very clear… Clinton was a […]

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December 31st, 2002
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More on the war criminals running our government… American weapons labs trained Iraqi nuclear scientists and our national weapons labs supplied Iraq with non-fissionable material for the construction of nuclear weapons?!?

[How does this fit with a policy of non-proliferation? How does this fit with the current Bush Administration’s posturing on Saddam and WMD - especially when so many members of the current Bush Administration have been recycled from the 1980’s? -Thomas]
The Dead Remember
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | […]

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December 31st, 2002
Activism

1992 Republican Platform

Republican Platform, a photo [Philip Greenspun] took during the 1992 presidential campaign when women’s rights groups were upset by the Republicans’ rhetoric … this is a great site, by the way, endless depth of content; this guy can talk! :)

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December 31st, 2002
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More evidence for Dye’s “elite theory”…

Concentrated Force: The Corporate Club
Few Degrees Of Separation Between America’s Power Elite

“according to a recent survey by Jerry Davis, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Business School […] on average, there are just 4.6 degrees of separation between any given board director and any other.”
The article also points out that only five […]

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December 31st, 2002
Activism

Balance in the media… not.

[Where’s the quote from the non-right wing think tank? Where’s the quote from the pro-peace people? Answer: the right-wing is organized, and has conscientiously built up contacts with the media, so that even a relatively “left”-oriented international publication like the Guardian quotes them by default. This is what the Commonweal Institute aims to fix. -Thomas]

Analysis […]

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December 31st, 2002
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Our nation is being led by war criminals and hypocrites!

The U.S. sold Saddam “cluster bombs” and exported chemical and biological warfare agents and offered our support in the war aganist Iraq, when we knew this bastard was using chemical warfare against Iran, including mustard gas, sarin, and god knows what else.
Rumsfeld denounces Saddam’s possession of these weapons today, but (at best, if you believe […]

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December 30th, 2002
Activism

Chasing Phantoms Across Afghanistan

The Untold War
Chasing Phantoms Across Afghanistan
By David Zucchino
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Sunday 29 December 2002
[My favorite part is extracted below. -Thomas]
Missing was the power-steering pump for the disabled Humvee.
Over the radio, they were told that their request for the pump had been denied because the Humvee could be driven […]

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December 30th, 2002
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FAIR ACTION ALERT: FCC Ready to Roll Back Limits on Media Consolidation

ACTION ALERT: FCC Ready to Roll Back Limits on Media Consolidation
A range of media scholars and public interest, media and community groups from across the country have joined FAIR in issuing a Call for Media Democracy in response to the FCC’s current “review” of the rules that govern big media.
FAIR encourages everyone concerned with […]

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December 30th, 2002
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Trent Lott’s real record…

One has to wonder why the media haven’t made much of an issue of Trent’s history of association with the Council of Conservative Citizens- it should be enough to drive Trent from office, given the nature of what this group advocates, and the fact that he had a column in their newsletter. Read the excerpts […]

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December 29th, 2002
Activism

PBS collaboration with ultra-right foundations: public affairs program National Desk

National Desk

Extra!
September/October 1999
Rally ‘Round the Boys - PBS’s National Desk enlists in the “Gender Wars”
By Jennifer L. Pozner
[…]

Underwritten by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the right-wing John M. Olin, Lynde and Harry Bradley, and Sarah Scaife Foundations, the program showcases partisan pundits who offer opinion in the guise of data, undocumented […]

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December 29th, 2002
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Saw this linked to on MediaTransparency.org: “Strategic Influence redux”

Strategic Influence redux - Follow the money and see how right-wing ideologues infiltrated USA Today by Laura Flanders

Right-wing ideologues, for example, have been underwriting their own front organizations for decades in an effort to influence public opinion. Remember the phalanx of funders who fuelled a decade of Clinton investigations? Foundations bearing the names Smith-Richardson, Olin, […]

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December 29th, 2002
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Using Mediatransparency.org…

So, how has talking with the folks at the Commonweal Institute, and reading their material, made me (someone who thinks of himself as fairly well informed already) more media-saavy? An example:
I’m reading the Dye textbook referred to below (which I’m learning a lot from), and a study with counter-intuitive results is cited; by this point, […]

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December 29th, 2002
Activism

My City Council Campaign Blog linked to…

From MSNBC’s Weblog Central on November 5th, 2002 …
Certainly most blogging candidates are running for local offices. This summer, Radio Free Blogistan spotted Bakersfield City, Calif., school board candidate Jesus Garcia. Thomas Leavitt, Green Party candidate for Santa Cruz City Council, has included a campaign blog as part of his Web site […]

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