Corporate Media
Mainstream Media Plays Catch Up. Again.
60 Minutes finally asks why gas started costing more than fine champagne last year. Better than late than never, we guess.
January 13, 2009 | Read More
Sifting Through The Ashes Of The Crash
A new book digs up painful lessons from recent economic collapses.
December 29, 2008 | Read More
Frying Pan, Meet Fire
An expert in financial disasters looks at the future of the U.S. economy.
December 19, 2008 | Read More
Establishment Media Starting To Get It?
Extra, extra! A big time journalist actually hints that Rod Blajojevich might not be a mere “bad apple”!
December 17, 2008 | Read More
Diane Feinstein: Yet More No-Change Change
First Hillary Clinton got to run our foreign policy. Now Diane Feinstein gets to oversee our intelligence agencies. This is change?
December 16, 2008 | Read More
Pentagon’s Media Meddling Under Investigation
The FCC is finally going to look into a Pentagon propaganda program. The investigation was announced a couple of days ago, but I didn’t hear about it until now. Why? Because, as with the original story, the media completely ignored it.
October 17, 2008 | Read More
Fat Butts, Soft Brains
Only 18% of Americans could answer three basic questions about our government and that of our closest ally. Ouch. Our national obesity epidemic has definitely spread to the regions above the neck.
October 16, 2008 | Read More
World Boss History Reason #10: Another Illegal Invasion
The war in Iraq wasn’t the first time our country invaded a sovereign nation to take down its leader. People tend to forget that we did the same thing in Panama in 1989. And, just like when we invaded Iraq, a Bush was in the White House and a man named Dick Cheney was with him.
In 1989, President George H.W. Bush and then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney sent 300 aircraft and more than 50,000 troops into Panama-to get one man. Worst of all, the Army barred the Red Cross and the press from entering Panama City for days after the invasion.…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
Reason #51: Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Statistics
No matter who’s in the White House-Democrat or Republican-every presidential administration brags that our economy is doing great. That’s because if they started telling the truth about the state we’re in as a country, the American public might start doing a lot less of the thing our economy relies on almost exclusively: shopping. So our politicians work overtime to reassure us and keep us pumping money into the consumer marketplace.
But our elected officials know that just telling us everything’s okay is not enough. They’re aware that nobody trusts politicians, so they direct federal agencies to crank out bogus “official” statistics.…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
Get Wall Street Out of the News Business
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the demise of newspapers. Let me tell you a secret: Many newspapers still make money. The “problem” is that they don’t make the insane 20 to 25 percent returns that Wall Street demands these days.
Hundreds of reporters and editors are being laid off every year, sometimes every month, because publicly traded companies have taken over the news business and they need to feed investors’ inordinate appetites for profits. But this scorched earth approach is foolish. Cutting back on staff damages the quality and breadth of the reporting, which leads to even lower…
August 26, 2008 | Read More
