Media

To WaPo:

Who knew rats were new to DC? I could have sworn I’d seen them around for years.  I could have sworn the piles of trash following inaugurations, fourths of july, and tastes of dc left swarms of rats behind.  I could have sworn that every time I’ve been in Freedom Plaza since October 6th it’s been cleaner than 15th Street.  Do you have any serious reason to believe your new found awareness of rats, like some people’s new found awareness of the homeless read more

In a hastily thrown together press conference Sunday afternoon, several months in the planning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his efforts to spread freedom beyond New York City had included the deployment of 1,000 NYPD officers to Schenectady, where they have just apprehended a young man inspired by Al Qaeda and Occupy Wall Street propaganda provided to him by the NYPD on a regular basis since September.

The arrest could not await an opportunity to persuade the FBI of the seriousness read more

Yesterday, NPR’s PR flack was haranguing me on the phone about how NPR had nothing to do with getting Lisa Simeone fired from an independent program called Soundprint.  This was despite NPR having gone public with its concerns over Simeone’s “unethical” participation in democracy, and Soundprint’s referencing of NPR’s “ethics” rules in firing Simeone.  It was also despite NPR’s clear intention to get read more

UPDATES HERE

[in short, NPR claims Soundprint acted on its own to fire Simeone

but NPR was publicly pushing the issue — see that blog post I linked to

and the Soundprint exec producer referred to NPR’s ethics policy when firing Simeone

NPR also pushed WDAV to take action (presumably by firing Simeone, no other actions having been discussed) and WDAV refused, resulting in the announcement by both WDAV and NPR that WDAV would not fire her

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From Press TV

AUDIO HERE

The West’s mainstream media outlets easily ignore serious government issues and only magnify diversionary stories and celebrity scandals, says David Swanson, an author and co-founder of Warisacrime.org.

“When it comes to investigating the claims of national governments and the arguments for wars based on blatant lies, these same media outlets act as dutiful stenographers,” David Swanson told Press TV’s U.S. Desk in a Sunday interview.

“So read more