Heading for another Kent State?
Police in Riot Gear Fire on Crowd with Balls Loaded with Pepper Here is yet another symptom, if the example of the unlawful detentions at the republican convention wasn’t enough for you.
WGME Loses Ads Over Plan to Air Anti-Kerry Film
WGME Loses Ads Over Plan to Air Anti-Kerry Film At least one station in the Sinclair network is losing advertisers, who are not pleased about being politically positioned, especially just before the election and without fair representation of other points of view. Not very fair for the station! Sinclair stations reach about a quarter of all U.S. TV viewers. The company has been criticized for using its power to support conservative causes. The company tapes nightly commentary pieces – featuring…
URGENT: Sinclair Solution
Sinclair Solution: An Open Challenge to the Media We have seen that the FCC (Powell) is going ahead and allowing Sinclair to mandate a shaky anti-Kerry documentary for its member stations before the election. It will be presented as news, depite the previous history of the filmmaker, whose previous work included a series to question the funding of the Vietnam Memorial. He had to publically apologize and donate $50,000 to the fund himself to make it go away. We know…
You lost us at “Orwellian”
Saturday Night Live has been really funny on the debates – they are at their best with political humor, and I was happy to see the Clinton character on the first episode of the season. I had to laugh when I saw Tina Fey deliver a long Kerry quote, and then say, “you lost us at ‘Orwellian.’” Unfortunately, I think Kerry did lose many of us. You don’t have to have read Orwell to get the point, but sometime when…
On the March and Spread of Freedom
On the March and Spread of Freedom “Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich.”Leon Uris, Trinity, a Novel of Ireland, 1976 “Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.”Robert A. Heinlein “We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), American Broadcast Newsman In Bush’s closing remarks last night, he said “I’m optimistic that we’ll win the war on terror, but I understand it requires firm resolve and clear purpose. We…
Our Complicity
Our CIA hired Saddam Hussein when he was 22 to be an assassin. – We gave Iran and Iraq weapons of mass destruction to use on each other – George Bush senior, during his Vice Presidency, was went to the Middle East during the 1980s as a CIA operative to give Iraq weapons of mass destruction and the media showed the meeting as “moving the peace process forward”. – Saddam killed thousands of Iranians and Kurds and we turned a…