[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: MediaCulture: The Dems: Bums; Your Little Marketer

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>*** Media Culture Headlines ***
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>Top stories from AlterNet's MediaCulture site for March 30, 2005:
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
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>Read the article currently causing an uproar,
>Matt Taibbi's skewering of the lazy and
>dangerous Democratic trend toward Republican-
>lite-ism. And: are you comfortable with your
>teen or your teen's friend being used to sell
>and market for corporations? Is Judith (WMD)
>Miller using her stand in the Valerie Plame
>case to cover for her horrid pre-war reporting?
>Enjoy and pass it on!
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>-- Evan
>evan at alternet.org
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>THE DEMS: BUMS
>Matt Taibbi, New York Press.
>With the majority of the public against
>the war, Democrats have the perfect oppor-
>tunity to differentiate themselves; so why
>are they embracing Reaganomics and pre-
>emptive war?
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21608/
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>YOUR LITTLE MARKETER
>Clayton Collins, Christian Science Monitor
>Marketers are turning popular teens into
>covert sales reps. Are they exploited shills
>or just getting wise to the ways of the market?
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21637/
>
>JUDITH MILLER GOES WITH WHAT SHE'S GOT
>William E. Jackson Jr., Editor & Publisher.
>Is the New York Times reporter seeking martyr
>status in the Plame case to rescue a reputation
>tarnished by outrageous WMD reporting?
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21620/
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>WILL TRUTH RISE AGAIN?
>Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org.
>It's not just that some journalists today
>are on the government payroll. The rot in
>our corporate media goes deeper. Much deeper.
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21616/
>
>WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
>Ren Bucholz, AlterNet.
>The Supreme Court is set to hear a tiny internet
>service provider's case against an FCC behaving
>badly; the outcome will have a profound effect
>on your internet future.
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21598/
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>HOLOCAUST DENIAL, C-SPAN AND WARD CHURCHILL
>Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report.
>C-SPAN is attempting to 'balance' a Holocaust
>studies professor with a denier; Ward Church-
>ill's stab at 'moral equivalence' falls flat.
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21597/
>
>RAGING FOR THE MACHINE
>Scott Thill, AlterNet.
>In Brian K. Vaughan's 'Ex Machina,' the comic
>book hero paradigm is turned upside down – a
>gay mayor of New York dealing with rather more
>real – but no less heroic – situations.
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21587/
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>MEET THE FCC BOSS
>Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress.
>Bush's new FCC chairman looks a lot like his
>old FCC chairman; but he'll soon be forced to
>decide whether he's a free-marketeer or a local
>values champ.
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21582/
>
>****
>
>In the Media Mix:
>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/log/
>
>Grover Norquist's media project 
>(http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003352.html); 
>'Fox Blocker' doesn't block death threats 
>(http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003339.html); 
>DeLay probe prompts 'factually challenged' 
>reporting 
>(http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003328.html); 
>Wal-Mart wrapped in ABC's flag 
>(http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003310.html); 
>Wolfowitz's 'tongue bath' 
>(http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2005/03/003303.html)
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>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
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-- 
Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand