Is Osama Reading Left-wing Blogs
May 30th, 2006 4:38 PM
Does Osama bin Laden read the work of left-wing media figures and bloggers? It's quite possible, argues Brendan O'Neill:When Al Jazeera broadcast Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape in January, it provoked the same sense of déjà vu as Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, recently published by the leftist publishing house Verso.The book is a collection of every public…
Google: MoveOn.org's Million-dollar Sugar Daddy
May 15th, 2006 1:10 PM
More grist for the media-corporations-are-conservative crowd, proving that life is a little more complicated than Noam Chomsky preaches:"This is how poisonous it's gotten in Washington," says a consulting
lobbyist for a broadcast network. "You have Republicans taking money
from companies and firms working to end their control of Congress, and
even worse, working with outfits like MoveOn.org. And…
MoveOn.org Urges Supporters to Watch Olbermann
May 3rd, 2006 2:18 PM
In the face of continuously poor ratings, liberal fans of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann are teaming up to support their hero.The liberal group MoveOn.org got in on the act earlier this year as it urged its membership to watch Olbermann's "Countdown" program in celebration of its third anniversary at the end of March.The effort didn't seem to help much as a look at the ratings data indicates.Much…
