NBC's Mitchell Blames Talk Radio & Bloggers for Hate & Lack of 'Reason
On Friday's Washington Week on PBS, taped at the Aspen Ideas Festival (“Inspired Thinking in an Idyllic Setting”), when asked by host Gwen Ifill about hateful speech in politics and directed at journalists -- “Is that polarization real or is it just people blogging?" -- NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell charged that “the kind of hateful speech that we have seen...in a lot of the blogosphere...…
Is Osama Reading Left-wing Blogs
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
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
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…
