Journalist Who Filmed Burning Taliban Bodies Suggests Media Got it All
October 22nd, 2005 6:42 PM
There has been a lot of outrage in the media concerning the burning of a couple of dead, Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in early October. Yet, the Australian journalist who videotaped the proceedings, Stephen Dupont, stated in an interview on National Public Radio yesterday (audio link to follow courtesy of Bareknucklepolitics.com) that he believed the bodies were burned purely for reasons of…
Business As Usual For Big Media
October 5th, 2005 1:44 PM
At a citizen journalism conference organized by The Media Center, Big Media institutions are quickly coming to the realization that they are no longer in control. Some are taking it better than others. Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC World Service and Global News Division, told a conference the broadcaster's prominent use of video and other material contributed by ordinary citizens signaled…
Totenberg Urges Tax Hike on Rich, Thomas Recalls How Reagan and 41 Rai
September 24th, 2005 4:02 AM
A week after NPR’s Nina Totenberg, on Inside Washington, urged imposition of a “Katrina tax,” on the same show this weekend she dismissed the idea of cancelling $24 billion of transportation bill earmarks as small change and suggested that “if you canceled the tax cuts, you'd get $225 billion." She rejected the contention that would hurt the economy and forwarded the standard liberal class…
"ALLThings Considered"? NPR Promotes Cindy Sheehan But Ignores Pro-Mis
September 22nd, 2005 10:45 PM
NPR’s Totenberg Urges Imposition of a “Katrina Tax,” Says “I W
September 18th, 2005 3:33 AM
On the Inside Washington TV talk show aired on three Washington, DC stations over the weekend, NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, decked out in NewsBusters orange, suggested that President Bush’s Thursday night speech “would have been a great opportunity to say, 'look, I'm for tax cuts, but we need a Katrina tax, we need to really pay, to do this and to pay for it.’" Host Gordon Peterson repeated her…
