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Probably ties in with the new movie but it appears the History Channel will be running several shows on the WTC and 9/11. Looks like each show is broadcast at 7pm and repeated at 11pm (central time) 8/14 - The Miracle of Stairway B, about the 16 survivors from stairway b that survived the...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/are-our-troops-fighting-a-dirty-afghan-war/2006/08/10/1154803025189.html I can't believe it. One of them MUST have been wearing a green helmt.

I just finished watching the 20/20 special "Duped in America" and I must say I am pleased with the report. It was informative and even had a spot with Micheal Shermer. On a larger scale, I am glad that logic and critical thinking are becoming more and more common in media, with P&T:BS and...

That's right, yet one more thread on this stuff. "Here & Now" reports on a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article that explores the recent upsurge in conspiracy theory belief. They regularly read listener emails in response to such stories...

For those of you in the UK, you can't have failed to notice the "knife crime out of control" headlines of the last few days.... The shadow of the knife The Mail...

This from wikipedia on the expression wag the dog with relation to the film of the same name... "Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the dog." Interpretations differ as to the meaning of this metaphor. Some suggest...

This question is bothering me. If I transmit a sound wave through a medium, ie air, and it reaches a denser medium, ie water, what percentage is transmitted and what percentage is reflected.

Has anyone built a media center device for their living room? I’d like to build one myself, and am looking for some input. I have a Terabyte of storage available and I want to place movies and music on it. The device I build needs to have an interface that is easy enough to navigate by a...

http://pajamasmedia.com/about.php The blogosphere is fundamentally changing the relationship between media and consumer. It used to be the communication was almost purely one-way with a small handful of editors and other media gatekeepers deciding for everyone what was important to see and what...

Houston Chronicle Tom DeLay advises people to "go to Iraq and see what's happening there." Any volunteers?

We have PBS. We have local access TV shows. We have C-SPAN. Most cable TV networks broadcast city council meetings live. Most university have cable TV classes. Is this enough? Or should government be more involved in broadcasting? CBL

One of Bagdikian’s implied arguments against large media companies is that they will only present one POV. Does anyone think this is true? His description of Murdoch shows a counter-example. Murdoch publishes a magazine (unnamed) which is the “political primer for George Bush’s White...

One of Bagdiskian's claims is that the media is becoming more concentrated. Do you think this is true? (BTW, his use of the word monopolistic is clearly wrong when his support is that it is dominated 5 companies.) I believe that over the last 100 years, we have gotten many more choices. He...

Don't let me dominate the conversation, I'm only on chapter 5. :)

Around here, we can pick up the Sun and the Daily Mirror. Near as I can tell, it hasn't changed that much since Robert Maxwell ran it, (and the bio I read about Maxwell, suggests to me this is just the sort of crap he'd pull just to bring in sales.) If you read Ratzinger's bio on Wikipedia...

Just as I suspected. The woman who claimed that she found a fingertip in her bowl of Wendy's chili is now being arrested. That is all we know at this time. But I suspect this woman, who has a past history of lawsuits against companies has created *this* story as well. Do you realize the...

Looks like a 'free press' isn't free to get away with anything and everything...particularly repeating libel. "The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether journalists have constitutional protections allowing them to safely report defamatory comments made by public figures, so long as...

Memo In Question: http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2005-02/16191308.pdf Idiot Media take...typical http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-vaccine8feb08,0,624328.story?coll=la-home-headlines NO, the memo says that in 6 months worth of shots the kids would get 87 times the recommended...

We have an english editor resigning, because he published a fraudulent story, without checking it out properly. An American news anchorman who resigned after a massive blog attack, revealing fraudulent documents on Bush's military service. My question is, when the shoe is on the other foot...

We have all seen far too many examples where the media has uncritically presented paranormal claims, conspiracy theories, etc. with at most a token skeptic squeezing in his counter to the claims at the very end. Sometimes you don't even get the token skeptic. However, I think it is equally...

I can't believe, after 3 or so days, the morning news shows are running the Indiana Pacers/Detroit Pistons brawl as top stories, and whining "think of the children!" Thanks to blanket media obsession, there is probably no child in America who hasn't witnessed this, when otherwise it would have...

For a "link" for the link-obsessed, here's one from a liberal media channel where the clueless can get a few facts on the scale of the captured munitions problem in Iraq: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/177738_weapons14.asp No ifs, ands, or buts, the "400 tons" has significance only as a...

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/11/news/newsmakers/sinclair_kerry/index.htm?cnn=yes Between Sinclair, Clear Channel, Fox News, Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, and the rest of the "talk radio" types, it amazes me that people still go on about a "liberal media" with a straight face.

Surprise, surprise, Kerry won the debate. You would have to be a frozen halibut to lose a debate with Dubya. But the interesting thing is how, when the people actually get to compare the two candidates directly, perceptions change dramatically. I had thought the result of the debate would be...

I watched a MSNBC reports last night that was talking about a man who was injured in the California Bank rbbery some years ago. He was shot in the thigh with an armor piercing round fired from a fully automatic AK-47. He said he thought the gun manufacturers should be liable for crime because...

Have you noticed the lame coverage of the Iraq conflicts. Fighting is getting worse n worse. Where are all the imbedded reporters?? We had dramatic footage at the start of the war, now nuthin!! Every night we HEAR about the #'s killed, but the footage consists of: -smoldering car/tank...

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From Hillsdale College: http://www.hillsdale.edu/newimprimis/default.htm This is what I have always said.

the "Stop Loss" policy These people wouldn't have been kept in servitude if George W. F*ckhead hadn't gone off on a toot in Iraq.

Interesting article