Dark Bilious Vapors

But how could I deny that I possess these hands and this body, and withal escape being classed with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered and clouded by dark bilious vapors....
--Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditation I

Home » Archives » February 2005 » Stacking the Deck...Yet Again...

[« Thought for the Day:] [And y'all know what today is? »]

02/02/2005: Stacking the Deck...Yet Again...


The Right-wing conservatives, not content with the media controlled, propaganda spewing machine it already has created and runs (ad nauseum) over the airwaves, has taken to "creating quasi-fake" news organizations such as Talon News (that don't bill themselves as "Fake News Purveyors" right up front like Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.) Media Matters has sent a letter to the White House Press Sec., Scott McClellan, on the matter.

Instead...these non-journalism credentialled folks pretend to be an "independent real-news agency" and gain access to the White House press conferences to provide soft-ball (comic) relief. When the "going gets tough"...McClellan gets his "go-to guy," Jeff Gannon (of Talon News), to be his "lifeline" to pro-administration double-speak seg-ways into administration friendly topics.

Oh...the fun just continues...(FYI Charlie was a jounalism broadcast major and former radio DJ in the Quad-Cities and news anchor at Channel 12, Milwaukee...in a past-life, and he's constantly appalled by the level journalism has sunk to since he worked in the Biz and the repealing of the "Equal Time" provisions that used to inform news casting decisions.)

Karen on 02.02.05 @ 09:11 AM CST

February 2005
SMTWTFS
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728     



Home
Archives
Archives of Blogger site



RSS 1.0 FEED
Powered by gm-rss

Len's sidebar:
About Len (The uncondensed version)
Memorial to a dear friend
Frederick W. Benteen
The Web of Leonards
The St. Louis Cardinals
The Memphis Redbirds
The St. Louis Browns
The Birdwatch
Hey! Spring of Trivia Blog
BlogMemphis (The Commercial Appeal's listing of Memphis blogs)
The Guide to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Len's extended blogroll:

Brock's Sidebar:
About Brock
Boing Boing
Crooked Timber
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Fafblog
Heretical Ideas
John and Belle Have a Blog
Jon Rowe
Letters of Marque
Literal Minded
Majikthise
Marginal Revolution
Matthew Yglesias
Oliver Willis
Pandagon
Political Animal
Positive Liberty
Signifying Nothing
Unqualified Offerings

Karen's Sidebar
About Karen
The Ig-Nobel Prizes
The Annals of Improbable Research
The Darwin Awards
EBaums World
Real Clear Politics
U.S. News Wire
Foreign Affairs
The Capitol Steps
Overlawyered
Engrish
Legal Affairs
Nobel Laureates for Change
Program On International Policy
Law of War
Sunday Times
Media Matters
Fafblog
Is That Legal?
Discourse
Andrew Sullivan
Evolutionblog
Literal Minded
Jon Rowe
Dysblog
Freespace Blog
Thought Not
Publius Pundit
Maddox
Blog Maverick
Rosenberg Blog
Crooked Timber
GreeneSpace
EdCone.com
Conglomerate
McSweeney's

The Rocky Top Brigade:


Rocky Top Brigade Sampler


A New Memphis Mafia


The liberal alternative to Drudge.

Get Firefox!



Cardinals Countdowns:
Days until pitchers and catchers report:
Your browser doesn't support Java applets.

Days until first Grapefruit League game (3/3/05; @ NYM):
Your browser doesn't support Java applets.

Days until Opening Day (4/5/05; @ HOU):
Your browser doesn't support Java applets.

Days until Home Opener (4/8/05; vs. PHI):
Your browser doesn't support Java applets.


How many visitors are here:


Blogrings/Blog indexes/Blog search:
« ? Verbosity # »




Listed on Blogwise
Popdex
Popdex Citations
Technorati
Blog Search Engine



Greymatter Forums
template by linear