In an effort to reconcile with a world in which consumers are increasingly turning to online publications for their news, Time Inc. has announced the latest and largest round in a series of recent layoffs.

ONE THING is clear about the 2008 Democratic primary: there will be little room for reality. The media story line is already being driven by a mythology that in more trivial times would only be annoying but, given America’s collapse as a constitutional society and as a respected nation, merely adds to the extraordinary danger the country faces today.

In remarks broadcast Sunday on national television, President Bush and Vice President Cheney brushed aside the mass opposition to their war policy among the American people, declared that the US government would do “whatever it takes” to win a military victory in Iraq, and suggested that Iran could well be the next target for American military aggression.

Critics of media consolidation by large corporations should also be worried about corporate intentions for the Internet, TV journalist Bill Moyers said Friday at a National Conference for Media Reform.

Tony Blair has turned the blame for his disastrous military campaigns in the Middle East on anti-war dissidents and the media.

The co-hosts of “Fox and Friends” should have had egg all over all of their faces Tuesday (January 9, 2007) for misleading viewers about who was behind a decision by the House to take the day off Monday, but apologizing for mistakes, or even admitting them, is not something that happens on Fox News. With video.

Venezuela has asked the Organisation of American States to retract its criticism of the president’s decision not to renew the licence of an opposition-aligned TV station.

The classic frog in the boiler metaphor: if you immediately turn the temperature of the water to boiling, a frog will jump out.

With the intensity of Dale Earnhardt, Jr vying for victory in the Daytona 500, America’s mainstream media outlets have been racing furiously to imbue the citizenry of the Empire with unusually large doses of heavily choreographed agitprop.

The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.

1. Myth number one is that the United States “can still win” in Iraq. Of course, the truth of this statement, frequently still made by William Kristol and other Neoconservatives, depends on what “winning” means.

And here I was thinking I was being patriotic trying to expose the bald-faced lies and brazen evasions that have constituted the “official story” of 9/11 up to this point.