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Bush Admin To Broadcast Even More Propaganda

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Taxpayer-funded TV and Radio Martí are spending $377,500 to air select programs on South Florida broadcast stations over the next six months, using loopholes in a law that prohibits the propaganda channels from distribution within the United States.

Posted in Media & Propaganda |

White House on defensive as US media breaks taboo to declare conflict ‘civil war’

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

The Bush administration appeared yesterday to be losing its fight to stop the US media calling the escalating violence in Iraq a civil war after one of the main television networks formally announced it would break the taboo.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, War & Terrorism |

What Else is the Mainstream Media Lying About?

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

The other night I had an extensive conversation with one of my best friends. This man is highly intelligent and moral.

Posted in Media & Propaganda |

Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Following its invasion of Lebanon this summer, Israel was said to have largely lost the PR battle to Hizbullah, but armed with a major web offensive, it’s fighting back…

Posted in Media & Propaganda, Breaking-News |

Danish journalists on trial for publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

The editor in chief and two reporters at one of Denmark’s largest newspapers went on trial Monday for publishing classified intelligence reports about former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s weapons program.

Posted in Media & Propaganda |

Junk food advertising halted before watershed

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

A ban on television adverts for junk food has been agreed by the media regulator, Ofcom, after three years of rancour between health campaigners and the advertising industry.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, Business |

YouTube video prompts probe of LA police beating

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Its 20-second clip of a man being repeatedly punched in the face by Los Angeles policemen has just prompted an FBI investigation of the 11 Aug incident.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, Science Technology |

Paper Calls For 9/11 Truth

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

The fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 served as the reflex hammer touch to the knee of American conscience.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, 9/11 Truth |

The freedom of the press officer

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Now we know that a spin doctor wrote a first draft of the WMD dossier, it is time for the government to make full disclosure.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, War & Terrorism |

A new opportunity to craft media ownership rules

Monday, November 6th, 2006

The public airwaves belong to you - residents of the Bay Area. In the exchange for the free use of the airwaves, radio and television broadcasters of the Bay Area are required to serve the needs of your community.

Posted in Media & Propaganda |

Australian Broadcasting Corporation adopts new “bias” rules

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Just weeks after Prime Minister John Howard announced a major military expansion and launched an accompanying “Australian values” campaign, his government’s handpicked Australian Broadcasting Corporation..

Posted in Media & Propaganda |

Bush administration investigated for censorship

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, Politics, Environment |

Why is the New York Times covering up the torture of Jose Padilla?

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

The editors of the New York Times have decided to bury the US government’s horrendous treatment of Jose Padilla, the American citizen declared an “enemy combatant” by George W. Bush in June 2002 and held for three years and eight months in military detention.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, War & Terrorism |

Pentagon media unit to push US message

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

The US defence department is setting up a special unit aimed at influencing 24-hour news outlets and websites around the world to counter what it considers derogatory publicity, according to a memo.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, Politics |

Confession that formed base of Iraq war was acquired under torture

Friday, October 27th, 2006

An Al-Qaeda terror suspect captured by the United States, who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network, confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC.

Posted in Media & Propaganda, War & Terrorism |

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