Prometheus 6 - Media

By the way

Prometheus 6 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:10:54 -0400

The only reason the Black Agenda Report is less scary to folks than The Black Commentator is BAR is too new to be recognized.

I found an excuse to list some principles

Prometheus 6 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:09:35 -0400

Scared to be seen reading The Black Commentator at work? Check out the Black Agenda Report.

This issue the Black Commentator added a bag for folks to their staff, and a couple of them have the Black Radical Congress listed in their bonafides. I had run by the BRC site a couple of days ago; sort of curious because I used to hear from them regularly; I just don't run in those circles nowadays.

The BRC mission is like mine on steroids; Their principles are right in line with my own views, with minor exceptions.

duh librul mejah

Prometheus 6 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:36:37 -0400

Mr. Kaplan said much of the meeting was spent drafting and reworking the document, which in the end carried the names of all 12 participants and was “a forceful summary of some of the best pro-war arguments at the time.” Could any of the participants have been unaware there was a document in the making? “No, that’s not possible,” he said...
Mr. Zakaria takes issue with Mr. Woodward’s account, saying that while he attended the meeting for several hours, he does not recall being told that a report would be produced.
“I thought it was a brainstorming session,” he said.

Secret Iraq Meeting Included Journalists
By JULIE BOSMAN

It was the kind of shadowy, secret Washington meeting that Bob Woodward is fond of describing in detail. In his new book, “State of Denial,” he writes that on Nov. 29, 2001, a dozen policy makers, Middle East experts and members of influential policy research organizations gathered in Virginia at the request of Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense. Their objective was to produce a report for President Bush and his cabinet outlining a strategy for dealing with Afghanistan and the Middle East in the aftermath of 9/11.

What was more unusual, Mr. Woodward reveals, was the presence of journalists at the meeting. Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist, and Robert D. Kaplan, now a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, attended the meeting and, according to Mr. Kaplan, signed confidentiality agreements not to discuss what happened.

And now a word from Keith Olbermann

Prometheus 6 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:41:17 -0400

A special comment about lying
Keith Olbermann on the difference between terrorists and critics
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
Updated: 8:19 a.m. PT Oct 6, 2006

While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool ...

While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover ...

The president of the United States — unbowed, undeterred and unconnected to reality — has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: the Democrats.

Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, “177 of the opposition party said, ‘You know, we don’t think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists.’”

The hell they did.

There I go, off on a tangent again

Prometheus 6 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:41:35 -0400

You know about this case, I think.

Josh Wolf: video blogger at the center of controversy over journalists' rights
For refusing to hand over unaired video of a G8 Summit protest, Wolf has been imprisoned for contempt; members of the media have rallied to his aid.
By Kim Pearson
Posted: 2006-10-03
In some ways, Joshua Wolf cuts an unlikely figure as a crusader for the rights of journalists. The 24-year-old California videoblogger’s journalistic portfolio is "thin,", according to Anthony Lappe, executive editor of Guerilla News Network. Some traditional journalists are discomfited by the Wolf’s sympathy for the anarchists whose activities he often covers.
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Pissing in the headwaters of the datastream

Prometheus 6 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:58:37 -0400

Let me show you why the entire Republican Party is must take responsibility for this coverup. Take a look at what they are trying to distract you from.

It is simply not credible that a succession of House leaders — Speaker Dennis Hastert, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Thomas B. Reynolds and page board chairman John Shimkus, among others — knew for months about "overly friendly" e-mails from Foley to a former page and the penny didn't drop.
This is the same Reynolds whose NRCC received a $100,000 contribution from Foley's own campaign coffers about the time the "overly friendly" e-mails were being brushed under the rug.
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We really should ask

Prometheus 6 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:58:52 -0400

At the end of each interview on PBS' The Nightly Business Report guest analysts are asked if they or their company has any financial interest in the companies they discuss. Maybe pundits should be asked who paid for their appearance at the end of each interview.

Miami Publisher Steps Down Over Payments to Reporters
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

The publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, its Spanish-language sister paper, resigned yesterday, saying he had lost control of his newsrooms over a growing controversy involving payments from the Bush administration to some reporters of El Nuevo Herald for their commentary broadcast on the anti-Castro outlets Radio and TV Martí.
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Look, you CAN'T be "even handed" about this

Prometheus 6 — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:02:14 -0400

In Hitting a Self-Destruct Button, the NY Times' Mark Liebovich tries the fair and balanced approach in examining the Foley Fallout.

Hello, Representative Mark Foley, here’s your special membership pin and thanks for joining Washington’s “What On Earth Was He Thinking?” Caucus.

The illustrious club includes a special “Sex Scandal” subcaucus that features, among others, Wilbur Mills (D-Tidal Basin), Gary Hart (D-Monkey Business), Bob Packwood (R-Senate Elevators) and, of course, Bill Clinton (D-Oval Office)....

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Bah. Distractions.

Prometheus 6 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:18:18 -0400

I should be ironing shirts for my trip to Atlanta. I peek at the damn aggregator and see Gen. JC Christian, Patriot has put together quite the tribute to GOP values. I want to steal the YouTube video, but I am not worthy.

I wish Michel Martin luck

Prometheus 6 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:51:41 -0400

Right interesting article. Lots of nice contentious opinions.

Public radio struggles to find black audience
As News & Notes loses listeners, can NPR sustain quality black programming?
By ERIC DEGGANS, Times Media Critic
Published August 14, 2006

Even now, Ed Gordon isn't sure how it all turned out so badly.

When his newsmagazine show debuted on National Public Radio more than 18 months ago, he couldn't have been in a better position. After the abrupt departure of Tavis Smiley and his self-titled program, Gordon's News & Notes inherited space on 90 stations nationwide, an audience of more than 1-million per week and status as the symbol of NPR's continuing effort to develop programming focused on black audiences and culture.