Amid an avalanche of attacks on antiwar Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the latest (as of midnight on Tuesday) is one in the comically-named "American Thinker," a neocon web site for the intellectually challenged, which runs a piece by Adam Yoshida on "The...
The work of the news media on this so-called "Iranian terrorist plot" has been one of the most abhorrent displays of irresponsible journalism since the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Much of the time, the press acts simply as a bullhorn for state propaganda,...
The Washington Post catches up with reality: The Obama administration often cites Colombia’s thriving democracy as proof that U.S. assistance, know-how and commitment can turn around a potentially failed state under terrorist siege. The country’s U.S.-funded...
That's the title of Kevin Baron's piece at Stars and Stripes, which explains how propaganda is wrapped around the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan to make them seem as if they're on the losing end. Politico’s Morning Defense shared an email Monday that is pure...
It wasn't 15 minutes into the coverage of this afternoon's massive and certainly disastrous earthquake just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince on CNN, when Wolf Blitzer cut off the weeping Haitian ambassador to the US to go to a CNN staffer who spent another 2-3 minutes...
