Remember the other day when Greenwald was telling us how AWESOME RT was?
I would very much like to see his take on this:
Link to a story about it.
The storm of articles posted about RT over the last couple of days – literally tons of printed copy - looks as if it were written to dictation. Hardly any respectable media outlet refrained from lambasting and lynching RT journalists in articles or reports. Our employees listen to their colleagues, their fellow citizens, and their potential employers, as career prospects are obviously important to every journalist. How many could withstand this pressure? Well, some will and some won’t. Some sincerely disagree, as they believe their own country more than mine. Others are simply thinking about their future. And it’s hard for me to judge them.
This is all typical of a media war. We’re not the first and we will not be the last to go through this. During the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera staff in Lebanon made headlines by resigning en masse. Their Egyptian colleagues followed suit. Over twenty journalists resigned citing disagreement with the channel’s editorial line. That this happened without any pressure from the world mass media was due to the fact that, throughout the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera was completely in tune with the global mainstream. So no one sought to criticize the channel, on the contrary, everyone praised its coverage.
A couple of minutes after Liz made her statement, we found all the major news media in the world - as our exhausted spokeswoman put it, “CNN, NYT, pretty much everyone†– glowing with schadenfreude, as they lined up for official feedback from RT. This included those who had ignored the news of the Ashton-Paet phone leak revelation, as if it didn’t happen. A rival media anchor’s resignation is certainly much more newsworthy and more relevant to the Ukraine crisis than two European leaders saying opposition henchmen may have been killing people.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) explained on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that when he asked a procedural question after Issa adjourned the hearing, he was simply trying to get former IRS official Lois Lerner's attorney to provide the committee with a proffer. That agreement would have told the committee what Lerner would have said if she testified during the hearing instead of invoking her Fifth Amendment rights.
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Cummings also suggested that Republicans on the committee may have violated Lerner's Fifth Amendment rights when they decided that a statement she gave denying the allegations against her constituted a waiver of those rights.
"I think we have to be very careful with people's rights and I don't care who it is," he said. "Tea party or conservative, Republican, Democrat. Everybody's rights need to be protected and I think that we need to do that. And we had legal basis to say that they were not upholding her rights."
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We are at the edge of a cliff. Liberty is under assault.
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Mala, there is nothing funnier than Nathan Fillion in an Elvis jumpsuit
true.
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Mala, there is nothing funnier than Nathan Fillion in an Elvis jumpsuit
true.
I gave "Castle" a spin last night. It was on TBS or TNT or whatever. They had me at Elvis jumpsuit.
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Raine, the CPAC soundbites have started! I give Teddy Cruz:We are at the edge of a cliff. Liberty is under assault.
“If the American people continue to rise up…†Cruz promised the crowd, “We will bring back morning in America.â€
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Quoting St. Ronnie, Isee.
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Mala, there is nothing funnier than Nathan Fillion in an Elvis jumpsuit
true.
I gave "Castle" a spin last night. It was on TBS or TNT or whatever. They had me at Elvis jumpsuit.
I like Castle - Stana Katic and Fillion have just enough of that old Hepburn/Grant thing to pull it off.
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Mala, there is nothing funnier than Nathan Fillion in an Elvis jumpsuit
true.
I gave "Castle" a spin last night. It was on TBS or TNT or whatever. They had me at Elvis jumpsuit.
I like Castle - Stana Katic and Fillion have just enough of that old Hepburn/Grant thing to pull it off.
The show also knows it's not a serious drama. Fillion is given just enough room to be a goofball.
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I read this earlier today, found it interesting...Wouldn't it be nice if they actually understood things over at Faux?Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) explained on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that when he asked a procedural question after Issa adjourned the hearing, he was simply trying to get former IRS official Lois Lerner's attorney to provide the committee with a proffer. That agreement would have told the committee what Lerner would have said if she testified during the hearing instead of invoking her Fifth Amendment rights.
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Cummings also suggested that Republicans on the committee may have violated Lerner's Fifth Amendment rights when they decided that a statement she gave denying the allegations against her constituted a waiver of those rights.
"I think we have to be very careful with people's rights and I don't care who it is," he said. "Tea party or conservative, Republican, Democrat. Everybody's rights need to be protected and I think that we need to do that. And we had legal basis to say that they were not upholding her rights."
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Ugh.. Newsmax wants to start a cable channel
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Thank you for making note that it is Dude Day. Fuck it, let go bowling.
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I NEED to get Bobber a sweater like this. When I saw it on the BoF for a moment I Was like, HEY! why is some group posting a pic of the Bobber?
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This is a great post about HEalth care and technology.
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Raine, the link did not work.
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this works
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Mala were listening to WTOP on the drive in this morning?
They had a paid advertisement from Lyndon Larouche.
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Mala were listening to WTOP on the drive in this morning?
They had a paid advertisement from Lyndon Larouche.
I heard that - so weird, I thought he was dead. Tuned it out what did he say?
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Mala were listening to WTOP on the drive in this morning?
They had a paid advertisement from Lyndon Larouche.
I heard that - so weird, I thought he was dead. Tuned it out what did he say?
Impeach Obama the dictator blah blah blah...
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Mala were listening to WTOP on the drive in this morning?
They had a paid advertisement from Lyndon Larouche.
I heard that - so weird, I thought he was dead. Tuned it out what did he say?
Impeach Obama the dictator blah blah blah...
Here is the ACTUAL AD I heard today.
BEcuase Obama.
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Someone tell @team_mitch that's not the way to hold a gun. KY women do it better. #kysen
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Ugh.. Newsmax wants to start a cable channel
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Ugh.. Newsmax wants to start a cable channel
Just look at the large numbers of providers jumping on Glenn Beck's The Blaze channel (and the only major providers carrying it are Dish and Cablevision).
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it did? looks the same to me