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Media Ignored How Failed Gay Relationship, Violent Outbursts Impacted Wikileaks 'Hero'

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:03:00 +0000

Erin Brown

In the wake of the largest security breach in U.S. military history, the mainstream media have struggled to report all the facts about Bradley Manning, the Iraq war soldier in the middle of the Wikileaks scandal.

SPUN-employment

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:24:00 +0000

Dan Gainor

Spinning the Numbers When Conservatives in Charge: During the year leading up to the 2005-06 mid-term elections, the economy was strong and unemployment never went above 5 percent. That wasn’t how the media reported it. Negative reports and stories spun negatively accounted for 58 percent of the stories (38 out of 65).

Global Warming Censored

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:32:00 +0000

Dan Gainor

Julia A. Seymour

See Executive Summary

Correction Appended

So much for that job requirement of balance and objectivity. When it came to global warming the media clearly left out dissent in favor of hype, cute penguins and disastrous predictions.

"They [penguins] are charismatic, endearing and in serious trouble," warned NBC's Anne Thompson on the Dec. 12, 2007, "Nightly News." Thompson didn't include any disagreement.

Nixon's Denigration of Fred Thompson Newsworthy to ABC --10/10/2007

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0000

Brent Baker

1. Nixon's Denigration of Fred Thompson Newsworthy to ABC

Hollywood Hails Hunter

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:00:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Worshippers of the wild and dissolute drug culture of the 1960s gathered at their temple in Woody Creek, Colorado on an August Saturday night to pay tribute to the booze-and-drug-soaked journalistic legend Hunter S. Thompson, exactly six months after he shot himself in the head in the middle of a phone call with his wife. It was, in a way, a perfect ending to symbolize Thompson's self-absorbed, self-destructive worldview. How pathetic is it that some people are actually celebrating this.

CyberAlert -- 07/23/1997 -- A CBS Diversion

Wed, 23 Jul 1997 04:00:00 +0000

Brent Baker

A CBS Diversion; Nothing Criminal Here; Cult of Christianity