Fox News
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So I just got this e-mail today. I think it poses a good question. What are everyone's thoughts?
"Dear activists, colleagues, and friends,
Well Fox News went to new lows in their analysis of Petraeus' testimony last week, when our friends at Media Matters let us know that they had 7 to 1 analysts in favor of escalation. It was hard to believe, even for FOX!
Startup campaign against Fox News
http://bravenewfilms.org/foxads
This is a brilliant attempt to create organized resistance to media propaganda by targeting advertisers. It's like adding another layer to democracy by allowing voters to impact the presentation of the information we're presented as "fact" by the mainstream media.
I signed up. If you want to resist Fair and Balanced propaganda, join the network. If this works, I could see the same formula being applied to other cases.
Fox News Calls Mr Rogers Evil
I really think this may be a new low. In one further step along defining iteslf against all that is good and just, Fox News attacked Mr Rogers because, and I'm choking back the bile as I type this, he dared to tell kids that they were special. Really. Apparently Fox News doesn't think kids are special. They must work to be special, to become more special than everyone else by earning money. If you don't make lots of money, your life is worthless. No one is special just for themselves. You might think at this point that I'm joking or reciting an Onion story, but if you watch the video, you know I'm serious.
Rupert Murdoch selling MySpace?
This article reminds me of 19th century imperialism-- everybody wants a stake in Africa... er, I mean, the Internet.
News Corp honcho Rupert Murdoch has offered to swap the wildly popular social networking site MySpace in exchange for a stake in portal-in-flux Yahoo. Murdoch reportedly approached Yahoo with the offer of giving the portal ownership of MySpace in exchange for a 30 percent ownership stake of the combined Yahoo-MySpace.