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Photographing America's War Dead

Can the American people handle the truth? The Obama administration seems to think so. On Thursday, Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, overturned the ban on photographing the flag-draped coffins of fallen US soldiers arriving at Dover air force base in Delaware from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted in Media, War/Empire

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2009
1:50 PM

CONTACT: Prometheus Radio Project
Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Prometheus Radio Project (610)-761-5414
Jen Howard, Free Press, (202) 265-1490 x22

Low Power Community Radio: Legislation Draws Bipartisan Support

Members of Congress and community organizations call for more Low Power Radio nationwide

WASHINGTON - February 24 - Members of Congress, public interest advocates and community organizations will hold a national conference call tomorrow to discuss the reintroduction of the bipartisan "Local Community Radio Act" that would create opportunities for hundreds of low-power, community radio stations in cities, towns and suburbs across the United States. The sponsors of this legislation, Reps. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Lee Terry (R-Neb.) will join the call to explain the details of this bill.

WHAT: National Conference Call on Community Radio Legislation

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The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit organization founded by a small group of radio activists in 1998. Prometheus builds, supports, and advocates for community radio stations which empower participatory community voices and movements for social change. To that end, we demystify technologies, the political process that governs access to our media system, and the effects of media on our lives and our communities.
Posted in localism, Media

CNN's Wolf Blitzer Lapdogs While Senator Hatch Lies

This week, Wolf Blitzer interviewed Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT). I watched dumbfounded as Hatch lied, and Blitzer obediently chose not to challenge the Senator. It's the same lapdog reporting that enabled Bush & Co. to marshal public support for war in Iraq, to torture and spy, and allows politicians to continue to lie with impunity. Tough luck if you thought the last eight years would give guys like Blitzer a backbone.

Posted in Media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2009
11:00 AM

CONTACT: Media Matters for America
Brandon Hersh (202) 471-3205
bhersh@mediamatters.org

Will's Climate Change Column Sparks Outrage in Environmental Community

After Post refuses to address numerous global warming falsehoods, leading environmental organizations join Media Matters in calling for correction

WASHINGTON - February 24 - After Post refuses to address numerous global warming falsehoods, leading environmental organizations join Media Matters in calling for correction

Today, Media Matters for America President Eric Burns joined Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski, and Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder in issuing a letter to Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander asking him to address several blatant falsehoods in George Will's February 15 column about global warming.

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Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

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Posted in Environment, journalism, Media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2009
12:24 PM

CONTACT: Equality California (EQCA)
Vaishalee Raja, Communications Director
916-284-9187
vaishalee@eqca.org

EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors Statement on 'Milk' Oscar Wins

SACRAMENTO - February 23 - Last night, actor Sean Penn and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black both won Academy Awards for their work in the film Milk, about the life and death of civil rights leader Harvey Milk. Penn received the award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Milk, while Black received the award for Best Original Screenplay. In response to their historic wins, Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors released the following statement:

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Equality California is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots-based, statewide advocacy organization whose mission is to achieve equality and civil rights for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Californians.
Equality California (EQCA) Links:
Posted in glbt, Media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2009
11:34 AM

CONTACT: Media Matters for America

Jessica Levin (202) 772-8162 jlevin@mediamatters.org

The Media's Spotty Track Record on the State of the Union

WASHINGTON - February 23 - On Tuesday night, all eyes will be on President Obama as he delivers what is effectively his first State of the Union address.

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Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

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Posted in Media

Will TV News Ever Apologize for Condit Hoax?

For four months beginning in May 2001, major U.S. media outlets, including all three cable news channels, took the American public for a ride -- perpetrating a hoax that a married congressman was somehow involved in the disappearance of a female intern.

As I witnessed the farce from inside cable news, I could see it was all about ratings and had nothing to do with journalism.

Posted in journalism, Media

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2009
2:13 PM

CONTACT: Media Matters for America

Jessica Levin (202) 772-8162
jlevin@mediamatters.org

Substantive Policy Takes Back Seat to Raw Politics

A look back at the media's coverage of the recovery package

WASHINGTON - February 17 - As President Obama signs the economic recovery package into law, Media Matters for America looks back at how the media too often let politics drive the debate and failed to give the public an accurate and honest assessment of what is in the legislation. Since Obama took office, Media Matters has relentlessly debunked numerous myths and falsehoods in the media's coverage of the economic recovery package and today released a video detailing some of the most ridiculous attacks. The video on the media's coverage of the recovery package can be viewed here:

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Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

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Posted in Economy/Trade, Media, stimulus

DC Journalists Love GOP Obstructionists, But Americans Don't

There appears to be a pretty big gap between what DC journalists think Americans think, and what Americans actually think. No better example of this can be found than the "winners" and "losers" that DC media are proclaiming in the wake of the passage of the stimulus bill, and what DailyKos/Research 2000 polling on the subject indicates.

DC opinion:  It's good for the Republicans!

Posted in Media, Politics, rightwing, stimulus

Coming to NBC: 'To Catch a Cheney'

I have a plan to get NBC out of last place in the ratings. I'm promising blockbuster audience and international buzz. As a once disgruntled ex-employee, I now just want to be positive and help NBC, which needs all the free advice it can get.

Posted in after bush, Media, war crimes
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