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Bush's legacy. .< 2:05:03 PM  >"Consultants Tell Radio, TV Clients That Protest Coverage Drives Off Viewers" [Daypop Top 40] '"Get the following production pieces in the studio NOW: . . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for the emotion," advised McVay Media, a Cleveland-based consultant, in a "War Manual" memo to its station clients. ". . . Air the National Anthem at a specified time each day as long as the USA is at war." The influential television-news consulting firm Frank N. Magid Associates recently put it in even starker terms: Covering war protests may be harmful to a station's bottom line.' The US has turned into one scarey country. .< 2:00:46 PM >Christopher Lydon reviews the "great writers who anticipated the contemporary crisis." [Scripting News] 'An extreme repolarization of peoples is underway as American bombs rain down on the Cradle of Civilization. What do we suppose the world sees? Will this damage ever be undone?' .< 1:55:02 PM >Car bomb kills US troops A suicide bomber kills four US soldiers at a checkpoint near Najaf in central Iraq. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] It's only going to get worse. This war was a major major blunder and we'll all be paying for it for years to come. .< 1:52:26 PM > I just heard that Henry Norr, who I've known for almost 20 years, has been suspended from the San Francisco Chronicle because of his anti-war views. Therearequite a fewarticlesaboutthis. "I don't write about national affairs, I don't write about national politics, I write about things like spam," Norr said in an interview. "To me, in any normal understanding of what is a conflict of interest, I didn't have one." [Scripting News]Home of the free? .< 1:51:08 PM >NY Times : "The most influential antiwar... NY Times: "The most influential antiwar coalitions have shifted away from large-scale disruptive tactics and stepped up efforts to appeal to mainstream Americans." [Scripting News] .< 5:35:30 AM >Home Front: Life during wartime Fox hates the protesters, the U.S. hates the French, and Slovenia wants out! Plus: War comes to a playground in Brooklyn. [Salon] .< 5:34:09 AM >"An x-ray of President Bush" [Daypop Top 40] Ooh la la. .< 5:32:40 AM >"Consultants Tell Radio, TV Clients That Protest... "Consultants Tell Radio, TV Clients That Protest Coverage Drives Off Viewers" [Daypop Top 40] '"Get the following production pieces in the studio NOW: . . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for the emotion," advised McVay Media, a Cleveland-based consultant, in a "War Manual" memo to its station clients. ". . . Air the National Anthem at a specified time each day as long as the USA is at war." The company, which describes itself as the largest radio consultant in the world, also has been counseling talk show stations to "Make sure your hosts aren't 'over the top.' Polarizing discussions are shaky ground. This is not the time to take cheap shots to get reaction . . . not when our young men and women are 'in harm's way.' " The influential television-news consulting firm Frank N. Magid Associates recently put it in even starker terms: Covering war protests may be harmful to a station's bottom line.' What a scarey place the US has become. .< 5:21:02 AM >Israel 'could send aid to Iraq' The new foreign minister says his country would give humanitarian aid to Iraq if asked by the UN. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] ' Mr Shalom also said Israel wanted to "do everything to improve its relationship" with the UN.' Good. Let's see what the middle east peace-maker Bush has to say about that. .< 5:15:32 AM >Mugabe troops 'torture hundreds' World: State-sponsored violence widespread before voting begins today in two crucial parliamentary byelections. [Guardian Unlimited] Has that Mugabe guy got any oil?! .< 5:14:50 AM >Family denies execution claim Politics: Government regrets causing offence after Blair maintained soldiers were killed in Iraq in cold blood. [Guardian Unlimited] 'His stepfather, Michael Pawsey, told the London Evening Standard: "Both I and Luke's sister Nina are disgusted by the claims he was executed. There is no way that happened. The only way he would have been killed is in action. He loved his job and he would have died fighting. That's what he did. That's what his colonel and sergeant told us." ' .< 5:08:56 AM >MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | Facts, some fiction and the reporting of war 'The story came from a correspondent from the Jerusalem Post who was travelling with the US 3rd Infantry. The plant, the paper said, had been discovered by American troops at Najaf. US television network Fox immediately began running the story, which also quoted Pentagon officials. On Monday, much of the British press treated the discovery with some caution. Part of the scepticism stemmed from the fact that one of the board members of the Jerusalem Post is Richard Perle, the Bush defence adviser and most vocal backer of the invasion of Iraq.' .< 4:56:35 AM >Jonathan Freedland: Even if he wins the war, Blair has been humiliated Jonathan Freedland: What does Tony Blair have to show for his loyalty to George Bush? Zilch. [Guardian Unlimited] Blair's been had. The Bush admin doesn't give two hoots about him or the Brits. One hoot, maybe. .< 12:20:20 AM >RICK SALUTIN 'You could hear the same cheery American ahistoricality toward our country in U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci's wounded plaint this week. "We would come to aid Canada without hesitation," he said categorically. Like when? 1812, when the U.S. invaded? The Fenian raids in the 19th century, launched from the U.S.? The First World War or the Second -- when the U.S. arrived three years after it started? Or as Lloyd Axworthy asked: when we needed more recent help with the land-mines treaty or for establishing an International Criminal Court that might have been useful in handling Saddam Hussein's crimes short of all-out war?' Bravo Lloyd Axworthy. .< 12:13:20 AM >Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong 'The most palpable factor is the profound conviction that, on this war, France got it right. The vast majority of people around the world outside the United States agree with the French analysis. That agreement reinforces France's conviction that the war so earnestly desired by the Bush administration is a horrible geopolitical mistake.' Jeffrey Simpson reporting from France. Americans are heaping abuse on the French who are unmoved, simply feeling reassured that there assumptions about Americans were correct. .< 12:05:37 AM >Former U.S. soldier predicts Iraqi victory 'Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who spent 12 years in the U.S. armed forces. Alone among Western commentators, he appears to share Mr. Hussein's public view of the outcome. In an interview with Irish radio, Mr. Ritter predicts that the United States will lose the war and "leave Iraq with its tail between its legs. "I'm betting that Saddam's going to be around a lot longer than anyone can predict. I'm betting that we don't capture Baghdad. . . . I'm betting that this becomes an absolute quagmire." ' |
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