FEATURED ARTICLES
- Dean hits big media - Dem frontrunner raises voice in dereg fray, Variety
- Hollinger Probes Investments Tied to Kissinger, Editor & Publisher Magazine
- Fox News' Occupation Critic, The Nation
- The Fairly Unbalanced PBS, MediaChannel.org
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I thought going to war in Iraq was a good thing. But we are screwing it up. If we change our policies and truly work with the Iraqi people, things can change. If they do not change, we will have another Beirut, another Somalia. We will end up leaving, and it will implode. And that will give us negative PR in the eyes of 1.6 billion Muslims. This is the Super Bowl. Look, we trained and advised the Afghanistan mujaheddin [who battled the Soviet Union in the 1980s] and some of them managed to fight against us later. Our ability to screw things up is immense."
- - Retired Major Bob Bevelacqua (13 year vet of the U.S. Army's Special Forces)
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - DECEMBER 5th
1933 -- American drinkers toast the end of Prohibition & the end of an era. 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, that had prohibited all booze).
1955 -- The Montgomery, Alabama civil-rights bus boycott to end segregation practices begins. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed to coordinate the boycott. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is elected president. It lasts 54 weeks.
1965 -- Aircraft loaded with a nuclear bomb rolls off a US aircraft carrier somewhere in the mid-Pacific. The plane, with the pilot & the bomb, sank in 16,000 feet of water. It has not been recovered.
1967 -- Dr. Benjamin Spock & poet Allen Ginsberg are among 500 people arrested at the Whitehall NYC army induction center, opposing the Vietnam War.
RHINO HERE:
Dem Presidential front runner Howard Dean spoke out loud & strong recently on Chris Mathews' Hardball against big media, saying that 11 companies in the U.S. control 90% of what people watch on television and read in newspapers, magazines and books and that as President, he would work to decrease the amount of media outlets that could be controlled by any one entity.This in spite of the fact that his No. 1 campaign contributor is Time Warner, whose employees have donated $65,475 to his campaign so far this cycle.
Dean hits big media - Dem frontrunner raises voice in dereg fray
By SUSAN CRABTREE, Variety, 12/2/03
...While the lion's share of Dean's $25 million-plus in campaign largess comes from individuals in small increments, the top donors to his campaign include Viacom, Walt Disney Co., News Corp, Sony Corp. of America and Vivendi Universal... .. Dean said, " What we're going to do is say that media enterprises can't be as big as they are today. I don't think we actually have to break them up, which Teddy Roosevelt had to do with the leftovers from the McKinley administration. ... If the state has an interest -- which it does -- in preserving democracy, then there has to be a limitation on how deeply the media companies can penetrate every single community. To the extent of even having two or three or four outlets in a single community, that kind of information control is not compatible with democracy."
MORE: Dean hits big media
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Speaking of sleazy media, d'ya hear the one about the newspaper company, Chicago-based, Hollinger International, whose board includes the likes of shrub gang puppeteer, Richard Perle, & Nixon gang cohort, Henry "war crimes" Kissinger, investing money into a venture capitol firm, Trireme Partners, where Perle is a managing partner & Kissinger is on the advisory board? There's more. Hollinger International has also been making annual contributions of some $200,000 to The National Interest, a conservative quarterly magazine where Kissinger is co-chairman, & Perle is a member of the editorial board. Hollinger International publishes the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph in London and The Jerusalem Post. Rhino sez, "More of that Leave no billionaire behind tactics".
Hollinger Probes Investments Tied to Kissinger, Perle
Company Made Payments to Venture Fund
By Seth Sutel, Editor & Publisher Magazine, 12/3/03
...A spokeswoman for Perle said he was traveling out of the country and couldn't be reached. A message left at Kissinger's office was not immediately returned.
ITS ALL AT: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2044512
Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is actually 2 articles, both with weird twists on the progressive common knowledge about the media. The first is an interview with Major Bob Bevelacqua, a Fox News military analyst whose been outspoken about the stupidity of the shrub gang's handling of the war on Iraq. The second tells the story of New York Magazine's media critic, Wolff, being censored by PBS, while being offered his own show on Fox. The Rhino hasn't believed that PBS is progressive since he realized that the honchos there make all their decisions based on how to keep their jobs. But it still seems like a bass akwards tale. Who's "fair & balanced" now?
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