Based on this MSNBC piece, it's not good. Jonathan Turley's legal analysis starting at the 7:00 mark of this piece really puts things in perspective. Let's hope that when Bush is in this foul sort of mood, Cheney keeps the buttons for launching nuclear attacks out of sight. Maybe hide them in a hollowed-out science…
I haven't seen "Jesus Camp" yet, but I plan to. This is an ABC documentary on Jesus Camp. Personally, I'd flunk out of camp because I'd have a hard time praying in the company of a facade of George W. Bush, as though he were a leader sent specially by…
Rather than describe The Onion's most recent sacrilege, you can take a look here. Remember, if you so much as smirk, you will have paved your own ultimate path to hell. I've written very little on the doctrine of the transubstantiation, the topic of this Onion article. This surprises me, because the…
This cartoon makes a nice point.
If this Common Dreams report on FCC corruption doesn’t make you angry, no media issue will:
…Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer rocked the re-confirmation hearings for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin when she released a suppressed FCC study from 2004 – leaked to her by an FCC whistleblower – that indicated locally owned television stations did far more local news programming than TV stations owned by big conglomerates. A former FCC lawyer acknowledged that agency officials ordered the report and all supporting material be destroyed.
Martin, who was on the FCC in 2004 but not yet its Chairman, said he had no idea the report had been done in the first place and knew nothing about its disappearance. Then-FCC Chairman Michael Powell also claims he knew nothing about it, and, in classic Bush-era fashion, he took no responsibility for what transpired under his command.
In their minds, this was some sort of clerical error — and the sooner everyone forgot about it, the better. The FCC could go back to its time-honored job of doling out tens of billions of dollars in monopoly privileges to massive media and communication firms in relative anonymity.
That PR approach collapsed this week on Monday, Sept. 18, when another repressed FCC study was leaked to Senator Boxer by an FCC whistleblower. This study demonstrated that independent radio ownership plummeted after the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, even though the number of commercial radio stations actually increased. As with the first study, by
