Think Progress reports on these findings from Free Press and the Center for American Progress: – In the spring of 2007, of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming was conservative, and only 9 percent was…
Glenn Greenwald links to Josh Marshall, who published an e-mail from a reader “who identifies what is one of the most astonishing instances of mindless, pro-government ‘reporting’ yet”: It's a curious thing that, over the past 10 - 12 days, the news from Iraq refers to the combatants there as…
All of your suspicions are true and you can now find them in an article that is intensely compelling and distressing. It’s the current edition (June 28, 2007) of Rolling Stone.
It’s not every day after all that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell. But the Bush administration has never felt bound by the reality-based nature of science–especially when it comes from international experts. So after the report became public in February, Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves to offer his own, competing assessment of global warming
We’re going to see a big debate on it going forward,” Cheney told ABC news, about “the extent to which it is part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it’s caused by man.” We know today, he added, is “not enough to just sort of run out and try to slap together some policy is going to” solve the problem.” Even former White House insiders were shocked by the vice president’s see-no-evil performance.
The Rolling Stone article argues that the White House has actively worked to distort the findings of climate scientists, playing down the threat of global warming. This investigation by Rolling Stone goes further, however. It reveals that
…these distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, and a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on environmental quality and enforced by none other than
This is a detailed article by Expose, starting off with some of the excuses reporters hear: In 2005, the Associated Press collected and published a list of novel excuses government officials used to deny FOIA requests, many of which failed the "my dog ate my homework" test. The list included,…
Why has the Administration of George W. Bush made so many enemies? It comes from an early intellectual decision to view the world in terms of Good versus Evil. This article in by Glenn Greenwald sums it up nicely. Efforts to impose limits on waging war against Evil will themselves be seen as…