Category: Mainstream Media
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
The West Is Trapped In By Own Propaganda / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
One of the wishes that readers often express to me came true today (May 11). I was on the mainstream media. It was a program with a worldwide reach--the BBC World Service. There were others on the program as well, and the topic was Hillary Clinton’s remarks (May 10) about the lack of democracy and human rights in China.
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Sunday, May 08, 2011
Bin Laden Kill Video Re-Editing, A Pakistani Military Asset Destroyed? / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The White House keeps revising its story of what took place in the Abbottabad compound after having achieved its psi-ops propaganda of earlier in the week that was liberally propagated across the mainstream press in a stream of headlines that have subsequently apparently turned out to prove false.
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
The New York Times Is Dying / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Gary_North
What's black and white and red all over?
Answer: the balance sheet of the New York Times.
That was a two-liner that appeared in The Daily Show's torpedoing of the New York Times. You can see it here.
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Deconstructing Meredith Whitney’s Municpal Bond Default Predictions / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
The Article Whitney Doesn’t Want You to Read - If I hired a full-time staff of 100 financial professionals specifically dedicated to the task of calling out all of the media’s so-called financial experts (largely comprised of lifelong snake oil salesmen and Wall Street hacks), pointing to their miserable track records, while setting the record straight on their exaggerations, drama-filled statements, bias, agendas, cheerleading and apocalyptic predictions, we would be unable to address even one-tenth of the propaganda that continues to invade the minds of Americans.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Fox News BUSTED For Manipulating Footage of Wisconsin Worker Protests (Video) / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Chris_Kitze
As teachers and students protested for three weeks in the state capitol of Wisconsin in a fight to let state workers keep their collective bargaining right, Fox News created facts that were far from the truth to push across their political agenda, fabricating poll results, broadcasting fake video, and spinning stories about reporter abuse. RT's Anastasia Churkina reports.
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
Mainstream Press and the GM Pump-and-Dump / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
I wanted to point out another example of the need to be critical when you come across "news."
In the vast majority of cases, news stories are centered on hidden agendas that come from the top of the organization. Often, when the hidden message or twist on facts is meant to assist the agendas of America's fascist government, the orders are sent from a PR official at the White House. When the deceit is meant to help the agendas of the corporate side of America’s fascist government, the orders come from corporate executives themselves.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
CNBC Presenter Gets Slapped as Chip Stocks Race Higher / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Investment_U
Steve McDonald writes: Have you seen the movement of chip stocks recently?
The sector is on the march, with stocks like Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) blasting 60% higher over the past three months.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Huffington Post Alone Won’t Rescue AOL, A Case Study into Failure / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
Recently, I reminded readers of a very lucrative (and what I felt was a very obvious) long-short equity strategy I discussed that would have yielded huge returns to those who opted to take on this risky maneuver.
I normally don’t recommend that everyday investors take short positions because it’s extremely risk for many reasons. Most non-professional investors fail to recognize the risks involved with shorting securities because taking a short position is just a mouse click away if you have an online brokerage account. That in itself is an entirely different issue that needs to be addressed by the SEC.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
AOL Huffington Post Takeover To Strengthen Pursuit of Online Media Content Crown / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Internet company AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) announced late Sunday night it was buying liberal news Web site The Huffington Post to try to advance its reinvention as a top online media content provider.
AOL will pay $315 million for the popular site that was co-founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington. The Huffington Post is privately owned by co-founder Huffington, Chairman Kenneth Lerer and a group of investors.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
U.S. Media Selling Views and Calling it News / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: John_Kozy
America's journalists are not "newshounds." They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" press is comprised of nothing more than a number of retail outlets which sell stories slanted to please their target audiences. As such, they exist merely to sell snake oil.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Is Putin pitiable, or is the FT corrupt? / Personal_Finance / Mainstream Media
By: Eric_Kraus
Reading the FT on Russia, what is interesting is not what they write – it is why they write it. A friend of T&B was told face-to-face about six months ago by an FT editor that, as a journalist here, one’s role has to be ”to write about how awful Russia is”. (While, admittedly, T&B does not know many FT journalists in Poland, Belgium or Mexico, we strongly suspect that they have an entirely different mandate. Only in Russia has the paper descended to outright advocacy…)
Monday, December 27, 2010
Mainstream Press Journalism of Appeasement, Corruption, Smoke and Mirrors / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: David_DeGraw
Here’s a brief summation of my recent reporting: If we continue to let our politicians and wealthy members of society live in comfort, free from the consequences of their actions, we are complicit in our own demise.
Our country is so overrun with corruption, we cannot remain passive and expect things to get any better.
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
The Mainstream Financial Media Wants to Brainwash and Bankrupt You / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris writes: The financial news media is conspiring to blow up your brokerage account and flush your retirement savings down Ben Bernanke's new commode.
I'm not saying the editors of top financial newspapers and magazines sat down together and hashed out a plan to brainwash you and bankrupt you. No, I really don't think they did that. It only looks like they did it...
Friday, October 08, 2010
Op-ed Warriors Defend the TARP Tax Payer Bank Bailout / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Christopher_Westley
Confession time: I still read newspapers the old-fashioned way, meaning the way my father and grandfather did, on paper, frequently at the kitchen table, and to the smell of a hot, Honduran coffee.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Paul Krugman a Shill for the Corporate State / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: LewRockwell
Murray Sabrin writes: Paul Krugman wears many hats – Princeton University professor, New York Times columnist, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2008), prolific author of scholarly books and journal articles, and now president of the Eastern Economic Association. The EEA is a regional scholarly group which publishes a journal and holds an annual academic conference in New York City every other year. The EEA is housed in the Anisfield School of Business at Ramapo College, where I have taught Corporate Finance and Financial Markets and Institutions for the past 25 years.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Mainstream Media Depression and Deflation Propaganda / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Howard_Katz
Cause and Effect - Fanaticism has been defined as the policy of repeating the same actions while expecting a different result. If that is the case, then we live in a society of fanatics, and it is absolutely essential to know this if one is to succeed in the financial markets.
In mid-September 2008, the New York Times began to scream, in a series of big headlines, that the nation was in a financial crisis. I have studied the American media, and it is absolutely amazing. The overwhelming majority of newspapers will pick up a line of propaganda from the Times and repeat it mindlessly ad infinitum. After 2 weeks of Times propaganda the nation’s media had fallen in line, and in 10 days in early October the DJI fell by 3000 points (as the public read a large number of bearish articles about the financial system).
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Mainstream Media Complicity in Financial Crimes / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Danny_Schechter
Q: Why are media outlets doing such a bad job covering Wall Street?
A: Could it be, because they are owned by Wall Street?
When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind the decisions of policymakers, market makers and media-makers, it’s easy to be dismissed as a conspiracy nut.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The New York Times and Lies about 'Acid Rain' / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: William_Anderson
As one who often reads the Newspaper of the Ruling Class, the New York Times, I tend not to be surprised when the "Newspaper of Record" distorts the record. Furthermore, one could do nothing but write comments refuting the various economic fallacies and outright distortions that accompany each edition of the Grey Lady.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
WSJ Wants Government Subsidies for Mainstream Media / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: MISES
Jeff Harding writes: I almost choked when I read Lee Bollinger's op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal advocating public financial support of the mainstream media. This is the Lee Bollinger who is the president of Columbia University and was recently named deputy chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The article says more about the writer and the mainstream media than it does its subject matter. It is unbelievable and irresponsible that anyone in his position should seriously advocate subsidies for the press.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
The Mainstream Media and the State Are Joined at the Hip, Sometimes Literally / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: LewRockwell
S.M. Oliva writes: Jon Leibowitz and Ruth Marcus married in 1994. They were the perfect Washington power couple: He was chief counsel to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) and she was a White House correspondent for the Washington Post. Sure, they were just cogs in the establishment, but they were still part of America's ruling class. And over the next decade-and-a-half, they solidified that standing. Marcus – who has worked at the Post for twenty-six years – rose through the ranks to become a member of the paper's editorial board and a regular op-ed columnist. Leibowitz remained with Sen. Kohl until 2000, when he joined the "private sector" as a lobbyist for the copyright industry (aka the Motion Picture Association of America). But in 2004 he returned to his natural habitat, the government, when he received one of five seats on the Federal Trade Commission.