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| Only news outlets owned by corporations that are also heavily involved in munitions sales would present a defense budget increase from $513 billion to $534 billion as severe defense budget cuts. | Add / Read Comments |
| We have not recently seen the biggest increase in news sources in our history. Instead, we have seen a gradual diminution in the effort by organizations that gather and report news. | Add / Read Comments |
| The news business isn't going broke because of the internet. It's going broke because it has gone from being a government watchdog to being a government stenographer. | Add / Read Comments |
| If it's a bad idea to allow a mosque to be built near "ground zero," is it also a bad idea to allow a Fox News station to be built near the IRS building in Austin, Texas? | Add / Read Comments |
| Can we please not pretend that Bradley Manning is a girl … and not call him "Chelsea?" Please? | Add / Read Comments |
| The recent controversy over FIFA officials is of no significance. At its core is a bunch of grown men running around in a field chasing a ball, which is of course of no significance. Anything based on something insignificant is inherently insignificant. (By the way, "deflate-gate" is stupid too.) |
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| Twitter. "X." Who cares? | Add / Read Comments |
| Liberals 1, Tucker Carlson 0 | Add / Read Comments |
| Judith Miller did not sacrifice herself to protect a whistle-blower. She was being stubborn to protect her own access to the sewage that spews out of the White House. | Add / Read Comments |
| Objective reporting does not mean giving the lie and the truth equal time. | Add / Read Comments |
| There is nothing wrong with people getting some portion of their "news" from Jon Stewart and The Daily Show. | Add / Read Comments |
| Think you're well-informed because you watch lots of TV news? Think again. The Bush administration is quietly distributing propaganda in the guise of TV news reports, paying TV pundits to praise its policies, and hiring lobbyists to distort scientific reports. | Add / Read Comments |
| The monopoly of the public airwaves by the right wing is not the result of more demand in the marketplace. It is because all of the broadcast media that we receive is filtered through corporate ownership. The sole exception to this - PBS - is now being taken over by Republican apparatchiks. | Add / Read Comments |
| If your local newspaper endorsed George Bush in the presidential election, there may be something you can do about it. | Add / Read Comments |
| The primary purpose of the major news outlets from which we get most of our information (newspapers, television, magazines) is to serve as vehicles for advertising. | Add / Read Comments |
| The American media has a conservative bias, not a liberal bias. | Add / Read Comments |
| The public interest, convenience and necessity is best served when the various media outlets are owned by more, not fewer entities. | Add / Read Comments |
| The recently enacted CAN-SPAM bill designed to curb unsolicited bulk email is a loophole ridden gift to the spam industry at the expense of the consumer. | Add / Read Comments |
| The current decline in music sales has more to do with the declining quality of the product than with internet file swapping. | Add / Read Comments |
| Disney refuses to release Michael Moore's new movie "Fahrenheit 911" because it fears Jeb Bush, Florida governor and brother of George W. Bush, would rescind tax breaks granted to the Disney company in Florida. | Add / Read Comments |