BY STEVEN JONAS Simulpost with BuzzFlash on Wed, 11/21/2007 The President, his loyal generals, the PMoP (Privatized Ministry of Propaganda), and even the news media that are not part of the latter (like, for the most part, CNN), are making a big thing about the “success of the surge.” Iraqi civilian deaths are down, violence [...]
By Marty Kaplan // Resident Blogger at HP Dateline: November 25, 2007 | Crosspost with HUFFINGTON POST The perfect meshing of phony politics and phony media: the supposedly uber-democratic CNN-YouTube debates, with completely massaged outcomes. American democracy has truly become a simulacrum of itself. It’s just show business, folks. Over 4,000 Americans have submitted video [...]
BY WILLIAM PATCHING Moore is never afraid of controversy. Whatever his personal contradictions, he rarely shies away from putting the spotlight on issues that the system managers would like to avoid. Michael Moore’s work invariably gets slated by rabid right wingers but that does not mean he is wrong. The facts outlined in his film, [...]