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14611 [lbo-talk] Iraq: it's all the media's fault -- rank: 1000

[via Romenesko] <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/18/rs.01.html> "The media has decided this war is going badly," says Fund "Reliable Sources" Wall Street Journal/OpinionJournal.com columnist John Fund and Howard Kurtz on CNN: FUND: We have found computer files in Zarqawi's computer which shows he was very pessimistic about the insurgency and said time was on the Americans' side. That got very little coverage even though my intelligence sources say it's b ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 19 10:40:42 PDT 2006

14612 [lbo-talk] Krugman: you can't have a wage/price spiral w/o wages -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > In Latin America in the 1980s, real wages always lagged behind -- yet > there was a hyper-inflationary spiral. Loose monetary policies didn't > result from an attempt to shore up the real wage. Workers were on the > defensive. Can that type of scenario (mutatis mutandis) be excluded in > the U.S. case? The public finances can get out of hand (are out of > hand already?) as a result of tax cuts for the hyper-rich and military ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 18 06:55:17 PDT 2006

14613 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Media Concentration -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2006, at 2:13 PM, B. wrote: > It isn't just "liberals" who're worried about media control resting > in relatively fewer hands, unless Chomsky and Zinn are now > liberals. You can say folks like this wax nostalgic for an era run > by Hearst and Chandler, but those two don't, and nor do I. Chomsky, > Zinn, etl. a. often speak of "the lively working class press of the > 19th century" that with the advent of the 20th century began to > progressivel ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 17 11:25:29 PDT 2006

14614 [lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap] -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2006, at 1:32 PM, John Adams wrote: > I thought it was telling that when TimesSelect came in, the > blogosphere (I hate that word) screamed about loosing access to NYT > op-eds. Of course it's still free if you get the paper delivered. But ink is so messy. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 17 10:43:39 PDT 2006

14615 [lbo-talk] Liza makes Gawker... -- rank: 1000

[...though you read it here first] <http://www.gawker.com/news/ann-coulter/remainders-joe-lieberman- shits-in-the-woods-181435.php> When an outfit like The Nation calls something the stupidest press release ever you need to sit up and take note: It s got to be egregiously dumb to stand out amongst all the touts for new bongs and progressive netroots conferences. [The Nation <http:// www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=91728>]

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Date:	Sat Jun 17 10:39:13 PDT 2006

14616 [lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap] -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > ravi wrote: >> >> I rarely read MSM >> (and my opponents on-list will no doubt find that unsurprising ;-)). > > What is MSM? The mainstream media, in blogger-ese. That about which they ceaselessly complain, but without which they'd have nothing to say. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 17 10:20:23 PDT 2006

14617 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Media Concentration -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2006, at 12:15 PM, mike larkin wrote: > http://yglesias.tpmcafe.com/blog/yglesias/2006/jun/16/ > how_concentrated_is_the_media > > How Concentrated Is The Media? > By Matthew Yglesias | bio Yay. Thank you very much for posting this (and thanks Matt Yglesias for writing it). This media concentration thing is way overblown and stupid. It's really odd that a bunch of liberals, who aren't much interested in the structure of ownership elsewhere in the economy, can get so ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 17 09:26:02 PDT 2006

14618 [lbo-talk] holy moly -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 9:03 PM, Michael Hoover wrote: > eisenhower's foreign policy was intended to prevent national > liberation while promoting u.s. corporate transnationalism I used to know a woman who was doing a diss at The New School (don't know what's happened to her now) on how the US government had to prod companies to invest abroad in the 1950s - they wanted to get the dollars overseas, so they'd come back here as demand for our exports. The firms were reluctant at first. Appare ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 21:03:59 PDT 2006

14619 [lbo-talk] Smearing Anti-War Activists -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2908> Action Alert Smearing Anti-War Activists? NY Times Op-Ed Laments Anti-War Funeral Protests 6/16/06 A June 12 op-ed in the New York Times made a bold accusation: anti- war activists have targeted funerals of Iraq War soldiers with noisy protests. But evidence to back up that charge is nonexistent. The author of the piece, writer Karen Spears Zacharias, recounted an interview with a war widow who said that "antiwar protesters... lined the str ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 14:39:50 PDT 2006

14620 [lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap] -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 4:28 PM, ravi wrote: > Also, even from the MSM I don't really get that much news, really. > Leaving out all the junk that I am uninterested in (ranging from cat > rescues to Bush's latest pronouncements), yes, they do report on a few > things that are of interest, such as the Scooter Libby indictment. But > even there, there is probably some independent blogging outlet that > carried such news too. Hell, just from the format of his site, one > could > ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 13:44:34 PDT 2006

14621 [lbo-talk] Noam at West Point -- rank: 1000

I discovered this on Dennis Perrin's blog - Noam Chomsky at West Point. Amazing. <http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=7022&schedID=428>

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 13:38:57 PDT 2006

14622 [lbo-talk] procuring male homosexuals -- rank: 1000

[ok all you male homos, here's your chance!] Begin forwarded message: > From: "Info at PollingCompany" <info at POLLINGCOMPANY.COM> > Date: June 16, 2006 4:34:20 PM EDT > To: AAPORNET at asu.edu > Subject: Survey of Homosexual Men > Reply-To: "Info at PollingCompany" <info at POLLINGCOMPANY.COM> > > We are looking to do a quantitative phone or web-based survey of > homosexual men nationwide and are having considerable difficulty > procur ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 13:30:46 PDT 2006

14623 [lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap] -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > I see blogging, when it's good and interesting, as something we at > the old FAIR used to preach about news consumers becoming critics > and analysts. And it's that angle that has the MSM so spooked and > defensive. Finally, their critics can have an instant, global > audience, and their bullshit, lies and propaganda can be taken > apart, usually in the same news day. Admittedly, the majority of > bloggers do nothing of the ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 13:26:10 PDT 2006

14624 [lbo-talk] The Class of the New -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] > From: richard at imaginaryfutures.net > Date: June 14, 2006 9:51:15 AM EDT > Subject: <nettime> The Class of the New > Reply-To: richard at imaginaryfutures.net > > Hiya, > > OpenMute have just published my new book - The Class of the New. You > can buy the hardcopy and download the text for free from the website: > <theclassofthenew.net>. Enjoy! > > Later, > > Richard > > ================= > > The Class of the Ne ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 12:50:24 PDT 2006

14625 [lbo-talk] rewriting history -- rank: 1000

<http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=23362> June 16, 2006 Americans' Retrospective Judgments of Clinton Improving Ten-point increase in Clinton's retrospective approval rating by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds a significant increase in Americans' judgments of Bill Clinton's performance as president, as well as significant declines in reviews of the elder George Bush. Most other recent presidents' ratings have not changed in the l ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 12:15:30 PDT 2006