Annonymous   LA County

Posted: 12:29 pm [PST] on August 22 2006

My only wish is that the media in general and journalist in particular would follow your example by disclosing what is happening in local, national and international affairs and holding the various levels of American government accountable to the american people.

d. koopstra   mi

Posted: 06:40 pm [PST] on April 04 2006

long over due

Sharon Heimann   Lake Elsinore CA

Posted: 06:37 pm [GMT] on February 05 2006

I found this site preparing for an ethics class for H.S. students.
I found it informative as well as interesting, however I would like access to the complete story for the very reason presented - media bias, I believe this to be true in every presentation and want to weigh the material for myself.

George Major   San Antonio, TX

Posted: 02:22 pm [GMT] on January 06 2006

Fromson shows himself in this piece to be an elitest liberal, scocialist. The man is a professor worked for CBS and Associated Press. Of course he is liberal and he gave his liberal view in this piece. How is that "Debunking" anything. He did not "Debunk" a thing he simply was provided a platform by Full Disclosure to spout his liberal views. Give me a break Full Disclosure.

James Saxon   Marina del Rey, CA

Posted: 01:49 am [GMT] on November 29 2005

What is needed is FULL public funding of elections! If candidates aren't bought by big lobbies, they can think about their consituents instead.

Go to www.CAclean.org for details on A.B. 583 heading for a vote in the California Assembly in January! SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION. It works in Arizona and Maine. We need a big state like California to turn the tide of this nation and save Democracy!

dale bird   houston

Posted: 04:01 pm [GMT] on November 24 2005

the reason people buy into white house lies and spin is not because they are stupid, nor because they have short attention spans.

just turn into the local "sports" talk radio and you'll hear people discussing the most arcane information in detail

the reason people buy into white house lies and spin is because propaganda works. most people are busy managing their lives and many have little interest in pursuing the facts that underpin propaganda. So, they simply responde to the loudest and most frequent megaphone - just like Coca cola, budweiser or any other well advertised product.

How do we fix it? Make it a criminal offense for a representative of people to lie. Can it then be proven whent they lie? It will be tough, but the existence of such a law would be a great start!

Lynne Launius   San Luis Obispo, CA.

Posted: 07:39 am [GMT] on November 24 2005

WE NEED MUCH MUCH MORE AND WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS? CAN THEY7 GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER?

Paul Cohen   Maine

Posted: 10:16 pm [GMT] on November 22 2005

"Liberal Media" is not right-wing paranoia, it is right-wing propaganda. Much of what we hear on TV seems to be right-wing propaganda. Conservative media bias is the real problem, not liberal bias.

Tom Powers   Location unknown

Posted: 09:47 pm [GMT] on November 22 2005

http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp


This is the ridiculous right wing logic that asserts "the Nation" outed Plame.
Because Novack didn't mention her name but only the fact that she was Wilson's wife, is the silly reason given for Novack not being the first. Corn's article was 2 days later.
The first reference to Plame being a secret agent appears in The Nation, in an article by David Corn published July 16, 2003, just two days after Novak’s column appeared. It carried this lead: “Did Bush officials blow the cover of a U.S. intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security — and break the law — in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?”

Since Novak did not report that Plame was “working covertly” how did Corn know that’s what she had been doing? NITPICKING.

Ali Allen   Tulsa, Oklahoma

Posted: 07:59 pm [GMT] on November 22 2005

The notoriously short attention span of the average American has allowed sound-bite propaganda from fear mongering hypocrites on the Right to become their “truth”. The White House leaks lies and distortions to the New York Times, who then print these as “news”. Newspapers across the country unquestioningly repeat these lies without independently checking the sources, allowing the White House to claim outside verification of their propaganda.

Richard Cowan, former head of NORML, has often said on his website (http://marijuananews.com/ ) that journalists’ failure to question Government statements and check facts makes BAD
JOURNALISM the best two-word explanation for marijuana prohibition. But it is not limited to the so-called War on Drugs. It is a pervasive failure throughout the media, and it allows the Government to promulgate lies, distortions and fear as a means of control, and the media is a more-than willing accomplice.

The media has become a willing whore who will spread the disease of falsehood and fascism for a few dollars. OJ, Aruba, Run-away Brides; these are what pass for news in the eye of the American public. Stories on the billions wasted on the War on Terror and the War on Drugs are dangerous to the establishment. Information about pollution, global warming, dangers of processed foods and factory-farmed meats does not make for happy consumers.

When the liars on the Right control the purse-strings of the media, there is no truth. Democracy, liberty and justice are all casualties of war.