Category Archives: mainstream media

Manhattan D.A. chips away at protesters’ rights

Posted on October 26, 2011 by oddmanout215

Last night Keith Olbermann asked something I’ve wondered about since the police crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters began several weeks ago with beatings and arrests in Manhattan, and mass arrest-by-trickery at the Brooklyn Bridge: “At what point did we … Continue reading →

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Occupy newsrooms. Use all those empty desks.

Posted on October 25, 2011 by oddmanout215

For as long as I can remember Gannett was known as an outfit that skimped on news coverage by using skeleton crews of reporters and editors, for no other reason than to further enrich the owners of the Gannett company. … Continue reading →

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Has America begun to ‘get’ Bernie Sanders?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by oddmanout215

To understand how right-wing the major political parties in America are, it helps to read the foreign press. This from The Guardian: … [Bernie Sanders’] beliefs… would fit comfortably in the middle left of Britain’s Labour party or Germany’s SPD. … Continue reading →

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A word about our former torturer-in-chief

Posted on October 22, 2011 by oddmanout215

After posting about bringing Dick Cheney’s former ally and fellow war criminal to justice, I saw this item: A raucous group of protesters gathered outside a Surrey, [British Columbia], hotel Thursday, hoisting colourful cardboard placards, shouting into megaphones and looking … Continue reading →

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Gaddafi nailed because he had no nukes

Posted on October 21, 2011 by oddmanout215

You may have read my bogus exclusive in August — a letter from Moammar Gaddafi to Dick Cheney, appealing for rescue from Libyan rebels who brought down Gaddafi’s government after British, French and American air forces, in classic colonialist fashion, … Continue reading →

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NYT’s Keller wrong about Iraq, wrong about OWS

Posted on October 21, 2011 by oddmanout215

Many of us waited years for Bill Keller to own up to his key role in helping legitimize the disastrous Iraq War, but it never happened. So it’s no surprise that, instead of admitting he wrongly supported deregulation of the … Continue reading →

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Fox balks, NPR fires somebody

Posted on October 20, 2011 by oddmanout215

It’s easy to joke about the level of self-censorship at NPR, as I did recently, but hard to exaggerate the uselessness of a news operation whose managers constantly bend to kiss the asses of the right-wingers aiming to kill government … Continue reading →

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You’d get jail. NYC cop gets slap on wrist.

Posted on October 19, 2011 by oddmanout215

I know, it’s part of the code. Cops have each other’s backs, just like the Three Musketeers or members of a motorcycle gang. You mess with one, you mess with them all, and risk being shot or used for a … Continue reading →

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On lies and the lying liars quoted in the NYT

Posted on October 18, 2011 by oddmanout215

I was going to post some comments on a New York Times story in which Wall Street types were asked to comment on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Thankfully, NYT columnist Paul Krugman beat me to it: On Saturday The … Continue reading →

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Elected Dems to protesters — we’re with you, sort of

Posted on October 17, 2011 by oddmanout215

Chris Hedges, plainly stating why “liberal” has become a dirty word not only to right-wingers but to many thinkers and activists on the left: Tinkering with the corporate state will not work. We will either be plunged into neo-feudalism and … Continue reading →

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