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News Corpse
The Internet's Chronicle Of Media Decay.

What started on a whim has endured through anxious times to achieve another milestone. News Corpse is now three years old and it is still just as devoted to revealing the hypocrisy, ignorance, corruption, bias, naivete, and other forms of failure embedded in our corporate media.

To celebrate this happy day We wish you well in every way Your bestest days are yet to be They can't be worse than the past three

"In the three weeks leading up to Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 7, CNN will marshal its resources and political expertise in multiple one-hour reports looking at the widespread dysfunction besetting Congress, the courts and the executive branch."

These words open a CNN press release announcing the network's 2006 election coverage. The same notice closes with this quote from CNN political director Sam Feist:

"As voters prepare to make critical decisions about the prosecution of the Iraq war, the wider war on terrorism and the economy, Americans of all ideologies have a nagging sense that something is fundamentally wrong with the way our government operates."

If those sentiments represent the tenor of CNN's reporting, we may actually witness an election season where the public is helped, rather than harmed, by television news.

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Those people wearing "Stewart/Colbert '08" T-shirts can stop hoping.

That's the lede in an AP report dispelling speculation that the Comedy Central stars were gearing up for a White House run. Where they got the idea that the pair were really running is anybody's guess. My guess is they got it from watching Comedy Central but thought that "comedy" was a synonym for "news". I can't be too critical of that since I myself have often mistaken news for comedy (I watch Fox too much). Be that as it may, Jon Stewart has come forward to state unequivocally that the dream is over. He described the shirts as...

"...a real sign of how sad people are...Nothing says 'I am ashamed of you my government' more than Stewart/Colbert '08."

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This is not just another merger of dotcom phenoms. Google is a significant player in the new media space. Google News gets more viewers than many TV broadcasters.

The announcement lays to rest other rumors that have been hovering, including the last frontrunner in the YouTube Stakes, Viacom. That, at least, is good news.

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The fact that the offending behavior of Foley was acted out on the net could become impetus for his desperate colleagues to renew their pursuit of restrictive and censorious legislation such as the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). This bill would ban social networks (and much more) from any computer in a school, library, or publicly funded facility.

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I just posted the latest episode of my infamous O'Reilly Flash parody: The Stalking Points Memo. It takes O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo and gives it the Colbert treatment (ala The Word).

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Personally, I think al Qaeda is just using this as a fundraising ploy. They may be evil, but they know a profitable appeal when they see one. I predict their receipts will skyrocket, and they will tap donors from the west that previously would have nothing to do with them.

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...the Chicks say they have absolutely no regrets about speaking their mind. If anything, the experience made them realize just how vulnerable to censorship we are in the world of consolidated media ownership and nationally uniform radio playlists.

"Consolidation means one guy at the top decides everything  and I don't think the media has been successful in pointing out why it's so dangerous," [Emily] Robison says.

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In just a few weeks, my fourth non-fiction adult book will be released. As you might know, it's called Culture Warrior and it chronicles the intense war between my side (traditionalists) and the secular-progressive corps.

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"For a media that likes to complain about the incivility and personal attacks that Republicans have supposedly injected into our politics over the past generation, the networks' reactions to former Texas Governor Ann Richards underscore journalists' partisan approach to what is fair and what is foul."

The source of their outrage is that the coverage of her passing refers to her as a smart, passionate advocate for Democratic values with a biting sense of humor. They list quotes from correspondents who are properly reporting on the loss of a prominent public figure. ~ more...

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"if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and it will fall back into the pre-9/11 mindset, if you will, that in fact, these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we're not really at war."

The Pre-9/11 Mindset is much maligned as mindsets go. Disdain is heaped upon it as if it were a discarded hypothesis. There is now a stigma associated with a worldview that was perfectly acceptable 24 hours prior. And a cadre of power hungry fear merchants is restlessly hawking the notion that everything we thought we knew has withered into irrelevance. The Post-9/11ers propose that an imaginary line has been drawn that illuminates the moral and intellectual differences between  those who stand on one side or the other. So what exactly does it mean to be 9/10ish?

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"I want to talk to you Republicans out there, both candidates and voters. Here's some unsolicited advice: Ignore the polls, ignore the media, ignore the pundits. It's 70 days to go. The end is not here yet. We still can turn this thing around."

The "Thing" he hopes to turn around is the potential consequence of unrestrained democracy - a Democratic majority in Congress. So he issues what amounts to a fatwa.

"This is the moment to say that there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of 'em is making sure Nancy Pelosi doesn't become the speaker."

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"It seems to me that Chris is saying, maybe we ought to set some goals for when we want to get out, and I'd like to see what he has in mind before I comment on it."

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But this doesn't stop Michelle Malkin from regurgitating speculation, that she attributes to her readers, that the real reason there has not been more reporting (and outrage) is because the media at large just doesn't care about the folks at Fox:

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"As security conditions continue to deteriorate in Iraq, many Iraqi politicians are challenging the optimistic forecasts of governments in Baghdad and Washington, with some worrying that the rosy views are preventing the creation of effective strategies against the escalating violence."

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"In the four decades since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidents traditionally have taken journalists with them wherever they traveled on the theory that when it comes to the most powerful leader on the planet, anything can happen at any time." [...]

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