IN THE MID-DAY SUN: “SHUT UP A THON” It’s Tuesday afternoon. Mediachannel’s Tim Karr just passed Ralph Nader going into a CNN studio. Ealier today I watched CNN anchor Bill Hemmer close an interview with President Bush’s Education Secretary with the words “Good Luck tonight.” “Good Luck” from a (sic) journalist to a politician? Excuse [...]
THE FEAR THAT EATS NEW YORK MARCHING ON THE MEDIA SHELDON DROBNY CALLS FOR A BOYCOTT An old folk song pops into my head as I read the NY Times report that "fifty-three percent of New York residents say they are very or somewhat worried that a terrorist attack will happen during the convention." The [...]
l:30 PM THE STORY ABOUT THE GOP “MEMO” IS BOGUS,,,,,SEE KEERECTION BELOW THEIR REPUBLICAN GUARD AND OURS BUSH LAWYER QUITS, BLAMES MEDIA JOURNALISTS HARRASSED IN NAJAV A year and a half ago, we kept hearing about that fanatical and feared Republican Guard as the force that Saddam was relying on to save his regime. He [...]
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