From Danny:
Just as I was leaving tonight Mark Kusnets sent me this impactful and important flash animation from Human Rights First. It is unusual when human rights groups actively oppose a nominee for Attorney General.
Watch this and see why.
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/video/index.htm
Because of a pinched nerve in his right arm, our News Dissector is unable to write at the moment, and so filed this audioblog entry. I hope you’ll join me in wishing him well.
Despite his condition, Danny heads tomorrow to the Freedom Cinema Festival (a sidebar to the Sundance Film Festival), where he will be […]
PROMOTING “FREEDOM”
IRAQ ELECTION DEBATE
NO PROGRESSIVES ON TV
“Heeeeere’s Johnny!” We can safely predict that the death of late night comedy king Johnny Carson, former host of the Tonight Show will be marked by an outpouring of televised nostalgia, specials, commemorations and the like, even though his family plans no memorial. He was on the air for […]
The German Press Agency DPA reports: “US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled a planned visit to Germany after a US human rights organization asked German authorities to prosecute him for war crimes, Rumsfeld has informed the German government via the US embassy that he will not take part in the Munich Security Conference in February, […]
By Danny Schechter
As millions of homes are foreclosed upon, as unemployment grows and inflation mounts, it is time to understand the origins of the crisis and the need to fight for economic justice.
Written by veteran media critic and Emmy winner Rory O'Connor, Shock Jocks features unsparing profiles of the ten worst conservative radio talkers in America, including Michael Savage, Bill O' Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus and the rest.
