President Gore
By now you have probably seen or read Stephen Colbert’s speech from the White House Correspondents Association Dinner (if you haven’t, you really should). For a tasty accompaniment, here’s a vision of what might have been - Al Gore delivering a faux Presidential address on Saturday Night Live as though he had been elected in 2001. I particularly like what he has to say about climate change.
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May 19th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
and did you know there is a thank you Colbert website - astonishing how fast the internet moves nowadays
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
this is a good article about how the media’s blank ignoring of Colberts performance versus the blogosphere/Internet’s enthusiastic buzz about it may help to encourage/speed up the drift of thinking people away from the corrupt and biased traditional media.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-elfman07.html
Also please let me plug this great analysis of how the Western media are biased with regards to their reporting of South American politics in particular and third world politics in general, in the language that they use, so that friends of the west get good press no matter how odious their regime, while anyone who stands up to the capitalists raping their country gets ridiculed and cast as a dictator.
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php
(not archived yet so can only link to the home page)
May 19th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
I agree.
A publicly funded independent media outlet is one of the most important links in the chain, that can make real democracy start working for it’s people as it should, so we can start living in societies in accord with nature as we should!
And the endless soul numbing celeb news industry is symptomatic of one thing….divide and conquer.
May 25th, 2006 at 1:38 am
Much like how leftwing media and organisations ruthlessly raised concerns about human rights in non-leftwing regimes during the Cold War, but were largely silent or doubting about similar allegations from the communist bloc. North Korean gulags were “fiction created by the CIA”. Never see proper leftwing critiques of how Castro silences his critics, suppresses dissent and uses torture - you’re far too pleased with him annoying the USA to be bothered with what Cubans actually go through. The world of outright propaganda exists all over the political spectrum.
Publicly funded = state funded = hardly independent. If you want independent media publish it yourself, though I suspect one person’s independence is another one’s bias.
May 25th, 2006 at 11:42 am
aha, and have you done an analysis of that? with references? do you have proven examples of left-wing media who do not cover human rights issues in left-wing countries? examples of left-wing media using negative language for right-wing leaders and positive language for left-wing leaders?
medialens certainly have referenced analysis of the collolary.
IMHO, I think that left-wing media use neutral language, so that Bush and Castro are simply called “president of”, not one being “dictator” and one being “president”. Prove me wrong!
May 26th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Calling communist totalitarian regimes left wing, is a sign funnily enough, of being well indoctrinated in generalisations and rhetoric.
Exactly the thing that free thinking individuals try not to fall in the trap off, through balanced analysis and use of their own human experience.
WHich is one reason of many why we need a independent state funded media outlet, driven by desire for knowledge and betterment, exposing hypocrasy whereeva it may exist-especially in govt and society, so govt can fulfill it’s potential in reciprocity between fellow citizens and nature, so society can be ruled by wisdom, not status and greed.