An American writer tries to live for a week with only right-wing media sources. Link.
Month: January 2007
Business-class flying pickets
A German firm is renting out photogenic youths to protest I’ve often wondered whether the Express and the Mail are cynical or stupid in their coverage of asylum seekers and immigration. A strong voice for the ‘stupid’ lobby comes from a Committee hearing in Parliament, at which the editors of those two soiled organs gave evidence. The Express’s editor, one Peter Hill, as reported in the Guardian brought forth the following description of asylum seekers hundreds of thousands of people many of whom hate this country; people who want to destroy this country, people who want to become suicide bombers. Disturbingly, Express readers also believe that the number of immigrants in the country is three times higher than the actual level (7%). Frightening stuff. US columnist slams the Weather Channel as part of the great liberal conspiracy (via MeFi). Remember that survey I mentioned on the Democratic Society’s website? You know, the one that would help us map how different political opinions relate to each other? Well, we’re up to 2,990 responses – and you could be the 3,000th respondent. Not that you’d win anything. Or even know. But … you know … would be kinda cool. Anyway, here’s that link again. The creator of Doonesbury interviewed at length in the Washington Post. A comparatively uninteresting article by Iain McWhirter on the Guardian website provokes an interesting set of responses on devolution and nationalism from the CiF crowd. Wendell notes two AP stories on US attitudes to the forthcoming year. One is very downbeat, the other very upbeat – but based on the same poll data. Glenn Greenwald attacks the lack of accountability in the American media, particularly in relation to the Iraq war.
organisations, to swell the numbers at their marches and
demonstrations. One critic quoted in the
In need of an asylum
Madness, just madness
Tip us over 3,000
Garry Trudeau interview
Comment is free: The West Loathing Question: Tam’s complaint
Warnock’s dilemma
Half empty? Half full? Why can’t it be both?
Selective Amnesia