Whoopsie — Bank of America just took a teensy hit on their profits. (And thanks to Mick for our very first link in!)
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If Gibson and his partner, George Stephanopoulos, had halted their descent at the level of the fatuous, that would have been bad enough. But there was worse to come. In the seven weeks since the previous Clinton-Obama debate, the death toll of American troops in Iraq had reached four thousand; the President had admitted that his “national-security team,” including the Vice-President, had met regularly in the White House to approve the torture of prisoners; house repossessions topped fifty thousand per month and unemployment topped five per cent; and the poll-measured proportion of Americans who believe that “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track” hit eighty-one per cent, a record. Yet for most of the next hour Gibson and Stephanopoulos limited their questioning to the following topics: Obama’s April 6th remark about “bitter” small-towners; whether each candidate thinks the other can win; the Obama family’s ex-pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.; Clinton’s tale of sniper fire in Bosnia; Obama’s failure to wear a flag lapel pin; and Obama’s acquaintance with a college professor in his Chicago neighborhood who, while Obama was in grade school, was a member of the Weather Underground.
Hendrik Hertzerg, via Devilstower
There is only one solution to this media madness: limit ownership of major media to no more than one tv station, one radio station, and one newspaper per market, and forbid chains from owning over five news outlets.
Without real competition, we may never see real news again. Root for online news sites to take off before the daily newspapers become nothing more than glorified shoppers.
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Even though Scott Horton “quit blogging,” thankfully he’s still doing some follow-ups, this one on Alice Martin, one of Rove’s Southern-fried USA/hacks.
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