Instead of real news being reported on in the traditional media we get this BS.

I guess they aren't corporaty enough and refuse to follow the politically dictated media narrative so they don't deserve to be covered wall to wall like a bunch of ranting and raving lunatic teabagrrrs screeching a mouthful of insurance corporation nuts do.

Those willing to report news have always taken risks not because they are adventure seekers or egomaniacs its because they believe the public has the right to know. History is littered with governments and regimes that have sought to silence the media.
Even with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact media repression continues unabated. Asia has a large number of governments which repress the ability of the media to report on a wide range of issues. China goes to great lengths to subdue the press. Here are few examples from a report complied by the International Federation of Journalists (pdf file) for 2009.

Xinjiang Riots

What is the truth? How do people know the truth? From the left, it often includes a lot of frustration and rightfully so. The truth is that we are blaming the wrong people. How do you know the truth. Proof. There was a time when a reporter could not post a story without two valid sources.

Now the truth can often be one person's truth. That is fine. That is free speech. As long as the person is honest, and states that this is his/her truth, it is free speech. But this is not appropriate for any legitimate news organization.

As I have been offline and in bed for most of the day trying to get over this lingering bug, I'm now just seeing the news that Iran is keeping the global media from covering the protests of this weekend's election.

When I saw this on CNN my first thoughts were of what China did after the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The YouTube 1989 video is from NBC News as Tom Brokaw reported on the Monday afternoon in a Breaking News Report.

Posted with permission of Nicholas Benton, owner/editor of the Falls Church News Press.

by Nicholas Benton

The dismal state of American journalism was further demonstrated in the past week in a couple of cases that were called out in compelling ways by critics.

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC TV News took Fox News' Bill O'Reilly down in one of the more eloquent and truth-telling commentaries this week, expressing appropriate outrage for O'Reilly's pattern of incendiary rhetoric aimed at Dr. George Tiller, the abortion doctor who was gunned down in a Kansas church last week.

Olbermann called O'Reilly's relentless use of terms like "Dr. Tiller the Baby Killer" to describe the doctor as tantamount for inciting murder and domestic terror, and called on the American public to "quarantine" Fox News, insisting it not be aired in lobbies, restaurants, bars or wherever it is apt to be shown on a screen in a public place.

Promoted. Originally posted 2009-06-06 11:10:50 -0400. -- GH

As we have been hearing over the past several months, more and more newspapers are finding themselves up against the ropes and shutting down.

I'm not going to get into the printed press' blame game and their claims that if a local newspaper goes under, less "reliable reporting" will be available to the public.

No here in this posting it's not about loss, but gain and opportunity.

While it will be three years next month when I was caught up in the nationwide CBS Radio downsizing, I still keep in touch with former co-workers and do still on occasion listen to or at the very least visit the website of one of my former stations, WTIC-AM in Hartford, CT.

by Tommy Christopher (posted at the request of Alex Lawson).

Wednesday's DC Tax Day Tea Party may not have been huge, but it certainly was interesting. For 3 and a half hours, 500 or so people braved the at times heavy rain to express their frustration at a litany of ills. Although the demonstrations are ostensibly about taxes and government spending, the protesters' signs covered a wide range of topics.

While there were a few rousing chants by the crowd, there was far more heckling about the poor audio than anything else. One organizer apologized for having only "a little girl voice," to which a man in the crowd screamed "Then let someone else talk!"

Earlier this morning I wrote a commentary piece on my LGBT commentary blog about the cyber attack on the popular LGBT news and opinion website, Bilerico Project, which occurred this past Thursday.

While this was the subject of reports in the LGBT press, of course it has not been reported in the mainstream press.

Why should you who are not part of the LGBT community care ?

Because this is an attack on what we Americans hold dear as one of our Rights.

Freedom of Speech.

UPDATED: 3/17/09

Bumped. Good to keep track of these things; thanks, Lyndon. -- GH

Announced today The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will have its last printed edition tomorrow (3/17/09) and become a web-only newspaper.

This according to The Hearst Corporation owner of the 146 year old newspaper.

A sign of things to come for the future of newspapers and possbily a good portion of the print media, begins the evolution of how people get their news as one generation of people die off leaving younger generations who are computer savy and can afford a computer and the incurring costs that go with getting on the Internet.

As years pass there will be some print media still available I'm sure (I think), but I dare say 10 years from now and beyond,  newer generations will be asking their parents "did you read a newspaper when you where growing up ?"

And just out of curiosity what will web-only newspapers be called? They won't be able to be called newspapers as they don't use paper. Newsweb would be as good as any I suppose.

"Get all the news you need about greater Seattle from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Newsweb"

Call me old fashion, just doesn't have the same ring to it as newspaper.

UPDATE 3/17/09

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says goodbye and Seattle PI.com says hello  (with video)

War, And Results Of, Fast Becoming A Non-Issue!!
US Withdrawing as Media Retreat from Iraq - 03.03.2009

UPDATE: 2/22/08 at LGBT Rainbow Links Newscenter

Well, it's getting on mid-afternoon, I feel like I've been run over by a Mack Truck and it's snowing to add insult to injury.

Aside from all that, it's turning out to be a perfect day, just like General Custer had while waiting for the Cavalry.

Crossposted to DailyKos.

"What's in a name" might well be answered in the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" -- evidence of a vast left-wing conspiracy to control the blogosphere, the internet, US politics and even the WORLD has now crept out of the shadowy depths and into the light...

Yes, that's right -- the Great Orange Satan has finally tipped its hand. Er, claw. Whatever.

No, really. And I'm sure the reich- right-wing pundits will be all over this as evidence of a nefarious, insidious conspiracy any time now.

~pause~

...any time now...

Exit Poll Mess - 2008

Opposing the Ohio electors
Capitol Hill, Jan. 6, 2005
Michael Collins cc

The Past is Prolog

Michael Collins