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What The Media Didn’t Report About Today’s Closed Session of the S
There was a lot of media excitement today surrounding the rare “closed session” called in the Senate by Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada). In fact, a Google news search identified 684 articles and postings on the subject. For example, Reuters reported:“Democrats forced the Senate into a rare closed session on Tuesday to protest what they decried as the Republican-led body's…
A Quarter Billion Dollars For Malaria, But No Time For Prevention
ABC looks at deaths, ignores extant solution
Media Playbook - Chapter 8 - Family Matters
8.1 How to snare a conservativeMany times we just don't have anything to use against a conservative. That doesn't mean you can't make news by going after a family member of the targeted conservative. It often helps if you try to locate a shirt tail relative, estranged ex-spouse, or some other family member with an axe to grind. Short of that, you can always fall back to an elderly (over 90 a…
Joe Wilson: A Man On A Mission In A Media Vehicle
Robert Scheer writes for the LA Times: [Judith Miller] knew early on that Libby was using the media to punish former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV for exposing President Bush's false claim that Iraq sought nuclear material from the African nation of Niger.The words I want to examine here are "punish" and "false claim". If there was information given to a reporter, it wasn't to punish Joe…