Posts Tagged ‘mainstream’

Drugs Death Danny Gans Owned His Own Pharmacy

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

ANORAK’S Man in LA reports on how the mainstream media are only now picking up on the strange death of Las Vegas showman Danny Gans : The extent of the lax coverage of the death of Las Vegas superstar Danny Gans by the Las Vegas news media is beginning to be revealed tonight as a local television news station reports that the headliner who dropped dead in his prime of an overdose of the powerful opiate Dilaudid (aka “drugstore heroin”) was part owner of a pharmaceutical supply company.

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Drugs Death Danny Gans Owned His Own Pharmacy

On the Media and Dobbs’ Birther Obsession

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

If any group is more disparaged than our leaders, it’s the journalists who follow them. If you frequent political blogs or online news sites, it is pretty much a given you will see complaints about the failures of the mainstream media, either in the piece posted or the litany of comments that follow it. Invariably, the gripes are the same: (1) the reporting is sloppy,  failing to present all the facts; (2) that ephemeral stories of dubious value take up headlines at the expense of more worthwhil

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On the Media and Dobbs’ Birther Obsession

McKinney Kidnapping Ignored By Media

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Womanist Musings July 8, 2009 A d v e r t i s e m e n t Had it not been for twitter, I doubt that I would even have been aware that Cynthia McKinney was held hostage in Israel after attempting to deliver aid and supplies to the Palestinians.  There has been a resounding silence on this issue as CNN, MSNBC and other mainstream media sources rush to give us the latest news on the death of Michael Jackson. Jackson was truly an iconic figure, however the man is dead and Cynthia is ali

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McKinney Kidnapping Ignored By Media