that's telling her, Tuck ol' boy

[sisyphusshrugged]

Amy Goodman on Unfiltered, the new PBS show with Tucker Carlson

Goodman: We look at the record, a very sad record when it came to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the coverage. There was a simple icing out of a -- Of dissent. That is the greatest disservice in this country to the service men and women of this country. I go back to -- We write about in the exception to the rule, that title, "the exception to the rulers" should be what all media is. Not the motto of "Democracy Now!". We should be the exception to the rulers. There is a reason why our profession, journalism, is the only one that's explicitly protected by the U.S. constitution. We are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We are not supposed to be a megaphone for those in power. During the Persian Gulf, 10 years ago, that's when the media landscape -- NBC was owned by General Electric and still is. CBS was owned by Westinghouse. General Electric and Westinghouse, two of the major nuclear weapons manufacturers in the world making most of the parts for most of the weapons in the Persian Gulf, I don't think it was any accident what we watched on television was a military hardware show. But even during that time I did have the opportunity --

Carlson: They also make medical equipment for the record.

which you have to admit is a salient point, because demand for medical equipment generally flatlines when there are hundreds of people a day getting wounded.

So, see, it was sort of a wash where GE and Westinghouse were concerned.

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[snuh.livejournal.com]

They also make medical equipment for the record.

When I'd heard that, visions of Jon Stewart danced through my head.

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

I can't even figure out what that's supposed to mean.

They make refrigerators too. What's your point, bowtie boy?

[snuh.livejournal.com]

Carlson's yang of making medical equipment in reply to Goodman's ying of manufacturing weapons *might* some of that *balanced* approach ol' Tuck likes to squawk about - medical equipment will be needed after weapons are used, you know.

GE brings good things to life.

i figure we're supposed to get the warm fuzzies

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

because, you know, "medical equipment" = "humanitarian", not "cash cow"...

If we on the left are going to get serious about putting financial pressure on the Masters of War, we need to track down and list who owns whom, all of them. Fifteen years ago when I worked in a libry periodicals dept it was my job to replace the stock reports for each big company. By flipping through them i learned to my shock that these companies like Borden own all kinds of subsidiaries that have no obvious connection to their names, and also that most of them own the apparent "comptetition," eg two "competeing" chains of clothes stores in the mall or drug stores. This makes them already expert in the Eurasia/Eastasia/fabricated public enemy number one Goldstein game...

Re: i figure we're supposed to get the warm fuzzies

[snuh.livejournal.com]

During the Vietnam War, you'd see the same day-glow orange peace sign stickers all over the place, they were extremely popular.

The company that produced them also used the same petroleum-based substance to manufacture napalm - talk about irony!

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

This is totally unrelated, but I was watching Frontline on advertising and it has a segment on GOP advertising consultant, Frank Luntz.

I realized that I had heard him speak at a GOP Texas delegation breakfast at the convention.

How much do you know about him?

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

Here. (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Frank_Luntz)

He's very good. Frequently when one of our (koff) moderate friends whips out a piece of Republican spin they think they made up because they're Independent and Really Smart, it's one of Luntz.' He specializes in catchy ways of saying something other than what he's actually saying, and it's always vague enough that you can assume they're talking about your brilliant plan instead and get behind it, assuming you're a fathead.

Tthe memo he wrote about message discipline for the Republican forces this cycle (in the wake of which he tried to be a neutral pundit for MSNBC because he doesn't work for Republicans any more) is here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmhm/917323.html)

[snuh.livejournal.com]

I forgot there's another classic Bowtie Moment in the show: Don't journalists as a more general matter have a natural incentive to challenge those in power, because when do you challenge those in in power and embarrass them, you get rich and famous?

I never knew that journalism was freemarket-driven.