American media gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease

5:40 pm

CNN
Nothing says job security like Ronald Reagan

CBS News
Only America would use sarcasm quotes to decide who they call a terrorist.

Fox News
Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Sen. Sessions (R), and Laura Bush make the front page.

MSNBC
Kung Fu Grannies fight rape?

Tiger Woods and 3D Playboy pages aren’t frontpage news.

1:40 pm

Good going, America.

MSNBC
Why are online dating tips worthy of front page news?

Fox News
Nobody gives a shit about your stocks or the porn on Wikimedia.

ABC News
Nobody cares about 3d Playboy centerfolds or Barbara Walters.

CBS News
Nice 3d Playboy pun, CBS. Does that attract your main audience?

CNN
Justin Bieber and tiger Woods are not goddamn front page news.

Mother’s Day: The only day women are talked about like human beings.

9:40 am

Unless you’re a celebrity mom, anyway.

CNN
I have an idea! Let’s act like paddling kids at school is trivial, and won’t turn into sexual assault.

MSNBC
Some people are angry that they can’t profit off the Cold War anymore.

ABC News
Apple’s slave-labor produced iPads could save the economy?

CBS News
Annoying siblings… Celebrity moms… Mother’s Day gifts.

I’m too busy paying my student loans for Online Jihad College

8:25 am

First off let me say that Current_ is a rather new player in the media cycle, with the only carrier providing it is DirecTV. It produces shows like Vanguard, which has just as much quality if not more than PBS’ Frontline. Reporting on thing like Oxycontin, remote control war, and new-age porn production, it’s a new generation of journalism. The two journalists that were caught by North Korea, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were reporters of theirs, and the next episode of vanguard will cover their story.

CNN
Maybe they won’t notice the repeated stories… “What do those dreams mean?”

ABC NEWS
“Oil-Siphoning Contraption” with cheating celebrities.

CURRENT_
A new take on the way journalism should be done.

FOXNEWS
Are civilians really civilians? YOU DECIDE. Also, online Jihad college.

Blast from the past: Obama and the Nobel Prize coverage

These 4 videos are from when  Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.  I won’t be writing an analysis, but pay attention to the dialog.

Al Jazeera English:

FoxNews:

Al Jazeera begins broadcasting in Canada

AJE also said it will open a Canadian bureau in June, in Toronto. This will make AJE the only international news channel with a bureau in Canada, the channel said in a release.

“We are extremely pleased that AJE’s groundbreaking news and programming is now available in Canada, one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world,” Tony Burman, managing director of AJE, said in the release.

Mr. Burman is a former editor-in-chief of CBC News.

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The Political Rags: Underdogs of the internet news machine

9:25 pm

These are “the rags”. Some people would call them left wing and right wing, certain rags declare themselves as such. Of these, only Fox Nation is produced by a conglomerate, and it’s clear that Christians who might have a disdain for other cultures are their target audience (for a laugh check out the “Culture” section). The Huffington Post can sometimes appear to have an editor with downs syndrome. They’re as concerned about politics as much as they’re concerned about how good the sex was with Tiger Woods. AlterNet is pretty good, recognizing the difference between democrats & progressives, and republicans & conservatives. Their reporting on news & justice away is up there with Current_. Drudge Report and The Raw Story are pretty mundane but Drudge Report has some pretty good pun/image combinations once in a while.

FOX NATION
“Jews turn against Obama”, Muslims attack national day of prayer.

HUFFINGTON POST
We’re not fascist enough and acting surprised at the oil spill wildlife death toll.

ALTERNET
A progressive rag with little filler. Also, women have sex too.

DRUDGE REPORT
We just aren’t fascist enough.

RAW STORY
Bringing about a new Red Scare.

http://www.alternet.org/

It’s a Nuclear War (at the gay bar)

7:11 pm

Out of all the headlines about the nuclear non-proliferation talks, BBC has the most accurate, depicting both sides in the summary sentence. Al Jazeera, as usual, writes 5 different in-depth  stories on the same thing. CBS is fear-mongering on a tangent, CNN isn’t even aware of the talks, and Fox News is worried about foreigners. The thing to notice here isn’t what they cover but rather how they cover it. The American outlets focus on the “national security” angle, while the others recognize the hypocrisy of a nuclear nation telling another that they can’t have any.

On a personal note: If Iraq positively had a nuclear weapons program that worked, would we have risked invading it? What does this say about the hostility toward Iran and it’s desire for that kind of protection to thwart an invasion?

ABC News

Al Jazeera English

BBC News

CBS News

CNN

Fox News

MSNBC

Who owns the American News and their providers?

I made this chart using the They Rule 2004 graphic tool, depicting who’s on the Board of Directors  for companies during 2004. I tossed in the Council on foreign relations for some relativism.

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Frost Over The World

The closest thing America has to this is Larry King, and, well…

Hamid Karzai: President of Afghanistan

Hamid Karzai part 2