Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 10th, 2010

Monath, bivouacked with the Red Shirts
By Howard Monath
Via Facebook
Picture by Howard Monath
The Red Shirts just announced that they will only disband if the deputy prime minister agrees to face criminal charges relating to the April 10th death of 20 civilians…like that’s ever going to happen. this does not bode well for a peaceful resolution.
12:17 p.m. EST
Tags: crisis in Bangkok, crisis in Thailand, Howard Monath, red shirts
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Peter Hart writes, “Fox host Bill O’Reilly searched around for a reason to support Arizona’s harsh new immigration law, and seemed to settle on the fact that there is a crime wave in Phoenix (5/3/10).”
Uh Oh.
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Tags: Arizona, Arizona New Immigration law, Bill O'Reilly, FAIR, Fox News, Peter Hart
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Peter Hart writes, “We noted last week that the PBS NewsHour’s coverage of the Gulf oil disaster one night included a one-on-one interview with a spokesperson from BP. Going through the show’s coverage since then, a remarkable fact emerged: The show had not interviewed an environmental advocate opposed to the White House plan to increase offshore oil drilling. The reticence to talk about this obvious policy angle was bizarre – though not at all limited to PBS.”
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Tags: FAIR, PB, PBS, PBS NewsHour, Peter Hart
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Jim Naureckas critiques a New York Times columnist criticizing critics “impugning the motives” of the new Arizona immigration law, which has been denounced as a “Nazi” or “near-fascist” law, a “police state” intervention, an imitation of “apartheid,” a “Juan Crow” regime that only a bigot could possibly support.
Uh Oh!
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Tags: FAIR, Jim Naureckas, New York Times, Ross Douthat
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
By Amanze Emenike
Via New America Media
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary Posted: Apr 21, 2010
[NAM Editor's Note: Recent attacks on Asian Americans by Black teenagers in San Francisco have led some to speculate that ethnic tensions in the city are on the rise. But one young black man who was taught by his peers to rob Asians and Latinos in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood says it's not really about race. Amanze Emenike, 22, is a content producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia]
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Tags: black-asian violence, New America Media, NewsTrust
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Friday, May 7th, 2010

Ashley Carpenter. Seen here reporting at the campaign headquarters of William C. Thompson, who went down swinging in the 2009 New York City Mayoral Race.
Carpenter – AKA the WORD’s AC 360 for stories, pictures and minidocs – will be appearing in ABC’s What Would You Do? tonight, Friday, May 7 at 9 p.m. EST.
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Tags: ABC, AC 360, Ashley Carpenter, student journalist, What Would You Do?
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Via facebook [to HM yesterday evening]
BBC America, 15 minutes ago [about 6 p.m., EST], said that the Red Shirts were mulling over an offer but were not enthusiastic about the November elections that the Prime Minister pitched to them.
Monath Replies today:
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Tags: Bangkok crisis, crisis in Thailand, Howard Monath
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Via facebook
2 minutes ago [12:25 EST]
Funny, it seems counter intuitive, but the closer you are to a story and the more access you have , like here with the Thai Red Shirts, the more you rely on outside sources for information ( or at least corroboration )
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Tags: crisis in Bangkok, crisis in Thailand
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O’Reilly’s Non-Existent Arizona Immigrant Crime Wave
Saturday, May 8th, 2010Peter Hart writes, “Fox host Bill O’Reilly searched around for a reason to support Arizona’s harsh new immigration law, and seemed to settle on the fact that there is a crime wave in Phoenix (5/3/10).”
Uh Oh.
(more…)
Tags: Arizona, Arizona New Immigration law, Bill O'Reilly, FAIR, Fox News, Peter Hart
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