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.”
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!
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]
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.
… but New Yorkers Not People of Color love the head-bangers soooo that the City’s paramilitary force can get away with – literally and figuratively – mayhem and murder. New York Civil Liberties Racial Justice Project: Hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers of Color stopped and frisked.
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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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This latest thread started with HM posting this picture and writing, "Somewhere Bucky is smiling." - Picture by Howard Monath
Who’s Bucky?
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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 )
Picture by Howard Monath
Via facebook
“I’m going to spend wednesday talking to Reds…
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Howard Monath, Former D:F/M Film Instructor, in the Heart of the Crisis
Via facebook
NY Daily News said two female cops were heroes for discovering a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan in Times Square and stopped the car bomb from detonating. The NY Times said “explosive materials were discovered by a mounted police officer who saw a “box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder” and called for backup.
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FAIR, the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. since 1986.
Someone Has to Defend Goldman Sachs
4/26/2010 by Peter Hart
And that someone is Fareed Zakaria, in columns published in the Washington Post (“Cool the Goldman Rage”) and in the Post-owned Newsweek. Zakaria is unimpressed by the SEC’s fraud case against Goldman Sachs; he likens the firm’s mortgage securities bonds to someone placing a bet against the New York Yankees.
Click here for article.
[Thai ‘Red Shirt’ protester arrested over Facebook post | Metro.co.uk www.metro.co.uk A Facebook post has led to a Thai ‘Red Shirt’ protester being arrested by police claiming that Wipas Raksakulthai insulted the kingdom’s royal family on the social networking site.
yesterday.]
Via facebook, Pictures by Howard Monath.
Hunter Word Yo, Howard, Don’t “insult” anyone.
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