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.
Archive for May, 2010
O’Reilly’s Non-Existent Arizona Immigrant Crime Wave
Saturday, May 8th, 2010PBS NewsHour Finds Drilling Critic
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.”
“Defending Arizona: It’s U.S.’s Fault for Not Wrecking Lives, Damaging Economy”
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!
From New American Media: Inside Black-Asian Violence – It’s Not About Race
Friday, May 7th, 2010By 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]
The WORD’s Ashley Carpenter, Tonight, May 7, 9 P.M. – ABC’s What Would You Do?
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.
NYPD Brutality Costs New York City Taxpayers Millions …
Thursday, May 6th, 2010… 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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Howard Monath Responding to Reports by BBC America Yesterday Evening
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Via 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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Howard Monath in Bangkok, Talking About Bucky
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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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Fly in the Ointment [A Few Minutes After the Previous Howard Monath Post]
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Via 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 )
Another Howard Monath Report from the Front Lines of the Crisis in Bangkok
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Picture by Howard Monath
Via facebook
“I’m going to spend wednesday talking to Reds…
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Latest Update About the Show Down in Bangkok
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Howard Monath, Former D:F/M Film Instructor, in the Heart of the Crisis
Via facebook
Car Bomb Updates/Corrections/Clarifications: NY Times & NY Daily News
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Car Bomb in Times Square: Which One – NY Times, NY Daily News – Will Run a Correction?
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010NY 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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