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AMERICA- DON'T RELY ON CORPORATE MEDIA

 

 

 

 

A Few Political Tidbits Not Covered by Corporate Media

Stephen Crockett

 

 

Stephen Crockett is based in Fayetteville, Tennessee and is co-host of

Democratic Talk Radio.

 

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Stephen Crockett

March 24, 2006

 

Recently, there were many interesting stories that largely went

uncovered by the mainstream Corporate Media. Here are a few examples

that demonstrate the inadequate nature of relying on the Corporate

Media as your main news source. We urge everyone to visit the many

news sources on the Internet daily.

 

Excellent news sources include

OpEd News http://www.opednews.com ,

Buzzflash http://www.buzzflash.com ,

Raw Story http://www.rawstory.com ,

Consortium News http://www.consortiumnews.com ,

Smirking Chimp http://www.smirkingchimp.com ,

American Chronicle http://www.americanchronicle.com ,

Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com ,

Brad Blog http://www.bradblog.com ,

Common Dreams http://commondreams.org ,

Truthout http://www.truthout.org , etc.

 

This list is certainly not complete. This writer recommends you try

exploring links on your favor sites for new sources of news.

 

The Washington Post revealed a Right Wing bias much like their rival,

The Washington Times. They did this by launching a blatantly Right

Wing website called Red America while not balancing this Right Wing

site with any " Blue " counterpart. Nothing could be more blatantly

partisan. You can read the full story at Media Matters

http://mediamatters.org/items/200603210017 .

 

Scoop News in New Zealand published a story from the Atlanta

Progressive News organization that informed readers that 30 members of

Congress now support impeachment hearing for Bush. You can read the

full story at Scoop http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00158.htm .

The Corporate Media extensively covered the failure of Senate

democrats to endorse the Feingold measure censoring Bush but

completely ignored this equally big story. A truly balanced news

coverage would have given each story equal time.

 

Greg Palast wrote an amazing column for The Guardian in London called

Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools: THE MISSION WAS INDEED

ACCCOMPLISHED. Palast argues that the Iraq War was launched to prevent

Iraqi oil from flooding the international market and keeping oil

prices low. The column points to the dominate role Big Oil has in the

Bush political machine. Palast discusses how the oil industry has been

able to profit excessively from the huge increases in oil prices

during Bush from tight supplies. This shocking column has been ignored

in the Corporate Media. You can read the full story at Greg Palast.com

http://www.gregpalast.com .

 

The growing scandal over electronic voting machine failures exploded

in state after state. Voting machine failures created news from Texas

to Maryland to Utah to Florida. The best place to start reading the

many breaking stories is at Brad Blog. This column is simply not long

enough to even begin to list the many daily breaking stories

concerning the growing election voting scandal.

 

Maryland politicians from both major Parties are looking to scuttle

the Diebold machines. A Texas primary recount was halted by court

order when the voting machines were not counting properly for the

recounts. Errors were reported up to 20 percent. Voting machine tests

should serious errors and security weaknesses in tests in Utah and

Florida. The Bush Administration and allies in Congress are pushing to

make these failed voting machines the standard by the Fall elections.

Growing numbers of voting rights activists are seeking emergency

action to guarantee verified paper trails to prevent election fraud

and other snafus this year. The Corporate Media has not given the

issue significant coverage. Many citizens are unaware their votes may

not get counted this election. Information on the subject is readily

available on the Internet.

 

Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio

http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com ). Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville,

Maryland 21919. Email: midsouthcm . Phone: 443-907-2367.