ABC’s ‘Raging Debate’ Over Edward Snowden
ABC’s This Week: Edward Snowden sparked a “raging debate”–so here are two guests who don’t like what he did.
FAIR TV: Crossfire Climate Change, CIA & Polio and ABC Loves Disney
This week on the show: CNN brings back Crossfire–but isn’t it time to stop “debating” climate change? Plus a look at big media leaving the CIA out of their reporting on the resurgence of polio, while ABC News brings viewers an infomercial for parent company Disney.
A New Turn in the War on Whistleblowers & Journalism?
It’s hard to see how a move to criminalize routine discussions between government officials and members of the press is anything but an attempt to shut down such conversations.
FAIR TV: Progressive Budget, Wash Post’s NSA Omission, Sundays With CEOs
On the show this week: The Progressive Caucus budget is greeted with the usual corporate media silence, the Washington Post withholds vital information from its recent NSA scoop, and Maria Bartiromo sticks up for the voiceless CEOs.
The NSA Built a ‘Time Machine’—but Washington Post Won’t Say Where
The Washington Post is reporting that the NSA is able to store every phone call made in an entire nation and replay them for up to 30 days. Not only can the agency do this, but there is a country where it’s actually doing this now–the Post knows where, but they won’t say.
What DC Won’t See Tonight on Public TV
A timely documentary about government surveillance of the civil rights movement is airing on PBS stations tonight–but not in Washington DC.
Do Respectable Journalists Want to Be Associated With Bill Keller?
A Daily Beast piece wonders whether journalists don’t want to work with Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald because they’re very critical of corporate journalism.
FAIR TV: Snowden on Sunday TV, New Pundits, USA Today on Fracking’s Riches
Everyone seems to agree that Edward Snowden started an important debate over NSA surveillance. But on the Sunday chat shows, debate isn’t what you’re likely to see. And CNN and CBS add new contributors–but are they opening up or closing the discussion? Plus: USA Today cheers on the fracking boom in Texas.
TV Hires That Keep the Debate Narrow
Corporate media aren’t looking to expand the debate on important issues. They’re interested in keeping things as narrow as they already are.
It’s Sunday and It’s Snowden
It’s Sunday, and that means time for the network chat shows to present one-sided discussions about the NSA, Edward Snowden and mass surveillance.
FAIR TV: CBS and the NSA, Yemen Drone Attack, Afghanistan
This week on FAIR TV: The NSA has been having a rough time, but 60 Minutes did them a favor with a long piece that was more like public relations than journalism. Also on the show: a look at how the New York Times covered a suspected US drone strike in Yemen, and what it […]
NSA Stenography at CBS
CBS covers latest NSA revelations by telling viewers that the NSA is getting better at rebutting its critics.
No, You Still Can’t Trust What the NSA Says
One of the most incendiary revelations from the documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden suggests that the NSA’s mass collection of phone records isn’t confined to the United States. Reports in Le Monde (10/21/13) and El Mundo (10/28/13) say the NSA is involved in collecting such data in France and Spain, too—millions of phone records […]
Does Being a Pundit Ever Mean Having to Say You’re Sorry?
“The early denunciations of Snowden now seem both over the top and beside the point,” the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen writes. He should know–he wrote one of them. And now he says his initial reaction was “just plain wrong.”
When Can You Trust the NSA’s Claims About the NSA?
Media seem more eager to carry messages to the effect of “NSA spying works” rather than admissions from the NSA that the record isn’t quite so impressive.
Whistleblowers and Mass Shooters: Time Connects the Dots
Whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, and mass shooters Nidal Hassan and Aaron Alexis: Time wonders how these four dangerous individuals managed to slip through the system?
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
Which account of the mass deaths in Syria should be given more credence: the U.S. government version introduced by Secretary of State John Kerry, or the article published by the Minnesota-based news site Mint Press? The government account expresses “high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack.” The Mint report bore the headline “Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack.”
Jeffrey Toobin, Expert on Bizarre Analogies
is Jeffrey Toobin right that the Nuremberg principles are only meant to apply to Nazi-like regimes, or are they applicable to the United States as well?
FAIR TV: Snowden the ‘Spy,’ Stop-and-Frisk Factcheck, Student Loan Rates
On FAIR TV this week: CBS tries to call Edward Snowden a “spy,” and Bill Kristol makes his ABC comeback with a bogus defense of New York’s stop-and-frisk police searches. Plus: Student loan rates are slashed, say the TV reports. But are they actually…going up? Watch it all this on this week’s episode:
What Do You Call Edward Snowden?
CBS’s Scott Pelley suggests that Edward Snowden admitted to being a “spy” for Russia. But he’s not the only one using odd language to describe the NSA whistleblower.
