Mega Glomerate Main-Stream Media

• Media Matters: 11,000 news stories = “Beltway press” ignoring new poll
  This morning, Media Matters‘ Eric Boehlert (a.k.a., Eric the Excitable) blogs:
  Ugh, first it was the AP, now Gallup. Beltway elites, still mocking Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, are not going to like this trend and, I’m guessing, will continue to do their best to ignore it.
  The undeniable storyline though, is that Obama’s approval ratings are heading [...]
• Media Matters: 11,000 news stories = “Beltway press” ignoring new poll
  This morning, Media Matters‘ Eric Boehlert (a.k.a., Eric the Excitable) blogs:
  Ugh, first it was the AP, now Gallup. Beltway elites, still mocking Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, are not going to like this trend and, I’m guessing, will continue to do their best to ignore it.
  The undeniable storyline though, is that Obama’s approval ratings are heading [...]
• Victory for Free Speech as College of William & Mary Dumps Speech Codes, Earns ‘Green Light’ Rating

  The College of William & Mary has fully reformed its campus speech policies to ensure that students and faculty may freely exercise their right to freedom of expression at our nation’s second-oldest university.

• Geert Wilders to speak at Columbia University
  Mr. Wilders will speak on October 21st, co-sponsored by the Horowitz Freedom Center. This article is from the BWOG, the main online news source for Columbia University campus. “College Republicans Go For A Dutch-Flavored Controversy.”
• U.K.: Ruling overturns Home Office decision barring Geert Wilders from the country
  Good news, in an update on this story. “Dutch MP overturns UK entry ban,” from BBC News, October 13 (thanks to all who sent this in): Far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders has won an appeal against a Home Office decision barring his entry to the UK. “Far-right”: Media-speak for “frightens…
• Unfair Rush To Judgment About Rush
  Bill O’Reilly was in good form last night in defending Rush Limbaugh’s right to c0-purchase a National Football League team, the St. Louis Rams, against attacks by race-baiters.
  His guest on The Factor was a Detroit sportswriter who was not able to back up his claims that Limbaugh made blatantly racist comments on his radio program.
  Now the practiced demagogue  Reverand [...]
• CNN Joins the NFL Players’ Association in Calling Rush a Racist
  CNN and the NFLPA wrongfully attack Rush Limbaugh as a racist.
• Italy: Two more arrests in jihadist attack on army barracks
  That’s the funny thing about the Tiny Minority of Extremists: Bit by bit, the number of known members always seems to be growing. An update on this story. “Italy: Two suspects arrested in military barracks attack,” from AdnKronos International, October 13: Milan, 13 October (AKI) – Two suspects and alleged…
• Can Hamas Make Sesame Street Sweet? – by Brooke Goldstein
  Last Sunday the New York Times Magazine published an article by Samantha Shapiro entitled “Can the Muppets Make Friends in Ramallah?” Well, sure they can. But will their influence blunt that of the current predominant hate-filled children’s programming aired on stations such as Palestinian Authority TV and Hamas’ [...]
• Human Rights Watch: “Stoning and flogging constitute torture in any circumstances”
  Absent as ever, of course, is any recognition of these punishments’ origins in the Qur’an and in Muhammad’s own example, though in this case that is as much the fault of the reporting as the apparent omissions in the statement from Human Right’s Watch. “New Indonesia stoning law is ‘torture’:…

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