Jon shows how pundits get their scripts DIRECTLY FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Kinda insane. Slide to 3:40.
America's economic recovery is good news, unless you work for a media organization whose job it is to make sure Barack Obama doesn't get re-elected. LINKTO: http://bit.ly/zCM3DJ
"Their bias is toward sensationalism and laziness...not a liberal agenda...it's fluff..." -Jon Stewart on Chris Wallace interview; June 19 2011--all interview a great exercise in media criticism.
The Conservatives' narrative of Victimization (June 2011, Daily Show)
welcome to the Idiocracy, Egypt Edition (Feb 2011)
Facts don't matter: Motivated Reasons, emotions trump logic--there's science to it
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Some Reading, collection in progress.
- The Echochamber amplifies and reproduces nativist attitudes: http://bit.ly/PU3KdZ
- POLL: Only 25 Percent of Republicans Think ACORN Will Rig 2012 Election (3/2011 Slate)
- David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality -- New York Magazine (11/20/2011)
- Frum: Fox News Creates an 'Alternative Knowledge System' | Video Cafe (12/11/2011)
- it gives me no great pleasure that I sometimes agree with David Frum --he of Axis of Evil. This is an important lisn
- Julian Sanchez, "Epistemic Closure, Technology and the End of Distance" (April 2010)
- "How Facts Backfire",(Boston Globe, July 11, 2010)
- David Frum on "The Shame of the Conservative Media" (re: Shirley Sherrod/Andrew Breitbart), July 21, 2010
- David Frum, "Post Tea Party Nation" (NYT, Nov 12, 2010) (Yes that David Frum, the former speech-writer for George W. Bush, author of the phrase, "Axis of Evil.)
Lesson 1: The danger of closed information systems. - Too often, conservatives dupe themselves. They wrap themselves in closed information systems based upon pretend information. In this closed information system, banks can collapse without injuring the rest of the economy, tax cuts always pay for themselves and Congressional earmarks cause the federal budget deficit. ...Every day, Beck offers alternative knowledge phenomenon. — an alternative history of the United States and the world, an alternative system of economics, an alternative reality.
- As corporate profits soar, the closed information system insists that the free-enterprise system is under assault. As prices slump, we are warned of imminent hyperinflation. As black Americans are crushed under Depression-level unemployment, the administration’s policies are condemned by some conservatives as an outburst of Kenyan racial revenge against the white overlord.
LYING LIARS
- How conservatives lie about government - Republican Party - Salon.com (1/24/2012)
- Why Politicians Get Away With Lying - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com (1/22/2012)
- Conservatives HATE, are AGAINST 2/28/2011, Politicus
- The Melodramatic Imagination: Republicans' Manicheism: In the GOP World of Hate Perception Trumps Facts (2/2011):
- Republicans don’t do things by halves, and there are no shades of gray. It’s all very clearly black and white to them, either/or. That’s how they have come to see the world.
- Stephen Colbert's skewering of the Press Corps, April 2006, at the White House Correspondents Dinner. If you've never watched this, you must.
- From the annals of "Are you f/cking kidding?": Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? | The Public Editor - NYTimes.com (1/12/2012)
- News Literacy Project Trains Young People to Be Skeptical Media Consumers | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 13, 2011 | PBS
- Breitbart Bloggers Utterly Confused By Unraveled NPR Sting | MMFA (3/2011)
- 11 days since The Blaze published its damning analysis of O'Keefe's work, but have Breitbart bloggers been banned from mentioning that fact? And have they been banned from mentioning "The Blaze" at all?
- NPR O'Keefes James O'Keefe With Misleadingly Edited Version Of Interview (AUDIO) | TPMMuckraker (3/2011)
- The Real Problem with Fox News "conservative slant and essential inaccuracy" Columbia Journalism Review (3/2011)
- 2 core problems with Fox’s supposedly “fair and balanced” news coverage. The first is the simple inaccuracy demonstrated by the blatant misrepresentation of Weiner’s position. The second is the bias of story selection. Why does a congressman from the minority party with no leadership position making a statement at a think thank event on a possible move by a locality warrant multiple news segments? Only because Fox can present it as a victory for conservative ideology.
- Opinion vs/and Information: Making Informed Decisions & Critical Thinking . NOW Classroom, PBS
- Truthiness vs. Critical thinking: (feb 2007)
- " attitudes that characterize critical thinkers, including questioning assumptions, discerning hidden biases, avoiding overgeneralizations, developing tolerance for ambiguity, and exploring alternative perspectives. Critical thinkers learn to digest and use data. They adapt and refit hypotheses in accord with that data rather than attempt to force the data to fit their pre-existing assumptions.
- Troll Trainings/Astroturf (4/2011)
- Scripted/trained callers Call into Conservative Talk Shows (Columbia Journalism Review, 3/2011)
- Canada won't show Fox b/c it runs afoul of its Propaganda provisions (3/2011)
- http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102100007 (2/10/2011, MMFA)
- When Fact Checkers Go Bad…Very Bad | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy (1/25/2012)
- I’ve seen some very useful work by these folks, but between this and this, Politifact just can’t be trusted. Full stop.
- UPDATE! PolitiFact | Tuning the Truth-O-Meter -- They change their ruling on Obama's jobs statement--from "half true" to "mostly true". Good. But Sheesh. (1/25/2012)
- AGAIN!!! Rachel Maddow: Facts are facts [Politifact gets it wrong AGAIN and this is IT. DONE!!](1/26/2012)
- Rachel Maddow Explodes: 'PolitiFact, You're Fired!' (VIDEO) (1/27/2012)
- Paul Krugman - Politifact, R.I.P. - NYTimes.com (12/20/2011)
- Politics and lies: Fact-checking the fact-checkers | The Economist (12/20/2011)
- Ann Coulter Outburst Epitomizes GOP Break with Reality - Politicus 10/2011 (on Herman Cain's sexual harassment charges)
- The myth of the liberal media
- NPR's ON THE MEDIA's 3 part analysis of "Does NPR have a liberal bias?"--includes a must-hear interview w/ James O'Keefe. Here's a taste, w/ links to the various segments after.
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- On The Media: "Does NPR Have A Liberal Bias?" (March 18, 2011)
- On The Media: "The Bias Bias" (March 11, 2011) (with Ira Glass)
- On The Media: "Take the Public Out of Public Broadcasting" (March 11, 2011)
- On The Media: "Keeping the Public in Public Broadcasting" (March 11, 2011)
- On The Media: "What the Media Can Learn from James O'Keefe" (March 18, 2011)
- On The Media: "James O'Keefe" (March 18, 2011)
- On The Media: "Oy, What a Week for NPR" (March 11, 2011)
- Study Confirms that TV News Misinforms--Fox Misinforms the Most, Dec. 2010
- BMG discussion of that study
- Fox viewership plummeting (1/2011)
- Depends what the definition of IS is: word games: "Fox's Big Lie on Egypt" (He didn't use the WORD terrorism) (Salon, Feb 8 2011)
- LATimes Slams Fox: "Shouldn't Call itself a News Organization", (Dec 2010)
- Media Matters' war against Fox - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com (3/2011)
- “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
- Fox News exec spreads socialism meme in 2008, even tho he didn't believe it himself. Greg Sargent critiques his defense (3/29/2011)
- The socialism question indeed “struck me as a far-fetched idea” in 2008. “I considered it kind of a remarkable notion that we would even be having the conversation.”
- the bottom line here is that he doesn’t regret having spread an idea he personally found far-fetched, because so doing helped ensure that the far-fetched idea ultimately gained widespread acceptance. That’s a peculiar attitude for a “news” executive, isn’t it?
- Fox memo directs reporters to link Obama to Socialism in October 2008 (MediaMatters 2/1/2011)
- Scripted questions: "Isn't that what they do in socialist countries?" - MMFA re: Fox 2/3/2011)
- Frank Luntz'ers repeat Frank Luntz talking points (2/10/11, Ed Schulz)
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