Months ago the president of CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs, the channel’s most outspoken anchor. Mr. Dobbs could vent his opinions on radio and anchor an objective newscast on television, or he could leave CNN.
Michael Tomasky on the bizarre Washington Times
Rupert Murdoch wants to rule the world
Gordon Brown has “the most enormous personal regard” for media magnate Rupert Murdoch, Downing Street said today amid reports that the prime minister telephoned him directly to complain about the Sun‘s criticism of his government’s handling of the war in Afghanistan.
The pair spoke on Tuesday at the height of a row over Brown’s misspelling of a dead soldier’s name in a handwritten letter of condolence to the victim’s grieving mother Jacqui Janes, published by the newspaper alongside her accusations of disrespect.
Rupert Murdoch insisted earlier this week that he regrets the way his papers have turned against Brown – but believes they are right to do so.
Rupert Murdoch‘s flagship American tabloid newspaper, the New YorkPost, has been accused of an extraordinary litany of racist and sexist behaviour by a former senior editor who is claiming discrimination in her sacking in September.
Sandra Guzman has filed a discrimination lawsuit in the New York courts against Murdoch’s media empire, News Corporation, the New York Postand its editor-in-chief Col Allan. She claims that behind the Post’s famously pointed and cheeky headlines lies a “hostile work environment where female employees and employees of colour have been subjected to pervasive and systematic discrimination and/or unlawful harassment based on their gender”…
She also claims the Obama cartoon was part of a concerted effort by the paper’s management to undermine America’s first black president. The lawsuit alleges that Charles Hurt, the Post’s Washington bureau chief, once told her that the goal was “to destroy Barack Obama. We don’t want him to succeed.”
Pleasing God through murdering people
The Jerusalem District Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday charged alleged Jewish terrorist Yaakov (Jack) Teitel with two murders, three attempted murders and other acts of violence.
“It was a pleasure and an honor to serve my God,” said Teitel at the Jerusalem courthouse. “I have no regret and no doubt that God is pleased.”
The paranoid style of American politics in all its pathological glory
Speaking at a luncheon for a Midland County Republican Women’s group, Perry said that “this is an administration hell-bent toward taking American towards a socialist country. And we all don’t need to be afraid to say that because that’s what it is.”
Perry praised the tea party movement to the Republican activists in attendance, crediting the grassroots groups with discouraging some Democrats in Washington from pushing for a public option in the health care bill.
US at bottom of gender-gap stats across 31 nations
The hilarious Jon Stewart catch on Hannity’s propaganda trick this week represents just a tiny fraction of what Murdoch’s propaganda network has been up to all along.
That’s it for now. I’ll tack on more items if I have some time later.
