Greenwald rips establishment media

Glenn Greenwald spent his weekend doing a little research on what the media covers:
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
“Yoo and torture” - 102
“Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” [...]

‘Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear’

The latest edition of Vanity Fair includes a necessary frontal assault on Monsanto, agriculture’s Wal Mart:
Most Americans know Monsanto because of what it sells to put on our lawns— the ubiquitous weed killer Roundup. What they may not know is that the company now profoundly influences—and one day may virtually control—what we put on our [...]

International media torpedoes Bush speech

Here’s a compilation of post speech reactions from Fox News, BBC, Sky News, and Al Jazeera. Notice a difference?

5 years ago tonight…

A discourse of division

Obama’s speech was one of the best — and most frank — political speeches in recent memory. It was deep in many respects: race, class, and religion being the most noticeable. I was particularly struck by one passage on our political discourse though:
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics [...]

Former CNN producer unloads on network

CNN fires Chez Pazienza for blogging. Pazienza then writes a devastating summation of his experience at the network [obvious]. Here is the heart of his critique:
I watched my bosses literally stand in the middle of the newsroom and ask, “What can we do to not lead with Iraq?” — the reason being that Iraq, although [...]