Recent Examples of Right-Wing Spin in the Corporate Media

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Note: words with negative connotations/overtones have been put in bold type.

IN PRINT

WASHINGTON - Howard Dean is no longer screaming — he's scheming. The failed presidential candidate whose howling adieu to the Iowa caucuses helped seal his fate as a presidential candidate is plotting to overhaul the Democratic Party.

SOURCE: "Dean Aims to Overhaul Democrats," By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer, Sat Oct 8, 7:28 PM ET

WASHINGTON - It's almost as if Sen. John Kerry never stopped running for president. He still jets across the country, raising millions of dollars and rallying Democrats. He still stalks the TV news show circuit, scolding President Bush at every turn.

SOURCE: "Kerry Positioned for '08 White House Bid," by ANDREW MIGA, Associated Press, Mon Jan 2, 2006

Right-Wing Spin Links

WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA? Watch LNTV's segment on "The Myth ot the Liberal Media" CLICK HERE.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE LIBERAL MEDIA DOES NOT EXIST--RIGHT WING THINK TANKS ARE STILL THE MOST QUOTED: Click Here (pdf file).

NPR SHIFTS HARD TO THE RIGHT. National Public Radio panders to the right with this piece of ping-pong journalism HERE. Note that the Employment Policy Institute is an industry-sponsored right-wing front organization, yet they give them equal time to criticize Kennedy's plan to raise the minimum wage. So much for NPR having a liberal bias.

EDITORIAL LAPDOGS. Identical editorials praising Bush policies appear simultaneously in several newspapers...what gives? CLICK HERE.

THE IMAGE GAME. Here's a perfect example of how mainstream papers such as the NEW YORK TIMES give Bush a free ride. The focus of this front page story is whether Bush can SPIN his story to improve his approval despite the indictments in his cabinet. Shouldn't they be talking about how his policies have threatened our democracy? CLICK HERE (pdf format).

RIDICULING THE DOWNING STREET MEMO. Here's how the Washington Post's Dana Milbank made a mockery of the documents that could have brought down the presidency--

“In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe... They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official.” READ a summary of the event.

LIBERALS GO HOME? MSNBC warned reporter Keith Olbermann not to have liberal guests too often. CLICK HERE .

Read what former NEW YORK TIMES Chief of Staff John Swinton had to say about the sorry state of the U.S. Media way back in the early days of journalism: CLICK HERE.