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Mainstream media has been taken over by Conservative ideology
You need to know this. The mainstream media has been taken over by Conservative ideology. A new Pew Research Center Survey studied the media exposure of politicians during the recent midterm elections. What they found was – out of the ten most covered candidates during the election season – the top 3 were all Republicans. And most surprising – Sarah Palin – who essentially has no job and was not running for one – received three times more coverage to spew her talking points than the sitting Vice President Joe Biden. Also – conservative commentators like Glenn Beck received considerably more media coverage than their more liberal counterparts like Keith Olbermann. These findings from the Pew Research Center are similar to a study by MediaMatters back in 2006 that found that Republican talking heads appeared on Sunday morning news shows 58% of the time compared to Democratic commentators appearing only 42% of the time. And finally – reporter Sebastian Jones – with “The Nation” magazine – uncovered at least 75 corporate lobbyists or PR officials that now appear on television political talk shows with no disclosure of what business interests they actually work for. Their job? To do the bidding of their corporate overlords under the disguise of “expert political commentary”. So now can we finally put an end to the myth that there is a liberal bias in the mainstream media? And hopefully now start recognizing we need to create new media outlets that aren’t beholden to corporate interests or the talking points of their billionaire owners like Rupert Murdoch. Maybe then American will again hear the news they need to know.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: New Report Exposes Media Love Affair with Right-Wingers and the Fox News Worldview: 'Reporters Can't get Enough' With Josh Holland, editor and senior writer at AlterNet. He is the author of "The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy (and Everything else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America)".
"Right-washing" history...conservatives re-write it their way With Professor Harvey Kaye of the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, author of "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America" .
Screwed: Fox in charge of henhouse??? Lobbyist In Charge Of ‘Trying To Kill’ Financial Reform Hired By GOP Chair To Oversee Financial Regulations. With Lee Fang, Reporter/Blogger for Think Progress.org.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Panel challenges Gulf seafood safety all-clear With Jill Richardson, Founder of www.lavidalocavore.org & Author of "Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do To Fix It".
A New Kind of Wage Slave With Jonathan Strong, Reporter - The Daily Caller.
Top 5 Political Whack-Jobs of 2010 Daily Top 5 List for Year End Round Up.
Crazy Alert: Venn Diagram Compares Three People Who 'Get Paid To Touch Your Junk'
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Alfred A. Knopf publishers. Rush Limpball replacement host Mark Steyn. Republican Congressman Ralph Hall.
Daily Take: GAP Factory Fire in Bangladesh Claims 27 Lives.
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 Know what makes Thom crack up? The heartrending stories of the children arriving at the New England Salem Children's Village in New Hampshire which he and Louise founded in 1979. He'll tell a story a day on the radio show this week.
With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow urgently.
And this week he is sending a signed book "Rebooting the American Dream" to anyone who donates $250 to Salem. This money goes directly to care for kids that are in long term care. They are the kids that need your help the most because when no one else can step in - we do at Salem. Go to their site and help now. |
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over 12 weeks. Read Chapter Seven: Cool Our Fever today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr..
Hour One: Should States be allowed to go Bankrupt?
Hour Two: Why the NLRB should "go to hell"?! Thom confronts anti-union founder/CEO of Education Action Group Foundation Kyle Olson, contributing columnist for Big Government.com.
Hour Three: Lobbyist In Charge Of ‘Trying To Kill’ Financial Reform Hired By GOP Chair To Oversee Financial Regulations Thom is joined by Lee Fang, Reporter/Blogger for Think Progress.org.
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Coming up Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour Two: One of the most productive lame duck sessions wrapped up last week...so what do conservative Tea Partiers think of their impact and what should we expect from them in the next Congress? Thom challenges Bill Pasco, Executive Vice President of Citizens for the Republic.
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program... your media support group for we the people.
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Media exit from the War
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Capitalism, communism or cooperation?
“Capitalism” has its deficiencies, whether institutions are for-profit (think Goldman Sachs, where stocks are sold to investors or the public) or not-for-profit (think Red Cross, where the CEO earns $500,000-a-year and the “stock” is controlled by a board of directors).
Similarly, “communism” has its problems because the state owns the business, employees are simply agents of the state, and nothing works because nobody is accountable to anybody and there’s no incentive to do better.
Most importantly, both capitalism and communism are top-down hierarchies that stifle human ingenuity.
But the Mondragon Corporation is the world’s largest example of a Third Way: worker-owned cooperatives that foster enterprise as well as equity. Unlike the top-down nature of capitalism and communism, Mondragon has flipped that pyramid upside down.
And it’s not just the business pyramid that has been up-ended, with shop floor workers telling "managers" how they are going to implement changes; there’s a socio-cultural element at Mondragon that is just as transformational to its local cultures as is the idea of workers owning and running their own businesses.
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