If you want to know who controls the corporate media, just pay close attention to the issues that they refuse to talk about. A new study by Media Matters shows that over the last six months, there has been almost no coverage of the Trans Pacific Partnership on the major networks. Last week, hundreds of organizations – which represent tens of millions of members - signed a letter to Congress calling on them to stop the TPP. Yet, that letter was ignored by the corporate news media.

Before that, at least 50 groups took part in a massive campaign called StopFastTrack.com, but we didn't hear a word about it on the major networks. The same goes for the fight to restore Net Neutrality, and nation-wide vigils against the Keystone XL pipeline. Millions of people are already involved in these growing campaigns, but the so-called mainstream media continues to ignore any movement that could stand in the way of corporate profits. These networks aren't mainstream, they blatantly refuse to talk about the issues that millions of Americans want covered.

Just like we saw with anti-Iraq War protests... this is what happens when the companies that own our news media also profit off of building bombs. They have a personal interest in downplaying the size of the opposition. We can't depend on corporations that want to profit off a pay-for-play internet to provide honest coverage about Net Neutrality. And, we won't hear about the TPP on networks owned by mufti-national corporations. Millions of people are getting involved and getting active about these issues, and they're going to keep fighting, even if they're ignored by the corporate media.

-Thom

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Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio and John Nichols, The Nation Magazine talk about the TPP & Alec.

Article: "Harry Reid Knows Opposing Fast Track Is Smart Policy and Smart Politics" by John Nichols.

Koch Bros. are engineering a `merger & acquisition` of the Republican party
- Gaius Publius, AMERICAblog

Article: "Koch Bros. are engineering a `merger & acquisition` of the Republican party" by Gaius Publius.

Article: "Koch brothers could make $100 billion profit from Keystone pipeline" by Gaius Publius.

Article: "Union Fees Debated in Supreme Court Case Over Labor Power" by Greg Stohr.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Donald Segretti" by Wikipedia.

Article: "HAVE A SEAT! GOP Congressional Candidate Richard Black Doesn’t Think Spousal Rape Is A Crime (VIDEO)" by Christina Coleman .

Book: "A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" by Charles Dickens (free).

Article: "Miss. Tea Party Senate Hopeful Laments Lack Of Muslim Villains In Hollywood" by Catherine Thompson.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Book: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the 2012 Presidential Permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline" by Department of State.

Hour Two: The Party's Over
- Gov. Charlie Crist, The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

Book: The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat by Charlie Crist.

Article: "The Republican Sabotage of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

The good: The Oglala Sioux Nation: "Oglala Sioux vow to stop Keystone XL on the ground if Obama won't say no" by Erin Flegg.

The bad: "Sam Zell: 'The 1 percent work harder'" by Bloomberg.

The very, very ugly: "Woman Derails GOP Town Hall Going Off on Why Obama Needs to Be Executed" by Josh Feldman.

Article: "3 more W.Va. schools closed due to water concerns" by Jonathan Mattise and Sarah Plummer.

Article: "Woman dies in Dakotas with no propane to heat home" by AP.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes — 2/7/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "America’s UN Ambassador Samantha Power offers to join Pussy Riot" by Michele Kirk.

Article: "Obama official: 'F--k the EU'" by Julian Pecquet.

Article: "Senators Graham, Ayotte and McCain Pen Letter to President Obama Requesting Benghazi Answers", Feb 6, 2014.

Article: "Keystone XL Pipeline to America: Bend Over and Take It " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Akin wasn't out of line, he was toeing the Republican Party line" by Kaili Joy Gray.

Video: "Full Show 2/3/14: How the NFL Rips Off Taxpayers".

Article: "2013 is a ‘record-shattering’ year for solar power in America" by Rebecca Grant.

Article: "Wind Energy Facts at a Glance" by AWEA.

Article: "7 Facts That Weren’t In The New State Department Report On Keystone XL" by Ryan Koronowski.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Article: "14th Amendment

Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.

Movie: "Trading Places".

Article: "US Senate finally passes farm bill after months of negotiation" by Paul Lewis.

Article: "Interim Guidance For The Use Of Third - Party Contractors In preparation Of Environmental Documents By The Department Of State" by Department Of State.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "3 deaths and a missing reporter – all with ties to finance and Wall Street investigations" by Gaius Publius.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Demos Praises Introduction of The Government By the People Act" by Demos.

Article: "WMO: Climate Change Not at Standstill, Warming on Course to Continue for Generations" by Alex Kirby.

Article: "Haslam Shifts 'Drive to 55' Initiative Into High Gear".

Article: "RadCast radiation readings - February 6, 2014".

Article: "Alaska Poised To Vote On Legalizing Recreational Marijuana This Summer" by Nicole Flatow.

Article: "Pat Robertson implores creationist Ken Ham to shut up: ‘Let’s not make a joke of ourselves’" by Scott Kaufman.

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