 - Memo to Media: The Palin Rape-Kit Story Has Not Been Debunked | Reproductive...
 Oct 10, 11:34am  (1 review) alternative-news, politics, journalism, media, rape-kit http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejust...- * "She never supported" the policy, claimed Amanda Carpenter, a national political reporter for Townhall.com.
* "There's no evidence Mayor Palin knew about the policy," agreed an outraged Boston Herald columnist.
* "There is not yet any evidence generated that Palin was aware of this policy," announced NRO.
* "She wasn't even aware it was going on," stressed the NewsBusters writer.
Set aside the oddity of Palin's press supporters pushing her candidacy by emphasizing that she apparently had no idea what the town of Wasilla was doing in her name, and focus on this: Unless Palin had no idea what was going on in her own city government and unless she signed budget documents without actually reading them, the claim is plainly false. And that's where conservatives got schooled by a GW junior named Jacob Alperin-Sheriff. Writing for The Huffington Post's Off The Bus, and crossposting at Daily Kos, Alperin-Sheriff posted by far the most specific and factual analysis of the rape-kit story in terms of Palin's role as mayor and the final say she had over the budget.
Combing through Wasilla's budgetary documents, which are posted online, Alperin-Sheriff showed that Palin had clearly signed off on a fiscal-year budget that reduced by three-quarters the amount of money the town set aside annually for rape-kit costs and that the rape-kit reduction was spelled out before the fiscal-year 2000 budget was approved by Mayor Sarah Palin on April 26, 1999.
This week's bottom line: No matter how many times partisans in the GOP press announce the Palin rape-kit story has been "debunked," the central, undisputed facts remain hidden in plain sight for all to see.
It's time for the press to take a closer look.
- McCain-Palin rallies turning into a lynch mob&|&blogger interrupted...
- Oct 9, 8:27pm (1 review) political-science, politics, media, racism http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/10/mc...
- This is what a lynch mob looks like.
In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed "treason!" during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.
"[Obama] said, too, that our troops in Afghanistan are `air raiding villages and killing civilians,'" Palin said, mischaracterizing a 2007 remark by Obama. "I hope Americans know that is not what our brave men and women in uniform are doing in Afghanistan. The U.S. military is fighting terrorism and protecting us and protecting our freedom."
Shortly afterward, a male member of the crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, yelled "treason!" loudly enough to be picked up by television microphones.
"Kill him".
"Terrorist".
John McCain and Sarah Palin are completely out of control. They are sitting by watching their rallies turn into lynch mobs. In fact, they are stoking it. The media are not doing their job, which is to expose this level of hate for what it is. So someone else has to that job for them.
- FCC&Seeks Info from Military&TV&Analysts - 10/6/2008 1:15:00 PM - Broadcasting...
- Oct 8, 4:11pm (1 review) military, media, fcc, free-press, defense-department, tv-analyst http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article...
- The FCC has sent letters to military TV analysts as part of inquiry into Defense Department media push
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/6/2008 1:15:00 PM
An FCC spokesman confirmed Monday that the commission has asked for information from TV military analysts concerning their possible role in a Department of Defense program to recruit ex-military officers to express support for the Iraq war and other Bush administration policies.
"The [FCC] is looking into the allegations and has sent letters," said the spokesman, who said he did not know how many letters had been sent out.
The commission was asked by some legislators to looks into whether TV stations or networks bear any responsibility for not identifying the analyst's connection to the Pentagon or defense contractors
- jsilverfps profile - StumbleUpon
- Oct 8, 1:17pm
 (11 reviews) activism, stumblers, media, campaign-finance, public-policy-issues http://jsilverfp.stumbleupon.com/ - I am currently the executive director and a co-founder of Free Press. Before Free Press, I ran a statewide campaign for public funding of elections in Arizona and served as the director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. I publish frequently on media, campaign finance and other public policy issues.
- Study: Huge growth in Wi-Fi devices expected | News - Wireless - CNET...
- Oct 7, 2:02pm (1 review) internet, science, surveillance, media, wi-fi http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-1005906...
- Embedded Wi-Fi chips could end up in almost a billion consumer electronics devices by 2012, according to market researcher In-Stat.
- Rantmedia Community | Providing alternative media since 1999
- Oct 7, 1:32pm (5 reviews) alternative-news, audio, art, video, media http://www.rantmedia.ca/
- inspire.create.share is the mantra of RantMedia whose audio, video and print creations have inspired countless others to follow their artistic visions and share them with the world.
- Rachel Maddow, Pat Buchanan TVs New Odd Couple
- Oct 6, 8:20pm (1 review) tv, media, msnbc, pat-buchanan, rachel-maddow http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06...
- In this image released by MSNBC, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," is shown on Sept. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/ MSNBC, Ali Goldstein)
- Think Again: White Open Spaces, Owned by Us
- Oct 3, 3:51pm (1 review) culture, internet, media http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2...
- There is a battle going on over "white spaces" in the broadcast spectrum, which exist unused between television channels.
- Media Channel - Home
- Oct 1, 12:19pm (1 review) alternative-news, counterculture, media, censorship, disinformation http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/20...
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1. HOW MANY IRAQIS HAVE DIED?
2. NAFTA ON STEROIDS
3. INFRAGARD GUARDS ITSELF
4. ILEA: TRAINING GROUND FOR ILLEGAL WARS?
5. SEIZING PROTEST
6. RADICALS = TERRORISTS
7. SLAVERY's RUNNER-UP
8. BUSH CHANGES THE RULES
9. SOLDIERS SPEAK OUT
10. APA HELPS CIA TORTURE
- The LAMP ยป About Us
- Oct 1, 11:54am (1 review) alternative-news, multimedia, education, media, information http://www.thelampnyc.org/about/
- The LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project) provides critical media literacy skills to the inter-related groups of youths, their parents and educators throughout New York City. Our media literacy workshops demystify the constant flow of media these three groups encounter, bridge the gap between generations, and provide workforce development skills for future generations. The LAMP's staff learns and explores new media trends in order to properly steer the LAMP in the direction where it can provide the most benefit to the community at large.
Why is multimedia literacy necessary? Our economy, our communities, the information and entertainment we access, and even our personal relationships are ever more dependent upon the production and flow of information, and increasingly through digital means. This shift requires that we have new competencies and concepts for understanding and responding to different media, while also keeping the Internet experience for youth and adults both fulfilling and safe. Competency in multimedia (or multimedia literacy) allows us to make sense of our media-saturated environment, chart a course for navigating it, and especially to make use of the opportunities which media and the mediated environment bring.
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