Wednesday, June 23 2021

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  • Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

    Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

    (Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the ensuing articles and posts about myself. After all, who better than Mickey Z. to fact-check something written about Mickey Z.? Whenever I ponder these memories, I can’t help but see them through the le ...

  • Limbaugh, Obama, and the “Monsters” We Choose to See — Mickey Z.

    Limbaugh, Obama, and the “Monsters” We Choose to See — Mickey Z.

    (AP photos) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 23, 2021 “They say that what you mock/Will surely overtake you And you become a monster/So the monster will not break you” (“Peace on Earth,” U2) NOTE: Since we live in a world of black-and-white thinking and confirmation bias, I feel compelled to preemptively explain that I am not pro-Rush Limbaugh. Not even close. In fact, I’d say I stood diamet ...

  • War of the Worlds: The Original Fake News October Surprise — Mickey Z.

    War of the Worlds: The Original Fake News October Surprise — Mickey Z.

    Still image from the 2005 version of War of the Worlds (credit unknown) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 29, 2020 26 percent of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. *** October 30 will mark 82 years since a 23-year-old Orson Welles helped set off a nationwide panic over a fictional Martian invasion in 1938. His regular Sunday evening radio show began with this unambiguous ann ...

  • Helen Thomas, Barrier-Busting White House Reporter, Is Dead at 92 | David Stout

    July 20, 2013 -- WASHINGTON (New York Times) -- Helen Thomas, whose keen curiosity, unquenchable drive and celebrated constancy made her a trailblazing White House correspondent in a press corps dominated by men and later the doyenne of the White House briefing room, died Saturday at her apartment in Washington. She was 92. Her death was announced by the Gridiron Club where Ms. Thomas had been a ...

  • America’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media | Paul Craig Roberts

    America’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media | Paul Craig Roberts

    June 2, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The U.S. print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Coverup. This is true of the entire Western media, a collection of bought-and-paid-for whores. It seem ...

  • Limbaugh’s New Racism | Joel S. Hirschhorn

    Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 24, 2013 For some years, several times a week while driving to go shopping and do errands, I have listened to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Pretty much all the time I have become angered because every few sentences I realized that with his total sincerity and conviction he was stating absolutely incorrect things. Add to endless wrong information complete ...

  • The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.

    The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.

    Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zuccotti" While the post-hurricane environment throughout the N.Y./N.J. area once again debunked the myth of “disaster = chaos,” it also created a window of opportunity for the 99% to re-imagine some aspec ...

  • Greater Fools | Hal Cohen

    Greater Fools | Hal Cohen

    Hal Cohen -- World News Trust Sept. 13, 2012 In the final episode of the first season of “Newsroom,“ the character “Sloan,” played by Olivia Munn mentions the term “Greater Fool” as coming from economics. She states that someone who purchased something for more than its current perceived value was hoping to find a “Greater Fool” to sell it to for even more. The “Greater Fool” would buy it thinkin ...

  • The New American Dream Radio Show With Guests Paul Gionfriddo and Sherwood Ross

    CLICK HERE TO LISTEN -- Live tonight at 7:30 p.m. EDT, or On-Demand thereafter Sep. 6, 2012 -- Co-host Chuck Gregory and Mike Palecek welcome Paul Gionfriddo and Sherwood Ross to the New American Dream Radio Show. Paul Gionfriddo has been a mayor, six-term Connecticut state legislator, policy consultant, and nonprofit executive during his career. He has focused his work on public health, mental h ...

  • The New American Dream Radio Show With Guests David Marshak And Chris Jackson

    CLICK HERE TO LISTEN -- Live tonight at 7:30 p.m. EDT, or On-Demand thereafter Aug. 23, 2012 -- 7:30 P.M. -- This week The New American Dream Radio Show welcomes David Marshak, author of Kids Need the Same Teacher for More than One Year, and science fiction / fantasy writer Chris Jackson, whose latest novelScimitar War will be available on Labor Day. David Marshak has learned about the value of m ...

  • The New American Dream Radio Show With Guests Sam Smith and Sherwood Ross

    Aug. 2, 2012 -- 7:30 p.m. -- Co-hosts Mike Palecek and Chuck Gregory are pleased to welcome Sam Smith and Sherwood Ross to The New American Dream Radio Show this week. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Sam Smith is the editor of The Progressive Review, which has been providing THE NEWS WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT since 1964. Sam has been an informed observer and analyst of news for decad ...

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