Tag: Media
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#Video: #DjangoUnchained – Good, Bad Or Ugly?
from brasschecktv.com: Lots of debate about this film. Bill O’Reilly hates it. Liberals hate it. So there must be something very good about it. What’s good about it? No one can walk away from Django without viscerally understanding that all those fine mansions, fancy ladies, and gracious manners were fronts for concentration camps run by…
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Digital Download Sales Top £1 Billion In UK
from independent.co.uk: Digital sales of music, games and films have broken the £1 billion barrier for the first time, according to new figures. Research by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) shows shoppers spent £1.033 billion – an 11.4% rise – on downloads, with video games accounting for more than half that figure with sales of…
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Famed Feminist Says Hollyweird Is Ruining Women
In TV interviews, Swift affects a “golly, gee whiz” persona of cultivated blandness and self-deprecation, which is completely at odds with her shrewd glam dress sense.
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#PumpUpThaVolume: Episode035 – Keep Coming Back ♬
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫” on @PumpUpThaVolume! Episode035 – Keep Coming Back was recorded at the home studios of MediaMonarchy.com and features brand new #SongOfTheDay sounds from Mike Coykendall, Midnight Magic, Turtle Giant, The Coup, Nosaj Thing, Little Green Cars, A.C. Newman, Menahan Street Band, My Bubba and Mi, Borko, Aaron Embry,…
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Corbett Report: Episode249 – How to Manufacture (or Suppress) Outrage
Listen to @CorbettReport Radio on @RBNlive Weeknights at 7 Eastern Time from corbett report: Sandra Fluke. Justice for Trayvon. Kony 2012. The 24/7 news cycle is dominated by incessant coverage of topics of little significance. Reported in a completely decontextualized manner, the public flits from story of the week to story of the week so…
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Exclusive Article: Ambiguous Reporting Adds to Cognitive Dissonance Regarding Health Benefits of Organic Food
There is a new article making the rounds in the mainstream media this morning. It is similar to some which surfaced last month about a study condemning organic food, and it’s purported health benefits. These articles and the studies they report on compound cognitive dissonance in the public, allowing them to continue their unhealthy lifestyles,…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode129 – Censored 2013, Gupta Sachs, Activists Win
Project Censored releases its annual list of the most under-reported stories of 2013; an ex-Goldman director is jailed for insider trading (while all his criminal pals go free); and Portland water advocates win a stay of execution as city council puts the city’s fluoridation project on hold.
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New Charity Album Based Around Fugazi Samples
Chris Lawhorn will release his fifth album Fugazi Edits on October 30th on Case/Martingale Records. Fugazi Edits features 22 tracks, which were pieced together using excerpts from every song in the band Fugazi’s discography.
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#Video: Professional Liars In PR And News Media
from brasschecktv.com: You may think you’re getting news. 99.99999% of the time you’re getting carefully – and expensively – crafted bullshit. When the truth does sneak out occasionally, the error is corrected quickly. “It’s the kind of operation you carry out in enemy territory” – Noam Chomsky
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Flawed Organic Foods Study Really Just A Media Psyop
from naturalnews.com: If you read the mainstream news headlines today, you might be shocked to see headlines that say things like, “Organic foods no healthier than conventional foods” or “Organic foods may not be healthier for you.” You’ll see these headlines all across the usual disinfo outlets: NPR, Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, WebMD and…
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How Rev. Moon’s ‘Snakes’ Infested US
The death of Rev. Sun Myung Moon at 92 ends the long personal saga of a Korean theocrat whose life intertwined his bizarre religion with threads into organized crime and right-wing politics.
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Episode271 – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
“Well, the pleasure and the privilege is mine” on Media Monarchy’s last show before going on an indefinite hiatus: Episode271 – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out w/ Princess Died, This Charming Plan, ‘Compliance’ and the “We’re Not Gonna Take It/Queen Is Dead” Newspurges + All the latest from Food World Order, Cyber/SpaceWar…
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This Charming Plan: Predictive Programming, Princess Di’s Death
THE DIANA-#MORRISSEY PHENOMENON August 31, 1978: 19 year-old Steven Morrissey first meets guitarist Johnny Marr, the one who will launch Morrissey’s career several years later by aggressively enlisting him to co-found a band: The Smiths. August 31, 1997: 19 years to-the-day since Morrissey met guitarist Johnny Marr, Princess Diana is killed under circumstances foreshadowed in…
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‘Compliance’ Highlights Temptations, Perils Of Blind Obedience
from guardian.co.uk: One can object to some of its particulars, but Frank Bruni has a quite interesting and incisive New York Times column today about a new independent film called Compliance, which explores the human desire to follow and obey authority. Based on real-life events that took place in 2004 at a McDonalds in Kentucky, the…
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RNC 2012 Coverage Threatened By Isaac, Media Covers Storm
from huffingtonpost.com: Republicans gathering to formally nominate Mitt Romney in Tampa are having to grapple with a media that has one eye trained firmly on Tropical Storm Isaac — and is sending many of its biggest stars to cover the extreme weather. 15,000 journalists have traveled down to Florida to cover the Republican convention –…