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Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg Is America Polarized?

25 min 38 sec - Oct 14, 2004
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Description: One of the most enduring images of the 2000 presidential election is the map of an America divided between the Republican Red states in the south and west, and Democratic Blue states on the coasts and Great Lakes. Many academics and pundits say a hopeless cultural divide between Red and Blue was polarizing the nation as never before. But does the so-called cultural divide really exist? Is the Red and Blue map of America just a new graphic representation of an old political fact of life? Guests: Morris Fiorina, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and author of 'Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America'; Michael Barone, senior writer of US News and World Report, author of 'Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling, and the Battle for the Nations Future' and coauthor of 'The Almanac of American Politics.'

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Global Warming Climate Catastrophe - Cancelled!

24 min 35 sec - Jan 28, 2007
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Description: Real scientists discuss the CO2='global warming' myth.

Related links: The Petition Project - Over 17,000 scientists speak out against global warming & the Kyoto protocol. Why aren't any of these voices ever heard on TV? http://www.oism.org/pproject/
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

Skeptical View of an Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore's NWO propaganda rebutted http://www.cei.org/pdf/5539.pdf

Global Warming the Chilling Effect on Free Speech http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1782/

Leading scientific journals 'are censoring debate on global warming' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/01/wglob01.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/01/ixworld.html

Against the catastrophic environmental disaster of third world immigration. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5871651411393887069

Who Owns the Environmentalist Movement? "Far from a grass roots movement, environmentalism is a big business, funded and directed by the leading families of the U.S. and European establishments" http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/un/environment.htm
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The Myth Of The Liberal Media

59 min 33 sec - Apr 1, 2006
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Description: The propaganda of model news featuring Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman and Justin Lewis. How the media really work and who decides what is news. 1997

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UK (C4) Documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle

1 hr 13 min 32 sec - Mar 8, 2007
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Description: According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it. We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming.

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Pack journalism alive and well

 

Republican support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to be eroding over what the press and Democrats are claiming is the politically motivated firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Congress-Prosecutors.html

 

It looks like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may be the next victim in a situation that has already brought the resignation of his chief of staff Kyle Sampson.   The worst that can be said of their actions is that they have shown incompetence and political naivity.

 

Sampson's email shows no evidence that the firings were politically motivated.  Instead, the prosecutors were fired because they were not following Justice Department direction.   One prosecutor Carol Lam was let go because "she made a conscious decision to de-prioritize immigration cases" in San Diego. Another fired U.S. attorney took action only after illegal immigrants were arrested 13 times. (Details of the case are available at patterico.com.)

 

Yet, the press and the Democrats are convincing the public that the attorneys were let go because they wouldn't prosecute politically motivated investigations. This is another example of pack journalism.

 

Pack journalism occurs because news organizations follow each other in leading with the same story.   Stories fuel each other, often covering the same points again and again.  Journalists become the focus and sources of stories, rather than being the simple reporter.   Thus, in 2005 for example, we had months of coverage of stories like the Terri Schiavo case and Mark Peterson trial. To get new angles on these stories the press ended up reporting what each other was doing.

 

Individual journalists spend time with each other covering the same topic. They share information and rely on each other for news tips and follow similar angels in their coverage of stories.   They begin to think and act alike, becoming homogenous in their approach to news coverage.  Because they feed on each other, little new investigation is needed and little new information comes forward.  

 

This would not be such a problem except that journalists often set the agenda that both politicians and the public follow. Pack mentality of the press extends itself to politicians as well.   Once the pack starts howling, gnarling, and chewing on its prey, it is not likely to let go until the beast is downed and finished.  This is what we see happening in the story about the firing of U.S. attorneys.  The media are framing this story as being politically motivated and the Democrats are playing it to the hilt.   

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Prescription For Disaster (Gary Null)

1 hr 32 min 56 sec - Oct 23, 2006
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Description: Prescription for Disaster is an in-depth investigation into the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, lobbyists, lawmakers, medical schools, and researchers, and the impact this has on consumers and their health care. During this thorough investigation, we take a close look at patented drugs, why they are so readily prescribed by doctors, the role insurance companies and HMO's play in promoting compliance, and the problem of rising health care costs. We examine the marketing and public relations efforts on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies, including sales reps, medical journals and conferences. Further, we look at alternatives to traditional pharmacology and drug therapy, such as vitamins and nutritional supplements, and why they are often perceived as a competitive threat to the drug manufacturers. Alternative therapies also include diet, exercise and a healthy lifestyle. Prescription for Disaster takes you on a journey through the tangled web of big business, the way disease is treated today, and the consequences we suffer as a society.

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Big Bucks Big Pharma

1 hr 8 min 22 sec - Feb 24, 2007
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Description: Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined, these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors understand and relate to disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big Pharma challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being. Featuring interviews with Dr. Marcia Angell (Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Former Editor New England Journal of Medicine), Dr. Bob Goodman (Columbia University Medical Center; Founder, No Free Lunch), Gene Carbona (Former Pharmaceutical Industry Insider and Current Executive Director of Sales, The Medical Letter), Katharine Greider (Journalist; Author, The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers,), Dr. Elizabeth Preston (Dept. of Communication, Westfield State College), and Dr. Larry Sasich (Public Citizen Health Research Group).

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