Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalAbsolutely. And Alan Ford almost didn't get the role.
He was on his third or fourth interview and forgot to put on his contacts and had to wear his glasses that time. Guy Ritchie saw him and knew at once. And I do mean knew.
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/joes-film-flashback-snatch-2000-524690
The Media Monopoly
A phrase thats not heard on TV, coined by the late Ben Bagdikian.
Ben Bagdikian, Visionary
Jeff Cohen
Fairness and Accuracy In Media FAIR, March 12, 2016
EXCERPT...
Before almost anyone else, Ben warned about the impact of the modern wave of media mergers that accelerated during the Reagan years (and accelerated further during the Clinton administration). In the first years of FAIR, I heard from various sympathetic journalists in mainstream media who said they were thrilled that, finally, a proworking journalist media watch group had formed . . . but that we were off-base to emphasize the impact of corporate ownersthat the problem was in the newsroom far more than the boardroom. A few years and a few mergers later, these same journalists told us that wed been right, almost propheticthat boardrooms were undermining journalism, often quite nakedly.
But we werent the visionaries. It was Ben Bagdikian who was the seer.
Ben was a journalists journalistfrom his years as a local reporter to his years at the Washington Post (where he played a crucial role in publishing the Pentagon Papers and went undercover as an inmate in a maximum-security prison). He served the public, not the boardroomand luckily for him, he got out of corporate media before the conglomerate era.
SNIP...
Bens motto through all these decades could have been: Tell the Truth and Stand Strong.
The New York Times obit for Ben (3/11/16) quotes his message to his journalism students at UC Berkeley:
Never forget that your obligation is to the people. It is not, at heart, to those who pay you, or to your editor, or to your sources, or to your friends, or to the advancement of your career. It is to the public.
SOURCE: http://fair.org/home/ben-bagdikian-visionary/
Additional info on corporate owned news:
http://www.corporations.org/media/
https://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html
Media Monopoly: Great for the Billionaires, another disaster for Democracy.
If so, Fascism is what's for dinner.
"I look at a White Nationalist as a Trump Republican' - Tubby the NAZI
My grandfather and his brothers fought a war to end Fascism. His grandfathers fought in the Civil War to preserve the Union and to end slavery. I am so ashamed to write that today turds like Tommy Tubberville work to normalize NAZISM.
GOP Senator Under Fire Doubles Down:
I Look at a White Nationalist as a Trump Republican
By David Badash
The New Civil Rights Movement, May 12, 2023
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is not walking away from the firestorm he lit earlier this week when he declared white nationalists are simply Americans. Now, doubling down, the former college football coach has announced a white nationalist is simply a Trump Republican.
Tuberville, already under fire for holding up 184 U.S. Armed Forces promotions or appointments, has been promoting white nationalism by claiming hes just trying to help the military meet its recruiting goals
NBC News Julie Tsirkin asked Senator Tuberville, Do you want to clarify your comments?
The Democrats characterize all MAGA Republicans in the military as white nationalists, Tuberville incorrectly told her. Wrong. Okay, we cant get politics in the military. This has nothing to do with extremists and all that this, you know, my first day here was January 6 had several senators stand up on the Senate floor saying to me we got too many white nationalists, I mean, what the heck is that?
We all got different beliefs. You know, Im a church Christ, Catholics, we got different people. And we all have to make one military. We cant start distinguishing different types of people. Okay. Thats all I say.
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https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/05/us-senator-under-fire-doubles-down-i-look-at-a-white-nationalist-as-a-trump-republican-video/
Alabama was so different before Rove railroaded Don Siegelman.
The Visuals
Hong Kong newspaper shuts down cartoonist on Beijing's orders.
Hong Kong newspaper to stop publishing drawings by prominent cartoonist after government complaints
by Kanis Leung
AP, May 11, 2023
HONG KONG (AP) A Hong Kong newspaper announced Thursday it will stop publishing drawings by the citys most prominent political cartoonist after they drew government complaints, in another example of restrictions on speech and media after a Beijing-led crackdown.
Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao did not explain why it is ending its 40-year partnership with Wong Kei-kwan on Sunday. Wong, better known by the pen name Zunzi, told The Associated Press the decision was made through mutual consultation.
Everyone knows why publication has to be halted, but no one will confirm the reason, he said in a text message to the AP with two emojis showing a laughing face.
His comic drawings caricatured Hong Kong societys frustrations since before the then-British colony was returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-political-cartoonist-censorship-zunzi-bd360ca03a062c88efae356e39955578
They check their tiki torches at the door?
What made me sad was letting someone who should have been in the audience interview the traitor.
Give a Shitnozzle a room and he sullies a place.
Give a Shitnozzle a microphone and he infects a country.
Equal Time, CNN. Otherwise, it's an hour long disinfommercial.
And include an audience of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.
Please.
Tommy Tuberville exposed as part of the problem.
Knew he was a crook. Now his NAZI-Dixie heritage shines through for all to see.Not One Single Republican Votes for Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military and Police
Zero House Republicans supported a measure requiring the Pentagon and federal law enforcement agencies to publish a report on countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in their ranks.
KENNY STANCIL
CommonDreams, July 14, 2022
Zero House Republicans on Wednesday supported a measure requiring the Pentagon and federal law enforcement agencies to publish a report on countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in their ranks.
Rep. Brad Schneider's (D-Ill.) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023 directing the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense "to publish a report that analyzes and sets out strategies to combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies" passed in a party-line 218-208 vote.
Among present lawmakers, Democrats were unified in support and Republicans in opposition. Reps. Theodore Deutch (D-Fla.), Kevin Brady (R-Texas), Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) did not vote.
Snip
Schneider's proposal requests "figures on the number of people who were discharged from uniformed services or law enforcement because of situations involving white supremacy and neo-Nazi activity," The Hill reported. It also calls for "information on how the agency leaders responded to 'planned or effectuated incidents' connected to white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/not-one-single-republican-votes-probe-neo-nazis-us-military-and-police
Republicans are OK with white supremacy. And the KKK. And NAZIs.
Sad for the United States of America.
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