Don’t we ever learn? I mean seriously. First conservatives release hidden video of ACORN employees supposedly breaking the law. Congress responds by destroying ACORN. Then the videotapes are found to have been highly doctored and didn’t show any wrongdoing on the part of the employees, but oops, it is too late for ACORN. Then conservatives […]
Despite Jon Stewart poking fun at us for trying to take credit for the relatively peaceful revolution in Egypt, I really do have to wonder what role the Internet played in all this. Is free exchange of information making it more difficult for dictators to control their populations? I hope so.
Author Douglas Rushkoff has an interesting take on the current Facebook phenomenon, which he likens to a bubble in our increasingly short attention span world, where we can’t even remember what happened to MySpace, or AOL, or a host of other flavor of the moment companies. But as usual, I’ll leave the last word to […]
© Jim Morin Who says comedy can’t change the world? In his last show of the year, Jon Stewart dedicated the entire show to shaming the Republicans for unanimously filibustering a bill that would fund health care for the 9/11 first responders whose health was affected by their heroic efforts. Suddenly, the bill was back […]
In his first TV interview since being released from jail, Julian Assange makes several very strong points: First, Assange makes the point that WikiLeaks is a legitimate part of the media, and if people think they can avoid government attack by not defending WikiLeaks they don’t understand history: They believe that if they sell us […]
© Ruben Bolling If Julian Assange is guilty of espionage, then so are a whole lot of other journalists.
Just how in bed with the health insurance industry is our government? And just how lazy is our media? I’ll leave it up to you to decide, but I can’t think of any other way to describe this. On Friday, WikiLeaks released another set of secret State Department cables, including one from a state department […]
[I am reprinting this in its entirety because Michael Moore’s servers seem to be having problems.] Why I’m Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange By Michael Moore Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put […]
In a recent press briefing, a US State Department spokesman was asked whether the State Department considered WikiLeaks to be a media organization: Q: Do you know if the State Department regards WikiLeaks as a media organization? A: No. We do not. Q: And why not? A: WikiLeaks is not a media organization. That is […]
[This is fake news, reprinted from Andy Borowitz] In the first major policy fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures, the State Department has ordered all U.S. diplomats to “cease and desist telling the truth until further notice.” “We are working overtime to try to make sure that leaks like these don’t happen again,” Secretary of State […]
© Matt Davies Regardless of what you think about WikiLeaks, it is clear that the traditional art of diplomacy will be changed. Is something like WikiLeaks an inevitable result of the Internet age? Just to remind you of traditional diplomacy, here are some of my favorite quotes: DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic […]
Level 3, who operate one of the Internet backbones, issued a press release today about Comcast, one of their customers. Here is an excerpt: On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to […]
The CBC is reporting that the US government has notified the Canadian government that WikiLeaks is about to release US diplomatic files that are so sensitive that they could “damage US relations with allies around the world” and could even “result in the expulsion of US diplomats from foreign postings.” If this is true, it […]
I’m getting tired of the media noting things like that the majority of Americans think Obama raised their taxes (instead of what he really did, which was cut them) and then concluding that it is Obama’s fault because he hasn’t been very good at messaging. Isn’t it the media’s job to report news like this? […]
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