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Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010
Here they are, according to this site: PROJECT CENSORED
* 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
* 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
* 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
* 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
* 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
* 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
* 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
* 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
* 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
* 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate
* 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine
* 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
* 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War
* 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts
* 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco
* 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
* 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan
* 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature
* 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor
* 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates
* 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare
* 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team
* 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
* 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
* 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon
Fancy-Shmancy RNC Video Comes With a Little Truth…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864kh6hJlyg[/youtube]
Aside from having more stock photography and a fancier veneer than you’d think the RNC could muster, this video actually comes with a little truth.
Where most people take issue with the idea of health care and health insurance reform is wherever it might limit their ability to choose for themselves. Proponents of the reform are well aware of this, and have done much to try to assuage these fears. “… let’s give you choices, let’s give you options,” says Barack Obama, “That’s been my proposal.”
In reality, though, what kind of options will we be left with? The video points out that, aside from other taxes, legislators have proposed a tax on anyone who deliberately chooses not to participate – the vast majority of those uninsured millions in the US.
The reform debate is a hugely important debate whose outcome will have some major far-reaching impacts on the future of our country, which is why I say, let’s not mince words and let’s not try to fool each other. Good or bad, whatever you believe, the proposed reform may make some options more accessible to some, but it will definitely limit your freedom to choose.
Deseret News grows, described as “bulletproof” by newspaper analyst
The ongoing decline of newspapers is well documented.
The Deseret News, under its mantra of being “More Mormon and More Local,” is poised to thrive, however. No one ever said the “Mo-Mo-Mo-Lo” business model wasn’t going to be smart business, those of us who lamented it were more upset that news objectivity was appearing to go out the window.
Now, however, not only is the business model for the News being called sound by newspaper analysts, the DesNews’ relationship with the LDS Church has it being described as a bulletproof newspaper, and possibly the only one in the country when you see big dogs like USA Today and the New York Times struggling.
Veteran newspaper analyst John Morton said The Salt Lake Tribune remains viable but that the Deseret News stands out for being practically bulletproof.
“The Deseret News will survive because the church wants it to,” said Morton, president of media consulting firm Morton Research Inc. of Silver Spring, Md.
According to Paul Foy’s AP article, former SLTrib publisher Dominic Welch was sort of prophetic and called this a dozen years ago. During a board meeting at the DNews, Welch apparently walked into the meeting and said “This town isn’t big enough for two newspapers … it ain’t going to be you (that fails.)”
I think it’s great that the church will likely stand behind the DesNews, but I have a hard time reconciling the DesNews as the only paper in the Salt Lake market, given the recent stories about various articles being killed or changed to present favorable coverage to the church. It’s one thing if the DesNews exists as a niche publication, they can get away with that, but if they’re the main media voice in the market (assuming a world without the Trib) then that is bad for the media consumers.
Source: Deseret News | Bucking trends, Utah’s Mormon newspaper sees gains.
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