In honor of our national corporate media sellout to the Bush gang, I hereby rename the corporate outlets with the right and proper Pravda and Investia additions to their names to point exactly how much they currently resemble the Russian corporate police state media of 1950 to 1980.
Jaundiced James' Parrot Rating System for US mass Media, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, California:
"Awk, awk, Polly wants a semi-fascist state, awk, awk."
"Awk, awk, Polly loves the Republican-rigged 2004 Presidential election, awk, awk."
by James K. Sayre
13 December 2004
Rating scale:
0 parrots = virtually no parroting of the Bush Adminstration's party line
1 parrot = some parroting of the Bush Adminstration's party line
2 parrots = significantly parroting of the Bush Administration's party line
3 parrots = mostly parroting of the Bush Administration's party line
4 parrots = virtually completely parroting of the Bush Administration's party line
Overview:
The corporate establishment media in the United States, lead by privately-owned cable television "news" stations, major newspapers and chains of radio stations have given the Bush Administration and its radical reactionary policies virtually a free ride from the summer of 2000 until the fall of 2003, when Governor Howard Dean, a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President gained large support for his tough criticism of the Bush war on Iraq and of domestic Bush policy failures. Now with the very sore loser Bush having just stolen his second Presidential election, we are again faced with the Rip-van-Winkle What Me Worry corporate media being unable to investigate the particulars of just how Diebold voting machines gave Bush his "mandate."
Media
Cable television news channels:
Investia-CNN (Cable News Network) or CNN News - 4 parrots
Investia-Fox News - 4 parrots (unfair and unbalanced to say the least; a virtually mouthpiece for the Bush Neocon Admin.
International News - 2 parrots
Investia-MSNBC - 3 parrots
CSPAN - 1 parrot
CSPAN2 - 1 parrot
Network News programs
Investia-NBC - 3 parrots
Investia-ABC - 3 parrots
Investia-CBS - 3 parrots
Local television news programs
Investia-Network affiliates - 4 parrots
Investia-Independents - 4 parrots
Investia-PBS - 3 parrots
Radio stations in S. F. Bay Area
Investia-KSFO - 560 AM - 4 parrots
Investia-KCBS - 740 AM - 4 parrots
Investia-KGO - 810 AM - (Evening and early AM talk show hosts) - 1 parrot
Investia-KNEW - 910 AM - talk - 4 parrots
KPFA - 94.1 FM - listener-supported independent radio- 0 parrots KPFA radio
Investia-KQED - 88.5 FM - PBS - 3 parrots
KQKE - 960 AM - Air America Radio Network - 0 parrots Air America Radio
Newspapers available in the S. F. Bay Area:
Pravda-New York Times - 3 parrots
Pravda-Los Angeles Times - 3 parrots
Pravda-Wall Street Journal - 4 parrots
Pravda-USA Today - 4 parrots
Sacramento Bee - 2 parrots Sacramento Bee
Pravda-San Francisco Chronicle - 3 parrots San Francisco Chronicle
Pravda-San Jose Mercury News - 3 parrots San Jose Mercury News
Pravda-Contra Costa Times - 3 parrots Contra Costa Times
San Francisco Bay Guardian - 0 parrots (unfortunately, the SFBG has its own very narrow political agenda and thus shows little interest in anything else).
Local, East Bay newspapers:
The Montclarion - 2 parrots
Berkeley Daily Planet - 0 parrots
East Bay Express - no known or knowable political agenda or slant
Some progessive Internet Web sites:
Check out the Alternative media web links on my site: Alternative Media: - 0 parrots
Progressive talk radio? Yes, its hear at Air America Radio Network. Check out their web site at: Air America Radio It is now broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area at "the Quake" KQEK, 960 AM. Very funny and very informative. - 0 parrots
Check out the Center for American Progress web site at: Center for American Progress - 2 parrots
Do we share common dreams? Check out their web site at: CommonDreams.org - 0 parrots
Check out the Online Journal web site at: Online Journal - 0 parrots
Read my quick overview of the dismal record of U. S. interventions in foreign countries in the past one hundred and five years. Thumbnail sketches of United States imperialistic interventions, military adventures, takeovers and other busy-bodying in foreign countries in the last 106 years (1898 - 2004) - 0 parrots
Then check out the Haiti Action.net web site: Haiti Action.net - 0 parrots
Tom Paine - Common Sense Tom Paine - 0 parrots
The Bush Watch web site Bush Watch - 0 parrots
www.mediawhoresonline.com/. Media Whores Online - 0 parrots
www.truthout.org/. TruthOut - 0 parrots
The Crisis Papers.org/ - The Crisis Papers - 0 parrots
Black Box Voting.org web site - 0 parrots
Voverifiedvoting.org - Verified Voting.org web site. - 0 parrots
www.bringthemhomenow.org/. Bring Them Home Now - 0 parrots
Iraq Occupation Watch - 0 parrots
My very own Daily Rant: The Daily Rant: - 0 parrots
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