A strong propaganda media presence is necessary for the perpetuation of your regime political party – lest your subjects forget whom to alternately fear and worship. If your regime happens to operate within a plutocratic semblance of a republic democracy, the next best thing to broadcasting your superiority will be denigrating your opposition. Where your [...]
Update: Drones killing people attending the funerals of people killed by drones. “Three missiles were fired by drones as people were dispersing after offering funeral prayers for Niazi Wali,” the official said, referring to a militant commander killed in an earlier drone attack. – Dozens dead in US drone strike at BBC News On Sept. [...]
Many points worth considering are made in this documentary.
The world still lingers just shy of a full-out pandemic, according to World Health Organization officials. While confirmed cases of a new influenza strain and related hospitalizations in the United States continue to rise, no new deaths have been reported. – Worldwide flu cases top 700 at USAToday.com That number is nowhere near the number [...]
Disclaimer: I do not own a television (nor do I plan to own one). I have no idea how bad it is really getting out there – but I can guess. Traditional democratic theory assumes that people are naturally endowed for self-government. The people, in this theory, are informed by the press. There are three [...]
A rather amazing thing happened this week in the often somewhat sorry state of reporting of medical research: a newspaper allowed an author of a scientific paper the chance to correct what he felt were misperceptions in the reporting of his work. [...] Although the article in the Guardian was, as Baron Cohen noted “mostly [...]
It is reassuring to see that the press is picking up on the historical practice of overpricing and under-vetting pharmaceuticals… A small outburst of reports in recent days provides enough of a sample to build a scary theory about how drug makers are getting the better of the FDA, doctors and patients. One case involves [...]
