corporate media

Maia Szalavitz, July 30, 2007
Just what did a new study on marijuana and schizophrenia actually say - and what did the media leave out?

Watching the media cover marijuana is fascinating, offering deep insight into conventional wisdom, bias and failure to properly place science in context. The coverage of a new study claiming that marijuana increases the risk of later psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia by 40% displays many of these flaws.

Electoral Troubles ? Just Say Terrorism !

http://media.libsyn.com/media/nimbinradiomedia/sdo__92_evryone_cries_wolf.mp3

Sic Keidas
Ugly Trolls
Gumtree with Terrorism Games
General Major Rudy Schwarzkopf
George King of the Apes
Terrorists Stakes
Look Out !
Policy for the Dark Ages
Miraculous Activist
Australian Media Salad
Nimbin Cinema

Check out the caption in the photo at http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22093752-2,00.html -- as long as the link still works!

I took a screen shot of the offending page at 6.23am and submitted a comment on the story, drawing attention to the error, at 6.33am. By 3.53pm, the offending story had been replaced by an alternative story (with a different URL) on the "National | Federal" page. But the offending page had been neither pulled nor corrected.

-- Gavin R. Putland.

Yesterday I argued that the charge against Dr Mohamed Haneef was unconstitutional. Today the Minister for Immigration, by an executive decision, has rendered that point moot. More: http://bushlawyer.blogspot.com/2007/07/haneef-so-much-for-separation-of-powers.html.

The whole saga only developed las week, on Wednesday and Thursday, after they actually threatened "to go" blogger Peter Brent, from http://www.mumble.com.au , and Charles Richardson (from Crikey) who had both been quite effective and meticulous in their critical dissecting of The Australian's analysis and opinion pieces, especially regarding The Australian's interpretation of polling data. Next, the Blog Wars between the Mainstream Media (MSM) and the Oz Blogosphere escalated to unseen polemical heights.

To say the Fairfax and Macquarie acquisition of Southern Cross Broadcasting is causing consternation among the shock-jocks at Sydney's 2UE and Melbourne's 3AW is an understatement. For far too long, the intellectual anorexics who have dominated commercial radio in Sydney and Melbourne have been able to pursue their one dimensional reactionary agendas without opposition. It is heartening to note on completion of the purchase, Fairfax will acquire sole control of Sydney's 2UE, Melbourne's 3AW and talkback stations in Brisbane and Perth.

* The Collective of “El Libertario”, Venezuelan anarchist newspaper, makes public its reasoned out position in the debate generated by the case of RCTV, in where the current government imposes a solution where we pass from the meanness that the capitalistic private oligopoly of TV to the dreadful that could be the monopoly of a bureaucratic and authoritarian state.