Maiello: Defeat the Press
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Does anyone else besides me find it...um...interesting...that a Republican seeking to unseat Harry Reid, Danny Tarkanian, is advertising here at the cafe? His tag line is "Help Finish Reagan's Last Campaign".
I'm not sure what to conclude from that. Does this mean the folks running Tarkanian's campaign really aren't too sharp at identifying promising ad buys? Does it mean that they figured there is so much venom directed at Harry Reid at this site that it must be a Republican site?
I might have offered "maybe he's a moderate Republican". But would a moderate Republican invoke the prospect of finishing Ronald Reagan's agenda at a site where probably 90-95% of the ordinary folk written contributions appear to come from Dems and Indies? Hmm. I would guess that more than 5-10% of the folks who write here voted for Reagan at least once, though...
By Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. If you are wondering how far PBS is willing to go to placate David Koch to keep their funding? It gives you a look into the special documentry "Citizen Koch" and its fall out. The program was never aired except at Sundance. David Koch resigned from WNET on May 16th.
By Judith Durbin via vocativ.com 5/20
Syrian rebels under siege in a strategic city on the Lebanese border are increasingly turning to social media to wage psychological warfare, according to Vocativ analysts monitoring the region.
The town of Al Qusayr has become ground zero in the war between rebel fighters on the one side and the joint forces of President Bashar Al Assad and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Some of the most intense fighting has taken place there over the last few days. The New York Times reports both sides consider this battle a turning point in the larger civil war that has been raging for more than two years.
With so...
A collection of links and comments dealing with government spying and intimidation of journalists