NBC, CBS, ABC, & FOX happy to profit from marijuana,
as long as nobody talks about legalizing it
Guest post by Russ Belville Monday, August 3, 2009
Marijuana legalization is the hottest topic in the media these days. MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, FOX, NatGeo, and CBS News have presented special features on marijuana business, medical marijuana, and the marijuana legalization movement.
Google Trends is showing double the interest in searches and news hits for the term "marijuana legalization".
Showtime's hit series Weeds, about a suburban mom turned pot dealer, is entering its fifth season. Everywhere you look, corporate media are happy to profit from America's most popular herb.
Unless you want to address marijuana's illegality and the lives that are shattered by the effects of marijuana prohibition. In that case, the corporate media cannot have anything to do with you, even if you want to pay to broadcast the message of ending adult marijuana prohibition...
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GE's silencing of Olbermann / Fox muzzles O'Really
Saturday Aug. 1, 2009
So here we have yet another example -- perhaps the most glaring yet -- of the corporations that own our largest media outlets controlling and censoring the content of their news organizations based on the unrelated interests of the parent corporation.
Countdown
Cable News Journos Expose The Insurance Industry
Paid Mobs Targeting Democrats At Town Hall Meetings
Keith Olbermann Gives Contradictory Statement to Glenn Greenwald
The bronze to Brian Seltzer of the New York Times front page story -- front page story Saturday -- about a "deal" in which, as the headline read, voices from above silence a cable TV feud problem -- Mr. Stelter asked me at least twice last week if there was such a deal, and I told him on and off the record there was not, and I told him that I would obviously have to be a party to such a deal, and I told him that not only wasn't I, but I had not even been asked to be by my bosses. And he printed it anyway.
The Town Hall Mobs
It now seems clear that 'tea party' movement types, organized by highly-funded corporate backed outfits like "Freedom Works" are putting together a plan to disrupt and shut down as many town hall events as possible. That's entirely different from making sure you've got a lot of activists at events with t-shirts or protesting with pickets outside the venue or making sure one of your activists gets to ask a question. This amounts to a sort of civic vigilanteism.
But watch closely whether reports covering these events recognize the difference.
Rachel Maddow on GOP Thugishness at Town Halls: This is Called Hooliganism
By Heather Tuesday Aug 04, 2009 6:00am
Rachel Maddow reports on the "town halls gone wild" that industry backed astroturf groups like Americans for Prosperity are involved in disrupting.
Right Wing Tea Parties: Brooks Brothers Riot, Redux
Brooks Brothers Riot Thug Roger Stone
Maybe there wouldn't have been a war if I hadn't gone to Miami-Dade.
Rove's Replacement Brags About "Brooks Brother Riot"
Miami 'Riot' Squad: Where Are They Now?
By Al Kamen Monday, January 24, 2005; Page A13
With help from their GOP colleagues and others, we identified some of these Republican heroes of yore in a photo of the event.
GOPervert Tea Baggers for Oxy Fauxnews
Right Wing Tea Parties: Brooks Brothers Riot, Redux
Legislators for sale
Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats in Congress
are failing to represent their constituents in the health care fight.
Time for Conversation About Medical Marijuana
August 02, 2009
Iowa is about to explore whether sick residents should be allowed to use marijuana to treat health problems, including pain and nausea.
And Kurly keeps lying, as per his job's mandate
In Operation SOS, more than 314,000 plants were uprooted in 70 gardens -- numbers expected to rise as the enforcement action continues.
“Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit.”
— White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, at a Fresno, Calif., press conference yesterday
Not again.
In fact — and it's getting a little tiresome to keep repeating it — the esteemed Institute of Medicine, American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, American Academy of HIV Medicine, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Lymphoma Foundation of America, American Academy of HIV Medicine, and dozens of other medical organizations recognize marijuana's medical value.
What's more, President Obama's own statements on the campaign trail about marijuana's medical efficacy run counter to his new drug czar's statements yesterday.
We need to stop this in its tracks. Would you please speak out against this ridiculous, outdated argument:
1. Please use
MPP's online action center to e-mail the president about the drug czar's statement.
2. Please call the drug czar's office at (202) 395-6700 to politely complain that we're still hearing this sort of nonsense.
We need to make sure the drug czar receives the message loud and clear that the anti-science Bush era is over.
Thank you,
Rob Kampia, Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, D.C.
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?
Is there something in the water over at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy that turns every new drug czar into a babbling idiot? If not, how else can one explain the latest statement from new ONDCP honcho Gil Kerlikowske? Has he somehow been possessed by the spirit of his predecessor,
Feature: Censorship in South Dakota
Marijuana Activist Silenced By Judge as Condition of Probation
The Lie of Balance
With the exception of occasional investigative articles or self-styled "analyses," modern journalism too often reverts to a formula where "fairness" and "balance" - to use the famous buzz words - prevail over "honesty" or "truth."
The Ganjawar Fraud
How The Canadian Media Import Counterfeit News From The States.
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don’t Check the Facts
Front Page Fantasy: The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, “causing costly cross-border delays.” Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.
“But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public….”
— The New York Times[/i]
Bad research makes headlines
UN Condemns UK Cannabis Laws
D.E.A. Confirms Grounds To Remove Cannabis from Sch#1
Police officials lied to toughen laws...
A Lie College Students Might Want To Tell
D.E.A.th Deceptions
PDFA - Slickly Packaged Lies.
The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire
The Police State Cometh by Ron Paul
DEA implements US police state
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