Censored 2012 (37 page)

30
. A. J. Daulerio, “Brett Favre’s Cell Phone Seduction of Jennifer Sterger,”
Deadspin
, October 7, 2010,
http://deadspin.com/5658206/brett-favres-cellphone-seduction-of-jenn-sterger
; “AP: NFL, Brett Favre meet about texts, photos,”
USA Today
, October 19, 2010,
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/vikings/2010-10-19-brett-favre-meeting_N.htm
; “Sterger retains legal counsel in Favre case,” CNN, October 20, 2010,
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/football/10/20/favre.sterger.lawyer/index.html
.

31
. “Brett Favre NAKED pictures? Alleged Penis Photos Surface,”
Huffington Post
, October 17, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/brett-favre-naked-pictures-photos_n_754490.html
.

32
. “Jenn Sterger: Sexts, Start-Ups, and Single Life.”

33
. Mark Jurkowitz, “PEJ News Coverage Index: June 6–12, 2011,” PEW Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism,
www.journalism.org/index_report/news_coverage_index_june_612_2011
.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Anne Landman, “Twitter the Winner in Weinergate,” PR Watch, June 8, 2011,
http://www.prwatch.org/node/10801
.

36
. Bernd Debusmann, “Failed: The War on Drugs and a Milestone Critique by Bernd Debusmann,” Reuters, June 3, 2011,
http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebus-mann/2011/06/03/the-war-on-drugs-and-a-milestone-critique/
.

37
. Gareth Porter, “Ninety Percent of Petraeus’s Captured ‘Taliban’ Were Civilians,” Inter Press Service, June 12, 2011,
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp
.

38
. “Iraq Will Ask US Troops to Stay Post-2011, says Panetta,” BBC, June 10, 2011,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13722786
.

39
. Zaid Jilani, “The $2.5 Trillion Tragedy: What America Has Given Up For 10 Years Of Bush Tax Cuts … and Counting,” Think Progress, June 7, 2011,
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/07/237560/10-years-bush-tax-cuts/
.

40
. Ed Pilkington, “One in Four US Hackers is an FBI Informer,”
Guardian, June 6
, 2011,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer
.

41
. Susannah Breslin, “Weinergate Offers a Window Into America’s Faux-Prudery,”
Forbes
, June 3, 2011,
http://blogs.forbes.com/susannahbreslin/2011/06/03/wein-ergate-offers-a-window-into-americas-faux-prudery/
.

42
. For the original and more detailed definition and explanation of News Abuse, see Peter Phillips, ed.,
Censored 2003
(New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004), 196.

43
. Andrew Breitbart, “Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism—2010,”
Big Government
, July 1
9, 2010
,
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/
.

44
.
Matea Gold, “Bill O’Reilly apologizes to Shirley Sherrod for ‘not doing my homework,’ ”
Los Angeles Times
, July 21, 2010,
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/07/bill-oreilly-apologizes-to-shirley-sherrod-for-not-doing-my-homework.html
.

45
. Andrew Breitbart, “Shock Undercover Video Shows ACORN Workers Advising ‘Pimp’ & ‘Prostitute’ to Avoid Law,”
http://www.breitbart.tv/shock-undercover-video-shows-acorn-workers-advising-pimp-prostitute-to-avoid-law/
.

46
. Frank James, “Shock Undercover Video Shows ACORN Workers Advising ‘Pimp’ & ‘Prostitute’ to Avoid Law,’ National News, NPR, December 7, 2009,
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/12/acorn_workers_cleared_of_illeg.html
; California Department of Justice Office of The Attorney General, Report of The Attorney General on The Activities of ACORN in California, April 1, 2010,
http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf
.

47
. Matt Sledge and Jack Mirkinson, “Andrew Breitbart Takes Over Anthony Weiner’s Press Conference (VIDEO),”
Huffington Post
, June 6, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/andrew-breitbart-hijacks-_n_872066.html
.

48
. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, “The 9/11 Mosque’s Peace Charade,”
Big Government
, May 18, 2010,
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/05/18/the-911-mosques-peace-charade/
; also see Geller and Spencer’s website for Stop Islamization of America at
http://sioaonline.com/
.

49
. Ajay Singh Chaundary, “The ‘Mosque Affair,’ or, Far and Away the Country’s Most Ridiculous Controversy,”
Huffington Post
, August 17, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ajay-singh-chaudhary/the-mosque-affair-or-far-_b_684141.html
.

50
. Geller and Spencer, “The 9/11 Mosque’s Peace Charade,”
Big Government
, May 18, 2010,
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/05/18/the-911-mosques-peace-charade/
.

51
. Jeff Jacoby, “A mosque at ground zero?”
Boston
Globe, June 6, 2010,
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/06/06/a_mosque_at_ground_zero/
.

52
. Andrea Peyser, “Mosque madness at Ground Zero,”
New York Post
, May 13, 2010,
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/mosque_madness_at_ground_zero_OQ34EB0MWS0lXuAnQau5uL#ixzz1PODqLbP5
.

53
. “Rallies Over Ground Zero Mosque Get Heated,”
FoxNews.com
, August 23, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/22/supporters-opponents-ground-zero-mosque-hold-dueling-rallies/#ixzz1POEOWw6B
.

54
. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, “The 9/11 Mosque’s Peace Charade,”
Big Government
, May 18, 2010,
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/05/18/the-911-mosques-peace-charade/
.

55
. “Under Fire, Obama Clarifies Support for Ground Zero Mosque,”
FoxNews.com
, August 14, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/14/obamas-support-ground-zero-mosque-draws/#ixzz1POFEhAuB
.

56
. “Fox News shareholder funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam: report,”
Raw Story
, August 21, 2010,
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/08/21/fox-shareholder-funded-mosque-imam/
.

57
. WikiLeaks, “Collateral Murder,” WikiLeaks, April 5, 2010,
http://www.collateral-murder.com/
. With the closing of WikiLeaks original site, the link above is to one of their many mirror sites.

58
. Natalie Chandler, “WikiLeaks sister site names and shames public figures calling for its founder’s death,”
Australian Anthill
, January 17, 2011,
http://anthillonline.com/wikileaks-sister-site-names-and-shames-public-figures-calling-for-its-founder%E2%80%99s-death/
.

59
.
Justin Elliot, “Pentagon says WikiLeaks war logs do NOT harm national security; Neocons disagree,”
Salon
, July 26, 2010,
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/26/pentagon-says-wikileaks-war-logs-do-not-harm-national-security-neocons-disagree/
; Tom Leonard, “Pentagon deems Wikileaks a national security threat,”
Telegraph
, March 18, 2010,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7475050/Pentagon-deems-Wikileaks-a-national-security-threat.html
.

60
. Andy Barr, “Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange,”
Politico
, December 3, 2010,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45930.html
.

61
. Ryan Witt, “Senator Mitch McConnell calls WikiLeaks chief Assange a ‘high tech terrorist,’ ”
Political Buzz Examiner
, December 5, 2010,
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/senator-mitch-mcconnell-calls-wikileaks-chief-assange-a-high-tech-terrorist
.

62
. Nick Davies, “10 days in Sweden: the full allegations of Julian Assange,”
Guardian
, December 17, 2010,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden
. Also see Kirk James Murphy, “Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group,”
Firedoglake
, December 4, 2010,
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2010/12/04/assanges-chief-accuser-has-her-own-history-with-us-funded-anti-castro-groups-one-of-which-has-cia-ties/
. Murphy states, “Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder of seventy-three Cubans on an airliner he was involved in blowing up,” For more background see barrister James D. Catlin, “When it comes to Assange rape case, the Swedes are making it up as they go along,”
Crikey
, December 2, 2010,
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange-r-pe-case-the-swedes-are-making-it-up-as-they-go-along/
.

63
. Daniel Ellsberg, “Why the Pentagon Papers matter now: While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth,”
Guardian
, June 13, 2011,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/13/pentagon-papers-daniel-ellsberg
.

64
. Frederick Hess, “Why Debate Education Facts When You Can Wax Conspiratorial?”
The American: The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute
, August 2, 2010,
http://blog.american.com/why-debate-education-facts-when-you-can-wax-conspiratorial/
.

65
. “Biography: Frederick Hess,” American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Scholars and Fellows,
http://www.aei.org/scholar/30
.

66
. “Corporations,” American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
http://www.aei.org/supportCorporations
. Please note that the original quote from above was changed in the last few months: “The growth in the size and scope of the federal government represents a direct threat to the values AEI shares with the private sector—the engine of America’s freedom and prosperity.” For further information on AEI, see SourceWatch:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute
.

67
. Adam Bessie, “Public Education Under Attack By Bay Area Media,”
Daily Censored
, August 1, 2010,
http://dailycensored.com/2010/08/01/public-education-under-attack-by-the-san-jose-mercury-news/
. For a further discussion of this issue, see Bessie,
“American Enterprise Institute Critiques Daily Censored on Education: ‘Conspiratorial,’ ”
Daily Censored
, August 2, 2010,
http://dailycensored.com/2010/08/02/american-enterprise-institute-critiques-daily-censored-on-education-”conspiratorial”/
.

68
. Sam Dillon, “Behind Grass-Roots Advocacy, Bill Gates,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/education/22gates.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper
. According to NYT, many journalists turn to Hess for commentary, and “[The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation] is his biggest single funder,” Mr. Hess said.

69
. Sean Delonas is a cartoonist for the
New York Post
, and illustrates covers for the conservative magazine the
Weekly Standard
. For the widely syndicated image, see Steven Malanga, “The Beholden State,”
City Journal
2, no. 20 (2010):
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.html
.

70
. “Perspectives,” KQED Radio. Listener Susan Hare shared a two-minute segment “Let Them Eat Cake: Susan Hare believes public employee unions breed shoddy service and contempt for taxpayers,” March 9, 2011,
http://www.kqed.org/a/perspectives/R201103090735
.

71
. Ron Lieber, “Battle Looms Over Huge Cost of Public Pensions,”
New York Times
, August 6, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/your-money/07money.html?hp
.

72
. “Word of the Year 2010,”
Merriam-Webster.com
, December 20, 2010,
http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/10words.htm
. “Pragmatic” and “moratorium” came in second and third place, respectively, beating out “socialism.” Fora discussion of how conservative budget language has dominated the media in the last year, see Bessie. “In the Battle of the Budget, A Fog of Words,”
Truthout
, May 26, 2011,
http://www.truthout.org/battle-budget-fog-words/1306429453
.

73
. Paul Krugman, “Republicans and Race,”
New York Times
, November 17, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/opinion/19krugman.html?_r=2
.

74
. Jonathan Cohn, “Why Public Employees are the New Welfare Queens,”
New Republic
, August 8, 2010,
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/76884/why-your-fireman-has-better-pension-you
. Also, refer to Adam Bessie, “Public Teachers: America’s New Welfare Queens,”
Truthout
,
http://www.truthout.com/public-teachers-americas-new-welfare-queens68208
.

75
. Geoff Mulvihill, “Anger Brews Over Government Workers’ Benefits,” Associated Press, March 8, 2011,
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=13083008
.

76
. George Lakoff, “Confronting Stereotypes: Sons of the Welfare Queen,”
The Political Mind
(New York: Penguin, 2008), 159-162.

77
. Adam Bessie, “Let’s Not ‘Reform’ Public Education,”
Truthout
, January 22, 2011,
http://archive.truthout.org/lets-not-reform-public-education67006
.

78
. “Media Baselessly Suggest Americans View Public Employees as ‘Public Enemies in Some Ways,’ ”
Media Matters
, March 8, 2011,
http://mediamatters.org/research/201103080043
. For further polling information on attitudes toward public worker unions see: Scott Keeter, “Who’s Winning the Fight Over Public Employee Unions?” PEW Research Center Publications, March 7, 2011,
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1915/polls-winning-losing-fight-over-public-employee-unions-wisconsin
.