Archive for the Ethics Category

Digital Transition Mania and Demographics

Posted in Consumer Protection, Ethics, Humor, Media Conglomerates, Social Responsibility with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2009 by weeklydissident

The President urged congress to postpone the digital TV transition, again. I understand the President has more important things to do right now, like fixing everything the last administration broke during the last 8 years, but the main argument against the transition appears to be that 6.5 million people will not be prepared at all for the transition.


This number surprises me considering it came from the Neilsen Company, in my opinion, the largest most powerful marketing entity in the world of television. Neilsen collects information and makes guides that tell advertisers which area will be most effective for their ads to control buying habits of a “target audience”, namely women 18-24, Read more »

Solidarity with Gaza

Posted in Culture, Democracy, Education, Ethics, Hegemony, Hypocrisy, Imperialism, Nationalism with tags , , , , on January 9, 2009 by weeklydissident

Good News for the Holy Land

Posted in Culture, Ethics, Hegemony, Imperialism, Nationalism with tags , , , , on January 9, 2009 by weeklydissident

Joe the Asshole will be spending ten days in Israel getting perspectives on the violenece in Gaza from the “average Joe’s” of the Jewish state. Read more »

Dr. Bob Fitrakis

Posted in Culture, Democracy, Education, Ethics, Social Responsibility with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 7, 2009 by weeklydissident

Anti-Voter Legislation in the Works, Again!

Length: 5:38

visit Freepress.org to see more of Dr. Bob Fitrakis, or read one of his books, including Spooks, Nukes & Nazis.

Spooks, Nukes, & Nazis

This book is a collection of Read more »

Hannity Named Misinformer of the Year, Cleverly Turns Tables

Posted in Culture, Democracy, Ethics, Humor, Hypocrisy, Media Conglomerates, Nationalism, Social Responsibility with tags , , , , , on December 18, 2008 by weeklydissident
Meanwhile - we can savor the look on Sean Hannitys face as he had to announce that Ron Paul was the favorite of Fox News viewers. - Link to Huffington Post Blog

"Meanwhile - we can savor the look on Sean Hannity's face as he had to announce that Ron Paul was the favorite of Fox News viewers." - Link to Huffington Post Blog

Media Matters for America is a non-profit media watch-dog web site that primarily deals in the business of monitoring “conservative” misinformation in the mainstream press. I visit the site almost every day. That is not to say that I think that every charge that they level is warranted or valid, but to say that on the whole, MMFA does a good job of countering and correcting lies and falsehoods disseminated in the mainstream press.

On Wednesday, December 17th, Media Matters named Sean Hannity the 2008 Misinformer of the Year.

The following link leads to a page that features many of the instances in which Sean outright lied or subtley deceived his audience during the 2008 calendar year.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812170007?f=h_top

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