Iraq War Illegal Propaganda-Gate Links Fest

The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
All The News That Isn’t - Network Television’s Propaganda In Uniform
Glenn Greenwald is developing David Barstow’s [...]

What They Were Saying: Gifts Of Links From The Commenters At Unclaimed Territory

I try to read Glenn Greenwald’s Unclaimed Territory blog posts on Salon.com immediately followed by the comments. The regular commenters there include a poet/historian/philosopher/veteran/patriot, scholars wearing the robes of various disciplines, rabble rousers with literary elan and the occasional Bush dead ender, pot stirring with a resounding thud.
Yesterday the commenters to this post [...]

What They Were Saying: Journalism’s Codes Of Ethics

Ben Franklin mused about virtue in the reading and reporting of history. What does the public trust demand and what is the social contract that ethical journalism strives to uphold?
The Society of Professional Journalists published Code of Ethics:
Preamble
Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and [...]

Daily Constitutional: Spring Divertissements, Torture and Illegal Propaganda

[UPDATE] The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
I’ve neglected the Constitution, instead lured by the scents, sounds and sights of Spring [...]

When Bad Is Good: The Dow(n) Is Up World of the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal just loves misery. Here’s the latest celebration of it with a nursing twist. Its related blog post echoed its story sentiment.

The ailing economy is helping to ease the nursing shortage.
With house prices falling and the cost of gasoline and food rising, many nurses are going back to work, in some [...]

Emergency Department Surge Capacity: There Ain’t None

[UPDATE 05-07-2008 Day Two of the Hearing is today with Michael Leavitt, Sec DHHS  and Michael Chertoff, Sec DHS testifying. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee added their testimony and that of Dean Conway-Welch, and the links are at their names.
What comes through loud and clear is the BushCo loyalism of Chertoff: "not my [...]

Fringe Kooks

Frank Rich writes about race and the free ride that McCain is receiving from the corporate media. He understands some of the issue, but he still dances rings around that elephant.
Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch.
Hagee and his Elmer Gantry brethren are indeed fringe kooks of [...]

About The Relationship Between “Credibility” And Readership/Market Share

Sorry for such tangentialism today, but I can’t help but try to weave a few waving threads from recent examples:
NBC is refusing - in a very bare and brazen way - to address the evidence brought by the NYT, Glenn Greenwald and others relative to disclosure of actual and potential conflicts of interest and the [...]

The D.C. Madam Has Nothing On Pimp Extraordinaire Rumsfeld

David Barstow has just let loose on the New York Times with another scandal.  Donald Rumsfeld ran the Pentagon as a prostitution ring. 
Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs seems to have been the stupid lead prostitute - not fully aware of what he was doing or what was being done to him, although [...]

Reach Out And Touch The Toobz

Skippy is showin’ his roo.  Embrace the roo, and use the contact info to professionally and intelligently express how far afield from the public interest and public trust veered the ABC debate:

bc new york newsroom: (212) 456-5100 newsradio@abc.com newsroom fax machine 212.456.5150
peter salinger (the man in charge of election coverage) director, special events & sports [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture and Torturous

Military.com reports about the Pentagon’s detailed evidence of abuse of Afghan prisoners.
The LA Times addresses the horrendous state of prison health care.  And yet, no mention is made of the widespread criminalization of people with mental illness.  over 50% of all inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons.  The answer isn’t in adding to the prison [...]

The Last Word: Word!

Orwell, get well, plan well, deep well. When is a word, just camouflage?
Chris Edelson provides some enlightenment:
…. The “debate” about political correctness often descends into nonsense, and I don’t think the term itself is very useful.  However, I find it interesting and revealing when the media uses euphemisms to make the Bush administration’s conduct sound more [...]

Bloggers as Agents of Propaganda

The Pentagon has in place a fully developed plan to recruit bloggers as agents of propaganda. Is it already in action? Healthy skepticism is the order of the day.

When Tying A Knot Isn’t Just Tying A Knot

[UPDATE] From Scott Horton’s No Comment column at Harper’s comes this gem which provides a prescient analogy for what damage the WSJ blog post does to nursing, and to the public which it serves.  It paints doctorally prepared nurses as the threat and as the enemy, and it undermines the public’s trust in the profession.  That’s [...]

Wall Street Journal Shows Its Backside

[UPDATE]  My comment on the offending post didn’t appear for some time and then was inserted between prior published comments.  I am adding it at the foot of this post.
[UPDATE DEUX]  Right on cue, right wing med blogger, Kevin Pho, chimes in with his own brand of anti-nursing, conflation of issues screeching.
The WSJ Health Blog [...]