"The NewStandard is in danger of closing down if they can’t increase their monthly revenues by about $5,000 before September 30th. This organization is far too important to let slip away. You really should consider becoming a subscriber!"

From g7welcomingcommittee.com

Rewind: Jon Stewart's speech after September 11th (from the September 20th 2001 episode of the Daily Show)

Valleywag: "After News Corp. threatened to sue his publisher if they published his exposé on MySpace and its poster boy Tom Anderson, journalism student Trent Lapinski sold his story to Valleywag. Why did MySpace try to block a story that really tells us what we already knew? Who knows, but it's fun to publish it anyway and see if they sue."

Story at Valleywag

"What News Corp. doesn't want you to know about MySpace

1. MySpace is NOT a viral success.
2. MySpace.com is Spam 2.0.
3. Tom Anderson did NOT create MySpace.
4. MySpace's CEO Chris DeWolfe is connected to a past of spam
5. MySpace was a direct assault on Friendster.com."

I don't think they will stop doing this only because some newspaper nobody reads anyway has a problem with this... Nobody reads anyway...

New York Times: "The Bush administration’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting paid 10 journalists here to provide commentary on Radio and TV Martí, which transmit to Cuba government broadcasts critical of Fidel Castro, a spokesman for the office said Friday."

"During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode 'Horror of Fang Rock' on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a Video 'Pirate' wearing a Max Headroom mask broke into the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, unauthorized things ever to hit the Chicago airwaves.

Earlier in the evening on the same day, during the Nine O'Clock News on Channel 9 (Yes, a completely different channel) the Max Headroom Pirate also broke in - although it was for a much shorter time and there was no audio."

Doctor Who pirate incident news cast (Video)

More at textfiles.com

Marketwatch: "Ten big news stories you aren't hearing Traditional media ignore or downplay significant events"

Tom Engelhardt in The Nation: "For most Americans, even those like me who were living in Manhattan, 9/11 arrived on the television screen. This is why what leapt to mind--and instantaneously filled our papers and TV reporting--was previous screen life, the movies.

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the news was peppered with comments about, thoughts about and references to films. (...) What if the two hijacked planes, American Flight 11 and United 175, had plunged into those north and south towers at 8:46 and 9:03, killing all aboard, causing extensive damage and significant death tolls, but neither tower had come down? What if, as a Tribune columnist called it, photogenic "scenes of apocalypse" had not been produced? What if, despite two gaping holes and the smoke and flames pouring out of the towers, the imagery had been closer to that of 1993? What if there had been no giant cloud of destruction capable of bringing to mind the look of "the day after," no images of crumbling towers worthy of Independence Day?

We would surely have had blazing headlines, but would they have commonly had "war" or "infamy" in them, as if we had been attacked by another state? Would the last superpower have gone from "invincible" to "vulnerable" in a split second? Would our newspapers instantly have been writing "before" and "after" editorials, or insisting that this moment was the ultimate "test" of George W. Bush's until-then languishing presidency?"

...read on!

Excellent news-site! Follow world-news and the blogosphere or get the local spin. Play around with the possibilities!

CNN: "Masquerading as Rene Oswin, an official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bichlbaum followed Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to the lectern Monday morning at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner."

"Improv Everywhere 's Agent Dunn offers a service to the very white population of Aspen, Colorado.

Das wird'n gemütlicher Fernsehmontag vor dem Internetz!

"CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events. Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.

For the day, CNN will make its online video service, CNN Pipeline, available for free."

Via Metafilter

Nice idea!

"The ProBlogger job board is where bloggers looking for jobs and companies looking for bloggers to hire meet."

30 years of news, political commentary, analysis. Happy birthday, MJ!

Spon hat heute eine Story über den "Extreme Satiriker" Stephen Colbert aus der FAZ übernommen. Und der war die Tage mal wieder sehr komisch!

"Too Hot Not to Handle: Heat waves. Melting glaciers. Rising sea levels. Catastrophic storms. Migrating viruses. Population displacement. Over the past 100 years, the mass consumption of fossil fuels, especially in America, has contributed to a dangerous warming of the earth that has adversely impacted the way we live. The cautionary documentary TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States."

Watch it with Itunes: HBO Documentary Films podcast

"From the August 14, 2006 episode of the Colbert Report." The saga continues! Colbert forces Stewart to put on a moustache!

Torrent: Last night's Daily Show with Sssssssssam Jackson.

Daily Kos: "There are two sides to every conflict - unless you rely on the US media for information about the battle in Lebanon. Viewers have been fed a diet of partisan coverage which treats Israel as the good guys and their Hizbollah enemy as the incarnation of evil."

"When news broke that Britain had broken up a major terrorist plot, the only ones there to convey the president's reaction were a handful of local reporters and a few pool journalists who ride in the back of Air Force One.

The idea that Bush could travel across the country without a full contingent of reporters, especially in the middle of a war, highlights a major cultural shift in the presidency and the news media. In the four decades since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidents traditionally have taken journalists with them wherever they traveled on the theory that when it comes to the most powerful leader on the planet, anything can happen at any time."

Then Bush got into power...

Story in the Washington Post

Tag team fight of the week!

"Stewart: Stephen, why do you care what Geraldo and OReilly say about us?

Colbert: What are you implying John?! That O'Reilly and Geraldo are narcissts enthralled in their own overblown egos projecting their own petit insecurities onto the world around them... inventing false enemies for the sole purpose of bolstering their sense of self-importance... Itty-bitty Nixons minus the relevance or hint of vision? How dare you!?!"

Shesaiddestroy.org has the video!

Electronicintifada.ne has started a new site to cover the "events" in Lebanon.

Dr. Snakeskin and Peter of Art Yard Records are on the air right now to talk about Sun Ra and listen to some rare records: www.radioeinszueins.de

"In the spring of 1996 Fox News was only a conspiracy (which broke a few months later). CNN belonged to Turner Broadcasting, which hadn't yet been gobbled by Time Warner (although it would be just a few months later); Viacom had not yet bought CBS News (although it would in 1999, before they later parted ways); and, as the Telecommunications Act had been passed only months earlier, local radio had not yet largely disappeared from the United States (although it was obviously vanishing)."

Very good article in The Nation

Why are they having these secret meetings then...?

"Numerous indications strongly suggest that the Bilderberg Group, in alliance with the Canadian government, deployed agent provocateurs this past weekend to try to infiltrate and discredit legitimate journalists and protesters."

More at prisonplanet.com!

Video: Alex Jones travelled to Canada this weekend to document the Conference of the secretive Bilderberg group

Tags: Bilderberg, New World Order

"Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultural difference and diversity. Today, in the wake of 9/11, the rhetoric of tolerance is visibly breaking down. As state policy shifts from the celebration of difference to an anxious call for assimilation, the racial other (whether citizen or immigrant) is under renewed pressure to integrate herself into society.

In this issue of Mute, contributors read the crisis of multiculturalism – political, scientific and social – as both a neoliberal offensive and a challenge to rethink the relationship between particular identities and universal rights, evolutionary science and biopower.

Texts by: George Caffentzis, Matthew Hyland, Daniel Jewesbury, Marek Kohn, Eric Krebbers, Hari Kunzru, Melancholic Troglodytes, Angela Mitropoulos, Luciana Parisi, Benedict Seymour"

Read it online or download a PDF

With a name like the Lonely Island, you’d think these guys would keep to themselves. But Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer are keeping the company of millions. Since 2001, they have cultivated a massive following online by posting hilarious self-produced TV spoofs, wacky rap videos, and videogame remixes on their Web site. Word of mouth soon landed the twentysomethings a full-time gig on Saturday Night Live, where they’ve been writing, directing, and acting in what NBC calls “digital shorts”: low-budget videos with the look and feel of their shot-for-the-Web work. SNL bits like “Taco Town,” “Lettuce,” and “Lazy Sunday” rocked on TV, but they really took off when fans uploaded them to the Net. “Lazy Sunday” has been watched more than 5 million times on YouTube alone – rivaling the number of viewers who saw it the night it aired on SNL last December." Story at Wired

Alex Jones' Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State is available on Google video for completely free viewing and download. More

Pretty good! Over at throwawayyourtv.com