Link Between Corporate Media and War Profiteering

I just want to post a link to a diary about the corporate media by my friend Jamess on Progressive Blue. He quotes some documentation of connections between the big corporate conglomerate media companies and war profiteering, notably this from CorpWatch:

Over the past three years [as of August 2004] the big five Media companies, Disney (ABC), News Corp (Fox) GE (NBC & Telemundo), Viacom (ABC), Time Warner (CNN & WB) plus the NAB [National Association of Broadcasters] have spent over 79,740,000 on lobbying. ...

It can be hard to determine which partner is leading the dance at any given moment. General Electric, which owns NBC, spent over $45 million dollars on lobbying in 2003 alone. GE is also a defense department contractor with annual revenue of $134.2 billion, profiting handsomely from its government contracts in Iraq.

I'm sure this is not news to people who have been closely following this issue, but to me, it was confirmation of something I strongly suspected, but hadn't researched.

Anyway, go over there and read the whole diary.

Progressive Blue Candidate Bake Sale Week - Be Our 60th Donor!

Over at Progressive Blue, my colleagues have been running a fundraising week for our slate of endorsed Democratic candidates. We've also taken a position of NO on California prop. 8, because we believe in equality for all.

We received 59 donations on our ActBlue page so far, and that totals nearly $3,000.

Will you be our 60th donor?

Will you help us get to $3,000 raised for our candidates?

So proud of my friends at Progressive Blue

I'm so proud of my friends over at Progressive Blue. While I've been off posting stuff around the net about War, Inc. for the past few days, they've been busy organizing a Bake Sale (Fundraising Drive) for our list of endorsed candidates. They even added a bunch of candidates to the list.

Progressive Blue will be focusing on candidate diaries for downticket candidates all week, and we're really hoping to raise some money for these candidates, so, if you can afford it, please stop by our ActBlue page. Help these candidates strengthen our majority in Congress!

My War, Inc. Review Is Up

I'll crosspost it here after the folks at Progressive Blue have had their way with it for a while, but meanwhile...

LINK

Hey! This time I even spelled Dan Aykroyd's name right. ;-)

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