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media type="youtube" key="60og9gwKh1o" height="345" width="420" See Michael Wesch's brilliant analysis of this video [|here].

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**This video is interesting. It demonstrates the visual aspect of spoken communication:**
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==**These 2 videos from the Rachel Maddow Show look at how Fox News used editing to create false narratives. These videos ultimately helped conservatives to end federal funding for ACORN, a community organized group that advocated for low and moderate income families:**==

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==This is a commercial for GM's 1990's era EV1 electric vehicle. GM was forced by a mandate from the State of California to produce zero emmission vehicles. This commercial arguably shows GM's lack of enthusiasm for the mandate. Does it look like any other car commercial you've seen?:==

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==I love investigative journalism. I would encourage everyone to regularly watch Frontline on PBS. They delve into important issues. This program certainly helps me to think critically about our world. If you have the time, watch the whole episode on the PBS website. This particular episode looks at important issues surrounding the 9/11 terror attacks, and the Bush Administration's "enhanced interrogation techniques":==

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More from Frontline. High tech and high dollar domestic intelligence gathering in the US after the 9/11 terrorism attacks:
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Rachel Maddow on the Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Elizabeth Warren, and labelling the wealthy as "job creators":
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Jody mentioned the artist Ai Weiwei during our last class. I've posted below a Frontline story on Ai Weiwei:
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Have you heard about the Occupy Wall Street demonstration? Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore discuss the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, and the recent execution of Troy Davis in Georgia.
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Wednesday, 02 March 2011 09:42 News - fans of enlightenment, democracy and justice can take comfort from a significant victory north of the Wisconsin border. Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canadian regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right-wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.
 * By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.**
 * ** A s America's middle class battles for its survival on the Wisconsin barricades - against various Koch Oil surrogates and the corporate toadies at Fox

Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast ... any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right-wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom. As a result of that law, Canadians enjoy high quality news coverage, including the kind of foreign affairs and investigative journalism that flourished in this country before Ronald Reagan abolished the "Fairness Doctrine" in 1987.

Political dialogue in Canada is marked by civility, modesty, honesty, collegiality, and idealism that have pretty much disappeared on the US airwaves. When Stephen Harper moved to abolish the anti-lying provision of the Radio Act, Canadians rose up to oppose him fearing that their tradition of honest non-partisan news would be replaced by the toxic, overtly partisan, biased and dishonest news coverage familiar to American citizens who listen to Fox News and talk radio. Harper's proposal was timed to facilitate the launch of a new right-wing network, "Sun TV News" which Canadians call "Fox News North."

Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known for having mounted a Bush-like war on government scientists, data collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery; false patriotism, bigotry, fear, selfishness and belligerent religiosity.

Harper's attempts to make lying legal on Canadian television are a stark admission that right-wing political ideology can only dominate national debate through dishonest propaganda. Since corporate profit-taking is not an attractive vessel for populism, a political party or broadcast network that makes itself the tool of corporate and financial elites must lie to make its agenda popular with the public.

In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons, have become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public airwaves. Fox News' notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of the Wisconsin's protests is a prime example of the brand of news coverage Canada has smartly avoided.

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Agent provocateurs at the 2006 Montebello Summmit between the US and Mexican Presidents and Canada’s Prime Minister in Quebec:

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Former US Vice President Dick Cheney visited Vancouver this week. He was not arrested for war crimes:
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