Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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U.S. Thanksgiving photo caption contest!

My entries? 1. BUSH TO TURKEY: So. Y'all think yer smarter than I am, huh? TURKEY TO BUSH: Uh, Mr. President, everyone thinks I'm smarter than you are. 2. BUSH: The CIA tells me it's a slam dunk that these birds can fly. And when have they ever been wrong? 3. BUSH: You're either for Thanksgiving dinner or [...]

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Teacher gets detention for screening F-9/11

According to an Associated Press story, a teacher in North Carolina was given a four-day suspension for showing Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 a week before the Nov. 2 presidential election. Here's an excerpt: Davis March showed the Michael Moore documentary critical of President Bush to his film class. Administrators pulled the plug on the movie [...]

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Right-wing U.S. media critic leaves this mortal coil

The NYT reports that Reed Irvine, founder of Accuracy in Media (AIM) as gone to his great reward at age 82 after a life of exposing liberal media perfidy. Or something like that. Here's the NYT's take: eed Irvine, the founder of Accuracy in Media, a watchdog group dedicated to exposing, challenging and at times [...]

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