Category Archives: Media

Hezbollah, Iran, Media, Middle East Nuclear, nuclear Iran, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, US Foreign Policy

Unreliable Sources: on Ignatius, Saudi Intelligence, Pakistani ISI, Arab Spring……….

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Update on the David Ignatius-Saudi Intelligence-Pakistani ISI joint effort which I posted on here. Looks like quite a racket going on between Ignatius and the Saudi officials and media. He quotes an anonymous “Saudi official” about the Washington plot and ties it to the Bahrain uprising and Hezbollah and the drug trade and global warming and Fukushima. The Saudi media in turn publicizes his column with fanfare, quoting him in turn, claiming the Washington Post has reported that all these are connected. Of course, the Saudis do not say that they were the original source of the Ignatius allegations (along with some Pakistani ISI person). Not bad, but not new or original either. CNN and others reported on this without noting the Saudi-Pakistani source.
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Culture, Finance, Media

CNBC: Cramer vs. Burnett, Goldman………

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Watched CNBC early this morning. This is the post Erin Burnett CNBC (she left for CNN). Before that they lost Dylan Ratigan (for MSNBC), as the network moved even more to the right. Now they have the ‘questionable’ Jim Cramer all over the place. The network of Erin Burnett has become the network of Jim Cramer, chief cheerleader of the Goldman Sachs fan club. It is a true downgrade, and not just for esthetic reasons.
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