parrot rating system for msss media of the san francisco bay area

Jaundiced James' Parrot Rating System for US mass Media, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, California:

"Awk, awk, Polly wants a fascist state, awk, awk."

by James K. Sayre

updated 13 February 2005

Rating scale:

0 parrots = virtually no parroting of the illegitimate Bush Adminstration's party line

1 parrot = some parroting of the illegitimate Bush Adminstration's party line

2 parrots = significantly parroting of the illegitimate Bush Administration's party line

3 parrots = mostly parroting of the illegitimate Bush Administration's party line

4 parrots = virtually completely parroting of the illegitimate Bush Administration's party line

Overview:

The corporate establishment media in the United States, lead by privately-owned cable television "news" stations, major newspapers and chains of radio stations have given the Bush Administration and its radical reactionary policies virtually a free ride from the summer of 2000 until the fall of 2003, when Governor Howard Dean, a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President gained large support for his tough criticism of the Bush war on Iraq and of domestic Bush policy failures. Now with the very sore loser Bush having just stolen his second Presidential election, we are again faced with the Rip-van-Winkle What Me Worry corporate media being unable to investigate the particulars of just how Diebold voting machines gave Bush his "mandate."

Media

Cable television news channels:

CNN (Cable News Network) or CNN News - 4 parrots (Note: CNN is the most mistrusted "news" network next to the faux Fox "news" channel)

Fox News - 4 parrots (unfair and unbalanced to say the least: a mouthpiece for the illegitimate Bush Neocon Admin.)

International News - 2.5 parrots (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

MSNBC - 3.5 parrots (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

CSPAN - 1.5 parrot (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

CSPAN2 - 1.5 parrot (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

Network News programs

NBC - 4 parrots

ABC - 4 parrots

CBS - 4 parrots

Local television news programs

Network affiliates - 4 parrots

Independents - 4 parrots

PBS - 3.5 parrots (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

Radio stations in S. F. Bay Area

KSFO - 560 AM - 4 parrots (fascist talk radio)

KCBS - 740 AM - 4 parrots

KGO - 810 AM - (Evening and early AM talk show hosts) - 1 parrot

KNEW - 910 AM - talk - 4 parrots (more fascist talk radio)

KPFA - 94.1 FM - listener-supported independent radio - 0 parrots KPFA radio

KQED - 88.5 FM - PBS - 3.5 parrots

KQKE - 960 AM - Air America Radio Network - 0 parrots Air America Radio

KPIG - 1510 AM - Pig radio rebroadcast from Freedom, Santa Cruz County. 0 parrots - brilliant eclectic rock : KPIG

Newspapers available in the S. F. Bay Area:

New York Times - 4 parrots

Los Angeles Times - 3.5 parrots

Wall Street Journal - 4 parrots

USA Today - 4 parrots

Sacramento Bee - 3 parrots Sacramento Bee

San Francisco Chronicle - 3.5 parrots San Francisco Chronicle (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

San Jose Mercury News - 3.5 parrots San Jose Mercury News (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

Contra Costa Times - 3.5 parrots Contra Costa Times (note: half a parrot is better than none...)

San Francisco Bay Guardian - 1 parrot (unfortunately, the SFBG has its own very narrow political agenda and thus shows little interest in anything else outside of its circulation area).

Local, East Bay newspapers:

The Montclarion - 2 parrots

Berkeley Daily Planet - 0 parrots

East Bay Express - no known or knowable political agenda or slant

Some progessive Internet Web sites:

Check out the Alternative media web links on my site: Alternative Media: - 0 parrots

Progressive talk radio? Yes, its hear at Air America Radio Network. Check out their web site at: Air America Radio It is now broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area at "the Quake" KQEK, 960 AM. Very funny and very informative. - 0 parrots

Check out the Center for American Progress web site at: Center for American Progress - 0 parrots

Do we share common dreams? Check out their web site at: CommonDreams.org - 0 parrots

Check out the Online Journal web site at: Online Journal - 0 parrots

Read my quick overview of the dismal record of U. S. interventions in foreign countries in the past one hundred and five years. Thumbnail sketches of United States imperialistic interventions, military adventures, takeovers and other busy-bodying in foreign countries in the last 106 years (1898 - 2004) - 0 parrots

Then check out the Haiti Action.net web site: Haiti Action.net - 0 parrots

Tom Paine - Common Sense Tom Paine - 0 parrots

The Bush Watch web site Bush Watch - 0 parrots

www.mediawhoresonline.com/. Media Whores Online - 0 parrots

www.truthout.org/. TruthOut - 0 parrots

The Crisis Papers.org/ - The Crisis Papers - 0 parrots

Black Box Voting.org web site - 0 parrots

Voverifiedvoting.org - Verified Voting.org web site. - 0 parrots

www.bringthemhomenow.org/. Bring Them Home Now - 0 parrots

Iraq Occupation Watch - 0 parrots

My very own Daily Rant: The Daily Rant: - 0 parrots

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Web page last updated on 13 February 2005.