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  • Hollywood: 'Brokeback'—No Bump

    03/01/2006 5:24:30 PM PST · by wagglebee · 49 replies · 619+ views
    Newsweek/MSNBC ^ | 3/6/06 | Sean Smith
    March 6, 2006 issue - An Oscar nod for Best Picture often means big box-office increases, but "Brokeback Mountain" hasn't gotten the kind of bump insiders expected. Unlike last year's "Million Dollar Baby," which saw an 88 percent increase between the noms and Oscar night, and "Chicago," which shot up 100 percent, the grosses for "Brokeback" have actually been declining every weekend.
  • Benedict Arnett, Purveyor of Anti-U.S. Propaganda

    04/02/2003 4:28:14 PM PST · by ranair34 · 5 replies · 589+ views
    BushCountry.org ^ | 04/03/03 | Doug Schmitz
    While the anti-Bush propaganda machines of Dan Rather & Co., ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times, Time and Newsweek, to name a few, continue pumping out their blatantly leftist disinformation about the U.S.’s unprecedented successes in Operation Iraqi Freedom, quasi-journalist Peter Arnett’s latest anti-U.S. propagandizing has ultimately cost him his job – again. Reminiscent of Arnett’s 1998 CNN debacle over his fabricated story about U.S. army commandos allegedly using sarin nerve gas in a top-secret operation called “Tailwind” during the Vietnam War, NBC, MSNBC and National Geographic magazine recently fired the Pulitzer-Prize winning “reporter” over his...
  • Arnett fired

    03/31/2003 4:18:35 AM PST · by dep · 439 replies · 2,423+ views
    033103 | NBC
    "It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview with Iraqi state television," said NBC in a statement. NBC, MSNBC, and National Geographic have all fired him. Arnett on live, apoligizing to "NBC, MSNBC, National Geographic, and the American people." He then goes on to say that all he said in the interview was "what we all know.