AOL promotes an Ashley Alexandra Dupre “What We Want” YouTube posting

Ashley Alexandra Dupre- WHAT WE WANT [The Spitzer Girl] !!!! (of course, what we REALLY want is “naked YouTube where I can her boobs“), but as Larry Flint rightly points out we’ll likely have to pay to view that one…

“She is no doubt going to do a book. There will probably be a movie,” he said. “I think she is going to have so many offers coming in that it will probably be wishful thinking just to get in the door.”

See, the media will make Ashley a star yet, willy-nilly, even though she has now apparently taken down her MySpace page. Views: 236,042  (as I type this) - 36937 of them clicks from AOL’s Rate the Spitzer Call Girl’s Song

News searches for Ashley reveal (among many others to the tune of about 300 in the last 12 hours, mind you…)

Ashley Alexandra Dupre (a.k.a. Kristen) sings, but not about Spitzer

Alleged Spitzer girl ‘no monster,’ but the story sure is

(A source at Playboy, however, says that the mag has also discussed the possibility of getting Dupré to pose, and that he could see her getting in the “high six figures.”)

Penthouse, Hustler want call girl in Spitzer sex scandal on their pages

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Bread and circuses. Did you really expect anything else? There’s always going to be a “next new thing story” which will distract from paying attention to what’s really wrong with the world. And if there isn’t, well the media will just have to make one up and sell it to you.

NBC un-plugs Kucinich from Presidential Debate

Source: Dennis4President.com

Re-writes criteria to exclude candidate with ’dissenting’ positions

Less than 44 hours after NBC sent a congratulatory note and an invitation to Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to participate in the Jan. 15 Democratic Presidential debate in Las Vegas, the network notified the campaign this morning it was changing it announced criteria, rescinding its invitation, and excluding Kucinich from the debate.
NBC Political Director Chuck Todd notified the Kucinich campaign this morning that, although Kucinich had met the qualification criteria publicly announced on December 28, the network was “re-doing” the criteria, excluding Kucinich, and planning to invite only Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and former senator John Edwards.

The criteria announced last month included a fourth-place or better showing in a national poll. The USA/Gallup poll earlier this month showed Kucinich in fourth place among the Democratic contenders.

In an email to the Kucinich campaign at 2:35 p.m. on Wednesday, January 9, Democratic Party debates consultant Jenny Backus wrote:

“Congratulations on another hard-fought contest. Now that New Hampshire is over, we are on to Nevada and our Presidential Debate on Tuesday January 15. This letter serves as an official invitation for your candidate to participate in the Nevada Presidential Debate at Cashman Theatre in downtown Las Vegas. You have met the criteria set by NBC and the Debate.”

article continues @ Dennis4President.com

Lots of comments and recommends on this story @ Democratic Underground

Of course, this issue is no big surprise.

My comment @ DU was as follows:

Theyrule’s information is somewhat outdated, but I’ve made a Board of Directors map there and added in some more current info.

For GE/NBC/Universal, I’ve got the following Board of Directors list with the other Fortune 500 companies which they also sit on the boards of-

Ralph S. Larsen- Xerox, AT&T Wireless
Robert W. Lane- Deere
Alan G. Lafley- Proctor & Gamble, General Motors
Claudio Gonzalez- Kimberly-Clark, Kellogg, Home Depot
Samuel A. Nunn- Chevron Texaco, Dell Computer, Coca-Cola
Andrea Jung- Avon Products
Kenneth G. Langone- Yum Brands, Home Depot
Roger S. Penske- Home Depot, Delphi, United Auto Group
Douglas A. Warner III- Anheuser-Busch, Motorola
James I. Cash- Microsoft

GE/NBC/Universal owns-
Vivendi, Universal Pictures, MSNBC, Bravo, CNBC, Telemundo, Pax TV, History Channel

http://www.theyrule.net/2004/index.php?mapid=5186

for how this one company fits into the bigger picture, see this map:

http://www.theyrule.net/2004/index.php?mapid=5182

Conspiracy? Nah. Nope. Just the ever expanding media mindspace monopoly.

And of course, I’ve blogged here about the news monopoly and related issues here before…

Welcome to the United States of Disney (and the other 9 media conglomerates that own your mind)

It’s a small world, after all…

Reposting (with my own commentary below) from Democratic Underground thread.

(Kucinich campaign email)

Dear Fellow Kucinich Supporters,

On Saturday night we officially became the United States of Disney. While Republican candidates railed about the threat of Islamo-fascists, Americans were oblivious that in fact, the greatest treat to our freedom was transpiring right before them - corporate-controlled media, a key component of fascism, used their power to exclude the one candidate from the debates who dares to stand up to them. To “cover” their coup, they ran a silly fluff piece prior to the debate about people who are running for president with no organization behind them and questioned why they would do such a thing other than to massage their own egos.

But the candidate Disney/ABC arbitrarily excluded from the debate is a viable candidate who has hundreds of thousands of supporters and a solid organization in every state. Dennis Kucinich has been campaigning non-stop for over a year with his wife, Elizabeth. He’s on the ballot in almost every state. This isn’t some vanity campaign that the Corporate-controlled media has deliberately tried to make disappear - this is the one candidate who is running for all the right reasons - because he wants to save our country from the takeover of special interests.

While John Edwards, during the debate, eloquently and passionately decried the stranglehold special interests have on our nation, he never once mentioned that Disney/ABC had excluded one of his fellow candidates from the debate. How disingenuous! He also failed to mention the fortune he has invested in a hedge fund that makes him as vested in these special interests as anyone.

I watched the entire debate on Saturday night, and have to admit that compared to the Republicans, any of the Democratic candidates sounded like a good bet. But here’s the catch - while they debated who was the more likely to bring about change and who had more experience actually initiating change, not one of them has ever proved they have the courage to stand up to the status-quo that will do whatever it takes to prevent change. If they had, ABC would have kept them off that stage too. So while just about everything spoken by the four Democratic candidates sounded good, I couldn’t help thinking that this was just another Disney performance. Put any of them in the White House and you’ll get the same disappointment we’re experiencing with the Democratic Congress we elected in ‘06. We worked our tails off to get them elected and they conveniently forgot why we did it.

Here are some words you didn’t hear uttered during the debate - words that Dennis Kucinich would have said if he had been given his place at the table. Words the American people deserve to hear:

Impeach - The majority of Americans want to see Bush and Cheney held accountable for the lies and corruption that have driven our country to the brink of moral, financial and military bankruptcy. Dennis Kucinich introduced a bill to impeach Dick Cheney last November. The Democratic leadership moved to table it. It was only because REPUBLICANS voted against tabling it that the bill didn’t die immediately on the floor and instead now languishes in the Judicial Committee.

Not for Profit Health Care - Don’t let them fool you - the insurance companies are the problem because they only make a killing when they deny patients health care. Keep them in the mix and you will never have healthcare for all.

End NAFTA and get out of the WTO - Although Edwards briefly alluded to the problems our trade agreements have caused to working-class Americans, no Democratic candidate is ever going to criticize a trade policy that was put through by President Bill Clinton - even if it is the cause of not only job loss, but the surge in illegal immigration from Mexico. No candidate, that is, except the one we can count on to always speak the truth - Dennis Kucinich.

The corporate-controlled, censored media has carefully orchestrated the obliteration of Dennis Kucinich. This is the third debate he’s been kept from. They are also distorting his politically strategic move in the Iowa caucuses to suggest supporters cast their second vote for Obama, as a indication that Dennis has quit the race and is throwing his support behind Obama. Nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, Bill Richardson did the exact same thing as Kucinich and he still got to be in the debate last night!

Is it too late? Has corporate-controlled media become so powerful that they can decide who our candidates are, and delude us into thinking we are actually electing our leaders? There’s one way to find out. Let’s make this a real democracy where people talk to people. Let’s spend the next weeks before our state primary contacting voters and telling them about the one candidate who hasn’t just been talking about change, his entire political career has been the embodiment of change.

What you do over the next few weeks might mean the difference between waking up this time next year in a Disneyland where the majority of Americans will be grateful for the most menial jobs, while the wealthy few get a free ride, or taking our country back from the military/industrial/insurance/media fascists. Please go to www.California4Kucinich.com now and sign up to be on a DK Team. We are currently organizing to reach out to voters by phone and in person and your local DK Team Leader will contact you to see the best way you can get involved.

In peace & hope,
Jeeni

My commentary- yes, it’s pretty evident, isn’t it? Here’s a map of common board of directorships for some of the major news corporations. Keep clicking on the page that opens from that link until it gets to where it will load the map- (about 4 clicks). It’s not likely to be comprehensive- think of it as a starting point. May be somewhat out of date/inaccurate by now as well.

Maybe Dennis Kucinich and Sibel Edmonds could team up and take on Britney? We know Sibel alone can’t take on Britney (which just goes to show exactly how bassackwards things are). It’s not quite as lopsided as with Sibel alone, but the current odds ain’t great for the combined weight of Dennis and Sibel overcoming Britney either…

News results: Results 1 - 10 of about 19,621 for Britney Spears.

News results: Results 1 - 10 of about 6,459 for Dennis Kucinich.

News results: Results 1 - 10 of about 56 for Sibel Edmonds. Looks like 3:1 against…