Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting provides a mini-critique each Friday of a few events or issues covered by the traditional media. Here is the latest edition:
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Gall: Size XXXL:
When the Bureau of Land Management announced that they were going to allow uranium mining along with oil and gas drilling around the Grand Canyon, Congress members who cared about the canyon, or national parks, or the environment, or common sense were more than a little miffed, and fortunately for them (and us) Congress had a means to act that didn't involve issuing a subpoena.
The 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act gives the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee the power to order the Secretary of the Interior to put a temporary hold on allowing mineral extraction on public land. So they did. The House Natural Resources Committee voted 20-2 to block block mining in the area the BLM had proposed to open.
Then the Bush Interior Department followed the law and ... no, no, wait. Sorry, but we don't live in that universe. First the Interior Department simply refused to issue the order on the grounds that not enough Republicans had been involved in the vote. Seriously.
Still, why stop at only disobeying the law when you can just claim the arbitrary ability to rewrite the rules so you don't have to listen to Congress?
Tweet of the Day
If your response to the Rolling Stone debacle is glee, know that there is a survivor in your life who has just decided you can't be trusted.
— @AngryBlackLady
On
today's Kagro in the Morning show:
Greg Dworkin rounds it all up. Jobs. Protests. What to do with the empty Lanza house? Republicans full of it on poverty. A thing happened at
TNR. The Gop civil war never stopped. Christie set to claim exoneration.
Armando joins in presenting our ad hoc seminar, "The War of the Roses & You."
Rosalyn MacGregor updates us on the insanity of Michigan's lame duck legislative carnival. Via
Eclectablog: a scheme to open a
FEMA re-education camp taxpayer-funded Tea Party-themed school. Plus a story out of FL lays out how it's done by straight-up criminals. Weekend reading: Pay-to-play with Congress pays off in company tax breaks.
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