#ed herman

[theanticool]

Ed Herman vs Kazuo Misaki - Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Final

Crazy how long Ed Herman was in the game for. 20 years of fighting. Also crazy that Misaki retired like a decade before Herman did. Here is a fight between the two of them really early into both of their careers back in 2004.

[cloacacarnage]

[shituationist]

Monthly Review | Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies

Mainstream media outlets have recently expressed their dismay over the rise and spread of “fake news,” taking it as an obvious truth that what they themselves provide is straightforward, unbiased…

Ed Herman’s last published article before his death, a round up of examples of the mainstream media making false reports about the designated enemies of US imperialism 

Mainstream media fake news is especially likely where a party line is quickly formed on a topic, with any deviations therefore immediately dismissed as naïve, unpatriotic, or simply wrong. In a dramatic illustration, for a book chapter entitled “Worthy and Unworthy Victims,” Noam Chomsky and I showed that coverage by Time, Newsweek, CBS News, and the New York Times of the 1984 murder of the priest Jerzy Popieluzko in Communist Poland, a dramatic and politically useful event for the politicized Western mainstream media, exceeded all their coverage of the murders of a hundred religious figures killed in Latin America by U.S. client states in the post-Second World War years taken together.1 It was cheap and safe to focus heavily on the “worthy” victim, whereas looking closely at the deaths of those hundred would have required an expensive and sometimes dangerous research effort that would have upset the State Department. But it was in effect a form of fake news to so selectively devote coverage (and indignation) to a politically useful victim, while ignoring large numbers whose murder the political establishment sought to downplay or completely suppress.

Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution. In a classic study of the paper’s coverage of Russia from February 1917 to March 1920, Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz found that “From the point of view of professional journalism the reporting of the Russian Revolution is nothing short of a disaster. On the essential questions the net effect was almost always misleading, and misleading news is worse than none at all…. They can fairly be charged with boundless credulity, and an untiring readiness to be gulled, and on many occasions with a downright lack of common sense.”2 Lippmann and Merz found that strong editorial bias clearly fed into news reporting. The editors’ zealous opposition to the communists led the paper to report atrocities that never happened, and to predict the imminent collapse of the Bolshevik regime no fewer than ninety-one times in three years. Journalists uncritically accepted official statements and relied on reports from unidentified “high authority.” This was standard Times practice.

This fake news performance of 1917–20 was repeated often in the years that followed. The Soviet Union was an enemy target up to the Second World War, and through it all, Times coverage was consistently hostile. With the end of the war and the emergence of the Soviet Union as a military rival, and soon a competing nuclear power, the Cold War was on. In the United States, anti-communism became a national religion, and the Soviet Union was portrayed in official discourse and the news media as a global menace in urgent need of containment. With this ideology in place and with U.S. plans for its own global expansion of power established, the Communist threat would help sustain the steady growth of the military-industrial complex and repeated interventions to counter purported Soviet aggressions.3

[theanticool]

Ed Herman has been employed by the ufc continuously since 2006. 17 years! That’s insane.

[theanticool]

Alonzo Menifield takes UD over Ed Herman.

A complete performance from Menifield as he out kickboxes Ed Herman. The leg kicks from Menifield just zapped Herman’s ability to push the pace he probably wanted to set to be able to tire out the faster, more powerful fighter. Not a perfect performance but the type you need to show growth as a fighter. 2 in a row for Menifield and Herman gets his 3 fight win streak snapped. He’s also probably going to have to walk with a cane for a few days. 

Not going to lie. I’m not going to be fully invested in this card til Fiziev-Green comes on.

[theanticool]

My memory is bad. Has Ed Herman always been a savage with the knees or is that just something he picked up at 205?

[theanticool]

Soon

[theanticool]

ED HERMAN WITH THE KNEE!!!

Drags Cummins down with the double collar tie right into the knee that lands right on top of the head. Puts Cummins away in the first round!