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Vocalo Feature: LadyDrawers, A Feminist Comic Series (Radio Segment)
In this piece, comic artists Rachel Swanson and Abe Lambert talk boobs, comics, and feminism. They're part of a new series called "LadyDrawers" on Truth-Out.org that began as a …
Murdoch in the Morning, Part II: Watching Fox
What follows is a blow-by-blow breakdown of my Thursday with Fox News.
I Love the Smell of Murdoch in the Morning
The hearings were broadcast by every major news channel, but for something like this, only one would do: Fox.
BLUNT: Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox News Uses to Brainwash Americans
Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans
When access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.
An Informed and Educated Electorate
Before the Reagan presidency, it was possible for any American student with academic competence to attend college and graduate without debt.
Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: “Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power“
Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)
Racialized Memories and Class Identities – Thinking About Glenn Beck’s and Rush Limbaugh’s America
Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.
The Case for Socialism
It's obvious that if you repeat something often enough, in an authoritative voice, listeners will begin to believe what you say. That’s the theory behind both advertising and …
Tribes and Skies
Among things that TV did indeed change, Calvino suggests, is the way we view our leaders.