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How Disney Instills Greed and Consumerism – Starting at Three Months
It doesn't matter how enjoyable the products - there is something bigger beneath the family-friendly exterior.
How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age
Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.
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)
A History of Happiness
Most Americans today consider happiness not only something that would be nice to have but something we ought to have.