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How the Media Stokes Racism in Iowa City – and Everywhere
Media have a decisive role to play in the formation of attitudes about race, class, gender and sexuality.
“The Last Magazine”: One Year After Death, Michael Hastings’ Lost Novel Satirizes Corporate Media
Today, another major work from Michael Hastings is upon us: “The Last Magazine,” a posthumous novel and scathing satire of the corporate news media based on Hastings' time at …
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The James Risen Case Cuts to the Heart of “Freedom of the Press“
If the Senate doesn't screw things up, we might finally get the kind of media shield law that our democracy requires.
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Fox News Has Finally Yelled Fire in a Crowded Theater
It's time for the media to start calling attacks like those in Las Vegas, Cumming, Georgia, and Kansas City what they are: right-wing-extremist-fueled terrorist attacks.
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Breaking Climate Silence: One Step at a Time
The Great March for Climate Action is trekking from LA to DC. In one Northern New Mexico town, the marchers catalyzed change in both small and significant ways.
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Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
The Social Death Penalty: Why Being Ostracized Hurts Even More Than Bullying
In the wake of Elliot Rodger, questions about social rejection take on new urgency.
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Official Secrets: Absolute Control
Control of information by the government-corporate complex is expanding.
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When American Mainstream Media Is Amiss From Guantanamo
In the 365 days since President Obama's second promise to close Guantanamo, he appointed two envoys to deal with the closure of Guantanamo and has lifted the ban against …
NutWorks!
If one goes online to Wikipedia to search for the number of reality television shows created, one can surmise just how lowly evolved we have become.