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Szczepanczyk: Good news and bad news in the U.S. media policy struggles
Blog Post, December, 11 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The good news, as the Save The Internet coalition reports: The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want...
Szczepanczyk: Victory: An update of media and internet activism in the U.S.
Blog Post, October, 27 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
Earlier in 2006, I blogged about the efforts to stop the wretched rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, the main law in America involving the media and the internet, and its likely negative ramifications as to the future of the internet and curre...
Street: Trivial Media in "the Nation that Stands Taller and Sees Farther"
Blog Post, October, 14 2006
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Hey, remember when NBC News reporter David Gregory finally lost it and became visibly angry during a White House press conference last winter? It wasn't about the administration's numerous and continuing deceptions on Iraq. It wasn't a...
Chomsky: Media, Lebanon & U.S. - Israeli Brutal Operations
Blog Post, August, 19 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Below is a Q&A from the Z Sustianer System. Z Sustianer: While I certainly wouldn't characterize the coverage of the Israeli atrocities as "balanced", it has been far better than I would have expected, at least in so ...
Szczepanczyk: Update about media policy in the U.S.
Blog Post, June, 26 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
The fight for the future of media policy in the United States rages on. One controversial bill, the dreaded COPE Act, was unfortunately approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 8. Companion legislation is currently being considered ...
Szczepanczyk: Blog like there's no tomorrow, because tomorrow you might not be able to...
Blog Post, June, 10 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
It's like the post in the supposedly satirical newspaper, The Onion: Terrifying Bill Passed During NBA Playoffs Last night, June 8, 2006, we saw Game One of the 2006 NBA finals. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to kill the in...
Street: Shameless Orwellian War Pigs and Their Dominant Media Enablers
Blog Post, December, 01 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Here's my latest piece (below) from the excellent radical-democratic newsletter Dissident Voice: "'Dishonest' and 'Reprehensible?'" It's got the standard leftist bluster on Bush-Cheney, I suppose (I'm a master practicioner in that realm), but the ...
Marshall: Media Exclusion of Women as Sources Impedes Meaningful Reform
Blog Post, June, 09 2005
Lucinda Marshall
Laudable as the goals of “media reform” may be, until the voices of women (as well as other silenced groups) are fully and equitably included, it will remain a deluded (mostly white) guy buzzword, self-limiting in its scope of meaningful change. T...
Marshall: The Media Reform Conference
Blog Post, May, 18 2005
Lucinda Marshall
Last weekend's Media Reform Conference in St. Louis has already been amply blogged (as someone at the Conference pointed out, the natural result of gathering 2500 media activists in one place is about 5000 opinions). My experience was perhaps a ...
Street: Dominant Media's Selective Morality
Blog Post, April, 01 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Some of this blog's readers may know that I published a piece in Black Commentator last week under the title "Savage Morality: Selective Concern and Dominant Media in an Age of Empire and Inequality (see www.blackcommentator.org/131/131_think_sava...
Chomsky: Myth of the Liberal Media
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The media delight in being portrayed as "adversarial," sometimes even going overboard in their efforts to subvert power. There are some remarkable examples, e.g., the Freedom House study of how the liberal crusading press lost the Vietnam war by ...
Spannos: Violence, Media & the RNC
Blog Post, August, 31 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
As I write today, there are reports and photos of direct actions, and rallies in New York. In particular, today's A31: A Day of Non-violent Civil Disobedience and Direct Action. Yesterday I did a series of 10 radio interviews for the CBC's "...
Podur: In Caracas: Memory and Media Circus as Campaigning Ends...
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest and work on Colom...
Podur: In Caracas: Memory and Media Circus as Campaigning Ends...
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest and work on Colom...
