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Five Ways to Combat Conservative Media
1. Stop talking about “bias.” Inaccurate, distorted and misleading news reports that further a conservative agenda or undermine progressive... more
May 9, 2005
COVER STORY
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Making Connections
Why is the news so bad? What can progressives do to fix it?
Features
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The Ousting of Obrador
Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, otherwise known as AMLO or “el peje” after a lovable swamp... more
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The Blogosphere: Insiders vs. Outsiders
It shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise when Time named the right-wing blog PowerLine “... more
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Is Low-Cost Wi-Fi Un-American?
We have Big Media to thank for saving Americans from themselves. Just as the notion of affordable broadband... more
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Too Much Media
Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it “media unlimited.”... more
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Numbers Before Politics
Since last autumn’s Republican victory, progressives have engaged in considerable soul searching. The most basic question has... more
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Broadband Internet: Unhappily Ever After?
Few people blink these days when some Chicken Little somewhere announces that the virtual sky is falling. The... more
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Union Stations
Add up the audience for all of the progressive independent press: national magazines, local newsweeklies, liberal blogs, Pacifica... more
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Where Are the Women?
What Washington Post editor Zofia Smardz dubbed “Opiniongate” began when columnist and commentator Susan Estrich sent a letter... more
Act Locally
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IMF on the Ropes in Brazil
Brazil's decision to cut some ties with the Fund is indicative of changing times in Latin America
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Media for the People
The accomplishments of the Urbana/Champaign IndyMedia Center (UC IMC) read like a media activist’s wish list: ... more
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GMs Healthcare Double Standard
Bad ideology trumps good business
culture
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The Popes Failures
Pope John Paul II’s reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is well known.... more
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music
A History Unaccredited
Hip-hop has no standing archives. Like the seminal works of the few who’ve come before—David Toop’... more
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books
No Reason to Exist
The steam explosion that tore the roof from Chernobyl’s fourth unit in the pre-dawn hours of April 26, 1986,... more
Columnists
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Editorial
The Vultures of Life
It’s apparently not enough for George W. Bush to have taken the words “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy,”... more
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The GOPs Quest for Color
Insistent complaints from right-wing pundits about the media’s liberal bias have been effective. Now even the most... more
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Back Talk
Fairness Now
As long as we are dreaming of the near impossible—the reinstitution of the concept that the airwaves... more
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Truth and Consequences
Fear, Loathing and the GOP
The telltale sign of desperation in politics is when people start making wild threats and accusations. From Joe... more

