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The Real History of a Radical

Putting I.F. Stone in perspective.

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Democracy Needs a Bailout

Without a bailout, newspapers will lay off staff, fewer journalists will report important stories, there will be no Fourth-Estate… more

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Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture

There is no one, it seems, that the U.S. mainstream news media loves more than Colin Powell, a "moderate"… more

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Big Cable’s Internet Rip-Off

You'll have to excuse me--I'm a little tired, having stayed up all night watching episodes of Lost online. I've… more

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Let’s Expose the Poster Boys of Greed

Boy, have I learned my lesson, which I pass onto you. Do not, under any circumstances, call out any… more

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From Newspaper to Commercial Paper

At Northwestern University in the mid-1990s, the journalism professor with the most devoted student following was an understated teacher… more

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Building A Broadband Bridge that Holds Weight

Jay Foushee has called his local phone company in rural Roxboro, N.C., numerous times to plead for high-speed Internet… more

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The A Word

MEXICO CITY--Any serious scribe will tell you that writing is, at its heart, the maddening struggle to find exactly… more

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Israel, Gaza and the Left

One of the left's most significant ideological failings in recent years has been its habit of issuing shrill and… more

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Watching The Watchers

Mass Observation returns for the Obama inauguration.

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Fake Outrage Junkies

I'm not sure if it's because we're strung out on "Lost" episodes, or if it's because we're still suffering… more

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The Dragon We Must Slay

Obama as Lincoln. Obama as FDR. The instantly classic image of Obama, sticking his jaw defiantly into the pouring… more

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Washington Reporters’ Mass Exodus

There's a problem with journalism when a newspaper lays off a reporter like Phil Dine. For 20 years, Dine… more

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Mo’ Power for Low Power

Activists hope Congress will allow low-power FM radio stations in urban areas in 2009.

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How Will the Media Cover Obama?

It's the morning after Election Day and, like millions, I am filled with elation and hope. CNN let me… more

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Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

If you're having trouble remembering what the recent election was all about, rest easy: you're probably not going senile… more

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In South Bend, a Dangerous Media Deal

One of the most damaging media consolidation deals in the country is quietly underway in Indiana's fourth largest city,… more

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Native Radio Building Community

For many communities -- especially the country's Native American tribes -- radio still promises a way to spread news, share stories and support a cultural or regional identity.

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Hospital Flacks Spread Fake News

Journalists' groups are concerned about broadcast outlets using video news releases produced by pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers

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The $70 Billion Spectrum Rip-Off

As many viewers struggle with the transition to digital TV, commercial broadcasters can look forward to a massive giveaway

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Sanity From The Silver Screen

When President Bush responded to 9/11 and the subsequent economic downturn by ordering us to go shopping, many ignored… more

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Big Media Hectors Obama on ‘Surge’

For six years, with few exceptions, the Washington press corps has been cheerleading for the Iraq War – and… more

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Bad Days for Newsrooms — and Democracy

The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of newsprint with the lightning speed… more

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What’s So ‘Free’ About Philly’s New Wi-Fi Plan?

Without a computer and the knowledge to get online wirelessly, "free Wi-Fi" isn't truly free and accessible. Offering the… more

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Dismantling the Myth of McCain

How the Republican senator's maverick image is a sham

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No Strings Attached?

How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence

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Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War

The nationwide opposition to the Iraq War is based on a host of populist impulses. Some people hate it… more

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The Cho Show

Margaret Cho knows how brutal Hollywood can be. In 2000, in her critically acclaimed one-woman comedy show, "I'm the… more

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Kenya’s Indy Media

While news reports across the world have displayed images of chaos shaking Kenya, an alternative media system driven by… more

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The Jamie Lynn Effect

The story was so big it made front page of the New York Times: Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's 16-year-old… more

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Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah!

Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did?

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R.I.P. LiP

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

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FCC Rocks Chicago, Chicago Rocks Back

At the recent FCC hearing in the Windy City, citizens came out in droves to voice their displeasure over the media landscape

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Another War We Can’t Afford

The neo-cons may be coordinating with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and all the usual suspects to build enough public support to bomb Iran

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The Crime Against Debbie Almontaser

Even Bloomberg now admits that the victim of the New York "Intifada" t-shirt hysteria is no terrorist

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Creating the 21st Century Library

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls "a map of my brain"

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The Promise of Low Power FM

The voices aired on low-power stations include evangelists, social critics, tomato pickers and indie rockers--all linked by the credo that radio should reflect the heterogeneity of the communities it serves

vol. 31, iss. 09   

In Condemnation of Opting In

Our voices are being drowned out by our peers in the supposedly independent media, like Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, who calls Starbucks "the new record store," and music journalists like the Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer, who argued in a piece called "In Praise of Selling Out" that the music industry's decline can be "rescued by corporations that make everything but music"

vol. 31, iss. 09    ,

Blogs Up, Hacks Down

The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players

vol. 31, iss. 09    ,

Get Me Out of Gitmo

Most detainees at Guantánamo are willing and able to go home, but Bush's spin continues to dizzy our corporate media

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