Archive for March, 2005


29
Mar

Our Mandate: Making Media Matter

"Our Mandate" is an audio argument designed to stimulate debate on media reform based on my essay in Melville House’s best-selling book “What We Do Now.” I contributed a chapter called Making Media Matter. “Our Mandate” is an audio mix/call-to-action by musician Polar Levine of Polarity 1 and myself.
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29
Mar

The Morning After Another Quake

ANOTHER EARHQUAKE TERRIFIES ASIA
ALL THE SCHIAVO ALL THE TIME
SUPREMES HEAR INTERNET CASE TODAY
(Partially posted last night)
Oh no, not again.
Just as the UN announced that it was pulling out of Aceh, just as it was announced that at least four BILLION dollars in aid money pledged by governments for tsunami victims has not been received, […]


29
Mar

Today’s Media Madness

DEATH BY TELEVISION
The TV Trade mag Broadcasting and Cable carries this editorial indicating that not all industry insiders are blind to the continued degradation of TV “journalism” as illustrated by the Terri Schiavo deathwatchathon.
“… Aren’t CNN and Fox and MSNBC and radio talk-show hosts making a freak show out of this sad, sick woman’s […]


29
Mar

Your Letters and another Tribute

Nural writes about media madness:
“FYI if not already seen.”
http://a1022.g.akamai.net/f/1022/8158/5m/images.latimes.com/media/cartoon/2005-03/16759780.jpg
DEATH WITH DIGNITY
Da’oud Mohammed writes from Oregon:
“That story re CBS involved in the Kennedy Assassination Cover Up has echoed in my ears all day long. Astounding. I wonder if I’ll ever read a link to it from any site besides yours?
Since the weekend, we’ve been […]

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