Its not too late: JOIN Mediachannel and support our work. Http://mediachannel.org/membership.htm THE YEAR GONE BY REMEMBER GEORGE GERBNER BIG STORIES OF THE YEAR What do you say at the end of a year like this? The sheer darkness of it, the wars, the disasters, from Katrina to South Asia, the death tolls, the torturers, the [...]
FROM THE UK: FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A DECADE Channel 4 overtakes BBC2 in ratings http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1675337,00.html MEDIA TREND Noted by the Club of Amsterdam with approval, They are having a conference to bolster this media trend: ”Much of today’s media is dominated by sports – including football, athletics, cricket, volleyball, motocross, horse-racing, snooker and [...]
Virgina Weldon, a regular correspondent writes: Dear Danny: There are so many incredible stories that happened during 2005that one is hard-pressed to select one over the other, but this one has allthe earmarks of a real doozie and portends events that will play out in our immediate future. I refer to the Bird Flu Pandemic [...]
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The "News Dissector" explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.
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