Archive for December, 2005


30
Dec

Searching For Light At Year’s End

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 [...]

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30
Dec

In Praise of George Gerber

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 [...]

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30
Dec

The Last Letters Of a Long Year

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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Weapons of Mass Deception (WMD) goes inside the military-media complex, exposing the war the world saw but Americans didn't.

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Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity

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Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio

Written by veteran media critic and Emmy winner Rory O'Connor, Shock Jocks features unsparing profiles of the ten worst conservative radio talkers in America, including Michael Savage, Bill O' Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus and the rest.

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