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Zeese and Flowers: People-Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent
If we continue to build the independent, people-powered media, greater numbers of people will build up immunity to the destructive misinformation of corporate media. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers AlterNet February 7, 2014 CenterforMediaJustice.org Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/1000 Words In the last week, there were two major examples of how people-powered media can educate and […]
Glenn Greenwald: The Perfect Epitaph for Establishment Journalism
‘If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?’, says the former editor of The Independent Published on Monday, October 14, 2013 by The Guardian CommonDreams.org by Glenn Greenwald Some journalists view this as an inviolable decree that may not be questioned or defied (Photo: Alamy) Like many people, […]
Timothy Karr: Verizon’s Plan to Break the Internet
Verizon has big plans for the Internet. And if that doesn’t worry you, it should. by Timothy Karr Published on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by Save The Internet. Posted on CommonDreams.org The company is trying to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order, which prevents Internet service providers from blocking, throttling or otherwise discriminating against online content. […]
[Video] Bruce Gagnon: Manipulating the Media Still Continues
Operation Mockingbird, CIA Media Control Program Posted by Bruce K. Gagnon August 28th, 2013 Organizing Notes Hajduk28 Video on the CIA funding and manipulation of the U.S. news media. Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s. According to the Congress report published in […]
Patrick L. Smith: Lapdog Media Beats War Drums Again
Remember how the media sold us their wars? (photo: Luke Frazza/AP) By Patrick L. Smith 31 August 13 Salon via Reader Supported News s of this writing, early Thursday morning, some Syrians are scheduled to pay with their lives for America’s “credibility.” The bombarding of an already war-ravaged country is acknowledged as “symbolic,” intended simply to […]
Mark Weisbrot: Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy
Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy By Mark Weisbrot 06 August 2013 The Guardian | Op-Ed via truthout.org Juana Brito prays over the bodies of her father and an unidentified youth, both killed by Guatemalan soldiers in the civil war 30 years ago, as a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation […]
Helen Thomas, a Great Journalist, Dies at 92
Helen Thomas, a Great Journalist and Friend of The Real News, Dies at 92 July 20, 2013 TheRealNews.com Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on FACEBOOK! […]
Popular Resistance> Is Radical Remaking of Economy Taking Root?
The best news of the week was people standing up and insisting that the government and big business respond to their needs. We’ve seen a series of major protests that have garnered little corporate media attention, but show a growing popular resistance. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers May 28, 2013 LAProgressive.com Check the new […]
Glenn Greenwald> The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties
The controversies over the IRS and especially the AP phone records appear to have long-lasting effects Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 15 May 2013 10.45 EDT President Barack Obama Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Due to the controversies over the IRS and (especially) the DOJ’s attack on AP’s news gathering process, media outlets have suddenly decided that President Obama […]
[Video] Glenn Greenwald> Debating Bill Maher on Muslims, Islam and US foreign policy
The HBO host has become a leading advocate of the view that Islam is uniquely violent and threatening. Does that hold up under critical scrutiny? Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk Saturday 11 May 2013 09.25 EDT [Video below] From l to r: Glenn Greenwald, Joy Reid, Charles Cooke, Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time”, May 11, 2013 Photograph: screen […]
Covering Race in the Time of Obama – NCMR 2013 featured panel
Change the Media, Change the World Panel description: (full panel below): Full panel: Published on Apr 11, 2013 videofreepress· Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page and click on the item of interest to view. WAMMToday is also on FACEBOOK! […]
Media and the Keystone March> Little coverage of large climate action
Media and the Keystone March Little coverage of large climate action February 19, 2013 FAIR.org Tens of thousands of climate activists marched in Washington D.C.on February 17. Did the corporate media notice them? The main focus for the activists was the White House’s pending decision on the Keystone pipeline, a project that would deliver tar […]
Julian Assange | Sam Adams Awards | Oxford Union
Published on Jan 25, 2013 Julian Assange gives his address live via Videolink to the Oxford Union Society. Julian Assange begins his address by saying that in 2007-08 he was looking at what was happening in Iran. He says that a lot of people did good work, especially Thomas Fingar in: Trying to correct the […]
Jim Hightower> The Mass Media Favorites Fall Out of Favor
The Mass Media Favorites Fall Out of Favor The honchos of America’s establishment media are quick to blame such external causes as the Internet for their problems, but if they looked internally, they might notice that they’re damn near eaten-up with a bad case of conventional wisdomitis. By Jim Hightower Wednesday 12 December 2012 NationofChange.org […]
Nygaard Notes> Media in an Unjust World, Parts I & II
This Week: Media in an Unjust World Number 517 November 19, 2012 “Quote” of the Week: “Sweeping Cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security” Bonus “Quote” of the Week: “The New Normal for Our Youth.” The Voter Empowerment Act: Now in the Senate Nygaard Notes Methodology Media and the Just World Theory Blaming the Victims Dehumanizing […]
Edward S. Herman> Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ.
Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ. By Edward S. Herman Z Magazine October 2012 On October 11, 2011, Paul Krugman asserted on his blog that he had the privilege of writing two columns a week for “the world’s greatest newspaper,” the New York Times (NYT). The NYT is surely an outstanding paper, with exceptionally wide scope, many good journalists on board […]
Jay Janson> Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time
Syria: NY Times’ Deadly Aim to Fool ALL the People ALL the Time By Jay Janson November 2, 2012 A veil of disinformation by Western business controlled media, never possible by any outright State-controlled media, has descended on the world. But with technology is racing toward easy electronic access to documented history, those employed […]
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