Linda Milazzo is Managing Editor of OpedNews, a participatory journalist, and educator. Since 1974, she has divided her time between the entertainment industry, government organizations, community development projects, and educational programs.

Linda began her writing career 35 years ago in advertising and promotions. From 1976 to 1989, she operated an independent public relations service providing specialty writing for individual and corporate clients. A socio-political activist since the Vietnam war, Linda has focused on political writing since G. W. Bush first threatened Iraq. Her essays, letters and commentaries have appeared in domestic and international journals, newspapers and magazines. She's an educator and creator of a writers' program she's taught privately and in public schools.

Linda currently facilitates an advocacy writing workshop and is developing an advocacy writing program to be implemented in public and private educational institutions and in community based organizations. She's a regular contributor to numerous high profile and highly respected news and opinion websites.

Blog Entries by Linda Milazzo

Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs

Posted October 19, 2009 | 10:53 AM (EST)


Ted Turner would fire Lou Dobbs. How do I know? Because Ted Turner said so:

This excerpt from Ted Turner's April 1, 2008 interview on PBS, in which the visionary founder of CNN tells...

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

1 Comments | Posted October 17, 2009 | 04:47 PM (EST)


Our great buddy Mike is angry. For the past twenty years, Michael Moore, our everyday hero, has worked hard for us. He's documented sadistic acts against us by industry and government. He's exposed case after case of devious schemes that robbed us of our homes and our jobs, sent our...

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Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

10 Comments | Posted September 21, 2009 | 02:47 PM (EST)


In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers in Washington, DC, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad to prove it did cover the teabaggers in Washington DC.

Du-uh!!

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OpedNews Journalist and Six Protesters Charged With Criminal Conspiracy After Arrest at "Army Experience Center"

2 Comments | Posted September 12, 2009 | 09:04 PM (EST)


Philadelphia, PA, September 13, 2009: Six members of various anti-war groups, including World Can't Wait and Military Families Speak Out, and an OpedNews journalist, were arrested on Saturday, September 12, 2009, at approximately 3pm (ET) at a protest organized to shut down The Army Experience Center, located in...

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

5 Comments | Posted September 6, 2009 | 07:19 PM (EST)


I was out last evening. I tried to escape, just for a while, back to the days of (Taking) Woodstock when we who worked to end the Vietnam war did so as a united, free-spirited force. I readily admit that in today's times of racism disguised as patriotism, religious perversion,...

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David Swanson's Daybreak Is Chart-Topping Inspiration

Posted September 1, 2009 | 01:39 AM (EST)


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It's a great day in America when heralds of hate, specifically Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin, are booted from their Amazon best seller slots on day one of the publication of progressive leader David Swanson's breakthrough tome,...

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Our Children Shouldn't Be Messengers Of Hate!

Posted August 24, 2009 | 04:52 PM (EST)


The photo below was taken on Friday, August 21, 2009 in El Segundo, California, outside the office of Congresswoman Jane Harman (36th CD). It shows three adorable children wearing stickers with the word fascism below a supposed image of the President of the United States, fashioned as Batman's malevolent Joker:

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Don Lemon & CNN: No to "Real Americans," Yes to Real Journalism!

27 Comments | Posted August 18, 2009 | 03:58 PM (EST)


On Saturday, August 15, 2009, CNN's Don Lemon angrily confronted America's Town Hall Director Alan Hardage for Hardage's use the term real Americans. Below is the video of Lemon's heated exchange with Hardage:

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Winograd For Congress Sponsors Rare Reading of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie"

51 Comments | Posted August 8, 2009 | 03:38 PM (EST)


On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American Evergreen College student and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was run down by a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The American made bulldozer that crushed and killed Rachel Corrie was operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Rachel died while protesting...

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Whiteous Indignation

48 Comments | Posted July 28, 2009 | 12:23 PM (EST)


"How cute!" my adults would say when they passed a black baby or a small black child. They'd grin approvingly at the baby and smile their acceptance at the baby's mom. Sometimes they'd extend a hand to brush the baby's cheek to prove their gentility. And then they'd walk a...

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President Obama, my Response to Your Fourth of July Letter

Posted July 4, 2009 | 04:25 PM (EST)


This morning I received the following letter from President Barack Obama:

Linda --

This weekend, our family will join millions of others in celebrating America. We will enjoy the glow of fireworks, the taste of barbeque, and the company of good friends. As we all celebrate this weekend, let's also...

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Jingoism Isn't Journalism: Why I Don't Trust CNN & Corporate Media to Cover Iran

1 Comments | Posted July 2, 2009 | 11:02 AM (EST)


As a critic of media, in particular of cable/satellite "news," I'm troubled by American corporate-media, specifically CNN's near non-stop coverage of the turmoil in Iran. Not because the story isn't important. It's critically important and warrants the personal coverage it's getting from the Iranian people as they bypass corporate channels...

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Dylan Ratigan? Really MSNBC, Don't We Have Enough Ranters Already?

13 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 10:30 AM (EST)


On June 29th, Dylan Ratigan, the former host of CNBC's Fast Money, will premiere his new show, The Meeting With Dylan Ratigan, to air Monday through Friday at 9am on MSNBC. The show will address a variety of topics spearheaded by Ratigan, its pugnacious fast-talking star, who as the video...

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Destruction in Los Angeles as Rioting "Fans" Taint Lakers Win

10 Comments | Posted June 15, 2009 | 03:50 PM (EST)


As Los Angeles teeters on financial ruin, with the possibility of municipal workers being laid off or forced to take unpaid leave, unruly crowds turn a night of celebration for the city into a night of destruction following the Los Angeles Lakers' 99 to 86 NBA Finals victory over the...

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CODEPINK Builds a Playground in Gaza: It's all About the Children!

2 Comments | Posted June 12, 2009 | 04:45 PM (EST)


As angry uprisings take place in Iran over the questionable "re-election" of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As innocents are murdered at every corner of this planet - indeed at every corner - when considering those at its furthest coordinates suffering the effects of global warming brought on by human greed -- there...

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Newt Gingrich Declares: "I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!"

157 Comments | Posted June 9, 2009 | 04:12 PM (EST)


This evening at a Washington DC fundraiser, in a statement that can best be described as regressive American exceptionalism, former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich said of himself:

"I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous!"

Witness the video...

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How I Witnessed Sarah Palin's Anti-Abortion Fanatics

1 Comments | Posted June 1, 2009 | 12:02 AM (EST)


The following is an excerpt of an article I published after attending a Sarah Palin rally in Southern California where I witnessed reinvigorated anti-abortion fanatics spurred on by Palin's inflammatory rhetoric. At that time, as evidenced by the text of my earlier article (below), it was clear to me...

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Lt. Dan Choi Takes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Directly to Obama

64 Comments | Posted May 28, 2009 | 08:02 PM (EST)


Last evening, in an act of daring befitting a West Point graduate and veteran of Iraq, recently discharged New York National Guard Lieutenant Daniel Choi defied the orders of dozens of crowd control police and stepped into the 'no protest zone' street to ceremoniously salute his Commander in Chief, Barack...

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Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community

7 Comments | Posted May 11, 2009 | 12:30 PM (EST)


Two Fridays ago on the first day of its release, I went to an early afternoon screening of the film The Soloist. I'd been eager to see it since it focuses on the real life relationship between Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a homeless member...

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The Murder Of Kitty Genovese

Posted April 13, 2009 | 06:01 PM (EST)


Mid-afternoon on Wednesday, driving along a street in the West San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, I saw this man lying on the parkway of the road.
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