Media Change We Can Believe In
The Bush Administration's default approach toward journalists has been to use them when necessary and bypass them when not.
The Bush Administration's default approach toward journalists has been to use them when necessary and bypass them when not.
Mike Doyle | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago
The media world as we know it has imploded in the past year, nowhere with a louder thud than right here in Chicago.
Art Brodsky | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
We're seeing a grim scenario play out now on Wall Street, as firms acted unwisely with no government oversight, and the public ends up losing. We don't want to see it play out online as well.
Adam McKay | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media
"Stop saying that!" my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I'm not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we're gonna frickin' lose this thing.
Laura Flanders | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media
As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly-financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall fo...
Norman Horowitz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media
Certainly I do not want the government defining "fairness". What could be more frightening then the government trying to impose their definition of "fairness" on America's radio stations?
Josh Silver | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media
The O'Reilly ambush is typical cable news entertainment-posing-as- journalism whose purpose is to sell eyeballs to advertisers, not to inform citizens or better society.
Timothy Karr | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media
Fox News' trash-talking, prime-time headliner is little more than an apologist for those in power -- and especially for his boss Rupert Murdoch.
Charles Warner | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
Think of it, Bagels With Billary, a morning show simulcast with Katie Couric as hostess and either Bill or Hillary or both talking with each other or to other celebrities. Who wouldn't go on their show?
The Uptake | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home
Planning on using your laptop to blog the Republican National Convention? Plan again. There will be 15,000 members of the media packed into the event and wireless will be crippled beyond use.
Josh Silver | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
The Senate's vote reflects growing awareness -- in Congress and with average Americans -- of the perils of concentrated media ownership.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.
Josh Silver | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media
Stamping junk news as genuine isn't new; Entertainment Tonight got its bona fide pass from the FCC in 1988.
Adam McKay | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Okay, I get it. We let all Republicans and most Democrats off the hook because they will roll over for the companies that own the media and in McCain's case literally get blown by lobbyists, but come on! Are we not even remotely pretending anymore?
Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
Whenever Murdoch is depressed, my studies over the years as a media pathologist find, he has what he calls "an expansionist lunge." And when he's in one of them he can't be outbid.
David Simon | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media
Let's happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun: something happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking.
Robert Scheer | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
McCain was one of five senators (and the sole Republican) who voted against the atrocious telecom legislation that Iseman was pushing, which President Clinton signed into law.
David Sirota | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
The growth of conspiracy theories as a phenomenon should not be ignored, because they represent something deeper - a distrust of a government.
Russell Shaw | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
In most metro areas -- especially the 20 largest metro areas where the relaxed restrictions would apply -- we have lots of diverse voices.
AP | John Dunbar | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
The Federal Communications Commission, overturning a 32-year-old ban, voted Tuesday to allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to ...
Andrew Slack | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media
The Harry Potter Alliance put out "Rocking Out Against VoldeMedia," which is aimed at building awareness and action against FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's current rush to gut media consolidation rules.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media
Chairman Martin and the other Republican corporate puppets on the FCC want to destroy localism in order to save it. The citizens of this nation, along with the Congress, have had enough of media consolidation.
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media
Facing growing criticism of his agenda and tactics, a defiant Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, refused senators' re...
Josh Silver | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media
Today in the Congress, senators berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation. And Martin didn't flinch.
Josh Silver | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Potterwatch is building a real-world movement against "Voldemedia" -- the handful of companies that control most of what we see, hear and read every day.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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Rory O'Connor | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media