I am reminded by a recent exchange that the party line
in the West is that the Russian media are uniformly
pro-Putin. This is not true.
The three national TV channels generally follow the
Kremlin line. Some political shows have closed, which
is a shame. However, this is not true of the print
Ken Hanly writes:
> All I know is that Jesus gets to vote first since he saith:
>
> He (sic) who is without sin gets to cast the first ballot..
I wonder: who gets to cast the second stone?
jim devine
bject: Re: [PEN-L] How Mass is Mass Media?
> >Kenneth Burke repeats a conversation in which one party says, "I'm a
> >Christian," and the other party replies, "Yes, but who are you a
> >Christian AGAINST?"
> >
> >according to one observer, th
Kenneth Burke repeats a conversation in which one party says, "I'm a
Christian," and the other party replies, "Yes, but who are you a
Christian AGAINST?"
according to one observer, the following sign was seen at the DP convention.
"Which Way Would Jesus Vote?"
Only evidence available is who he thre
Kenneth Burke repeats a conversation in which one party says, "I'm a
Christian," and the other party replies, "Yes, but who are you a
Christian AGAINST?"
according to one observer, the following sign was seen at the DP convention.
"Which Way Would Jesus Vote?"
[sigh]
jd
What percentage of the adult population watches Fox News?
What percentage of the adult population watches ABC and/or CBS and/or
NBC but _not_ Fox?
What percentage of the adult population watches Local News but no
network news?
What percentage of the adult population watches watches local news _a
Wouldn't a survey like this be very sensitive to its framing?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
<http://mediamatters.org/>
Plurality of Voters Say Conservatives Have More Influence in the Media
Than Liberals
http://mediamatters.org/items/200405020001
Findings of a National Survey Conducted for Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America recently commissioned a poll by the
Poll: Iraqis conflicted about war, its impact
Survey done mostly before recent cycle of violence
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Nearly half the Iraqis polled
in a survey conducted primarily in March and early
April said they believed the U.S.-led war had done
more harm than good, but 61 percent of respond
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/26/2004 5:41:35 PM >>>
Maybe Michael Hoover or Yoshie can help us out, but I think that the
morality police
during the 30s pressured Hollywood not to show class conflict.
Michael Perelman
<>
excuse tardy reply, placed above in "to do" file...
decline of class confl
This is a reply from Benjamin Dangl and April Howard, who co-authored a
critique of Cuban media on Counterpunch that I critiqued on Marxmail a
week or so ago. They mention the Gehry Art Center at Bard below. I
should add that the building had a cost overrun of $45 million,
conceivably more than
Craven, Jim wrote:
In the case of the "Reality shows", they are relatively cheap to
produce, focus on trappings of wealth (temporary) like being set in
exotic locales and big mansions, and of course utilize, celebrate,
preach, reward and reinforce: rat-race individualism, greed,
selfishness, intri
Maybe Michael Hoover or Yoshie can help us out, but I think that the morality police
during the 30s pressured Hollywood not to show class conflict.
Michael, a distant relative of the Warner Bros, both of whose grandfathers along with
many others in town, were offered a $50 partnership, and whose o
With the cowboys, the railroad people, bankers, and owners of large
estates were often the bad guys.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Very perceptive. You can of course add us "savage Indians
With the cowboys, the railroad people, bankers, and owners of large estates were
often the bad guys.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Title: Message
Does anyone know of
work being done to analyze emergences/passings/dominance of various genres in
media/"pop culture" (content, scope, impacts, sponsors, target demographics,
revenues, linkages, methods of competition etc) and the shifting SSA and
SSA requirements o
In today's Counterpunch (March 24, 2004), there's an interesting article
by Benjamin Dangl and April Howard on the Cuban media, which originated
on their website: http://www.upsidedownworld.org. Howard is a student at
Bard College, my alma mater. No doubt she made the acquaintance th
perhaps of interest to pen-pals...
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Sent: Sat 2/28/2004 12:20 AM
To: Devine, James
Cc:
Subject: New Palm Digital Media books by Michael Perelman
from Ray Hanania. . . .
A detailed profile of Palestine Media Watch was published this week that
examines how organizations have been able to influence the media using the
Internet that I thought members would be interested in ...
==
The revolution will be e-mailed
Can a
One of the biggest jokes in Venezuela at this time of the sign-up
campaigns for recall are the regulations on the media.(Signing for the
recall of 38 opposition members of parliament is occurring right now, and
next Friday-Monday will be the signature campaign to call for a recall
On Big Media
Bill Moyers
Truthout | Commentary
Friday 10 October 2003
If you've wondered why we have kept returning to the story of big
media on this broadcast, we have some answers this week. It's because
the big media companies keep getting bigger with more and more
power over ou
US-backed council bars Arab media
By Roshan Muhammed Salih
Tuesday 23 September 2003, 18:11 Makka Time, 15:11 GMT
Freedom of speech campaigners have condemned US-appointed authorities in
Iraq for banning television stations Aljazeera and al- Arabiya. Iraq's
Governing Council said on Tuesda
FAIR-L
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Media analysis, critiques and activism
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/clark-antiwar.html
MEDIA ADVISORY:
Wesley Clark: The New Anti-War Candidate?
Record Shows Clark Cheered Iraq War as "Right Call"
Sept
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In this line, are there any good marxist histories of the media in
> print?
Erik Barnouw's _Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television_
(which starts in the era of radio) is very good, although it only goes up
to through 1975,
On Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 18:49:11 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
>...
>He would say so. He's a co-editor of Monthly Review, too. It's why
>he's so much better than Mark Crispin Miller.
Why would he say so? I don't recall it being particularly marxist.
And why would being marxist make one a be
Bill Lear wrote:
See Robert McChesney's work on this topic, Telecommunications, Mass
Media & Democracy, also his later Rich Media, Poor Democracy. Good
stuff, not "marxist".
He would say so. He's a co-editor of Monthly Review, too. It's why
he's so much better than Mark Crispin Miller.
Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In this line, are there any good marxist histories of the media in print?
Robert McChesney's history of radio, whose title escapes me, is really good.
Doug
On Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 22:27:09 (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I just visited takebackthemedia.com for the first time, and among other things it
>raises one question for me. Instead of taking back the media, shouldn't we be taking
>it over? Was the media ever the voice
I just visited takebackthemedia.com for the first time, and among other things it
raises one question for me. Instead of taking back the media, shouldn't we be taking
it over? Was the media ever the voice of the people? To take it back implies that it
once was yours, did the common man
wichboard:
>
>POUR QUE VOUS AIMIEZ
>QUELQUE CHOSE IL FAUT
>QUE VOUS L'AYEZ VU et ENTENDU
>DEPUIS LONGTEMPS tas D'IDIOTS
Grin. That's another rather more direct way to put it.
Of course, the targets of the criticism are different, in some respects,
I suppose.
Consumers
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
> Rather, those spouting "conventional wisdoms" are able to be more easily
> understood in the small space of time they will get on camera.
Or, to cite the Far-Sighted Manifesto by Francis Picabia, worn by André
Breton on a sandwichboard:
POUR QUE VOUS AIMIEZ
QUELQUE CHO
looking at the world around them, and coming up
with twists on themes that already have a lot of "brand/recognition
value" out there. That allows them to, more or less, rip off the
recognition value of something else. It makes "30 second spots" or
whatever more powerful.
It
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From: "Tom Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Carrol Cox wrote,
>
>
> > This "high and higher efforts" that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos,
> > must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's
> > Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapsti
Carrol Cox wrote,
> This "high and higher efforts" that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos,
> must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's
> Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapstick, 1915-1940.
Yes, also constructivism and dada. As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Mo
Or, digging deeper into the ruins...
Homage to New York <1960>
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/archives/Kluver/00_Homage.html
I asked Jean what I could do for him. Jean explained that he wanted to make
a machine that destroyed itself and that he needed bicycle wheels...
...It was all over in 27 m
Tom Walker wrote:
>
> Science World here in Vancouver runs a continuous loop of the 1987 Fischli
> For another take on "The
> Way Things Go," here's an excerpt from Arthur Danto:
>
> http://www.postmedia.net/999/fischweiss1.htm
>
>From Danto:
the individual episodes seem to happen one after anoth
Science World here in Vancouver runs a continuous loop of the 1987 Fischli
and Weiss film "The Way Things Go". The borrowings of the Honda ad from the
film are obvious to anyone who has viewed both. What is also obvious -- and
ominous -- are the "non-borrowings": the autotalitarian elision of the
g
at interest that the
provider of these things gains in response shrinks -- until the
over-abundance them these things results in the viewer/consumer
eventually finding it annoying and resorting to evasion of ad intrusion.
The only viable form of advertising in a true multiplex of media is
sponsorshi
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Here's an interesting and worthwhile webpage http://www.cjr.org/owners/
for those who are interested in learning more about the extent of media
concentration in this country (and world). This page is maintained by
the
Columbia Journalism Review, a magazine published by Columbia
Univers
Forwarded from Bob McChesney:
The situation in Washington is critical for media ownership. Please read
this, act on it, and pass it on. It is a
statement from the group I started with John Nichols, called Free Press.
We have a genuine chance to make history,
and reverse decades of corrupt media
From the anti-war Independent (UK):-
[other papers allege that Campbell is furious with the bias of the BBC.]
Campbell orders media shake-up
By Jo Dillon, Deputy Political Editor
30 March 2003
Alastair Campbell has ordered the Whitehall press machine to get a grip of
the war coverage
Channel is another huge media company that has openly enlisted in the
pro-war movement, as Paul Krugman pointed out in a recent NY Times column:
Channels of Influence
By PAUL KRUGMAN
By and large, recent pro-war rallies haven't drawn nearly as many people as
antiwar rallies, but they
Chris: I agree that this might be useful.
Having heard the sanitary Frank briefing on the box just now, such a
listing is even more important. It seemed ot me that the only serious
questioning came form the BBC & the CBC.
As a Canadian aside, the news regarding the "friendly fire" incident (In
Afg
f you
are not an absolute pacifist.
We need to be suspicious and vigilant about distortions in reporting. Media
watch has been proved effective and is probably being done by a number of
centres - any URL's anyone?
I note what may be a mere coincidence that the two helicopter crashes both
from the military or inside-the-beltway
thinktanks.
This is where the Pacifica Network shines. During the Vietnam war,
reporter Dale Minor broadcast the truth from Saigon. Today, I heard a
reporter from Baghdad saying things that will never be heard on the
mainstream media.
One of the benefits
tched.
Mr. Donaldson—who, for all his booming caricature, didn’t hesitate to
ask Ronald Reagan about Iran-contra or Bill Clinton about Juanita
Broaddrick—winced as he saw deferential reporters trying to question a
scripted President in a rare, potentially historic media availability
that sailed into
My apologies; the "correct" second link should have been the following:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.turkey/index.html
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Subject: [PEN-L:35179] Turkey: Democracy functioning! BUT US MEDIA ARE
NOT!!!From: <[EMAIL PROTECTE
The US media bias recognizes no limits: read the following two statements
regarding the size of the demonstration in Ankara from CNN's web site
--both are on the same page!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.main/index.html
Meanwhile, TENS of thousands of Turks holding
e new pay-to-play
system."
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/speeches/03/01/2003130442.html
Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
At the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing
On Media Concentration and Ownership in Radio
January 30, 2003
Thank you Mr. Chairman and ranking member Holl
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:59:23 -0800
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/ledeen.html
PS: If I recall right, about 2 years ago there were a
few Reuters news releases about the ordering of
reactor units from Russia for those plants in Iran.
=
http://www.napavalley.com/ Lots of fun stuff to do in Napa
Info and reference:
Thursday, October 17
Argentina: Alternative Media and Social Movements / Argentina:
Medios Alternativos y Movimientos Sociales
Lecture by Marie Trigona, with Videos & Slides / Conferencia por
Marie Trigona, con proyeccion de videos y diapositivas
Marie Trigona, an independent journalist
In the late 80s I used to make occasional trips out to Los Angeles to
visit friends who were part of a loosely organized Hollywood left. This
included fairly successful writers like Michael Elias who grew up about
5 miles from me and wrote "Young Doctors in Love", a memorable parody of
hospita
I wonder if Attorney Dave S. has any rethinking about the level of cooking the books
by big accounting firms. I notice that Arthur Anderson is pleading the "Schultz from
Hogan's Heroes" defense again , this time with WorldCom: "I know nothing".
Could there have been some recessions dur
atory role as ensuring
corporate stability against upstart new technologies
Moreover, by enabling corporate concentration in the media it
could indirectly control a force that it could not afford to
control openly." Winston, Brian. 1998. Media Technology and
Society: A History From the Te
Big bourgeoisie funding of "alternate media" on the Internet
by Michael Perelman
17 May 2002 23:28
I found Lou's piece very interesting. He mentioned Soros as a funder. He
is all over the place, isn't he? He funded a very good anti-drug-war
initiative in California and s
I am a little familiar with the Corp. for Public Broadcasting manipulated
Pacifica. Although it is a bit different from a liberal donor, it
illustrates the danger of reliance on outside funding. Maybe Seth could
post a URL for the story.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California Stat
May 18, 2002
Greetings PEN-L:
Thanks to Lou for shedding light on the money trail to some "alternate
media" on the net.
On that note, in the May/June issue of Because People Matter, Sacramento's
progressive paper, we have a piece by Bay Area activist Jeff Blankfort
I found Lou's piece very interesting. He mentioned Soros as a funder. He
is all over the place, isn't he? He funded a very good anti-drug-war
initiative in California and some very reactionary politics abroad.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 9592
Speaking of which...Danny Schechter ("The Media Dissector"), one of
the proprietor of Globalvision (which produced the TV show South
Africa Now during the 1980s) and Mediachannel.org, was a delegate at
the World Economic Forum in NYC this past Feb. Not a correspondent
covering it,
nge with Jacob, I learned the following:
--Soros' Open Society Institute gave $10,000 to the Independent Media
Center in 2000
--It also dispensed $95,000 to Independent Media Institute in 2000
(www.soros.org/osi grants database), the outfit that publishes AlterNet.
Meanwhile, I stumbled acr
Turkey seeks to push through controversial media bill
By Leyla Boulton in Ankara
Published: April 24 2002 18:47 | Last Updated: April 25 2002
05:28
The Turkish government plans to push through parliament a
controversial media bill that clashes with the constitution and
the country's commit
Really interesting things are happening there. I think we are
going to war. Also of interest is the change in strategy of the
Kurdistan Workers Party, as mentioned in the third piece below.
Sabri
++
MILLIYET - March 25, 2002
SENATOR MCCAIN: ''YOU SHOULD PRERARE YOUR LIST''
U.S. Senator Jo
US held responsible for conditions in Afghan jail
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
29 January 2002
Internal links
America was condemned yesterday for conditions in an Afghan jail where more
than 3,000 Taliban and al-Qai'da fighters are being held in conditions
described as overcrowded and unhygi
From: Amjad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Brothers and Sisters,
The following press release just went out to the media as of a few minutes ago.
I have attached it as a word file as well as printed it below in the
body of this email.
We need to make a strong showing at this demonstration, so please
a lot is revealed about media bias if we look at what one intelligent US
"moderate" is saying:
Osama Done Told Me: So how come media objectivity is suddenly a bad thing?
By Michael Kinsley [MSN SLATE Magazine]
Posted Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 12:49 PM PT
Conservative press c
Now that's going too far. A lot of hard working journalists busted their
ass during the OJ Trial to make sure that nothing ever gets more
coverage...
Hey, what's OJ's take on 9/11?
Sorry, I'm l think Charles, it comes down to the media squeezing as much
blood money as it ca
At this rate , in about six months from now, the amount of media coverage of the
September 11 events will equal that of the coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial .
CB
Michael Pugliese wrote:
World Socialist Website of the ICFI?
wsws.
A really tiny Trot group, that is remnants of the Workers League of Tim
Wohlforth, an acquaintance. Tim isn't a Trot anymore. The Workers League
and
the ICFI still believe that the US SWP was run by the FBI AND KGB. Not a
bad
tric
September 15, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17184] Re: Racist responses by media and authorities
> At 01:38 PM 09/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >There are many examples of racist backlash by individual citizens and
groups
> >of hooligans but the media and authorities also foster
Sorry. World Socialist website: http://www.wsws.org/index.shtml
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 4:41 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17184] Re: Racist responses by media and authoriti
At 01:38 PM 09/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>There are many examples of racist backlash by individual citizens and groups
>of hooligans but the media and authorities also foster the same. This is
>from the WS website:
what is "WS"?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
There are many examples of racist backlash by individual citizens and groups
of hooligans but the media and authorities also foster the same. This is
from the WS website:
On Thursday evening the television networks broadcast lurid reports that the
FBI had arrested more than a dozen individuals
mp;s=said
The second piece is in Al-Ahram, the Egyptian newspaper. Edward Said is
Palestinian living in the US. He sketches the political and economic
dimensions of the flagging Palestinian resistance. The highlight of the
article is the plan of Palestinians to rectify their portrait in the
Weste
http://www.anti-fascism.org/page-special-wtc.html
-
From: "Seth Sandronsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 7:54 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:11803] Re: Media
> May 19, 2001
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> In my view, we do well to look at the race and genderas well as the
> classdi
: Media by Tim Bousquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I agree: my general view of the world has *big*
>problems figuring out
>just why it is that publicly-owned media in other
>English-speaking
>countries has managed to maintain both its
>independence and its
>remarkably high
> I agree: my general view of the world has *big*
> problems figuring out
> just why it is that publicly-owned media in other
> English-speaking
> countries has managed to maintain both its
> independence and its
> remarkably high quality. Unfortunately, it doesn't
t;(upon which I may comment, because of course we get to hear and see
>a lot of it).
>
>No comparison.
>
>You are absolutely and importantly wrong here, mate.
I agree: my general view of the world has *big* problems figuring out
just why it is that publicly-owned media in other English-
>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>But maintaining independence of thought and critique is really hard
>>when you are paid out of a government budget.
>
>But it's really easy when you're paid out of the budgets of
>advertisers, who don't like anything critical of business
>civilization, or even anything a
Brad DeLong wrote:
>But maintaining independence of thought and critique is really hard
>when you are paid out of a government budget.
But it's really easy when you're paid out of the budgets of
advertisers, who don't like anything critical of business
civilization, or even anything a bit unc
Brad De Long wrote:
But maintaining independence of thought and critique is really hard
when you are paid out of a government budget.
=
Whereas, working for Rupert Murdoch or Conrad Black...
Michael K.
>Yeah, but it does get frustrating when you write odes to diversity, putting
>'voice' at the very centre of the role of media, cite sources, critique
>methodology, empirically refute the 'results', suggest alternative approaches
>to the issue etc - and your inte
Rob writes:
>Yeah, but it does get frustrating when you write odes to diversity, putting
>'voice' at the very centre of the role of media, cite sources, critique
>methodology, empirically refute the 'results', suggest alternative approaches
>to the issue etc - an
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> keep it cool.
Yeah, but it does get frustrating when you write odes to diversity, putting
'voice' at the very centre of the role of media, cite sources, critique
methodology, empirically refute the 'results', suggest alternative approaches
to
run a press house.
In the US, spies don't need to run a domestic media company. They can
get anything into the media by leaking it to either the domestic or
foreign press. In terms of maintaining the appearance of a democratic
foreign policy while simultaneously maintaining a rigorous, iro
You are correct that I have not read the paper. NBER charges $5 and it did
not appear to be worth the cost to me.
What is government control of the press? What happened to Raymond Bonner?
The big media are dependent on the government. Which outlet has seriously
challenged the government in
keep it cool.
Jim Devine wrote:
> If Brad actually deigned to read my stuff on pen-l, he wouldn't post the
> following kind of nonsense. However, he did read Rob's contributions, so
> there must be some kind of political dyslexia here...
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California Stat
:52 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:11624] RE: Re: Re: Re: government media is bad for you
> > > I would bet that the INDEPENDENT or the GUARDIAN would shy away from
> > > criticizing the UK government (especially given the Official Secrets
> > Act
> > > and the libel laws th
. . .
But the Guardian's greatest Intelligence exploits happened much later,
during the
Thatcher era. The Guardian was then given the role of dishing Old Labour
from the
left, which it did very well. . . .
Was it Wrong to dish Old Labour from the
left, or was the way it was done objectionable?
H
> > I would bet that the INDEPENDENT or the GUARDIAN would shy away from
> > criticizing the UK government (especially given the Official Secrets
> Act
> > and the libel laws there) while being able to lambaste the US
> government
> > with abandon. People there might
he press is very important.
>
>And now a bunch of people have gone out and actually done some work: they
>have compiled statistics on the extent of government control of the media,
>and actually found that when you look across countries you can begin to
>see the imprint of a free press i
> I would bet that the INDEPENDENT or the GUARDIAN would shy away from
> criticizing the UK government (especially given the Official Secrets
Act
> and the libel laws there) while being able to lambaste the US
government
> with abandon. People there might be consulting the US media
the GUARDIAN would shy away from
criticizing the UK government (especially given the Official Secrets Act
and the libel laws there) while being able to lambaste the US government
with abandon. People there might be consulting the US media in order to get
a little more objectivity on the UK.
>We all agree that freedom of the press is very important.
And now a bunch of people have gone out and actually done some work:
they have compiled statistics on the extent of government control of
the media, and actually found that when you look across countries you
can begin to see
care and
education?
Jim Devine wrote:
> it's good to hear about progress on Pacifica!
>
> but I want to amplify my previous point. (1) the reason why the BBC is so
> good (compared to the dreadful US media at least) is because of the
> independent development of a Labour Part
it's good to hear about progress on Pacifica!
but I want to amplify my previous point. (1) the reason why the BBC is so
good (compared to the dreadful US media at least) is because of the
independent development of a Labour Party there, which broke up the
capitalist/government bloc a l
Jim Devine wrote:
>I haven't checked out the econometric methodology, but I think the whole
>corporate media vs. government-monopoly media dichotomy is deeply flawed.
Speaking of media and big business, the Save Pacifica campaign has just
achieved a significant breakthrough:
I haven't checked out the econometric methodology, but I think the whole
corporate media vs. government-monopoly media dichotomy is deeply flawed.
It's a libertarian fantasy that the corporations and the government are
totally separate entities. They are much more often in cahoot
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