The importance of the independent media (tags)
"The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. Essentially everything we know—or think we know—about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television."
Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media - Part I (tags)
Another McChesney tour de force.
Diller and Turner Join Call for Media Re-Regulation (tags)
A decade of "thoughtless deregulation" has led to the five largest media companies owning channels that draw 70% of the prime-time TV audience.
Buying a Major-Label Artist's Album or Concert Ticket Supports the War Machine (tags)
Below is one of countless examples of how people support constant war through participation in an amoral economic system in their everyday lives. I admit: music is my main weakness, but I had to stop and re-evaluate my life-style choices in order to make a decision to not support the war machine. Loss of profit is one of the precious few attacks they actually suffer from. Besides, most every major-label release is marketed to be as bland and boringly inoffensive (hence mass-marketably profitable) as possible.
Protest forces World Bank switch (tags)
"It is time to take a stand against this kind of threat to free discussion" -Caroline Anstey, World Bank