news propaganda

documentary film on decline of television

Mark Tollefson — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:47:00 -0700

I am producing a documentary film about the current state and future evolution of television. It is a critical examination of how the broadcasting industry has been steadily corrupted by the influence of media consolidation, greed and mismanagement.

Iraq Veterans Against War, one Long Island mans account, and the bigger issue of propaganda and censorship in the war

Sun, 18 May 2008 12:35:00 -0700

A censored war, censored veterans, media black
out of Pentagon propaganda "experts" on their payroll and the upcoming
war with Iran. What is the facts? will we ever know?

We start
our story with Joe Everybody, Kristofer Goldsmith,who starts his on
Sept. 11 2001, with rage in his heart, he signed up to protect America

Eco-media in the Arts: Transnational Temps

deck — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:48:00 -0700

Why "Earth Art for the 21st Century"? Like a lot of people, the artists who formed Transnational Temps in 2001 (info about the collective follows this article) sensed that coverage of global warming and other environmental issues was woefully inadequate. Commercially sponsored "informative" programming continues to suffer from attention deficit disorders, to say nothing of conflicts of interest. The Internet has presented a means to address the situation.

Pentagon Pundits Jeopardize America's Free Press

jsilver — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:35:00 -0700

Yesterday, the New York Times exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda.

The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via every major news channel -- without revealing they were working from Pentagon scripts and often lobbying for major military contractors.

Spreading "covert propaganda" is illegal under federal law. Congress must investigate these military pundits and their ties to the Bush administration, defense contractors and our national news media.

The ABC Debate and the Danger to Democracy

Megan Tady — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:09:00 -0700

Despairing, disgusting and disheartening – those words are flying around today to describe ABC’s irresponsible Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night.

Here’s another one – dangerous.

ABC’s failure to ask tough questions, act as a watchdog and hold our leaders accountable is not an anomaly. It is a testament to our broken media system.

A True 21st Century Education Looks Like This

tompoe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:40:00 -0700

"He sees interactive tablet PCs replacing textbooks and notebooks in schools. Students will call up everything they need on their tablet PCs and write everything directly on the screen to be stored there. His daughter’s school, he said, is already using this technology."
<a href="http://www.freepress.net/news/31335">Free Press News</a>

The Great American Horse Race

alicelee727 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:13:00 -0700

On November 2004, I was just a year younger that the required legal voting age. As a senior in high school, I felt that I had a great right (I felt superior because I was an upperclassman) to participate in our country’s most important decision: voting for the next President. I had a mini rant amongst my group of friends, as we joked about petitioning to lower the legal voting age.

It’s All in the Game: Media Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Primary Campaigns

Jim Carlson — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:11:00 -0800

The news media in a democracy should facilitate and nurture a “marketplace of ideas” where the best policies and the best political candidates emerge from competition between ideas that arise from free and transparent public discourse.

Corporate Media's influence over the 2008 presidential election

cv1122 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:03:00 -0800

Corporate Media is influencing the 2008 presidential election by trying to
control your vote. Why? Because they are controlled by those who want to push
their own financial and political agendas. Two short videos on this subject:

Use Your Brain!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfwVR1qDMWM

Media Manipulation of the 2008 Presidential Race

Newt — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:40:00 -0800

Why is the 2008 Presidential race suddenly about gender and ethnicity? It’s no surprise that people base their impressions of others on familiarity and subconscious comfort levels. But when does the media focus change start affecting the news instead of reporting it?

PSAs - Pretty Sorry Attemps at Public Service

Joe Public — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:03:00 -0800

Everyone ought to check out this new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation which offers a damning analysis of the ways that television stations are serving the public. We own the airwaves and TV stations get free licenses by promising that they will serve their communities. I tend to think that real service to a community would mean local news about critical local issues or emergency notifications or coverage of local elections, etc... However most television stations point to their weather and local sports coverage as public service - that and all the PSAs they give.

Don't Change the Channel. Change the System.

jsilver — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:04:00 -0800

S-1959- "Homegrown Terrorism Bill" Bad choice of wording or are we all "terrorists"?

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:21:00 -0800

Allegedly this bill, if what the video implies were to be true, could be used by this and many other Netroot sites that concern themselves with governmental acts and corporate misdeeds, be lumped into a new catagory of criminal known as "Homegrown Terrorist".

Net Neutrality, Get It While You Can

jbm125 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:55:00 -0800

Net Neutrality refers to free access to the Internet without discrimination based upon how often a user accesses the Internet or how much broadband capacity they utilize. Advocates for Net Neutrality believe that users are entitled to unlimited access in order to preserve current freedoms as well as to prevent broadband providers from abusing their power to block applications they do not favor or to discriminate between content providers. Critics of Net Neutrality and associated legislative proposals believe that Net Neutrality rules would reduce incentives to upgrade networks and launch next generation network services and, in turn, inhibit the most efficient access to the broadband network.

Big Media Casts its Votes With the Public's Airwaves

Jena — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:29:00 -0800

In every election, the media has a profound impact on the race. But seldom
has corporate media reared its ugly head during the election season like it has
this past week in New Hampshire.

NY Congressman Vito Fossella replies and I ask for more consideration.

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:03:00 -0800

After writing "Now Big Media can hurt workers better" and spreading it as far across the net as I possibly could, I took further action via E-Activist

Now Big Media can hurt workers better

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:41:00 -0800

Hello, my name is Joe, I am a rank and file union member and on staff at the independent labor movement website UnionReview.

NCMR: Got suggestions?

yolandafp — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:08:00 -0800

We need your brainpower and creativity as we plan the program for the next National Conference for Media Reform.

Please contribute your suggestions for conference session topics, presenters, and workshop proposals through our online system: http://www.freepress.net/conference/CFS.

Want to see what BIG MEDIA take over is like??

cATSENd — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:40:00 -0800

I hope people will read this a take a view of the future

if these LARGE GREEDY MEDIA people take over.

I don't know how many people have either watched or

heard about the TV Show Max Headroom ,but if you want to

see what is to come try to get hold of these shows.

Your Invitation to Secure the Future of Progressive Talk

NonStop — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:33:00 -0800

As you may know, NonStop Radio is an organization dedicated to securing the future of Progressive Talk across America. From its inception, NSR has responded to problems as they arose: this market's Progressive Talk outlet is threatened, that market's just got flipped, etc. It's