Democracy Now! A primer on media power
The July 16th edition of Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now! featured an hour-long conversation with Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive. As always, DN! host Amy Goodman asked plenty of...
View ArticleGame Over?
From the front page of today’s New York Times comes the following headline: Public Option in Health Plan May Be Dropped. But it’s the subhead below this headline that sums things up: “A Sign of...
View ArticleTough Talk?
The media spin this week is all about Obama’s tough talk in recent days. First, at his speech on healthcare before a joint session of Congress, pundits on the left and right suggested Obama was playing...
View ArticleBurying the Lead: Weekend Edition Saturday
Where to start? Yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s Weekend Edition was chock full of enough “inside the beltway” sophistry and centrist story lines to make even casual listeners cringe. More on the...
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