media
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Newt Gingrich is "tired of the elite media". I am tired of Newt Gingrich!
Like the newscaster in the movie Network, I am “mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” At least not with the nonsense purporting that the major media in America is some sort of liberal cabal conspiring to defeat conservative principles. Such a claim is totally without merit, and the facts speak just the opposite.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Protest WikiLeaks Julian Assange's extradition hearing on February 7
Julian Assange's extradition hearing to Sweden begins February 7 in London. His lawyers have argued that based on Sweden's past practices, Assange's eventual extradition to the United States - where he could face the death penalty - would be much more likely from Sweden.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Who shot congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
The talk of the town, the 24/7 news cycle, the media frenzy, everyone is rushing to be the first to come up with an explanation to the reason behind the shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Corporate Media
For weeks now, we here in Minnesota and the broader United States
have been exposed to the corporate media and it's take on WikiLeaks
and founder Julian Assange.
Their position could have been taken from the Pentagon playbook. It
very well may have. From MPR to Fox News, CNN, NBC, Minneapolis StarMORE »
Islam, the Middle East and the Media
A THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
Free and open to the public at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave., Minneapolis, near Hennepin and Lyndale, parking in the rear Groveland Ave. lot.
Islam, the Middle East and the Media
A Third Thursday Global Issues Forum
Free and open to the public at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave., Minneapolis, near Hennepin and Lyndale, parking in the rear Groveland Ave. lot.
FREE SPEECH ZONE | The media faces special challenges in the coming elections
On Thursday, July 20, in the Star Tribune Michael Saltsman, representing the Employment Policies Institute, wrote what appeared to be a compelling argument for to eliminate the minimum wage for restaurant servers.MORE »
Critical connections: Who should control our airwaves and internet?
The struggle continues between the forces of control and consolidation - the cable companies and telecoms - and those of consumers and common folk - the rest of us who watch our television shows, seek out information necessary to keep our democracy intact and work online - reading, researching, communicating.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | The Jon Stewart Generation: Our newsy Jew
We don't read newspapers, we don't watch the 9 o-clock news and the radio isn't our fount of current events. So where does our generation get its news?
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart.
So what happened to make Comedy Central the source of daily news and world events for the twenty-something generation?MORE »
TTT DEC 30: Media Mess: Censored Stories/Future of Broadband?
Year-end recaps are de rigueur and we're no exception. This week, we present a pot pourri of topics - mostly on the status of our ever-shifting media landscape around here and elsewhere.MORE »
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