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Five Ways to Combat Conservative Media
1. Stop talking about “bias.” Inaccurate, distorted and misleading news reports that further a conservative agenda or undermine progressive... more
May 9, 2005
COVER STORY
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Making Connections
Why is the news so bad? What can progressives do to fix it?
Features
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The Ousting of Obrador
Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, otherwise known as AMLO or “el peje” after a lovable swamp... more
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The Blogosphere: Insiders vs. Outsiders
It shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise when Time named the right-wing blog PowerLine “... more
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Is Low-Cost Wi-Fi Un-American?
We have Big Media to thank for saving Americans from themselves. Just as the notion of affordable broadband... more
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Too Much Media
Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it “media unlimited.”... more
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Numbers Before Politics
Since last autumn’s Republican victory, progressives have engaged in considerable soul searching. The most basic question has... more
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Broadband Internet: Unhappily Ever After?
Few people blink these days when some Chicken Little somewhere announces that the virtual sky is falling. The... more
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Union Stations
Add up the audience for all of the progressive independent press: national magazines, local newsweeklies, liberal blogs, Pacifica... more
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Where Are the Women?
What Washington Post editor Zofia Smardz dubbed “Opiniongate” began when columnist and commentator Susan Estrich sent a letter... more
News
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IMF on the Ropes in Brazil
Brazil's decision to cut some ties with the Fund is indicative of changing times in Latin America
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Media for the People
The accomplishments of the Urbana/Champaign IndyMedia Center (UC IMC) read like a media activist’s wish list: ... more
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GMs Healthcare Double Standard
Bad ideology trumps good business
culture
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The Popes Failures
Pope John Paul II’s reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is well known.... more
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music
A History Unaccredited
Hip-hop has no standing archives. Like the seminal works of the few who’ve come before—David Toop’... more
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books
No Reason to Exist
The steam explosion that tore the roof from Chernobyl’s fourth unit in the pre-dawn hours of April 26, 1986,... more
Columnists
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Editorial
The Vultures of Life
It’s apparently not enough for George W. Bush to have taken the words “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy,” and perverted their meanings... more
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The GOPs Quest for Color
Republicans now see the Bush administration's "faith-based initiatives" as a new opportunity to wedge the party into the black community.
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Back Talk
Fairness Now
As long as we are dreaming of the near impossible—the reinstitution of the concept that the airwaves are a resource that... more
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Truth and Consequences
Fear, Loathing and the GOP
The telltale sign of desperation in politics is when people start making wild threats and accusations. From Joe McCarthy to Richard Nixon,... more









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