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How to Save the World (Free subscription) | yesterday
A short article from last year, that generated a fair bit of buzz, reproduced in its entirety: T he independent media have been telling us for several years now that the US is no longer a free country, nor is it any longer a democracy. It is a corporatist aristocracy -- a corpocracy -- where the laws are written and enforced for the benefit of a small elite of corporate oligopolies and their political...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
MOSCOW, July 22 -- CTC Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTCM), Russia's leading independent media Company, announced that production on the new season of the popular sitcom "My Fair Nanny" has been completed for launc...
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The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Yesterday (21st July) in the Independent Media Section , Claire Beale was very enthusiastic about an advert designed by Ogilvy. In the Best in Show section of her Advertising Page, she included: The standard presentation of four screenshots in the printed Media Section of the paper. Instructions on how to find it, including details of the exact search to use on Youtube. The article does not include...
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Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Rights Group Honors Defenders of Independent Media in Cambodia Two young Cambodian journalists, Chheang Bopha and Duong Sokha, are among a diverse group of 34 writers from 19 countries to receive the prestigious Hellman/Hammett writer’s award, which recognizes courage in the face of political persecution, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Mozambican journalist Fernando Lima, chairman of the board of the country's oldest independent media company, Mediacoop, and a former chief news...
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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The current issue of the Baltimore Independent Reader , published by the Baltimore Indypendent Media Center and the Campbaltimore Project (I think that the DC Independent Media Center no longer exists, and I am not sure what's up with Provisions Library), is focused on Baltimore Transit: - City Residents Need Public Transit —Art Cohen - ransit Rights —Nick Petr for the editors - WAITING FOR CHANGE:...
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Air America Radio - (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
AUSTIN, Tx. -- I worked at Talking Points Memo for six months and never once met David Kurtz , TPM's managing editor, who lives in Missouri. I'm here at FDL and never met Pach , never met David Neiwert , never met Rayne who also works at the Center for Independent Media which employs me , never met everyone in the comment community. I talk through email several times a day with several of the VetVoice...
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Atheist Revolution (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
It has been widely reported around the blogosphere and other independent media outlets that America's mainstream media has been giving Sen. John McCain a free pass for some time. There are all sorts of theories about why this is the case, some more sinister than others, but there is widespread agreement that the trend continues today. I mentioned one example here already concerning blatantly racist...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
A new Kazakh media holding company, made up of outlets that support the government, has what’s left of the independent media more than a little worried. On July 3, the office of Prime Minister Karim Masimov announced the Arna Media National Information Holding had been created “in order to provide favorable conditions for increasing competitiveness [...]
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Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
all one has to do is look at what has become of our media now that there is no Fairness Doctrine, fewer owners of more media, and consequently little independent media. Our media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work. To put it another way, corporate media consolidation is a corrosive social force....
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
frequently asked questions as the mob film takes over the airwaves 10 questions some hyperlinks and a video to reveal all about independent tv bloc on dctv
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MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
By IFEX Dozens of rights groups are urging the President of Belarus not to sign in a new media law that will impose curbs on the Internet, one of the few remaining sources of independent information left in the country.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The inaugural The Hospital Club 100 was launched in June this year in association with The Independent Media Weekly. It's a search for the authentic stars of Britain's creative industries. Unlike other power lists, the nominations weren't compiled using a coterie of establishment types, but through a democratic process. Essentially anyone working in the creative industries has been able to go to The...
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Lying Media Bastards (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
School locked down after ‘ninja’ sighted in woods Yes folks, school officials in New Jersey actually felt that an alleged ninja sighting was enough of a security threat to shut the school down. Ninjas. Sweet fucking christ. It reminds me of an interesting essay I read recently which argued that the US has as a sort of “autoimmune disease, [...]
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Afghan LORD (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
-------- By Jeffrey Stern Minutes into Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech before the Afghanistan Donor Conference in Paris, he congratulated his country on its "independent media," which, having "grown exponentially" since the ouster of the Taliban, is a harbinger of Afghanistan's imminent rise to respectable statehood. With a fresh infusion of development dollars, no doubt, Karzai could build...
