MediaSavvy: Amy Goodman On 'Standing Up To The Madness'‏

Amy Goodman on 'Standing Up to the Madness'

By Truth Dig

The "Democracy Now!" host talks about her book, the state of activism and why "the media are the most powerful corporations on Earth -- more powerful than any bomb, more powerful than any missile."

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Where Citizens Gather

By Henry Jenkins, MediaShift Amidst all of the dire talk these days about the fate of the American newspaper, the Center for Social Media at American University has issued an important white paper exploring the future of public media more generally. The report, Public Media 2.0, embraces the affordances and practices of an era of participatory culture and social networks to identify strategies for public media...

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Norm Coleman's A Sore Loser, Why Won't The Press Say So?

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters After a drawn-out, 18-week process, Franken will finally be seated in the U.S. Senate, right? Wrong.

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US Reporters 'Face Up To 10 Years' Jail' In N. Korea

By AFP An international media freedom group urged North Korea to drop plans to put two detained US reporters on trial, saying they face up to 10 years of forced labor if convicted.

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Tough First Quarter For Big Media

By Georg Szalai, Hollywood Reporter Stocks in the media and entertainment sector are continuing to have a tough time. Time Warner, News Corp., Disney, Viacom, CBS -- all are seeing share declines in 2009. According to one analyst: "Essentially everything is going wrong at the same time."

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Morning Joe Rips Into Glenn Beck

Tina Brown: "Somebody Get This Blubbering Buffoon A Kleenex!"
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As G20 Gets Underway, Economy Not Rebounding; Pentagon Cuts Coming

Obama Arrives In London | G20 Could Be Acrimonious | Protests Planned | Money News: Fraud Found In Bailout Monies | Treasuries At Risk| Merill Bonuses Bigger than AIG | Credit Card Reform Needed Now | The Counterattack on Paul Krugman | NH Court Limits Ml-Implode.com | April Fool's Day March Planned in New York (If Only) | More

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