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Koch brothers buying 8 major newspapers

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Loren Miller Apr 22. 2 Replies 0 Likes

Koch Brothers Plan to Buy up Eight Major NewspapersKoch brothers bid to control US print…Continue

FAA keeps journalists out of airspace over Arkansas oil spill

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 9. 2 Replies 2 Likes

Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands…Continue

Tags: regulatory capture

How internet moderators shift the Overton Window towards hate

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 6. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Crommunist outlines the steps majority online spaces react to minority dissent, fostering racism, sexism or homophobia under a cloak of moderation "preserving a veneer of neutral respectability".Wear…Continue

Tags: online social spaces

Tell me again about independent media

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Mar 12. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Conan Video makes one wonder if all of the news really is written by one guy. Continue

Tags: news coverage

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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on April 5, 2013 at 11:03pm

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 31, 2013 at 12:48am

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 18, 2013 at 5:24pm: CNN pays attention to those poor rapists who were just found guilty. The victims? pffft!

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 17, 2013 at 4:35pm

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 17, 2013 at 4:17pm: Beyond proofreading fail.

Comment by Grinning Cat on March 5, 2013 at 1:31pm: Motivated reasoning: climate denialism hooks into what many of us would like to believe, that we can keep on feasting on an "energy banquet" forever, with continued growth, and so on, and so forth.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 5, 2013 at 12:40pm

Comment by Grinning Cat on February 24, 2013 at 10:37pm: I laughed at that generic caption with "NAME HERE" on the air, but feel sorry for the tech who accidentally put it on the live program!

Some photo caption goofs in print media:

http://www.jumbojoke.com/caption_contests_the_denver_post_way.html

http://www.jumbojoke.com/another_caption_gone_wrong.html