The Self-Expression Sector The Self-Expression Sector
New forms of participatory media have changed public discourse, enabling people to publish, share and disseminate their own media creations. But will only the affluent be able to p...
Jun 15, 2006 / Feature / Rebecca MacKinnon
Co-opting Consumers of Color Co-opting Consumers of Color
Fewer minority-owned outlets means fewer minorities in the media. With such threats to public discourse, what will become of our voices, points of view and interests?
Jun 15, 2006 / Feature / Makani Themba
Fight for a Free Press Fight for a Free Press
The collapse of journalism and the rise of commercialism is sparking a reform movement that will fight to ensure the First Amendment endures in the digital age.
Jun 15, 2006 / Feature / Robert W. McChesney
Access of Evil Access of Evil
Compliant coverage of the Iraq War proved the news business is morally compromised, no longer driven by creative people with something to tell but by global corporations with somet...
Jun 15, 2006 / Feature / Amy Goodman
Brave New Media Brave New Media
We don't need to buy a network to get our message out--just creatively use an array of low-cost tools from the Internet to iPods, cellphones and whatever comes next.
Jun 15, 2006 / Feature / Robert Greenwald
The National Entertainment State (Forum) The National Entertainment State (Forum)
If the promise of new media is to be fulfilled, progressives must chart a course of activism that confronts the increasing concentration of ownership among the Big Media powerhouse...
Jun 15, 2006 / Feature / The Nation
Key House Panel Votes to Kill Community TV Key House Panel Votes to Kill Community TV
A key House committee--with the support of many Democrats--has approved a measure that eliminates the last remaining government policy insuring local oversight on communications ...
Apr 24, 2006 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper? Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper?
Under pressure from Wall Street, newspaper journalism is being frog-marched out of the media marketplace. And once it's gone, how will we know anything?
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
A Misguided Crusade A Misguided Crusade
The New York Times exposes its own misguided and unethical campaign to make a terrible reporter a First Amendment saint.
Oct 19, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League? Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career to be stay-at-home moms?
Sep 29, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt