Stories by Marty Kaplan

Marty Kaplan is director of the Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School. subscribe to Marty Kaplan's feed

CBS is Trying to Get Us to Raise Our Own Cable Bills

Posted on: Jul 23, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Big media companies now think Americans are as gullible as politicians do. The cable operators and networks take us for pigeons, too.

Daddy's Been Arrested: The Arrogance of America's Financial Criminals on Full Display

Posted on: Apr 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The crimes of a high-level player in an insider-trading ring starts with what he's done to his children.

The Real Reason Scout Prouty Leaked the Famous Romney "47%" Video -- It Was Over Romney Profiting from Slave Labor

Posted on: Mar 18, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Scott Prouty was appalled at how Romney was callous to slave labor ... too bad we didn't have an national conversation about that.

Corporate Food Giants Have Reason to Worry -- Some Very Brave Supermarkets Are Sharing Nutritional Score Numbers with Customers

Posted on: Mar 6, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Nuval food rankings go from 1-100; Mott's Original Applesauce gets a 4, Keebler Townhouse Bistro Multi-Grain Crackers get a 3.

Being American Is Bad for Your Health

Posted on: Feb 7, 2013, Source: Smirking Chimp

We're not getting sicker by accident.

Don't Look on the Bright Side: Pessimism, Not Magical Thinking, Is What Will Save Us

Posted on: Jun 28, 2011, Source: Smirking Chimp

It would take a miracle for our intractable problems to become tractable. Being in denial about that doesn't help anyone.