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Is Documentary Film Viable in a Sensationalized Media World?

By Danny Schechter / Al Jazeera

When the "press" became the "media," news bookers began to see themselves like big-game hunters on an African safari.

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10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week

ThinkProgress

Is the Idea of an Intelligent Self-Help Book a Paradox?

By Lisa Levy / Los Angeles Review of Books

Why the Graduating Class of 2013 is Out of Luck

By Gary Lapon / Socialist Worker

George Zimmerman's Defense Team Releases Texts and Photos to Fit Their Racist Narrative

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

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George Zimmerman's Defense Team Releases Texts and Photos to Fit Their Racist Narrative

Amid Sexual Assault Crisis in Military, Sergeant Accused of Filming West Point Cadets in the Bathroom

Obama Shows He's Serious About Fixing Our Screwed-Up Election System

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Why the OAS Report on Alternatives to Drug Prohibition is Such A Big Deal

Daniel Robelo / AlterNet

Best Thing of the Day: WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of Hollywood's Doc on the Online Activists

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

GOP Senator: Obama Speech ‘Will Be Viewed By Terrorists As A Victory’

Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress

Judge Forbids Lesbian Woman From Living with Partner

David Lee / Courthouse News

"If Money Were No Object" - Behind Our Obsession With Powerball

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

How MDMA Can Take You on the Healing Path ... Even for a Former Nun

Ralph Metzner / AlterNet

Progressive Activism Is Bubbling Up Across the Country -- Here's What's Happening That the Corporate Media Can't Be Bothered to Report

Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers / AlterNet

Has Obama Presented a New Plan to Fight Terror or More of the Same?

Marcy Wheeler / Salon

Obama Speech Interrupted: "Medea Benjamin Gets in News Conferences Using 'CodePink Magic'" (WATCH)

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Everything You Heard About the Deficit Falling Is Wrong

Nomi Prins / AlterNet

How You Can Help Create a Better Farm Bill

Ocean Robbins / AlterNet

10 Most Absurd Sex Tips from the Christian Right

Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

'Operation Swill': 29 NJ Restaurants and Bars Including 13 TGI Friday's Accused of Selling Bottom-Shelf Booze in Premium Bottles

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Atheists Rejoice! Pope Francis Says You're O.K.

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Former British Soldier: London Attackers Motivated By US and UK's Imperial Foreign Policy

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Watch: Jon Stewart Asks Bill O'Reilly if Obama Scandals Bring Him 'Sexual Arousal'

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Rachel Maddow Has A Lot of Questions for the Obama Administration Following Its Admission to Killing Four Americans with Drones

AlterNet

Matt Taibbi: Public Unions Need to Stop Poisonous Koch Brothers From Buying Tribune Papers

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Death of the 'Good Union Job': Plight and Protest of Thousands of Mine Workers Barely Noticed By Mainstream Media

Laura Flanders / AlterNet

Amid Sexual Assault Crisis in Military, Sergeant Accused of Filming West Point Cadets in the Bathroom

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Apple Pie? American—Apple Computer? Not So Much

Richard Eskow / Campaign for America's Future

Feet to the Fire: Time to Hold the Big Energy Villains Who Kill the Earth While Making a Killing Accountable

Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch

5 Most Horrifying Things About Monsanto—Why You Should Join the Global Movement and Protest on Saturday

April M. Short / AlterNet

Average CEO Salary Reached A New Record High Of $9.7 Million In 2012

Aviva Shen / Think Progress

How Policy Nihilists in the Senate Doomed LGBT Immigrants

Alex Pareene / Salon

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