Josh Silver, Huffington Post. May 16, 2008. Thursday's Senate vote is good news for everyone who is fed up with a media system, that, in the words of Jon Stewart, is "hurting America."
Don Hazen, AlterNet. May 15, 2008. Huffington blasts corporate media and lampoons McCain. She tells all in an interview with Grit TV's Laura Flanders and AlterNet's Don Hazen.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. May 14, 2008. There literally would be no McCain brand if the press hadn't methodically built it and then enthusiastically promoted it.
Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet. May 9, 2008. In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. May 7, 2008. If the controversial video game were a movie, we'd all be mightily impressed by its dark, ironic vision of a world at war with itself.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: MediaCulture. May 7, 2008. How the media's use of the passive voice skews coverage of violence against women.
Eric Alterman, The Nation. May 1, 2008. A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
Joyce McFadden, Huffington Post. May 1, 2008. Young girls are inundated with sexist media images. How do we help them develop a healthy sense of their own sexuality?
Cole Abaius, Film School Rejects. April 30, 2008. When it's not tragic, politics can be hilarious. Here's a guide to political comedy that is actually funny.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 26, 2008. With a remarkable interview with Ecuador's Raphael Correa. You won't read anything like it in your local paper.
Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review. April 25, 2008. WSJ's managing editor resigns, leaving Murdoch one step closer to having a monopoly on New York news.
