Josh Silver, Mark Toney, Jorge Corralejo Len Canty & Samuel Kang, AlterNet. March 12, 2010.
Comcast is a massive cable TV and Internet provider, which wants to merge with NBC Universal, one of the world's largest news and entertainment content providers.
Hedges argues that John Nichols' and Robert McChesney's new book on how to rescue our media assumes "that people still value and want traditional news. They do not."
Since 2007 at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations reps and corporate officials have appeared on cable news without disclosing the corporations that paid them.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. February 14, 2010.
Any attempted terror attack, no matter how poorly executed, raises a national alarm -- and our paranoia only adds to the power of the imperial presidency.
Don’t blame the Internet. The bloodless and soulless journalism of the traditional media left newspapers on the wrong side of the growing class divide and their readers.
We can thank the likes of Sanjay Gupta, Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper -- disaster porn stars with visions of Peabodys and Pulitzers dancing in their heads.
Our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd, while the course of human history is changing. Those who choose reality over fantasy are derided as pessimists.
