On AlterNet: publishing

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Are Data-Mining and Advertising Stripping Language of its Meaning?

Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch.com. April 22, 2012.

I can understand why words construed as product placement serve the interest of the corporation or the state, but they don’t “enhance” or “empower” people.

Why We Should Fear Amazon

Laura Miller, Salon. March 14, 2012.

Author Scott Turow on why the online mega-retailer is bad for books.

How the Pentagon Tries to Influence What Books You Can Read About Afghanistan

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com. October 15, 2010.

A marketplace filled with books by former military men devoted to tweaking, enhancing, and improving war-fighting capabilities cries out for some counterbalance.

As the Internet Replaces Print Publishing, Urge to 'Unpublish' Means Censoring History

Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. March 1, 2010.

The Internet has opened up the past and made it fungible with a few keystrokes. The offended know it's physically easy to change a story online.

Bold Face Progressives: Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater Book Big Hit at Giant Book Expo in L.A.

Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 3, 2008.

The enormous popularity of progressive authors like Scahill bodes well for the election.