Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. October 9, 2009. Why TV is ground zero for understanding American culture -- the 9 best shows on air that you should be watching.
Russ Belville, NORML. August 4, 2009. Everywhere you look, corporate media are covering pot stories, except for the issue of its illegality and the lives ruined by prohibition.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. July 17, 2009. Pot has lots of medicinal and financial benefits, but TV stations still do everything they can to avoid mentioning it.
Raj Jayadev, New America Media. January 9, 2009. The real American drama is the inspiring epic of immigrants struggling to survive in a nation that both needs and rejects them.
Karen Sternheimer, AlterNet. December 27, 2008. Poverty and family abuse -- not TV or the Internet -- are the causes of teen violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and unplanned pregnancy.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Election 2008. October 30, 2008. The New York Times notes that the segment "was particularly high-rated in several battleground states."
Liz Langley, Alice the Goon AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. September 26, 2008. We all need a little sex-ed -- despite what the abstinence-only crown thinks.
Christine Cupaiuolo, The American Prospect. September 28, 2007. FOX's new drama portrays a post-Katrina New Orleans. But in reducing its tragedy to a cop drama, have the real lessons been lost?
Bernie Heidkamp, PopPolitics.com. August 24, 2007. AMC's new TV show Mad Men uses the overtly sexist and racist atmosphere of a 1960 New York advertising office to talk about persisting issues that we're too "polite" to talk about openly.
