The Occupied Wall Street Journal,”a four-page, full-color broadsheet newspaper, has gained surprising traction as a tool of protest at the Occupy Wall Street rallies in Manhattan. The newspaper has flourished even though many of the demonstrators, here at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, are preoccupied with digital media. THE MEDIA EQUATION A Protest’s Ink-Stained Fingers More
Controversy and Confusion Over the Latest WikiLeaks Revelations: 8 Things You Really Need to Know Editorial Commentary: Noam Chomsky wrote the reason why WikiLeaks is so important: Suppression of one’s own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated. — in 9/11 – was there an More
Dealing with the Corporate Media By Kevin Zeese - Posted on 25 July 2011 October2011.org October2011.org believes that along with an independent political movement we need independent media. The Neiman Watchdog column below explains our doubts about corporate media coverage generally as well as for October2011.org. In the media critique column by John Hanrahan, a former reporter More
Freedom of Speech in the Age of WikiLeaks Posted on July 16, 2011 by Nozomi Hayase A World Beyond Borders Thanks to Coleen Rowley for calling attention to this article. Image Credit – Nilankur Das, www.multiastudio.com “Give me your secrets, your oppressed, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your tax havens offshore. Send these, More
The Guardian / By Dean Baker July 11, 2011 | From Alternet.com Stealing from Social Security Is NOT a Debt Solution -- Why Do the Media Promote This Dangerous Myth? Pursuing a plan to kill social security, politicians are relying on a credulous public and compliant media to ramp up debt panic. The conventional wisdom More
Published on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Share The World's Resource (STWR) The Power of Protest Tactics: ‘Just Do It’ by Adam Parsons from CommonDreams.org Non-violent direct action is not the most glamorous occupation in the world. Unpaid overtime, long hours, maligned by a biased mainstream media, widely misunderstood by the middle classes and opposed by a More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LPyZhvGNg] Editorial note: This video is an excellent example about how the media can be manipulated to promote one viewpoint or another. All our electronic sources can easily be manipulated faked or edited for slant or downright lies, as this video shows. Not only the manipulation of videos, but the use of Twitter is More
