For most of recorded history, we have witnessed war in the rearview mirror. It took weeks and sometimes months for Mathew Brady’s, and his associates’, photos of  the bloody consequences of Antietam to reach the public. Dozens of bodies at the crash site of a Malaysian airliner shot down by a surface-to-air missile near the More
With a billion users, Facebook is far and away the largest player in the world of corporate social media, so all these criticisms apply to Facebook.  But many also apply to Twitter, Pinterest and their little brothers as well.  Bruce A. Dixon  BAR.com  June 17, 2014 by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For More
If we continue to build the independent, people-powered media, greater numbers of people will build up immunity to the destructive misinformation of corporate media. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers  AlterNet  February 7, 2014  CenterforMediaJustice.org Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/1000 Words   In the last week, there were two major examples of how people-powered media can educate and More
How Israel Is Winning the Hashtag War in Gaza by Meher Ahmad  Published on Friday, November 16, 2012 by The Progressive via Common Dreams As the war between Gaza and Israel heightens to levels unseen since the devastating Operation Cast Lead, the competing narratives behind the conflict have reached a new platform: social media. The war between hashtags embodies More
How Israel Is Winning the Hashtag War in Gaza by Meher Ahmad  Published on Friday, November 16, 2012 by The Progressive via Common Dreams As the war between Gaza and Israel heightens to levels unseen since the devastating Operation Cast Lead, the competing narratives behind the conflict have reached a new platform: social media. The war between hashtags embodies More
