November 2009
17 posts
“A man with a sexual fetish for slurry has been jailed after breaching a...”
– Man with sexual fetish for slurry jailed - Telegraph
“David Truscott, 40, broke into a farm, covered himself in the waste and was seen masturbating, a court heard.”
“On one occasion a milking parlour had been entered and he had stripped down to his pants and climbed into a huge...
“Marxism is rather more than a methodology for studying the media. It is a...”
– Mike Wayne, in Marxism and Media Studies (Pluto Press, 2003)
Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor... →
Noam Chomsky:
I mean, the liberal democrats aren’t going to tell the average American, “Yeah, you’re being shafted because of the policies that we’ve established over the years that we’re maintaining now.” That’s not going to be an answer. And they’re not getting answers from the left. So, there’s an internal coherence and logic to what...
Can journalism schools be relevant in a world on... →
The best traditions of journalism are based in resistance to the illegitimate structures of authority at the heart of our problems. From Thomas Paine to Upton Sinclair, Ida B. Wells and Ida Tarbell, the most revered journalists have had the courage to take a stand for ordinary people and against arrogant concentrations of power. But today, commercial journalism is constrained by diversionary...
Cultural notebook: days of the undead « Prospect... →
Being a Marxist for a minute, you notice that both vampires and zombies embody profound bourgeois anxieties.
(via Instapaper)
“Stand tall, or don’t stand at all.”
– Brand Nubian (Spotify)
“Metropolis”, from the Sim City 4 Rush...
“In truth, Britain and the US have a general aversion to genuine democracy,...”
– Mark Curtis, Unpeople
“I couldn’t tell you why I think they constantly after me; maybe it’s...”
– The Roots - Livin’ in a New World
BBC: Impartial, independent & trustworthy? Try... →
The problem is that while BBC journalists may stand neutrally between the range of views presented, the range itself inevitably reflects their value judgements.
Consider an item on the Six O’Clock News of March 20, 2006. The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall declared solemnly: “There’s still bitter disagreement over invading Iraq. Was it justified or a disastrous...
My story on Mark "blood on his hands" Byford →
“Participatory economics creates an environment in which being nice is beneficial...”
– Michael Albert (Source.)
Michael Albert & Bill Fletcher, Jr. on Media...
Talking about left politics. (Michael Albert is one of prominent people involved with ZNet and ZMag.)
One of the best Media Matters shows I’ve heard, and they’re consistently excellent.
(Link to original site, which I copied the features below from.)
RealAudio archive
Download: mp3 file
