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Diversity and NBC-Comcast Merger

7, Mar 2010

Free Press continues to educate consumers about the proposed NBC-Comcast merger. Here, Houston’s Sheila Jackson Lee tackles matters of diversity in media.

Brecht Lobs One Back at Glenn Beck

5, Mar 2010

Following up the Jed Brandt-Glenn Beck Fox television conflict, the Brecht Forum has issued the following statement:
Glenn Beck vs. Brecht Forum: Which Side Are You On?
Who is afraid of the Brecht Forum? Apparently Glenn Beck is. Beck, the infamous right wing talk show host featured a ten-minute diatribe attacking the Brecht Forum on his top [...]

In Defense of Jed Brandt, Beck Target

2, Mar 2010

Jed Brandt, a good friend and comrade, was attacked yesterday on Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck program by Beck himself. Here is the video:

Jed Brandt, a member of the Kasama Project, is currently in Kathmandu, Nepal, reporting on the Himalayan revolution. He advocates for the formation of a new communist movement with a global perspective.
As [...]

John Mayer Gossip Avoids Issues

14, Feb 2010

The John Mayer controversy has generated tons of media reports and blog opinions. Jay Smooth offers a perspective on issues that get ducked in favor of salacious celebrity gossip, namely institutional racism and systems that disproportionately impact people of African descent most harshly.

Beheading the Conspiracy Monster

7, Feb 2010

Though most of the media is still buzzing about last night’s Sarah Palin speech at the tea party event (CNN and Fox carried it live), passing without much notice was one of the best refutations of a particularly ghastly tea party/Alex Jones conspiracy theory.
Mother Jones dismantled the Obama police-state conspiracy theory this past week in [...]

Reality Salvo Aimed at “Border Wars”

21, Jan 2010

The Equal Justice Society, a national strategy group heightening consciousness on race in the law and popular discourse, is speaking out on a new National Geographic Channel cable television program entitled Border Wars, detailing daily border agent battles with drug smugglers, human traffickers and undocumented immigrants.
The National Geographic Channel promotes Border Wars as a chance [...]

TV Weather’s Great Climate Scam

10, Jan 2010

Former Houston TV personality Neil Frank set off a debate with his recent Houston Chronicle editorial on the ‘climategate’ email hacking.
Frank, a meteorologist, former weatherman for KHOU Channel 11 and former director of the National Hurricane Center, complains climate change denialists have a case, as the recent email hack indicates. “Climategate reveals how predetermined political [...]


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