By Al Jazeera | Press Release
Al Jazeera has received prestigious awards from organisations across the globe. The network has been honoured for overall excellence in achieving its mission, in addition to praise for Al Jazeera’s individual reporters and their work.
Below are some highlights of the awards and nominations received by Al Jazeera [...]
By Diana Robinson-Bardyn | Blog
The very real danger of being dumbed down and numbed down by sociopathic news analysts. Mon dieu, this Thanksgiving morning I almost choked on my cup of café au lait when reading about Fox News’ Andreas Tanteros soulless comments on the benefits of a food stamp diet.
In case [...]
By Pat Wilson | Blog
If Mr. Romney has his way, public support for art, science and historical preservation in this country will be trashed leaving us with dusty halls and a country that used to be great. Crown jewels are the wealth of some countries. Often countries whose glory days are in the past [...]
By William A. Collins | Otherwords.org
In its latest assessment, Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States No. 47 for media freedom.
Yes, the truth
Will set us free;
But it’s not found
On NBC.
Freedom of the press, that inspired rallying cry of our democracy, is becoming [...]
By Justin Elliott | ProPublica
In the appropriations subcommittee, 8 Republicans voted to block funding and 4 Democrats voted to restore it for this political ad measure. When it comes to defending democracy for the American people, where should our priorities be? The opponents of a new rule to post political ad information online have [...]
By Alan Grayson| June 2, 2012
What does it say about our journalism and media when the longest ferris wheel ride is more newsworthy than the lowest interest rates in history?
Yesterday, the 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest interest rate in history. For the third day in a row.
I didn’t hear that reported. [...]
By Jason Salzman | Otherwords.org
Here’s a suggestion, and it goes out to conservatives and progressives alike: Let’s agree to acknowledge the facts.
When you ask conservatives for proof of the “liberal media bias” they are so concerned about, you often get a response along the lines of, “The media are liberal because [...]
By Josh Stearns | YES! Magazine
Nonprofit news organizations are winning awards and covering issues mainstream media doesn’t, so why is the IRS clamping down on nonprofit media? America is unique among democratic nations in its nearly complete reliance on commercial media to inform our communities, educate our children, and hold power to [...]
By Gardner | Central Florida
The Reaganomics metronome: our government must not regulate business — click, click — our workers must compete with the global work force.
They are at it again. Ever since 1980, it has been the Reaganomics metronome. We hear it all the time. Click, click, click. The national debt is so [...]
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The good man understands what is right,
the bad man understands profit.
—Confucius
“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds — where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough — a modest living— and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”
–Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
'He leaves us a lesson, which is to never accept any injustice.'
–The French President, François Hollande, speaking of Stéphane Hessel, dead at age 95.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…”
–Thomas Jefferson
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By Gardner | Blog
Whether we are Tea Party believers or Occupy Wall Streeters, we know that our politicians are not working for us, and even seem very comfortable with the erosion of the middle class and the fall in everyone else’s standard-of-living.
It was strange, coming out of the blue like that, but [...]