Media Impairs Democracy…Again
The DRBC, Democratic Reform BC provincial political party, is a centre-right party with one sitting MLA and a few dozen candidates. Their leader is being shut out of the televised leaders debate. In the past fifteen years such debates have included leaders of parties with no elected MLAs. Regardless of your political stripe, democracy is [...]
Nothing New: US Government and Media Corruption
I’m having a hard time saying anything in response to this other than I completely agree. It’s nice to be speechless sometimes. Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:41:52 -0700 From: Peter Phillips Subject: Incomplete News Undermines US Values Incomplete News Undermines US ValuesBy Peter Phillips Dozens were kidnapped by roving gangs off the streets of [...]
The Wonkiness of Gasoline Boycott Emails
Everyone once in a while there is an email going around explaining how consumers can use the free market to force a reduction in gas prices [see below]. These gas campaigns are always so alluring, but ultimately they ring hollow for me, and not just because I sold my car. I think the following quote [...]
The Death of Real News: Foretold by the Movie "Network"
The 1976 masterpiece Network was prescient enough to foretell the rise of reality TV, the absence of quality news, the public’s lack of demand for it and our appetite for fluff that doesn’t disturb our comfortable consumer lifestyles. Stories now are not why gas is over a dollar a litre, but where the price wars [...]
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