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Web Exclusive: The Trojan Horse of climate ‘skepticism’ penetrates the walls of the indy media
I have become increasingly aware that the ‘denialist’ stance, though entirely the result of a quintessential, corporate right-wing conspiracy, has penetrated substantial sectors of the ‘progressive’ independent media. These include such icons as Global Research, Counterpunch, and Brasscheck TV.
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Web Exclusive: “So Said Tony Hayward”: An Eco-Political Music Video
“So Said Tony Hayward”—a somewhat satirical but basically somber piece abut the BP oil spill.
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The Politics of Doubt: How climate skeptics have abused both science and the public trust
Having lost the battle in the scientific arena, the skeptics have not only taken to the mass media to promulgate their cause, but have additionally resorted to the charge that they are not getting a fair hearing in this alternate venue.
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Burn, Baby, Burn
Although the scientific community has never been more united in its conviction that climate change is well on the way to rendering planet Earth a vastly less hospitable place for most species including our own, doubt about the gravity of the problem is, paradoxically, on the rise. In this piece, Levy explores the resistance to climate change from prominent members of the Left: Alexander Cockburn, David Noble and Slavoj Zizek.
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Mainstream media omits context and key facts on Cuba
On July 8, the Washington Post lead story reported Cuba had released five political prisoners with assurances of forty-seven more to come in the near future. The Post story and its July 9 editorial omitted facts readers would need in order to understand the significance of the prisoner release.
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Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Today – with the mainstream media failing to adequately serve the public in many parts of the country, and with multitudes of people fed up with how corporate media manipulate the news – is an opportune time for independent media projects to be established or refocused. The question is, as always: how to get financial backing for the work?
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Universal disorientation
Look at the front page of the New York Times (Jan 17), and you’d swear that chaos and violence are running rampant in Haiti, that everyone from journalists to relief workers must be risking their necks just to venture out into the streets…
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Could a ‘mini-paper’ nip at the heels of mainstream press?
The cost of producing a Globe and Mail or any other traditional paper is quite staggering. Media corporations and other businesses, mainly in the United States, are spending millions of dollars trying to come up with a new business model that will allow them to have both money-making newspapers and Internet-based news operation. For my part, for several weeks now I have been trying to come up with an idea that would make the cost of publishing some sort of newspaper more manageable.
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Sustainable independent media needs a breakthrough
Imagine Canada having national and city newspapers and TV news programs and news websites that report fairly on all groups in society, protect the rights of consumers, and cover business in a way that assesses the benefits for all people, not just business owners and investors. The result would be a journalism that contributes to the creation of a more equitable and just society.
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Globe’s pro-business reporting example of bad journalism
Staff reporters at the country’s most prominent business news publication, The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, are at it again — distorting an important issue: the possible sale of Ontario Crown corporations by neglecting to include vital information that could have balanced their reports.
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