Its almost impossible to make sweeping claims about television in 2011; there is just too much of it, and the range of quality swoops from astonishingly, breathtakingly, bad, to read more »
Free Press’ SavetheNews.Org initiative has had one of its organizing videos pulled from YouTube at the insistence of the Newport Television corporation, one of the more read more »
Adam Curtis’ new documentary, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, gives hope that at least some of the world is waking up from the mass hallucination of disembodied read more »
Peace Activist Art Gish, 70, Dies And the longtime peace activist Art Gish has died at the age of seventy after a tractor accident on his farm in Ohio. He had been a longtime read more »
"The basic idea for the voucher is to give each taxpayer a fixed amount (e.g. $100 a year) that can be used to support the media venture or individual of the person’s choice. read more »
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove was recently given what may be the biggest honor -- and challenge -- of her career: sorting through poems from the last 100 years to create read more »
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In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney -- winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995 -- is a world-famous poet. Now 72, his new collection, "Human read more »
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