Category: Media Literacy
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Resumption of feud narrowly averted
Like most people I was following the tragic Sago mine disaster. I couldn’t help noticing that the CEO of International Coal Group, the owner of the mine, was a fellow named Ben Hatfield. Hatfield? I thought to myself. As in the Hatfields and the McCoys? Radio reports about the lone survivor of the disaster caused…
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Bumblers
Let me just say: if there’s indeed a so-called “War on Christmas”… …based on the number of lilting Christmas tunes I’ve been hearing in public places all around the liberal paradise that is my beloved Bay Area, the folks who are fighting in this particular conflagration — the anti-Christmas bridade — are a pack of…
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Media Alliance Events
Sunday June 16th, 7 p.m. An Evening with Greg Palast, BBC commentator and author of the NYT bestseller “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” Greg Palast, author and award winning BBC repporter, will speak this Sunday on “George Bush the Second: Subverting Democracy from Florida to Venezuela”. Palast broke the Enron and Florida election scandals,…
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