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Why "Earth Art for the 21st Century"? Like a lot of people, the artists who formed Transnational Temps in 2001 (info about the collective follows this article) sensed that coverage of global warming and other environmental issues was woefully inadequate. Commercially sponsored "informative" programming continues to suffer from attention deficit disorders, to say nothing of conflicts of interest. The Internet has presented a means to address the situation.

Congressman Nadler's recent Op-Ed in the New York Times, "We Interrupt This Broadcast" is full of misinformation and verifiable incorrect assertions. Folks like former FCC Senior Counsel, Kenneth Carter, and Matthew Lasar over at ars technica have already taken the piece to task for reading like a spin project of the National Association of Broadcasters. Since I've had a bit more time to address Congressman Nadler's Op-Ed rather than just focus on the propaganda aspects of the piece, I thought I'd provide some primary sourcing to directly refute the main points of his article.

I have complained to the editor of my local newspaper that matters of great public importance have been ignored, omitted from his paper, eg; Kucinich's & Wexler's call for cheney's impeachment & Rep. Kucinich"s claim that congress passed a provision ( the previous congress) that ties money promised to Iraq to our Oil Co. getting contracts. He offers a weak explanation, "not enough space", & denies a political influence.

If it looks like a duck, & walks like a duck .........

fran hirsch

Clinton wants to hijack America

There still seems to be a certain skewed perception of the media held by the conservative public and perpetuated by those within the current administration. Whenever the media actually does its job and roots out anything unfavorable to the current administration, the uncovered facts are written off as "liberal bias". When asked what "liberal media" are they referring to, the answer is often convoluted and rambling. After all three of the top five media outlets Read more »

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Hello, my name is Joe, I am a rank and file union member and on staff at the independent labor movement website UnionReview.

While we are primarily a labor news site, we also monitors news items that tie directly to the communication of the modern labor movement, such as Network Neutrality, the squelching of free speech and the spin doctoring of main stream media.