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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.

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As many of you already know, Headzup's satirical cartoons have been known to traverse the globe within minutes of publication by being passed from cell phone to cell phone as forwarded picture messages. By carefully crafting our daily cartoons to "fly under the radar" of monopolistic mobile network operators, we are working to establish an early beachhead from which other progressive voices can be heard.

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Pobreza, Raza, Discapacidad y intellectuales Migratorios de la Prensa Pobre y Voces De Inmigrantes en Resistancia testifican la verdad a la FCC sobre el asunto de la Neutralidad del Internet.

Poverty, Race, Disability and Migrant scholars from PoorNewsNetwork(PNN) in collaboration with Media organizers from all ova da bay speak truth to the FCC on Net Neutrality

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Here at Free Press we work on three main areas of media policy. We focuses on issues of media ownership, the future of the Internet, and noncommercial or public media. We have always seen these three issues as intimately connected to the health of our democracy.

A recent story points out the overlap of these three issues and reminds us why each is so vitally important. Last week NBC Universal (owned by General Electric) announced that it was teaming up with an ad agency to create special shows around new products. Now ad writers and company shills will be writing your sitcoms.

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We started Democracy Now! for a simple reason: to uncover the truth and to tell the stories that most media ignore. One of the most important stories they are missing is the exciting grassroots movement for better media.

In just seven weeks, thousands of people who are fed up with the dismal state of the media are converging in Minneapolis to make a difference.

Will you join me at the National Conference for Media Reform on June 6 - 8?

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One of the greatest lifestyle advertisements that exist in the technology world today is the “Mac vs. PC” ad. It’s priceless, really. The marketers at Mac should win an award for that one. Young vs. old, hip vs. lame, traditional vs. unconventional, it’s all there.

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”…the role of advocate is, no matter what kind of information comes out, to sort of disparage it, and, you know, they’re fighting for a result, not the truth. And they already think they know the truth..”

That’s what Professor Jeff Milyo told me near the end of a radio interview l did with him in February. It was something of a parting shot he left for critics of a study he conducted for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on media cross-ownership, but it strikes me that he could have been describing himself.

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Main Stream Media, are they lazy, or is it in their best interest not to report factual information.

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Will You Be Ready on February 19, 2009?
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Disruptive technology

Digital film is considered disruptive technology by some.  Polaroid announced it's finished with the instant film business as of February, 2008.  There's some disruptive technology events coming in the not too distant future.  One event that can't come soon enough, is the announcement by AT&T that they no longer will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent decentralized broadband infrastructure from spreading across our nation.
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