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Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ONCE SAID, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner."
"Liberty," he said, "is a well-armed lamb, contesting the vote."
Corporate Media is not the fourth column of good government. The Plantation Mentality The veteran broadcast journalist Bill Moyers spoke on Friday before 3,500 at the opening of the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis. He announced his return to the airwaves and outlined his vision of media reform. "As ownership gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under growing financial and political pressure to reduce critical news content and to shift their focus in a mainstream direction, which means being more attentive to establishment views than to the bleak realities of powerlessness that shape the lives of ordinary people." [MetaFilter]
9:22:49 PM
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Just Say 'No'
Extinction Happens. "Just say 'No' to extinction." - Gary Santoro ---- NOVA scienceNOW producer Julia Cort talks to MIT geologist Sam Bowring about a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period and discusses whether it could happen again. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online.
Audio editing by David Levin. Produced by Susan K. Lewis. Interview with Sam Bowring conducted by Julia Cort. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan and Kavli foundations.
To learn more about the Permian extinction, visit the NOVA scienceNOW Web site at http://www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow [Mediaburn Podstation 2408 on GigaDial Public]
6:53:20 PM
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© Copyright 2009 Gary Santoro.
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