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Media Is A Plural by Rory O'Connor

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - Jose Antonio Vargas is incredibly brave to risk everything he has accomplished in this country in order to tell the truth-and to shine yet another but still much-needed light on the pressing need for comprehensive immigration reform in this country. He, and millions like him, have much to contribute to America – and without people like them, our country will be far poorer.

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Volunteers of America Got to Revolution

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - There’s rightfully been an outpouring of praise in this country for the brave revolutionaries of the Arab Spring. So here’s a question to my fellow Americans: what are you waiting for?

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Crossing Zero: How and Why the Media Misses the AfPak Story

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By ROry O'Connor - Apr. 14 (Interview) - When it comes to Pakistan, American journalists are helping to sustain a false and deceptive narrative and that’s a real problem. As an example, on the left, Rachel Maddow ought to be challenging the narrative. Instead she looks to Dan Rather and Zbigniew Brzezinski who initiated the crisis. Why?

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We Media vs. Me Media

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - Few media chatfests are as valuable as the regular We Media gatherings.

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Controlled Releases of Information? Apps to the Rescue!

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor, Richard Bell - Apr. 01 (News) - The digital information revolution has disrupted the previously highly centralized world of nuclear public relations and spin, putting a stunning amount of information at our fingertips for the first time.

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No Word for It: Imagining the Unimaginable

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By ROry O'Connor, Richard Bell - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - Tsunami is a Japanese word – one sign of the island nation’s intimate relationship with the destructive forces of the ocean that surrounds it. Despite the fact that the word is one of the few from the Japanese language to attain universal use, “tsunami” didn’t even appear in Japanese government guidelines and standards for nuclear plants until 2006...

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No Word for Meltdown: The Return of Nukespeak

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor, Richard Bell - Mar. 15 (Opinion) - George Orwell argued that controlling language offered the ultimate tool for getting people to accept the unacceptable – such as the catastrophic risks of operating nuclear power plants. In Orwell’s “1984,” each new edition of the Newspeak dictionary had fewer words than the previous one...

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Hillary Clinton Talks Freedom as Protester Ray McGovern is Bloodied

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - Are you as shocked as I am that even Donald Rumsfeld turns out to be a better supporter of free speech than Hillary Clinton? At least the lying SOB former Secretary of Defense didn’t stand by and do nothing as his critics were beaten, arrested and taken away in chains!

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The Coming Media Convergence

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Like it or not, the top Timesman and other leading mainstream media figures will inevitably soon find themselves learning from and eventually emulating the Guardian/WikiLeaks collaboration. Here comes the new media convergence!

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Programmers “frank, direct, negative” on PBS’ Need To Know

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Feb. 02 (Opinion) - When Need To Know, a new public affairs offering described as “a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting,” premiered nationwide in May on PBS — and on line at PBS.org — the hybrid effort was met with an outpouring of negative reaction from media activists and public television viewers alike.

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Hate Speech and Hateful Acts in Arizona

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - “It is our right and our duty to criticize the people who have put the fate of our country in peril,” Rush Limbaugh said this week on his syndicated radio show.

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Richard Nixon, Liu Xiaobo, Julian Assange and Us

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Dec. 13 (Opinion) - “Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth.”

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Information Poverty and Giving Thanks

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Nov. 24 (Opinion) - Could children, given only access to computers and the opportunity to play with them, really teach themselves the rudiments of computer literacy with no instruction? His hole in the wall model, which pointed to one possible solution to the rich/poor gap known as the “digital divide,” had the promise to lift millions out of an information underclass to which they had been consigned by accidents of birth and fate.

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Axelrod Memo to Obama: Election 2012

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - Nearly half of all Democrats want a challenger to Obama in 2012.

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Bill O’Reilly: Juan Williams Died For Your Sins

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - Williams’ remarks, although bigoted and fairly stupid, were made in an ill-executed attempt to counter O’Reilly’s even stupider and more bigoted assertions.

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Pentagon Hides Iraq War Death Tally

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - The information went unnoticed for months after being “quietly posted on the Web site of the United States Central Command without explanation.” It was only recently discovered by the AP “during a routine check…

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Everybody Knows Times Op-Ed Columnists Are Lazy

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Everybody knows Op-Ed columns in the New York Times are, for all the obvious reasons, considered prime editorial real estate. But how many are aware they are apparently also unedited, poorly managed sinecures for lazy thinkers proffering unsupported assertions and analysis on both the left and the right side of the political opinion aisle?

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Are We Entering A “Fact Free” Period in Politics and Media?

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - As former president Bill Clinton observed on Good Morning America recently, “we may be entering a sort of period in politics that’s sort of fact free…”Former Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. made a similar point about the media recentlyz: “The future of accountability journalism is now at stake – along with much else – as a tsunami of economic, technological and social change washes over the news media.”

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“News Bias” and The Media Battle Over the Meaning of 9/11

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Sep. 09 (Opinion) - Nine long years after 9/11, the battle over the meaning of what happened to our city, our country and our world on that fateful blue-crystal morning continues unabated, with the battleground still the swirling nexus of news and politics. As usual, all sides in this cultural clash are employing the very media they consistently accuse of ‘news bias’ to promote their competing visions. Like the “Global War on Terror” spawned by the attacks, the ongoing struggle to interpret 9/11 now appears to be a war without end.

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Obama and the Military-Media Complex

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Aug. 30 (News Analysis) - Obama has arguably met his self-imposed deadline. But will the powerful military-media complex allow him to remove “all US troops from Iraq” by the end of next year? Moreover, will they ever support his July 2011 deadline for US troops to begin leaving Afghanistan – a country the US invaded earlier and has occupied longer than Iraq?

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The Tillman Story — Just Gimme Some Truth!

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Aug. 17 (Review) - Of the many lies George W. Bush told us about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some were larger but none worse than that told about the death of Pat Tillman. I

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Big Journalism? No, Another Phony Breitbart Beatdown

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O/Connor - Jul. 30 (Opinion) - It’s been a while since I’ve been called nasty names in public or accused of ill-defined but dangerous conspiracies – which is a shame because it can be so much fun! Once, for example, the conservative crackpot David Horowitz (whom I’ve never met) told the Boston Globe I was a “hard core Marxist propagandist.” Then there was the time South Africa’s apartheid-era Defense Minister, Magnus Malan, denounced our weekly public television series South Africa Now as a Communist plot hatched in Mozambique… That’s why it was so thrilling to learn I’d just joined Shirley Sherrod as an actor – albeit in an exceedingly minor role, alas — in another gussied-up, phony “journalism” beatdown by the conservative crackpot Andrew Breitbart. The news came in the form of an email “heads up” from Tracy Van Slyke, Project Director of The Media Consortium, a professional network of progressive media outlets of which my company Globalvision is a “card-carrying,” dues-paying member. Turns out that a hit job about The Consortium had been posted on one of Breitbart’s web sites, comically called Big Journalism.

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America’s Most Dangerous Man — Barack Obama?

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jul. 26 (Opinion) - Why are we still in Afghanistan? This week’s release by WikiLeaks.org of a massive archive of 92,000 previously secret U.S. military documents – a new generation’s Pentagon Papers – puts the lie once again to the tired refrain that the war in/on Afghanistan bears little resemblance to that in/on Vietnam. Instead, despite surface differences, the two unpopular conflicts possess many obvious and frightening similarities.

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Independence Day and Independent Journalism

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - This Independence Day we need independent journalism more than ever – as the events leading up to and immediately following the recent resignation of General Stanley McChrystal demonstrate anew. “What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? Is it worth all the bloodshed and the hatred? Who are the people running this thing, what is their agenda, and is that agenda the same thing we voted for?”

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Moving & Moving On: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - May. 28 (Opinion) - It's moving day here at Globalvision and the MediaChannel - and moving on day as well, we hope, as the dust and detritus of decades of exhausting, joyous, and, one hopes, meaningful work is carted out along with lots of memories, most of them good.

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