Media is a Plural
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Rory OConnor is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. He has directed, written and/or produced numerous films and television programs for ABC, PBS and other TV outlets. His broadcast and film work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writers Guild Award, two Emmys, an Iris, a Cine Gold Eagle, and many other awards. He oversees the not-for-profit MediaChannel.org website, and publishes a blog called "Media is a Plural." He is also president and co-founder of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit educational foundation. More » (Source: Media is a Plural)
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Media Is A Plural by Rory O'Connor
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
Volunteers of America Got to Revolution
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
Crossing Zero: How and Why the Media Misses the AfPak Story
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
We Media vs. Me Media
(Blog Post) Few media chatfests are as valuable as the regular We Media gatherings.Posted by Rory O'Connor -
Controlled Releases of Information? Apps to the Rescue!
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
No Word for It: Imagining the Unimaginable
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
No Word for Meltdown: The Return of Nukespeak
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
Hillary Clinton Talks Freedom as Protester Ray McGovern is Bloodied
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
The Coming Media Convergence
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor -
Programmers “frank, direct, negative” on PBS’ Need To Know
(Blog Post) 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 ...Posted by Rory O'Connor



