From the monthly archives: October 2006

Censored, Ignored or Underreported

By On October 13, 2006 · Leave a Comment

A good article from the Tuscon Weekly called Censored Stories: The 10 stories the nation’s mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year. (Thanks Digg user pgoetz)

Here are Project Censored’s Top 10 stories for the past year:
1. The feds and the media muddy the debate over [...]

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The Onion on Google buying YouTube

By On October 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment

via The Onion :

Elisa Leonard,
Blanket Maker
“The beauty of YouTube is that it takes entertainment out of the hands of morons in suits and puts it into the hands of morons in sweats.”

LMFAO! Got to get me some sweat pants!

But seriously folks…. that quote is what most people [...]

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Vlogger covers local Judicial race forum

By On October 12, 2006 · 2 Comments

Will Raymond, known online as WillR, has taken citizen coverage of local politics to the next level. He’s used a popular form of content creation on the web called video blogging. He didn’t record what his kids are up to but a local Judges forum and then put it on his

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654,965 Iraqi Civilians killed since US invasion of Iraq began

By On October 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment

via Bloomberg

About 600,000 people have died violent deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in March 2003, researchers found in a new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
Gunshots were the most common cause of death, [...]

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Did Bush help fund North Korea’s Nukes?

By On October 11, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I found a article from 2002 on the BBC website called US grants N Korea nuclear funds. (via Netscape News) Sound familiar? Remember that picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? Ah… when partners turn on ya.

Who knows if this deal went through but all that money the US Government [...]

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Blogging’s ROI

By On October 11, 2006 · 1 Comment

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Mold forces Non-Profit to Close its Doors

By On October 10, 2006 · 4 Comments

The Durham Literacy Center in Durham, North Carolina who helps hundreds of people a year learn how to read and get a high school equivalency is being forced out of their building due to mold. The Hearld Sun has written a good article allerting people to DLCs serious need.

“We desperately need [...]

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Google bought Youtube – Good or Bad?

By On October 10, 2006 · Leave a Comment

This is a big deal. Read the Press Release.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the [...]

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IU study: The Daily Show/Jon Stewart as substantive as network news

By On October 9, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Via Indiana University found at Craig Newmark’s Blog

Julia R. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University isn’t joking when she says the popular “fake news” program, which last week featured Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a guest, is just as substantive as network coverage.

While much has been written in the [...]

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Journalist Izzy

By On October 4, 2006 · Leave a Comment

In honor of the American investigative journalist I. F. Stone I’ve created a fan page called Journalist Izzy with links to information about him. (see it up there in the top menu?) If you visit the page and find I’m missing a link let me know in the comments.

There are two new books [...]

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