I didn't know that you knew Chris. If we had a well-supported nationwide network of radio stations on the left, Chris (who deserves every word of your praise) and others like him would be making a living doing what they like and do so well.
BTW, here's a book that Chris co-authored -- buy this book!
***** Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals
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Journalism and mass communications professionals entering the innovative world of new media technology face a wave of challenging and often unanticipated ethical quandaries. Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals is the first title in Iowa State Press' Media and Technology series (Alan B Albarran, series editor). This important new text establishes a framework for discussing, understanding, and ultimately making sound decisions on meeting these ethical challenges. In addition, the book provides guidelines for approaching and making decisions from an ethical standpoint.
Part one of the text gives background and overview information to examine existing professional ethical codes and their applicability in the new media. Part two delves into the ethical dilemmas faced by all online communications professionals-privacy, speech and intellectual property. Part three warns the reader about three specific types of ethical hazards-speed vs. accuracy and quality; validating Internet sources; and blurring editorial with commercial information.
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At 3:27 PM -0500 4/4/04, Chuck0 wrote:
>Air America is Democratic Party fluff, but at least it is a bit more
>lively than the stuff you hear on Pacifica. Democracy Now has solid
>radical politics, but does Amy Goodman have to b so dour and serious
>all the time?
I, too, think that Pacifica can use a keen sense of satire. I don't think that Amy Goodman would be very funny, though, even if she tried to be (which isn't a criticism of her -- just my impression of her personality).
As for Air America, I found the following bit at Infoshop.org: "Sadly, the folks at Air America Radio could o-nly find space for a grand total of 2 black people, by my count. Chuck D, frontman for the great rap group Public Enemy, deserves better than to be o-ne of the token black guys for this doomed misadventure. The other is Mark Riley, who cohosts the show Morning Sedition. Both Chuck D and Mark Riley have 2 white cohosts" (at <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/04/04/1286463>).
At 3:27 PM -0500 4/4/04, Chuck0 wrote:
>>BTW, make donations to _The New Standard_: <http://thenewstandard.net/>.
>
>If folks have money, there are plenty of *radical* news
>organizations that need money. Infoshop News is trying to raise
>money to expand our operations and pay for more original journalism.
>See:
>
>http://www.infoshop.org/2004fund_drive.html
Yes, send money to Infoshop.org also. Speaking of radicals in need of money to do their work, Tom Hayes <hayes.18 at osu.edu>, the director of _People and the Land_ <http://store.globalexchange.org/peopleland.html>, is trying to raise money for a new documentary about Palestinians. He has applied for many grants, but so far he has received only one. If you have watched and liked _People and the Land_, please help Tom.
>[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 4, Issue 40
>C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
>Mon Apr 5 13:08:34 PDT 2004
<snip>
>It's a bit much, Doug, to call that "the Counterpunch line," if for
>no other reason because of their willingness to post quite different
>accounts: e.g. (to choose one at random), "Israel and the US War on
>Iraq" <www.counterpunch.org/estabrook02262003.html>, which argues
>roughly that the U.S. doesn't need lessons in imperial brutality
>from anyone... --CGE
_CounterPunch_ appears to be more open to publishing authors whose politics sharply differs from its editors' than most liberal/left journals. Its openness may be best illustrated by the range of articles that it has published on the 2004 US presidential election:
E.g.
Mickey Z, "Don't Turn Off...Turn On: From ABB to ON," <http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey04032004.html>. vs. Joel Wendland, "Marxists for Kerry," <http://www.counterpunch.org/wendland03272004.html> -- Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>