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Historic Victory Over Comcast for Media Activists

Paul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:03:55 -0500

The FCC has ordered Comcast to stop secretly blocking legal Internet traffic. Get all the gory details here.

A Legal Action for Media Democracy

Abdul — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:36:44 -0500

Adbusters Media Foundation has filed an appeal against the recent decision by the B.C. Supreme Court allowing Global Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to continue censoring citizen-produced TV ads.

Young men dead

Abdul — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:52:31 -0500

Should the media publish images of dead U.S. servicemen?

Timothy Karr Interview

Trevor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:05:15 -0500

Full Interview with Timothy Karr from Free Press at NCMR 2008.

American journalism is in a crisis

Abdul — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:20:09 -0500

The idea of news being operated as a public trust in the public interest has virtually disappeared.

From Adbusters #78

Adbusters at NCMR

Trevor — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:16:15 -0500

We were at the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform, talking to some of the leading thinkers on media democracy.

Should Adbusters be anti-Facebook?

Paul — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:56:08 -0500

America’s Slippery Slope

Abdul — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:54:44 -0500

“We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the signs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing.” A look at what happens when we refuse to pay attention to what’s important.

From Adbusters #78

Pull back the curtain

Sean — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:12:11 -0500

With more than 3,000 journalists, activists, bloggers and media critics having gathered in Minneapolis last weekend for the National Conference for Media Reform, it is clear that corporate press’ domination over the media is being challenged by a new media movement.

Adbusters at Minneapolis Media Conference

Sean — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:54:34 -0500

Senior Editor, Sean Condon, is blogging this weekend from the National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis.