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Mar
29
2013

David Moon on Aaron's Law, Beth Schwartzapfel on Prison Access

Aaron Swartz (cc photo: Daniel J. Sieradski)

Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Internet activists are trying to rein in abusive aspects of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, with a law dubbed "Aaron's Law"--named in honor of activist Aaron Swartz. But new developments in the House threaten to make the law even more abusive. We'll talk with David Moon from the group Swartz founded, Demand Progress.   Also on the show: With millions of Americans in prison, and seemingly more each day, one might imagine that what goes on in prison would be a topic for sustained journalistic inquiry. Yet there are only a [...]

Mar
01
2013

Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013

An irreplaceable activist for freedom of information

It’s always difficult to write about a death. If it’s after a lifetime of accomplishments, how do you sum that up in a few brief paragraphs? When a life has been cut cruelly short, it’s even worse—trying hopelessly to convey the sense of lost possibilities. With Aaron Swartz, who died on January 11 by his own hand, you have the worst of both worlds. At the age of 26, he had already achieved so much in so many different arenas as to baffle an obituary writer: taking part in creating the RSS protocol when he was just 14 years old, [...]

Jan
28
2013

Why Do Poor People Living in an Abandoned Skyscraper So Outrage the New Yorker?

New Yorker article on Hugo Chavez
Jan
01
2013

The Hall of Fame of Bad Ideas

Why acting like you lost the election is the ‘serious’ thing to do

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As usual when Democrats win elections, plenty of corporate media pundits advised them to act as though they lost.

Dec
01
2012

Time Gives Up on Factchecking

Corporate media can't find a way to tell the truth

"Blue Truth, Red Truth": Time's October 15, 2012, cover story

Reporters appear to be wedded to a set of “rules” that say they are not allowed to convey reality to their readers and viewers.

Dec
01
2012

The 'Raising the Retirement Age' Scam

What they're really talking about doing to Social Security

Raising the Retirement Age vs. Cutting Benefits

It’s inevitable that “raising the retirement age” for Social Security benefits will be talked about by corporate media as an option that would save the government large amounts of money. Such talk, however, will be entirely misleading—and designed to mislead.

Dec
01
2012

The Moderators’ Agenda

Debate questions reveal limited scope

CBS Presidential Debate 10/22/12

The establishment media figures who moderated the 2012 major-party candidate debates confined the discussion to a remarkably narrow range of topics, a FAIR analysis of debate questions finds. A wide variety of topics were never brought up in questions during the six total hours of debate. Among economic subjects, no questions were asked about poverty, income inequality, the housing crisis, labor unions, agriculture or the Federal Reserve. Social issues were similarly truncated, with no questions raised about race or racism, gay rights (including marriage equality), civil liberties, criminal justice or drug legalization. Despite the fact that four Supreme Court justices [...]

Nov
01
2012

Global Disaster? Not on the Agenda

Media incurious about candidates and climate change

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Even as the devastation resulting from humanity’s ongoing alteration of the Earth’s atmosphere became more and more obvious, coverage of the 2012 presidential election campaign seemed completely impervious to the effects of climate change.

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