‘This Portrayal of Urban Environment Definitely Did Fuel Fear’
“The more people watched local television news, the more likely they were to associate criminality with being Black.”
Philly Honduras Coverage ‘Not Based in Facts’
Philadelphia Weekly intern and Prometheus Radio Project volunteer Alyssa Figueroa has produced an excellent document of local media activists taking on global news coverage in her video showing how “nearly 100 people marched to the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s office demanding the paper publish more factual pieces about the coup in Honduras.” PW tells us (7/30/09) that […]
You Don’t Get ‘Thoughtful Conversation’ From an Advocate for War Crimes
When influential institutions treat those responsible for torture as worthy experts, society risks losing things even more valuable than “thoughtful conversation.”
Philly Paper Welcomes Home Native Torture Hero
Blogger and Philadelphia Inquirer writer Will Bunch has a review (Attytood, 5/11/09) of how, “by late last year, the world already knew a great deal about John Yoo, the Philadelphia native and conservative legal scholar whose tenure in the Bush administration as a top Justice Department lawyer lies at the root of the period of […]
ACTION ALERT: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s New Spectrum: From Centrism to Antisemitism
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s spectrum excludes “unvarnished progressives” while making sure that antisemites have someone to represent them.
