Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Gains At Top Outpace All Others

Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades, New Data Show — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Institute for Policy Studies: Tough Times; Troubling Trends

There's been one seismic shift in after tax income in the last 30 years, and it hasn't favored most taxpayers, their children, or democracy.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Now what? - chicagotribune.com

Hedge funds like Angelo Gordon are sweeping into newspaper companies like Tribune Co. Now what? - chicagotribune.com

I'm not sure we want to wait around to find out the answer to this one--as if we don't already know: cutbacks, junk news, press releases instead of investigative reporting--what do we expect?

It's time to go all out in a nationwide demand for a takeover of the media by the public.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Media Education Foundation on Objectification of Women



This was on the show last night and next week we'll be finishing up with it. What a great watchdog group!

Then, this morning I went over to Think Progress and saw this: