MEDIA

  • Democracy Now! September 2, 1998

    Headwaters; Russia & the Press; Colombia |(21 Minutes) Headwaters The CA state legislature has approved a deal to purchase the headwaters forest. The bill will transform the world’s largest privately owned stand of ancient redwood trees into a public preserve. Environmentalists say the settlement will only save a portion of the land. The deal will…

  • Democracy Now! August 18, 1997

    TV News; Russian Intelligentsia; Canned Hunting |(9 Minutes) TV News Research statistics regarding the media’s increasing number of crime stories juxtaposed with decreasing crime figures. GUEST: Dan Anunsdon, research dir. of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. (19 Minutes) Russian Intelligentsia Background on official and public perception of Russian Intelligentsia. Author of BOOK: DEAD…

  • Bob Barr and Abortion; Larry Flynt and Media Coverage of Impeachment; Saipan Lawsuit

    (14 Minutes) Bob Barr and Abortion On Monday night, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt revealed that staunch anti-abortion Republican Bob Barr had supported and paid for his own wife’s abortion in 1985 and that he had had an extramarital affair. Barr is one of the House managers that are prosecuting President Clinton in his impeachment trial.…

  • Custodians of Conscience

    An inquiry into the methods and motives behind investigative journalism with GUEST: Theodore Lewis Glasser, Prof. at Stanford University. GUEST: James S. Ettema, Prof. at North West University.

  • Tuning out public television / John Macy ; interviewed by Bill Schechner.

    The first president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting discusses the media.

  • THE LAPDOG FUNCTION OF THE MEDIA / Edward Herman produced by David Barsamian.

    THE LAPDOG FUNCTION OF THE MEDIA / Edward Herman| produced by David Barsamian. – Edward Herman, Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, challenges the conventional image of the media as adversarial and confrontational in their reporting. He skillfully illustrates how corporate ownership frames, shapes, and structures the news. He…