Journalism and Media – The STOP Radio Network

14Dec

Occupy the Media – Highlight Version

I was thinking that we're all pretty busy these days, and maybe you feel like there's not enough time to listen to a full Podcast. So ... here's a highlights version. Every week, I'll take one of the key points from our full program, and publish here for you who are busy. It's perfect for

13Dec

Occupy the Media

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

There was a recent Occupy placard held aloft by a protester that caught my eye: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" it said. And I thought, that's captured one of the key problems in our world today. There is so much corporate ownership of the media that it seems pretty inevitable that they would be

23Jul

Waking up the the Cause of Crisis

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

We live in a world dominated by the pathology of power. And we’re totally ingenuous about that. But ignorance of corruption is no excuse, and our silent acquiescence is a form of condoning it. Norberto Keppe’s work of Analytical Trilogy has made enormous strides in giving us the tools to analyze the powerful behind the

20Nov

Media Literacy

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The trend is alarming - the media is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands every day it seems. And the owners are the same big guys who chum around on boards and in secret clubs with the big money industries that get all the favorable press coverage. The influence on our information consumption is ghastly.