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Digital Capitalism
Dan Schiller
The telephone seems to be everywhere, not just in the home and workplace, but in the car and in the pockets of millions of telephone customers. The growing use of the telephone is increasingly a global phenomenon. Less than half of the world’s main telephone lines are in Western Europe and the United States. Asian, […]
The Corporate Packaging of the Public Mind
Herbert Schiller
Corporate control of media is rapidly expanding. The new Telecommunications Act allows media giants to own even more radio, TV, cable and phone services than before. Herbert Schiller contends that the capability of private resource rich conglomerates constitutes the true levers of contemporary power. Their influence and impact on shaping public opinion is enormous.
Information Inequality
Herbert Schiller
This program covers such key topics as the evolution of media in the U.S.; global economics; “big government,” the private sector and more. Schiller says information, over the past few decades, has become a commodity. He says, “Today, more and more information is organized in privately-owned databases. And to be able to even get at […]
Ideology of Communications
Herbert Schiller
Recorded at Harvard.
The More You Watch the Less You Know
Danny Schechter
The news media provide less and less information and more and more “infotainment” and a steady diet of the trial of the century, sexcapade of the year and multiple car crash of the week. It is fluff over matter. And it is all served up by the “prettiest hair on the air,” as Schechter calls […]
The Business of Books
Andre Schiffrin
Many bemoan the quality of much of the offerings of TV, print & radio. Well then, pick up a book and be freed from the tyranny of the homogenized mass media. Hold on, not so fast. We may still assume that books are the stronghold of intellectual and political independence, but the same pressures are […]
Single Payer Health Care
Bernie Sanders
The health care debate is in full swing. The statistics are well known. Tens of millions of Americans have no coverage at all; many more have huge gaps in their benefits. The Clintons crisscross the country promoting their managed competition plan. Others offer varying counterproposals. One alternative is the Canadian model. Canada has a single […]
Creating a New Political Agenda
Bernie Sanders
More and more citizens are turned off by traditional party politics. Voter participation in elections, with a few exceptions, steadily declines. There is a palpable sense that the political system is not responsive to people’s needs. Like the national debt, the pile of domestic problems mounts. The time is ripe for a new political agenda. […]
India & Market Fundamentalism
P. Sainath
India, once colonized by the British, is now in danger of answering to a new foreign master. But this time it’s not a country that seeks to dominate it; rather, it’s an economic system. The so-called free market has taken on an almost religious-like aura. Its evangelists sing its praises from the pulpits of the […]
The Question of Palestine
Edward Said
In this clear and concise lecture, Edward Said outlines the historical dimension of the “Question of Palestine” and its human component. He focusses on why Palestinian concerns have been ignored or belittled and how collectively Palestinians have been reduced to “terrorists.” Prof. Said is impassioned and his arguments are lucid and cogent. A valuable and […]
Rachel Corrie, Solidarity & Palestine
Edward Said
A fiery and eloquent presentation to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s annual meeting. Said says, “One shouldn’t be surprised that Americans, in the main, have a very low opinion of Arabs and Palestinians” because “citizens of this country are fed an atrociously biased diet of ignorance and misrepresentation by the media. All the established main media […]
Palestine & the Universality of Human Rights
Edward Said
2 CDs Recorded on the eve of the attack on Iraq, Edward Said says the war will be a disaster and is motivated by “resources and strategic control.” He then moves to Palestine, where “building a wall will not solve the problem.” While acknowledging the “hopeless situation that encloses us all,” he concludes on an […]

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