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Video: How to Get Our Democracy Back
VideoNation : Find out Professor Lawrence Lessig's solutions and ideas for how to fix Congress in this video companion to his cover story, "How to Get Democracy Back."
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Students on the Future of Media
VideoNation : Student journalists at The Nation and Campus Progress's Annual Student Journalism Conference talk how news media will be produced, consumed and funded in the next five to ten years.
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Kushner on Obama and Gay Rights
Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
VideoNation : Leading gay rights activist Tony Kushner explains why Obama's first year signals a bright future for LGBT issues.
This week, Nation contributor John Nichols speaks as part of a panel discussion at the 2009 Nation/Campus Progress Student Journalism Conference about the disconnect between old media models and a nonfunctional new media model for producing journalism. Nichols evokes history in noting that when our country was founded media was heavily subsidized by the government and proposes this as a model to strive for. Nichols is the co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, along with Robert W. McChesney, published by Nation/Perseus/Basic Books this fall.
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