Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Presidential Election 2008
Bob McChesney on media justice, Esther Kaplan on the future of labor, David Sirota on The Uprising.
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Let Them Eat Waffles
Patricia J. Williams : Media Analysis
How can Barack Obama--or any candidate--overcome the sad hypocrisy of our public discourse?
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Our Lapdog Media
The Editors
What should we do when Big Media fails democracy? First, don't let it get any bigger.
2007
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Political Punk: Rage Against the Band
Now with a major label, political punk rockers Against Me! have released what may be the year's best album. But have they sold out?
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Sun-rise in New York
Scott Sherman : Journalists & Journalism
How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.
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The Ho Industry
Alexander Cockburn : Racism & Discrimination
In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus's racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.
2005
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Pat Tillman, Our Hero
War hero and former NFL star Pat Tillman was not the GI Joe icon created by Pentagon spinmeisters. He was a fiercely independent thinker convinced that the war in Iraq was illegal. Bereaved military families, also angered at Pentagon exploitation of their loved ones, are joining the critical chorus.
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The Strategic Class
Behind Capitol Hill's Democratic war hawks stands an army of 'enablers' - foreign policy advisors, think-tank specialists and pundits.
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MIA: News of Prison Toll
Todd Gitlin : George W. Bush Administration
The media has ignored prisoner deaths suffered at American hands.
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Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
Robert Scheer : War on Terrorism
Is it possible that a vast and well-organized terrorist conspiracy does not exist?
2004
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Our Debt to Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers did his best to arm the people with the power knowledge gives.
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Money for Nothing
Eric Alterman : Campaign Finance
Rich liberals get nothing from the national treasury or tax code for their activism.
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Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still)
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
CBS's slip-up was such big news because it fit the right-wing script designed to shield the Bush Administration from accountability.
2001
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Publish or Speech Perishes
Victor Navasky : 1st Amendment
In the words of the old folk song, "When will they ever learn?"
This week: A look at the advocacy group MoveOn.org at 10. Plus: Controversy in Africa over the indictment of the Sudanese President; Amy Alexander and Chris Rabb on the challenges facing minority journalists in their transition to the web; and The Nation's new sex column. (13mb mp3)
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