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GRITtv: Janine Jackson and Zach Carter: Monitoring Money Media
When you hear about a $5 billion election year, you probably wonder where that money is going. A good chunk of it, of course, goes into advertising--lots of money for the money media. But is that shaping coverage? And what about the supposedly non-money-media: NPR and PBS? A new study out from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Taking the Public Out of Public TV, found that PBS's guests and hosts differ very little from those in the corporate media.Janine Jackson of FAIR and Zach Carter of the Media Consortium join Laura to discuss the media in the countdown to Election 2010: the good, the bad, and Juan Williams.
Email this pageGRITtv: Mark Hertsgaard and Sarah Laskow: Finding Louisiana's Methadone
Even Louisiana's greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This may seem absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP's carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation's Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is like heroin to an addict. It would be catastrophic to go cold-turkey but it's high time we started the weaning process. Well, what is Louisiana's - and our nation's - methadone? Media Consortium Environmental Blogger, Sarah Laskow joins Mark to discuss Louisiana's green energy potential and whether or not we can hope for any progress on energy policy on the Hill.
FSTV News: Media Consortium Conference Feb. 2010
FSTV's Herb Boyd talks with organizers and attendees at the Media Consortium Conference in New York in Feb. 2010. Don Hazen, executive editor of AlterNet, Media Consortium Director Tracey Van Syke, Globalvision's Rory O'Connor and FreeSpeechTV Executive Director Don Rojas discuss how progressive media are changing as the Internet evolves, new business models for non-profits, collaboration between organizations and how social-change groups have begun using social media to promote events and initiate social change.
GRITtv: Creating a New Media with Tracy Van Slyke and Jessica Clark
The progressive media during the Bush era grew to new heights, developing in ways that suited the particular tendencies of the left. Tracy Van Slyke and Jessica Clark started to study the way the media was developing while they worked together at In These Times magazine, and continued their work as Tracy founded the Media Consortium (of which GRITtv is a proud member) and Jessica moved to the Center for Social Media at American University. Their new book, Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics, explains how the progressive media has used new technology to make progressive change, and they join us in studio to talk about their book and their continuing work.
GRITtv: F Word: Telling Your Healthcare Story
Enough! When it comes to the debate around health care, we've heard the same voices -- mostly pundits and politicians -- on every channel. We've seen a small group dominate the airwaves and we've even seem some health seekers wield guns. Well last week, I had occasion to suggest to Ed Schultz on MSNBC that what was needed were more everyday people. 'Fewer pundits, more people? You mean right here?', asked Ed. I said yes...
And what do you know, here's an exciting new citizen journalism project that aims to make life really easy for reporters seeking to break through the guff.
It's called MyRapidReport.com. And it's all about making sure some real people's real health care stories get told. How does it happen? You become a GRITtv citizen journalist.
How about doing one or all of these:
1) Videotape the proceedings of a health care town hall - and don't only talk to the screamers.
2) Interview your friends and neighbors about their experiences.
3) Tell your own personal healthcare story.
Once you've shot your video you can upload it -- by following the instructions at our website -- and what will happen? Like YouTube, your videos will be open for the public to view. But because this effort is being organized by the Media Consortium, a whole network of reporters, editors and organizers will also have access.
Senator Kennedy's voice may have been silenced on the life or death issue of healthcare, but yours needn't be. By the way, if you happen to live in New York City, GRITtv has generously offered their studio space for you to come in and tape your own personal story starting on September 11 and every Friday afterward. Email grittv@grittv.org to get more information and reserve your time to tell your healthcare story!
