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Lizz Winstead & W. Kamau Bell: Media Responsibility

By newsreader89 | Published: May 28, 2010
The ongoing disaster in the Gulf, millions of barrels of oil now reaching shores and killing wildlife, might seem to have little in common with the struggle for comprehensive immigration reform. But one of the threads that connects the two is misleading media coverage. BP was able to control and spin their coverage, perhaps aided by their liberal advertising budgets, and meanwhile discussions of immigration and racial issues in general are constantly framed as a debate over whether racism is involved.
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Maya Wiley, W. Kamau Bell & Lizz Winstead and Haiti

By newsreader89 | Published: May 27, 2010
The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has now, according to new estimates, become the nation's biggest oil spill in history. Yet instead of deploying help to the Gulf, President Obama is sending troops to the U.S./Mexico border. As Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion notes, it's an election year, and that means it's pandering time.
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Zizek on Avatar

By Syndicated News | Published: March 19, 2010

Here’s something Slavoj Žižek and I have in common. We’ve both seen Avatar. I was not totally bewitched by it, maybe because balancing a pair of 3-D spec­ta­cles on top of another set of glasses while sitting two meters from the screen, tilting my head at a 30-degree angle in order to see it, detracted [...] Related posts:

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Palestinians or Israelis – demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday dressed as blue people from Pandora

By Syndicated News | Published: February 13, 2010
Demonstrators dressed and made up as the underdog blue Nav’i people from Pandora in the film Avatar participated, as shown here, in the now-traditional Friday demonstration against eviction of Palestinian refugees from the homes built for them in the 1950s by UNRWA in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, when this area was under [...]
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