Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
A clear example that independent media is still alive and well in the US.
"A daily radio and television news program on over 350 stationjs,
pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US."
2 comments:
Your comments are very relevant in that no media is really independent when someone is paying, particularly someone who depends on advertising or distribution through a bigbox store like Walmart. Since most multinationals have various alliances and most bigboxes have political 'family-oriented' agendas, we find a lot of self-censorship just to stay in business.
Democracy now is the very good aspect of the development of the Internet.
Internet is a wonderful mean to have an other point of view than the mainstream media.
It is the case with many bloggers, who very can tell the world everything they want with an extraordinary freedom.
But the problem with blogs is that they are too many, and you have to read many of them if you want to read things interesting and new. Moreover, they cannot be considered as a trusted source.
This is why I really like websites like democracy now. They are big enough to have real journalists, and to tell news by professional means, like any other news website. But what is really wonderful is that they can do all of that with a total independence. They do not depend in any industrial company , which give them a freedom of speech that no other media can have, because they depend on advertising or they belong to huge holdings.
Unfortunately, Internet in not as free as what we know in some countries, like China for example. What is very shocking is that China is censoring the Internet with American tools. The filters are provided by Cisco, Yahoo! have given mails of a web surfer to the Chinese authorities, and Google, which was considered as the leader of the free Internet, have decided to remove the results of some keywords like democracy, Taiwan...
So we have to defend the free speech on the Internet.
Long life to democracy now!
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