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| Leonard Cohen "Democracy" |
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One of the most fascinating and enigmatic --
if not the most successful --
singer/songwriters of the late '60s, Leonard
Cohen has retained an audience across four
decades of music-making interrupted by
various digressions into personal and
creative exploration, all of which have only
added to the mystique surrounding him. Second
only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon),
he commands the attention of critics and
younger musicians more firmly than any other
musical figure from the 1960s who is still
working at the outset of the 21st century,
which is all the more remarkable an
achievement for someone who didn't even
aspire to a musical career until he was in
his thirties.
Tags : Leonard Cohen BVM music videos alternative Democracy |
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Affichage : 22167
Durée : 417 s |
| Rich Media, Poor Democracy |
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http://www.mediaed.org
If a key indicator of the health of a
democracy is the state of its journalism, the
United States is in deep trouble. In Rich
Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays
the blame for this state of affairs squarely
at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of
big media, which far from delivering on their
promises of more choice and more diversity,
have organized a system characterized by a
lack of competition, homogenization of
opinion and formulaic programming.
Through numerous examples, McChesney, and
media scholar, Mark Crispin Miller,
demonstrate how journalism has been
compromised by the corporate bosses of
conglomerates such as Disney, Sony, Viacom,
News Corp, and AOL Time Warner to produce a
system of news that is high on sensationalism
and low on information. They suggest that
unless citizen activism can reclaim the
commons, this new corporate system will be
characterized by a rich media and an ever
impoverished, poor democracy.
Tags : MEF Media Education Literacy Critical Mass Industry Educational Sut Jhally Robert McChesney Journalism Activism |
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Affichage : 32098
Durée : 327 s |
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