Archives
- 2008.07.01: Running on Empty: Media & the Oil Crisis
- 2008.07.01: Calling Yourself Green Doesn't Mean You Are Green
- 2008.06.02: You Have the Freedom to Buy Our Drugs
- 2008.05.12: Summer, A Summit, and Some Sanity
- 2008.04.28: How to Make Good Consumers of Hispanics?
- 2008.04.07: Political Leader Spewing Hate
- 2008.03.31: Is Grand Rapids becoming Green?
- 2008.03.03: March Madness of a Different Kind
- 2008.02.25: Election Madness
- 2008.02.01: Are you laughing with your cable provider?
- 2008.01.01: Don't forget the important issues in an Election year...the media will
- 2007.12.02: When Media Companies become Child Predators
- 2007.11.01: Is Blackwater really in the crosshairs of the media?
- 2007.10.25: "For the Children": Class, Race, Place, and Late Capitalist Eco-Enclosure in Benton Harbor
- 2007.10.16: Assessing the Choice of Al Gore as the Nobel Laureate for 2007
- 2007.10.16: Five Years Later, We Can't Forgive or Forget
- 2007.09.30: The uses and abuses of propaganda
- 2007.09.01: Cops, lawbreakers, and racists: How the media protects but doesn't serve
- 2007.08.24: Untangling the absurd justification for maintaining the US Occupation of Iraq
- 2007.07.31: Truth can be stranger than fiction: how Hollywood mirrors the status quo
- 2007.07.17: Notes on the Young Left, from Two of Its Own
- 2007.07.02: The Persistence of Censorship
- 2007.06.01: Greenwashing the News: What media does to the environment
- 2007.05.24: The Banality of Evil: Thoughts on the death of Rev. Jerry Falwell
- 2007.05.10: Up South, All White, Confused and Scared
- 2007.05.02: Imus is just a symptom of a bigger problem
- 2007.04.10: Your Health Is for Sale
- 2007.04.03: Death and Taxes at 11pm tonight -- how the news media limits debate
- 2007.03.04: The Lies Continue: US Media and the War in Iraq...and Iran?
- 2007.01.29: Popcorn and Propaganda: Movies, Militarism and Mad Mel
- 2007.01.05: Obituaries you won't see
- 2006.12.01: You're not really watching the news: VNRs and the future of media
- 2006.11.01: What to do now that the elections are over?
- 2006.10.03: What’s in a Name?
- 2006.09.05: 5 years of the living with the media's war of terror
- 2006.08.01: The Tyranny of Elections
- 2006.07.03: Framing the debate around affirmative action
- 2006.06.01: My 24 hours with an ex-CIA Analyst
- 2006.05.02: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... just kidding.
- 2006.04.03: Imagine if Election Coverage was like Professional Wrestling
- 2006.03.10: Thoughts on Nonviolence
- 2006.03.02: Cartoons, Fanatics and Foreign Policy
- 2006.02.01: Why Government Spying Doesn't Bother Me
- 2006.01.06: 30,000 deaths, more or less: When the media becomes subservient to government policy
- 2005.12.01: Sins of Omission: How Journalism Kisses Corporate Booty
- 2005.11.09: Free Speech isn’t Free: Reflections on the First Amendment in the age of Media Barons
- 2005.10.03: Hurricanes: disaster reporting that avoids reporting on the disastrous response of the government
- 2005.09.04: Talking Back to the News
- 2005.08.03: Not Another We Are the World
- 2005.07.14: The Dark Side of Advertising: Our children are Targets
- 2005.06.01: Media Justice is the Civil Rights Movement of the 21st Century
- 2005.05.01: "Doesn't a free market provide the better path to higher living standards?"
- 2005.04.18: From West Michigan to Central America
- 2005.03.21: Speech prepared for March 19 Rally Against the Occupation
- 2005.03.16: Oh Say Can You See..the Ad: the branding of Spectator sports
- 2005.02.16: The New Look Press, finally a Newspaper with Style
- 2004.12.27: We could not make this stuff up! Confessions of a local TV News Junkie
- 2004.11.01: The Revolution will not be televised, it will be written: Reading, Indy Publishers and Social Movements
- 2004.10.01: The Public Weighs in on the Public Airwaves
- 2004.09.01: Ears and Eyeballs people as consumers, not citizens
- 2004.08.11: Fahrenheit 9/11 and Beyond: Thinking Outside the Partisan Box
- 2004.07.10: Mourning the Victims of a War Criminal - The Media and the Reagan Legacy
- 2004.06.10: That Red Tie Makes Him Sound More Presidential: The Joy of News Watching during an Election Year
- 2004.05.10: Taking Back Our Airwaves
- 2004.04.10: Sanitizing a National Hero
- 2004.03.10: Blame the Workers, but Still Lovin' Rich
- 2004.01.10: A Media Crank's Top 10 News Predictions for 2004
- 2003.12.10: We can Beat a Guy who Lost an Election to a Dead Man!
- 2003.10.10: Rushing to Film the Scene of a Crime - When News becomes Racial Profiling
- 2003.09.10: Enter the Local Twilight Zone of Local News
- 2003.08.10: Weapons of Mass Deception: The War at Home
- 2003.06.10: Local radio & hate speech? in Grand Rapids?