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Journalists on RNC policing: ‘Dark days for press freedom in the U.S.’

By Anna Pratt | 09.06.08 | 9:05 am



As crews picked up after the RNC in downtown St. Paul Friday morning, a handful of local and national journalists went to City Hall and delivered 50,000 signatures pressuring St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and the…

The Fast Lane and the Dirt Path: Corporate Media, Democracy and the FCC [Audio]

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.05.07 | 10:00 am

In “Rich Media, Poor Democracy,” communications scholar Bob McChesney wrote about how democracy tends to be the first casualty in the collision of big media and big money. As keynote speaker at the Nov.…