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March, 2011

Editorial

12-03-11
Can’t Tweet a Rev! Rana Bose

There is a tendency amongst a lot of liberal-minded people to go ape about Wikileaks, beyond and above what are  Read more…

I want to serve my people - Mubarak

Commentary

12-03-11
“The Revolution Will Be…Live.” and The Co-Creation of Value Maria Worton

You’ll recall Marshall McLuhan, the “medium is the message” man.  He knew. He knew what the computer could do… this  Read more…

Smoking Mirror Cartoon

Commentary

12-03-11
Images Shift the Discussion! Rana Bose

This is how it all started. As Tunisia and Egypt were followed by Yemen and Bahrain  and as  I remained  Read more…

Back at the Media Ranch all is under control. El Conquistador Capitalista controls the news. They do it by not putting the events in context. Context must be avoided. They rant against Chávez and Morales but avoid explaining the preceding 200 years. If they write about Haiti its all about bodybags and pathos. Cannon-boat diplomacy? 20 billion dollars in extorsion payment? 150 years embargo? Why add to the confusion with so much detail? It is much easier to show people of color suffering and dying. Take the context out and leave the pornography of misery. That’ll teach’em.

Photo Essay

12-03-11
Foto-historieta Carlos Ferrand

Most news is just a…                      web.me.com/carlosferrandz
The 74-year-old Italian leader

Commentary

12-03-11
The Dumbing-Down Revolution will be Televised Mirella Bontempo

The anomaly that is Italy– where a media mogul can have total control of the private and public television, print  Read more…

Commentary

12-03-11
Everyone is a Journalist Today Shubhobroto Ghosh

The original saying went, ‘Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” Well, the perception seems to be  Read more…

peter martin 2a

Commentary

12-03-11
The Command Line is Mightier than the Rubber Bullet (fear me) Peter Martin

A few months ago, fearing terminal unemployment, I emailed some of my coder friends a query: “So, things were a  Read more…

soule graphic

Commentary

12-03-11
Tiny Blue Ball Matthew Soule

The world isn’t what it was ten or even five years ago. Technology has taken our planet and transformed it  Read more…

Book Review

12-03-11
“An Introduction to Visual Culture” Anisha Dutt

An Introduction To Visual Culture, Nicholas Mirzoeff. Routledge, New York, 1999. Visual culture can be described as the mix of  Read more…

Prose

12-03-11
I hear you Sis! Maya Khankhoje

My sister, all of four years older than me, kindly informed me very early on that Santa Claus didn’t exist,  Read more…

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Prose

12-03-11
Un précieux repas Antoine Bustros

The text below is from a collection in progress of yet unpublished short stories, entitled “Fragments”. Les rayons du soleil  Read more…

Poetry

12-03-11
Nasser Ehab Lotayef

These days I can’t but remember Gamal Abdel Nasser.  The Arab people are now finding unity in demands, hopes and  Read more…

Poetry

12-03-11
The Journey, The Market & The Manuscript Joshua Rapp Learn

The Journey I marched through thick snow until leaves began to reappear on deciduous trees, pine needles protruding from toes  Read more…

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