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Public TV? It Would Be a Good Idea
Asked by a reporter what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi supposedly replied, “I think it would be a good idea.” The same could be said about U.S. public television.
The Year of the Screwball
This is going to go down as the Year of the Screwball Election. Never before have so many nutcases, whackos, and practicing lunatics come out of their caves to run for public office.
Is Free Speech just for Corporations?
The big brand-name corporations love advertising. They love it so much that they spend some $170 billion a year in our country to put all sorts of slicken and hokum on their products, and on their own public image.
Tax the Rich
Taxes, like death, may be certain. Unlike death they can be finagled.
Private Broadcasting
The Lineup: Week of October 18-24, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package.
Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?
It turns out that Lou Dobbs has employed undocumented workers to toil on his estates and tend to his family’s numerous horses. According to a recent investigative report in The Nation, the poster boy for the anti-immigrant crowd said he was told the workers were legal immigrants. What he didn’t say, as he did in April 2006, was that “employers who hire illegal aliens should face felony charges.” Perhaps Dobbs is getting tips from Meg Whitman.
Big Chocolate’s Child Slavery Addiction
Sorry to scare you, but on Halloween much of the chocolate Americans will hand out to trick-or-treaters will be tainted by the labor of enslaved children.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: A Modern-Day Bull Connor
In April 1963, while confined to jail in Birmingham, Alabama for leading peaceful civil rights demonstrations in what was then considered to be the most segregated city in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an open letter challenging a group of local ministers and the nation to speak out against the brutal, segregationist tactics of the infamous Birmingham police commissioner, Bull Connor. Forty-seven years later, in Maricopa County, Arizona, there’s another police official who seems bent on defying the Constitutional rights of non-white, law-abiding citizens.
Big Food’s Blame Game
Corporations spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year marketing a dangerous product to America’s children.
