Archive for the ‘media+reform’ Category

God Forbid a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Should Try to Make Peace

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Life as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is not as awash in laurels as you might think. Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) has spent 10 of the last 17 years under house arrest. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei (2005) has been the object of an ongoing campaign by the administration to make ...

Hillary, John, Rudy, et al., we (the people) hardly knew ye. . .

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Modern national politics has become an electronic, press-mediated wall that prevents the electoral from truly getting to know their candidates and vice versa. Data mining, robo-calls and micro-targeting are lousy ways for the governed to get to know the would-be governors.Read the full story