All journalists, and all journals, are inherently biased. No single reporter or editor can hope to compile even an approximation of "truth," in its totality, for her or his readers.
Due to its ownership, most mass media around the world has either a corporate bias (the global big-6 media monopolies are more beholden to their shareholders and advertisers than to the public interest) or government bias (totalitarian nations and state-sponsored media outlets). Even non-profit and non-commercial media outlets suffer from the whims of their donors and owners.
The philosophies behind the IMC network is that technology and the open-publishing model are expanding media-access for everyone: the poor, the under-educated, activists, advocacy groups, fringe dissidents, working people - anyone. Meanwhile, the "consensus" process allows each IMC editorial collective to put together featured content that all participants endorse and stand behind (or, at least, stand aside). This still-experimental paradigm is radically different from the hierarchical editorial structure of corporate and government media.
We all got quite a kick out of the fact that the feds managed to list the wrong IP address on the court order. Reminds me of speeding tickets that are invalidated because of the wrong date or license plate number.
On the other hand, they could be writing up these court orders to trick us into thinking their operatives haven't already infiltrated the imc tech collective...
have You actually read the green platform? over and over, it calls for a decentralization of state power. just one small example:
Greens advocate direct democracy as a response to local needs and issues, where all concerned citizens can discuss and decide questions that immediately affect their lives, such as land use, parks, schools and community services. We would decentralize many state functions to the county and city level and seek expanded roles for neighborhood boards and associations.
federal power would be enhanced only in certain critical areas - civil rights protections, environmental safeguards, and social "safety net" entitlements.
Year after year since the 1970s, the disparity between the richest and poorest has been growing, both in the US and globally. Inflation-adjusted median incomes have been declining; the inflation-adjusted median income of the poorest households has dropped the most. Poor Americans have less purchasing power now than they did a generation ago. Even though America spends the most per-capita on health care of any nation in the world, we have just about the worst average health care of any "rich" developed nation.
The record-level disparity between rich and poor is precisely the reason that Greens and many others believe we need to take steps to build a healthy democracy in the US. Mr. Gore has done little to address this important issue in his official duties as Vice President or on the campaign trail.
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All journalists, and all journals, are inherently biased. No single reporter or editor can hope to compile even an approximation of "truth," in its totality, for her or his readers.
Due to its ownership, most mass media around the world has either a corporate bias (the global big-6 media monopolies are more beholden to their shareholders and advertisers than to the public interest) or government bias (totalitarian nations and state-sponsored media outlets). Even non-profit and non-commercial media outlets suffer from the whims of their donors and owners.
The philosophies behind the IMC network is that technology and the open-publishing model are expanding media-access for everyone: the poor, the under-educated, activists, advocacy groups, fringe dissidents, working people - anyone. Meanwhile, the "consensus" process allows each IMC editorial collective to put together featured content that all participants endorse and stand behind (or, at least, stand aside). This still-experimental paradigm is radically different from the hierarchical editorial structure of corporate and government media.
We all got quite a kick out of the fact that the feds managed to list the wrong IP address on the court order. Reminds me of speeding tickets that are invalidated because of the wrong date or license plate number. On the other hand, they could be writing up these court orders to trick us into thinking their operatives haven't already infiltrated the imc tech collective...
only the Green platform calls for consideration of a binding "None of the Above" option on the ballot.
The record-level disparity between rich and poor is precisely the reason that Greens and many others believe we need to take steps to build a healthy democracy in the US. Mr. Gore has done little to address this important issue in his official duties as Vice President or on the campaign trail.
according to the green party platform, which Ralph Nader has endorsed: The Green Party supports: [snip] b.) Eliminating all laws which seek to restrict or censor artistic expression, including withholding of government funds for political or moral content. [snip] 6. Although we see regular assaults on the freedoms of speech enshrined in our nation's founding documents, we oppose censorship in the arts, media (including the World Wide Web and Internet), and press. We encourage individual and social responsibility by artists, creative media, writers - and all citizens. [snip] 6. Advanced telecommunications technologies (many of which came originally from defense applications) such as fiber optics, broadband infrastructure, the Internet and the World Wide Web hold great promise for education, decentralized economies, and local control of decision-making. We believe we must move toward decentralization in these efforts - carefully protecting our individual rights as we go forward.