Public Please

I am very concerned that the Obama Campaign is using the YouTube comment approval mechanism to censor criticism of the way the campaign is being run. I submitted the following comment to the campaign’s YouTube movie of Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama:

In [...]

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In his endorsement of Barack Obama at American University, Senator Edward Kennedy announced that “with Barack Obama we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion”, but this is not my experience with Obama’s campaign staff. On [...]

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Approximately, how much money does it take to purchase a U.S. presidency from the corporate media?

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When we think of Dennis Kucinich’s recent announcement to end his bid for the White House to return home and fight for his seat in Congress, we cannot help but reflect on the fact that he returned home, in large part, because [...]

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Personally, I dislike the cheerful format of the Kucinich Weekly Update, especially the music in the theme song and the polished communication style of the news anchor, but within this packaging, the Kucinich campaign actually makes some substantive points. In its interviews, [...]

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I was shocked and awed at the latest reversal of political censorship on CNN, when Wolf Blitzer said that “the Democratic candidates” would be at the next debate. This was breaking news and I had to call the CNN Headline News [...]

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I just payed $3.95 for a bit of political voice at Congress.org, a political website run by non-partisan and for-profit Capital Advantage. They call it a soapbox commentary, and it’s a pay-per-comment service that advertises your political perspectives to those [...]

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CNN has decided to exclude Kucinich because he did not receive 5% of support in two national polls. Instead, Kucinich received 4% of support - only 1% shy of the arbitrary standard set by the executives at CNN and its parent [...]

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I called the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting that the FCC commissioners issue a public statement against ABC’s exclusion of presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich. I asked them to say in their own words that it would be in the public [...]

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The debate between David Hazinski and Leonard Witt about whether or not to regulate citizen journalism presents several good reasons to support each position, but ultimately neither argument addresses the basic reforms that must occur to handle citizen journalism.
In “Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ [...]

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