Public Please

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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I recently read the New York Times article, “Kucinich Should Be Allowed To Debate, Judge Rules” by Brian Stelter, and posted the following comment:
“The New York Times continues to participate in the silencing of Dennis Kucinich. Consider the fact that this article [...]

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I read Robert G. Kaiser’s Live Analysis: Iowa Caucuses Returns, a “caucus-night conversation about the Iowa results.” Robert Kaiser asked us to post comments or suggestions, but Kaiser censored my comment/suggestion. Here’s what I submitted to Kaiser’s cherry-picked conversation on the Washington [...]

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For those of us who travel up and down Ponce de Leon Ave. in Atlanta Georgia, past the City Hall East, and in front of the Home Depot, the daily sightings of day laborers is all too familiar and all too uncomfortable. [...]

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Our democracy relies on the media to broadcast the views of all Americans, but the Des Moines Register, recently violated its journalistic responsibilities by excluding Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucus. What does this [...]

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