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The Empty Politics Of Change And Experience


By Will Riley

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Change or experience?
Change We Can Believe In. I Believe In Words. Our Words Inspire. We Can Do Better America! Participate. Hope. Dream. I Need You. We Need Each Other! We Are Many And [...]

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YouTube Comment Approval System Helps Obama Staffers Censor Criticism Of Campaign


By Will Riley

January 30th, 2008 · 18 Comments

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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Price To Be President


By Will Riley

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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

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Why Did MSNBC Exclude Kucinich?


By Will Riley

January 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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CNN Excludes Kucinich From Debate, While People Laugh About Aliens


By Will Riley

January 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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Robert Kaiser’s Closed Conversations And Media Politics


By Will Riley

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Working People On Ponce De Leon


By Will Riley

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

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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On Prescribing Environmental Action


By Will Riley

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

The Yale Science-To-Action Collaborative published a list of Action Items to fight global climate change. I was very pleased to see media and education as top priorities for environmental action. Merv Williams was less pleased:
” An incredible collection of academic clap-trap. Not [...]

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Kucinich and Gravel Unfairly Excluded From Iowa Debate


By Will Riley

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

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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The Southern Company ranks #6 in world for CO2 pollution


By Will Riley

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

According to the Center for Global Development, the Southern Company ranks #6 in the world in terms of CO2 pollution, a greenhouse gas that causes global climate change. It produces over 172,000,000 tons of CO2 per year. Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary [...]

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