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The Progressive Magazine Turns 100
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 9:31am | GlobalGirl
The Progressive Magazine turns 100 today.
And the journal continues to be a voice of the progressive movement: An unrelenting voice for social justice and political autonomy.
From Joe McCarthy, the US-financed Guatemalan death squads, the danger and fraud of American nuclear arms policy to America gone crazy under the Bush administration, the Progressive Magazine has never strayed from its mission as a journal dedicated to fact-based journalism and a voice for sanity and truth in public affairs.
From Joe McCarthy, the US-financed Guatemalan death squads, the danger and fraud of American nuclear arms policy to America gone crazy under the Bush administration, the Progressive Magazine has never strayed from its mission as a journal dedicated to fact-based journalism and a voice for sanity and truth in public affairs.
For me growing up in Wisconsin reading the Progressive Magazine was and is an integral part of the political culture, like hating Joe McCarthy, opposing the Vietnam War, and the death squads in Central America.
And so the magazine retains a place in my heart right next my education at UW-Madison and the many people whom I have met who spend their lives dedicated to social justice.
Tags: Broder the Banal
Thu, 09/11/2008 - 6:38am | mal contends
Update: Broder was in Madison last night offering his piercing insights.
David Broder is truly the Dean of American corporate journalism and commentary: Inane and living in a comfortable bubble of ideology.
No one is ever quite sure whether the Broders of the world are lying or deluded.
Today, Broder musters out a typical column in the Post: It's too early to call the presidential election for John McCain, no matter the opinion of the "party pros" Broder is in touch with.
Good, Mr. Broder, but what the frack are you talking about?
This is the same guy who can never quite get the nerve to call the Republicans bald-faced liars (we know these guys are liars), so I guess we should not be too surprised at any given Broder column, but he offers this beauty:
Wait A Minute... Those Are OUR Airwaves.
Fri, 06/13/2008 - 12:53am | Outraged
According to an article at Dissident Voice digital TV won't give America a voice on their own airwaves. In an article entitled "Grand Theft Digital: How Corporate Broadcasters Will Hijack Digital TV ", Bruce Dixon has this to say:
Although the airwaves are the property of the public under US law, and broadcasters receive their licenses from the FCC only on the condition that they serve the public interest, neither Congress nor the FCC, have attached any public service or public interest requirement to the thousands of new DTV channels that current broadcasters will receive. And current broadcasters, according to the deal worked out by Congress and the FCC back in the 1990s, are the only ones upon whom the new stations made possible by DTV will be bestowed. They’re in. Congress and the FCC, in their wisdom didn’t think local governments, schools, colleges, libraries, unions, community organizations, local churches, blacks, Latinos or females deserved a shot at any of the thousands of new DTV channels. They’re out. That’s it and that’s all."
He continues: