John Pilger, In Conversation

Five students sit down to talk with journalist and filmmaker John Pilger. In preparation for this encounter, the students spent a month reading Pilger's articles and books and watching his documentaries, as well as working with faculty mentors to develop their questions. This event was coordinated through the REEL Film and Speaker Series at Houston Community College's Town & Country Campus.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3380693972506979770

Los medios de comunicación como espacio del reconocimiento social.

Entrevista a Jesús Martín Barbero
Escucha:
http://www.upf.edu/upfradio/2010/discursosdelcaos.html

La quinta emisión de Discursos del Caos presenta una charla de Jesús Martín Barbero, filósofo y antropólogo, especialista en comunicación. Es originario de España pero ha pasado muchos años estudiando y enseñando en América Latina, en particular en Colombia y en México. A lo largo de esta emisión, Martín Barbero comenta temas cruciales, tales como la importancia de la interdisciplinariedad y reconfigurar el objeto de estudio en las investigaciones de la comunicación; la necesidad de unos medios públicos útiles y críticos para la sociedad, y, entre otros aspectos, cuál es la situación y el papel de la comunicación en el contexto social contemporáneo, con crisis económicas y políticas, que conllevan nuevos retos de estudio en la comunicación.
Fuente: http://www.europazapatista.org/

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

http://www.mediaed.org

If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.

Through numerous examples, McChesney, and media scholar, Mark Crispin Miller, demonstrate how journalism has been compromised by the corporate bosses of conglomerates such as Disney, Sony, Viacom, News Corp, and AOL Time Warner to produce a system of news that is high on sensationalism and low on information. They suggest that unless citizen activism can reclaim the commons, this new corporate system will be characterized by a rich media and an ever impoverished, poor democracy.

LA STRATEGIE DE LA VASELINE

FRÉDÉRIC LORDON, LES MÉDIAS ET LA CRISE
Frédéric Lordon est un économiste spécialisé dans la finance. C'est un économiste hors cadre, d'inspiration marxiste, dit-il lui même. Pédago, caustique et plein d'humour, ses analyses sont des bouffées d'air frais, mais il refuse la plupart des interviews dans les grands médias, et les accuse d'adopter la "stratégie de la vaseline". Il s'en explique lors d'un débat organisé par ACRIMED, l'association critique des médias, puis chez lui, où nous l'avons rencontré .

Entrevista a Pascual Serrano

Pascual Serrano from AttacTV on Vimeo.

Entrevista a Pascual Serrano quién nos habla de la desinformación y de cómo los medios de comunicación ocultan el mundo.
Visita rebelion.org
Más contenidos en attac.tv

Militainment, Inc. Militarism & Pop Culture

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2373519247173568764

Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.

Filmmaker Info Written, produced & narrated by Roger Stahl

Filmmaker's Bio ROGER STAHL | Writer, Producer & Narrator
Roger Stahl is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. His work has appeared in publications such as Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Praise for the Film 
"Highly recommended, especially for courses on mass communications and popular culture."
- Educational Media Reviews Online

"Roger Stahl's Militainment is a real eye-opener. In a highly engaging and well-documented film, Stahl shows how the media have largely functioned as instruments of propaganda in recent U.S. military interventions, and he documents as well the culture of militarism in popular entertainment, ranging from TV shows, sports, and toys, to video games, all of which present war as entertainment. This development is both shocking and dangerous and contributes to a militarization of our culture and society that makes us more likely to go to war, despite our traumatic experiences in Iraq (and now Afghanistan). Every citizen should awaken to these dangers and Stahl's documentary is an important tool of enlightenment that should be widely used in the classroom and public spaces."
- Douglas Kellner | UCLA | Author, The Persian Gulf TV War and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
http://www.mediaed.org/

From neurons to brain wiring, Dr. David Walsh gives an easy-to-understand tour of children's and teens' brain development and the impact of experience on the "wiring' of their brains. Children are shaped by the stories they see and hear from parents, relatives, and teachers which pass on values, attitudes, and affect emotional and physical well-being. More than ever, media has become a powerful storyteller in children's lives and raising healthy kids in the media age involves making wise media choices.

Danny Schechter - Media&War

Boston Jan 30, 2010. New England Antiwar Conference.
Journalist Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org
Panel #2: Debunking the War on Terror.
Clip dedicated and edited for FileZ. Mum.
Call for a March 20, 2010 mobilization.

Canada's Internet Explained

http://openmedia.ca/

Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan: Breaking the Sound Barrier

In the Gallery: Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan talk about Breaking The Sound Barrier. Amy Goodman, award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program "Democracy Now", breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles.

In place of the usual suspects—the "experts" who, in Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong"—this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear.

From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who've said "No" to Washington's wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out.

Amy Goodman is the author of several books, including The Exception to the Rulers. Goodman will be joined by Denis Moynihan of "Democracy Now" & "Free Speech TV".
- Book Passage

Intervozes - Levante sua voz

Intervozes - Levante sua voz from Pedro Ekman on Vimeo.

(Brasil, 2009, 17min. - Direção: Pedro Ekman)

Comentários de Antonio Arles:

O curta Levante Sua Voz, de Pedro Ekman, foi realizado pelo Coletivo Intervozes. Com uma dinâmica semelhante ao premiado Ilha das Flores, de Jorge Furtado, o filme mostra que a formação de oligopólios midiáticos atenta contra o direito fundamental à comunicação, as intrincadas relações de poder que são responsáveis pela formação e manutenção desses oligopólios, como que os meios de comunicação interferem na formação de identidades e valores, bem como a criminalização de grupos sociais que tentam exercer o seu direito de comunicar.
Fonte: http://docverdade.blogspot.com/

“The Media-Lobbying Complex”: Investigation Exposes Undisclosed Corporate Ties of Network Political Pundits

A four-month investigation into the covert corporate influence on cable news found that since 2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have repeatedly appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure that they are paid by corporate interests. We speak to journalist Sebastian Jones, who carried out the investigation for The Nation magazine.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/jones

Editor's Note: The online slideshow Faces of the Media-Lobbying Complex, which accompanied this March 1 cover story (Sebastian Jones, "The Media-Lobbying Complex"), initially began with an image of Governor Howard Dean from his appearance as a guest host on MSNBC's Countdown. The slideshow featured lobbyists who appeared on TV news as analysts without disclosing their corporate affiliations, and in that context it may have created the false impression that Dean is a lobbyist or that he used his Countdown appearance to promote his law firm's clients. Neither is true in Dean's case. The article included only one sentence about Dean, whose law firm consults for pharmaceutical companies, and did not suggest that Dean had done anything unethical. But MSNBC, by having him host Countdown without disclosing his firm's consultancy, created a potential conflict of interest of which viewers were unaware. As the article points out, the practice is commonplace at all TV news networks, which bear the ultimate journalistic responsibility.

Robert McChesney & John Nichols - The Death and Life of American Journalism, Jan. 20, 2010 from pdxjustice Media Productions on Vimeo.

Media scholar and author, Robert W. McChesney, and editor and author, John Nichols, talk about their latest book, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM: THE MEDIA REVOLUTION THAT WILL BEGIN THE WORLD AGAIN.

The Mean World Syndrome - Media Education Foundation

http://www.mediaed.org/

George Gerbner on Media & Violence

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have fallen into simplistic battles between those who claim that media images directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure. Based on interviews conducted with George Gerbner before his death in 2005, the film urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. In contrast to behaviorist models that see media violence as causing real-world violence, and limited effects models that question the impact of media altogether, Gerbner encourages us to move outside the frame of this debate to consider how the repetitive stories media tell constitute a pervasive cultural environment - a landscape of ritualized, often violent images that have the power to cultivate how we see and understand the world. An accessible and provocative introduction to Gerbner's thought and the subject of media influence and media violence.

Militarism & Pop Culture

Militainment, Inc.

Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples - from news anchors' idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting - the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment spectacle? And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allowing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.

Filmmaker Info
Written, produced & narrated by Roger Stahl

Filmmaker's Bio
Roger Stahl is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. His work has appeared in publications such as Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

A Canadian Perspective On US Media (Naomi Klein) (2005)
Naomi Klein author of "No Logo" and producer of "The Take", an award winning documentary, addresses the US media. Interviewed by David Barsamian at the 2005 Media Conference in St. Louis.

Primer día sin publicidad en TVE

Después de más medio siglo de vida, TVE afronta una nueva etapa sin publicidad. A partir deL 1 de enero, hacemos para ustedes una televisión sin cortes, sin interrupciones... Más servicio público, más participación ciudadana y más producción propia tanto en la 1 como de la 2.

The Life or Death Struggle for Journalism and Self-Government
Media critic and historian, Robert McChesney, talks about the essential role of journalism for meaningful democracy, and puts forward a radical proposal to address the challenges faced my news media in the current economic crisis, and into the future.

Talk by Robert McChesney author of "The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century" given May 6, 2004 at Kane Hall, University of Washington in Seattle as a benefit for Reclaim the Media http://www.reclaimthemedia.org

Douglas Rushkoff, (Author of "Get Back in the Box"), "How the Web Ate the Economy, and Why This Is Good for Everyone"