Mother Jones vs. TIME in D.C.

According to a new report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, "The New Washington Press Corps" (2/11/09), Mother Jones now has as big a D.C. staff as TIME magazine, and Al Jazeera as many staffers covering U.S. Congress as CBS News.

Twitter breaks air crash in turkey

Hat tip to Julia D. As usual with these disasters nowadays, the first "reporters" on the scene are eyewitnesses or victims/participants. . .twittering.

Margaret Sanger

A critic writes about Sanger's equal-rights-for-women legacy being tarnished for publishing articles in 1920s with ugly eugenics themes -- preventing overpopulation by the "feeble-minded," etc.

McDonalds McScrews Employee...

...and demands video evidence be removed from You Tube.

Why we need indy media

Because corporate mainstream TV is capable of a four-month-long hoax: Will TV News Ever Apologize for Condit Hoax?

Strange Fruit

Ida B. Wells journalistic and advocacy efforts helped reduce the number of lynchings, but horrific practice not fully eliminated until decades later.

In the 1930s, Bronx high school teacher Abel Meeropol (pen name Lewis Allen) wrote the powerful anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit," which Billie Holliday famously sang and recorded -- over the obstruction of her record company.

One of the last lynchings ocurred in Poplarville, Mississppi, in 1959.

What the hell is this on Huffpo?

A provocative comment on politics and culture? Or free ad space? Frontpage featured blog list is prime, heavily-desired real estate -- and I posted today AND I DIDN'T GET THAT SPACE.

Correction and apology: I see that my post is on frontpage as featured blog, BUT way down the page.