MediaChannel Features America Is In Hock To The World And We Have To Accept The New Reality


The modern world has become a world where lies become true. And facts alone will be powerless to thwart the mendacity spun out through billions of dollars in corporate advertising, lobbying and control of traditional sources of information.


In the past couple of weeks, social-media sites have been instrumental in keeping people in the loop about Iran's unrest and Michael Jackson's death, highlighting a transformation in the news-delivery industry.


Will Other Financial Criminals Be Investigated and Prosecuted?


Thousands of tweets were sent via Twitter in the wake of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's admission that he spent this weekend in Argentina where he cheated on his wife. Here are a small sample of funny lines...


As technologies have developed, so too has the ability to monitor, filter, censor and block them. DPI "enables Internet Service Providers to intercept virtually all of their customers' Internet activity..."


The intensifying protests and political ferment inside Iran eclipsed some major domestic stories in the US news. And as the mainstream press confronted daunting restrictions on coverage, an outpouring of social media reports helped drive the Iran narrative.


Iran now has a total of 33 journalists and cyber-dissidents in its jails, while journalists who could not be located at their homes have been summoned by telephone by Tehran prosecutor general Said Mortazavi.


Stabilizing a Flawed System is Not the Same as Restructuring or Remaking It


Massive protests, government crackdown, and media blackout - Tehran today sounds like Tiananmen Square two decades ago. But Dan Rather, who covered the China massacre, says the shift in the media landscape over the last two decades means there's no comparison.