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June 7, 2000

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Betting On Buzzwords (Not People)
Matt Welch recalls his bizarre stint at the doomed and decadent Digital Entertainment Network.
From Online Journalism Review More about: Business, Multimedia/Internet, Technology

Gender And Censorship
Are women writers free to choose their subjects and how to write about them? Or does self, state or cultural censorship steer their words? Maria del Nevo reports from a workshop of women writers in Delhi. From World Assoc. for Christian Comm. More about: India, Cultural Impacts, Diversity, Freedom of Expression

Sex Mags In Kenya
With HIV/AIDS at disastrous proportions in Kenya, fighting infection with information seems like common sense. Nonetheless, many magazines promote irresponsible sex. From NDIMA More about: Kenya, Credibility/Accuracy, Cultural Impacts, Magazines

The Press's African AIDS Crisis
John Bracken reveals what's behind the American media's recent interest in AIDS in Africa, a story that's been largely ignored for a decade, and suggests they are still missing the point. From TomPaine.com More about: Africa, Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage

Technology For Teens
Chicago teenagers are learning graphic design, video production and animation, thanks to Street Level Youth Media, a program aimed at showing at-risk inner-city youth that technology can be used for art, social change and self-expression. A report by Marcia Passos Duffy. From American News Service More about: United States, Access, Children, Education, Technology

Crosscultural Crossfire
In February, protests and threats on her life stopped Deepa Mehta from filming "Water," on the plight of widows in India. Australian film technician Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan saw first-hand the difficulties for this artist whose freedom of expression has been compromised by violence. From Bright Lights Film Journal More about: India, Audience, Freedom of Expression, Film

Murder Mistake
John Cook gives hell to the Los Angeles Times for wrongly identifying a suspect in a high-profile celebrity murder, then not setting the story straight immediately. From Brill's Content More about: United States, Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage, Newspapers

An Image Propaganda War
Kenny Irby exposes the ethical implications of images in the press by examining the photos from the INS Elian Gonzalez raid and its aftermath. From The Poynter Institute More about: Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage

Public Pressure, A Public Press
Noam Chomsky on media business, thought control, concentration of the press, IMF reform and progressive movements in an interview with Radio Ouverture, Canada. From Toward Freedom More about: Activism, Business, Credibility/Accuracy, Freedom of Expression, Personalities

Bye-Bye, Liberated Web?
Australian Ashley Crawford wonders about content and access on the Internet, with ominous commentary from the likes of writers RU Sirius and Douglas Rushkoff, and Genesis P. Orridge (of Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle). From Open City Inc. RealTime More about: Access, Business, Cultural Impacts, Multimedia/Internet

The Pink Network
Geneva Collins reveals the number of women in public broadcasting, the changes over the last 25 years and how women's issues are still framed. From Current More about: Cultural Impacts, Diversity, Public Broadcasting