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Who Controls the U.S. Media?
Who Controls the U.S. Media?
Media has never been more consolidated. Six media giants now control a staggering 90 percent of what we read, watch, or listen to.
1 min · 2,580 views · unrated
Abby Martin Rips Corporate Media over Justin Bieber's Eggs
Abby Martin Rips Corporate Media over Justin Bieber's Eggs
Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for their incessant coverage of Biebergate, whilst ignoring important stories such as Congress' attempt to implement new Iran sanctions amidst promising diplomatic negotiations, as well as new photographs emerging of a 2004 incident...
4 min · 2,576 views · 3.8 stars
Why the Media Ignores Self Immolations
Why the Media Ignores Self Immolations
Abby Martin reflects on the recent self-immolation on the National Mall in Washington DC by discussing the political relevancy of self-immolations over the years and the corporate media's lack of coverage of these events in America. 
5 min · 2,515 views · 4 stars
Suli Breaks - Dear Social Media, (Spoken Word Video)
Suli Breaks - Dear Social Media, (Spoken Word Video)
Inspired by the "Dear Fat People" responses. I wrote an open letter to social media. [Subtitles Available] We often blame technology for a lot of the problems faced in society, such as cyber bullying, vanity, insecurity. However I like to argue that the fault lies in the...
4 min · 2,511 views · 4 stars
Tensions on the rise in West Papua - The genocide that the media doesn't talk about
Tensions on the rise in West Papua - The genocide that the media doesn't talk about
The first time I saw something about the genocide in West Papua was just an year ago.  Despite my natural interest in history and politics I had never heard a word of the brutal violence that was going on for decades. I talked to my friends and family about it and there was...
5 min · 2,482 views · unrated
Threats facing Humanity, Russiagate & the Role of Independent Media | With Paul Jay
Threats facing Humanity, Russiagate & the Role of Independent Media | With Paul Jay
In this interview with the senior editor and founder of The Real News Network, Paul Jay, we examine the threats facing humanity today, Russiagate and what issues independent media outlets should be prioritizing.
19 min · 2,407 views · 4.5 stars
Cenk Uygur Blasts Corporate Media for Soap Opera Coverage & Toeing Establishment Line
Cenk Uygur Blasts Corporate Media for Soap Opera Coverage & Toeing Establishment Line
Abby Martin speaks with host and founder of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, discussing why he left his job at MSNBC, the corporate media's superficial coverage of news events and the recipe for success in alternative media. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet...
13 min · 2,402 views · unrated
The Climate Crisis Is Here But Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
The Climate Crisis Is Here But Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance.
George Monbiot · 2,368 views · 4.5 stars
MAGA Kids Explained | 5 Lies The Media Spread About MAGA Kids & Nathan Phillips
MAGA Kids Explained | 5 Lies The Media Spread About MAGA Kids & Nathan Phillips
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13 min · 2,363 views · unrated
Rolling Stone Bomber Cover: Media Misses the Point | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Rolling Stone Bomber Cover: Media Misses the Point | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Abby Martin goes over the corporate media hypocrisy over a recent Rolling Stone magazine cover which features Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and calls out the corporate media for focusing more on the cover than the many unanswered questions that remain regarding...
6 min · 2,320 views · 4.7 stars
Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journalism? Think Again
Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journalism? Think Again
The Federal Communications Commission is pushing a plan to gut its 30-year-old newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban. This proposal would allow one company to own a local paper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in a si
Free Press · 2,289 views · unrated
Why Does the US Media Lie so Much?
Why Does the US Media Lie so Much?
Either by omission or by commission, the US media actively misinforms the public on crucial issues that matter. The reason they do this is because they legally can.
Cynthia McKinney · 2,271 views · 5 stars
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
80 min · 2,255 views · unrated
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of relating to the people that are being victimized, and the mainstream media seems to have...
Paul Buchheit · 2,197 views · 5 stars
Subverting Media: A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism
Subverting Media: A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism (1998)
From stencils to ‘zines to graffiti and poster art, “Subverting the Media” takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective “Sister Serpents”, Bronx-based graffiti group, “Tats Cru” and Sabrina...
24 min · 2,195 views · 5 stars
Exploring Media and Propaganda in India
Exploring Media and Propaganda in India
The way The Telegraph and some other media houses in Kolkata are manipulating the public opinion on behalf of the big pocketed lobbyists, it's becoming more obvious than ever. When someone speaks of media manipulation, they can mean both manipulation by the media and...
Pash Zahid · 2,124 views · unrated
The Four Reasons to Support a New Media Revolution
The Four Reasons to Support a New Media Revolution
As in most post-industrial societies, Britain’s media is in a radical state of flux. With the demise of the daily newspaper and news dissemination increasingly moving online, alternative and independent media sources have flourished. But the absence of a viable, generally...
Callum MacRae · 2,103 views · 4 stars
Social Media Platforms Need to Be Champions for Media Literacy
Social Media Platforms Need to Be Champions for Media Literacy
Sorry, but I don’t want Facebook to be the arbiter of what’s true. Nor do I want Google — or Twitter or any other hyper-centralized technology platform — to be the arbiter of what’s true. But I’m glad to see platform companies at least acknowledging their role in helping...
Dan Gillmor · 2,093 views · 3.8 stars
Struggle[s] at Nuit Debout, Part 1: Paris - Medialien
Struggle[s] at Nuit Debout, Part 1: Paris - Medialien (2016)
Thoughts on the first weeks at Nuit Debout, how it functions, its massification, its relationship to the labour unions, to violence, to police brutality and to the post-colonial left. VO: FR CC: EN Struggle[s] at Nuit Debout, Lutte[s] à Nuit Debout, Part 1: Paris    
30 min · 2,086 views · 4.9 stars
Brexit: the Immediate Risks
Brexit: the Immediate Risks
We all have our view on the long-term prospects associated with an exit from the EU. 
Olivier Vardakoulias · 2,060 views · unrated