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By guest blogger Jessica Mack
If you don’t know who Sahar Gul is, sadly, you can Google her name and find dozens of images of her young and badly beaten face. She is a 15-year-old Afghan girl who was recently rescued by police from her in-laws’ basement, where she’d been imprisoned and tortured for nearly a […]
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Age, Arms & Conflict, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Issues in the News, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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By Guest Blogger Libby Reinish
A media watchdog sent us this video of Wisconsin station WLUK passing off an AT&T advertisement as news:
It sounds crazy, but passing an infomercial off as a news story is legal as long as stations disclose the paid pieces at the end of the program.
But a lot of stations don’t even manage that: […]
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Advertising, American Culture, Commercialism, Media Justice Now, Media Policy Reform, Technology & Communication, Public Relations |
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By Guest Blogger Anna Louie Sussman. (Cross-posted from Women In the World Foundation, a project of Newsweek/The Daily Beast.)
In the summer of 1993, Jennifer L. Pozner was a rising sophomore at Hampshire College, a journalism major with dreams of becoming a columnist - the next Barbara Ehrenreich or Molly Ivins, she hoped. Then The […]
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Advertising, American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, Political Dissent, Media Justice Now, Pop Culture, Race, Violence Against Women, Body Image, Reality TV |
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By Guest Blogger Ariel Dougherty, cross-posted at the Women’s Media Center.
After the Oprah’s Documentary Club film “Miss Representation” aired on OWN last week, some opportunities to broaden consciousness about empowering media slipped through the ether amid the post-film discussion.
The bombardment of negative imagery from corporate media is surely extensive. Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom has […]
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American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, International Media, Political Dissent, Media Justice Now, Pop Culture, Race, Girls and LGBT Youth |
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Guest Blogger Coco Papy
“Sluts are a figment of the patriarchal imagination…” –Nicole Ouimette
“You know there is a rapist out here, right?”
I pause, unsure of what exactly is happening. A Brooklyn police officer is now standing directly in front of me, so close I can see his uniform stitching and smell his breath. I have […]
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American Culture, The Blogosphere, Domestic Politics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Political Dissent, Pop Culture, Race, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Youth Activism, Issues in the News |
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By Guest Blogger Tamura A. Lomax
If you’ve been boycotting newspapers, magazines, TV news and the blogosphere for the past few weeks, or if terms like “rape,” “slut” or even “sex” lead you to hurriedly put down the newspaper or magazine and turn the TV channel (as they do for my media-savvy grandmother), then you may […]
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Age, American Culture, Domestic Politics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, Political Dissent, Race, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Youth Activism, Issues in the News, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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By Guest blogger Shara Drew
This weekend I attended the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) here in Boston. The event, coordinated by our friends at Free Press, brought together over 2500 advocates for media justice from all over the world. It was electrifying to be among so many passionate, creative, hardworking media reform […]
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Advertising, Age, American Culture, Commercialism, Cartoons, Media Policy Reform, Parenthood & Family, Pop Culture, Girls and LGBT Youth |
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By Guest Blogger John K. Wilson
Today, radio host Rush Limbaugh focused on women’s breasts. He brought up a story that he’s been telling for decades, even though it’s all a lie. According to Rush, there was a scientific study years ago that proved, “The higher the bust size, the lower the IQ at Tufts.” He […]
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American Culture, Feminism, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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By Guest Blogger Melissa Silverstein
The Athena Film Festival kicks off this week. The lineup has something for everyone. There are some films that are a couple of years old but are gems, some that recently played in theaters, some about to come out in theaters, and some making their way around the festival […]
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American Culture, Feminism, Political Dissent, Media Justice Now, Pop Culture, Race |
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By Guest Blogger Anita Sarkeesian<
On January 10th, 2011 I realized that one of my YouTube videos, “Too Many Dicks: Video Games Remix,” was suddenly unavailable. I was a little shocked since I hadn’t even received an email letting me know the remix had been removed, or for what reason. I still don’t know […]
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American Culture, The Blogosphere, Commercialism, Feminism, Political Dissent, Pop Culture, Technology & Communication |
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