New Progress for Progressive Media

NEW PROGRESS FOR PROGRESSIVE MEDIA
[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Don Hazen]
[Commentary] Progressives are beginning to flex some media muscle, finding ways to counterbalance the right wing's powerful spin machine. But there's still much to be done.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35074/

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Taking Media Progress Even Further
[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Rich Gell]
[Commentary] Unless progressives wake up and face hard truths about media -- and the money, strategy and tactics it will take -- we will continue to win battles and lose the war. Progressives have essentially given up on center stage -- broadcast and cable news -- and stayed in the comfortable terrain of alternative media, given up on leveraging our "buying power" and mostly come to believe that the non-profit road is the only road to editorial integrity. This allows corporations to have their cake and eat it too; as if progressives are still the back-to-the-country, anti-automation, communal-living hippies of the sixties and not the Starbucks-drinking, iPod carrying, SUV-driving people many of us really are. So we run off to the alternative media hills preparing to wait the ten years till web-video reaches parity with broadcast. We live in the rarified world of non-profit funding, and leave billions of ad dollars and venture capital money on the table. We run "media reform" conferences steeped in policy, but void of creativity and absent of people who could greenlight any media projects.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35089/