DC Politics Examiner

Economic stimulus package reported from elite perspective

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:18:12 -0700

Media scholars have long argued that mainstream journalism reports public affairs from within parameters established by elite power.When major legislation or government policy is up for debate, the argument goes, reporters focus more on the impact su...

Young readers will turn to newspapers, study says

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:16:39 -0700

Young adults who get much of their news from the Internet and social networking sites like Facebook.com plan to dump some of these sources within the next five years and turn to newspapers and other traditional media for informati...

A "moral obligation" to act against Bush

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:46:40 -0700

The following is the transcript of an e-mail interview with David Swanson, author of the book Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union and the co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org. 1. What is the ultimate...

Activists demand that Bush be arrested

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:11:08 -0700

Activist David Swanson Over the past four or five years, peace activists in the Washington, DC, area have called on Congress to impeach President George W. Bush.Now they want Bush arrested.An estimated 100 to 150 people held up "A...

Washington street scenes during inauguration

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:56:23 -0700

The streets of downtown Washington were filled with excitement yesterday as Barack Obama was inaugurated as the nation's first African American president.From T-shirt peddlers to party goers, the city's streets had an energy that is too oft...

Is journalism dead?

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:13:46 -0700

Enrollment at journalism schools across the country was up 2 percent in 2007 despite the fact that the newspaper industry is expected to shed close to 4,000 jobs this year, according to an article that appeared in Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine....

Rally scheduled for Jan. 12

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:43:55 -0700

The Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions has scheduled a rally and press conference in front of the Baltimore City Hall on Holiday Street between 4:30 and 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12.The rally is designed to raise public awareness of foreclosures an...

Organizers seek end to Baltimore evictions

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:34:19 -0700

Baltimore neighborhood with foreclosed properties The Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions is calling on the Baltimore City Council to pass legislation that would make the city a "foreclosure and evictions free zone."The gra...

Demonstrators try to stop Baltimore foreclosures

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:30:35 -0700

Baltimore Sheriff John W. Anderson About a dozen demonstrators marched outside the Baltimore City Sheriff's office today to call on the department to stop enforcing court-ordered foreclosures for the duration of the current economic cr...

Letter to Sheriff Anderson: Stop evictions

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:24:28 -0700

The following is the text of the letter sent to Baltimore Sheriff John W. Anderson from the Network to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218, Phone: 410-218-4835 Community Letter to Baltimore City...

Did the Washington Post really bring down Nixon?

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:43:24 -0700

W. Mark Felt The death last week of W. Mark Felt (a.k.a. Deep Throat) re-opens an interesting debate over whether the press, and specifically the Washington Post, deserve credit for uncovering the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of...

Milbank wrong about protesters

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:08:22 -0700

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was simply wrong this week when he reported that left-wing protesters will have nothing to do after President George W. Bush leaves office on Jan. 20.According to an article he wrote on Thursday, Milbank said th...

Dr Qais Ghanem on human rights

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:26:09 -0700

Here is some more information about the Green Party's efforts to press human rights issues during an Obama administration:

Greens call on Obama to honor human rights

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:20:35 -0700

Representatives of the Green Party and other progressives have signed onto a declaration that calls on president-elect Barack Obama to honestly address the issue of human rights around the world and act to help the estimated 3 billion ...

Getting out the Green word

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:32:43 -0700

The Green Party put out a new documentary recently designed to sell itself to the American public.The video is showing on YouTube and paints the Greens as an organization that is more likely than the Democrats to bring such changes as an ...

Washington Post offers corporate view on economy

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:15:47 -0700

The Washington Post this week published a 5,000-word, front-page story about the current economic crisis that provided readers with both a comprehensive analysis of the nation's faltering financial sector as well as a lesson i...

Chomsky: Actions speak louder than words

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:21:18 -0700

Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky has called the election of Barack Obama an historic achievement for the United States that can be attributed at least in part to the activism of the 1960s.However, Chomsky also says that Obama's actions speak loude...

Auto bailout press coverage has corporate tone

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:35:47 -0700

Regardless of how you feel about the collapse of the auto bailout plan in Congress yesterday, one thing you should take notice of are the sources and news frames being employed by the press to tell this story.In most cases over the pas...

Panel to discuss economic crisis

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:27:07 -0700

Wondering how the world's economy collapsed so quickly?You're not alone.A group of Maryland-area businesses and activist groups are sponsoring a panel discussion this weekend called "Economic Crisis: How we got in and how we get out."T...