We have our appointment with Dr. Ed Bell and will tour the new dorm. How will we cover this for our audience?

Voting, voting rights. In my lifetime, it was with pride that Americans could look to their national government and how it stood up for the disenfranchised and the citizen's whose rights were denied by vicious state officials. This latest move by the Bush Administration to move voting rights out of the hands of citizen's is shameful. Ask yourself if YOU would trust John Ashcroft to look out for your rights.t r u t h o u t - Ashcroft Seeking Control of Voting Rights: "But some former Justice voting-rights officials and some election law and civil rights experts said the department's latest position represented a marked philosophical shift. Historically, they said, the department had been aggressive in supporting the idea of private suits as an important tool in fighting discrimination and other ills, even where such rights were not clearly spelled out by legislation.     'Before this administration, I would say that almost uniformly, the Department of Justice would argue in favor of private rights of action ... to enforce statutes that regulate state and local government,' said Pamela Karlan, a professor at Stanford University's Law School.     She said the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not originally include a private right to sue state officials who discriminated against aspiring black voters. The Justice Department backed the idea of private suits, nonetheless, in a test case that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1969."

Alt media including blogs and blogging. First from the Inter Press Service News comes an overview of "citizen media" from cellphone smartmobs to blogs and blogging. The author notes the lack of attention in mainstream media to the FBI's confiscation of indymedia servers that I commented on earlier. I was tracking the story as it broke into mainstream media in Australia and Britain, but not the USA. Is it fear that covering the story would be publicizing the competition that put a lid on this story of the trampling of journalistic integrity by a repressive FBI?

Two-dozen websites belonging to Indymedia, a "democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of truth," and one of the most well-known "alternative media" organisations were shut down for six days recently. "To date not 'The New York Times', the 'Washington Post' or the 'Los Angeles Times' have seen fit to comment upon it," says Downing. (note: John DH Downing, director of the Global Media Research Centre at Southern Illinois University) "In their cases, it is a classic instance of the selective ethics that permeate corporate mainstream media, and that give the blunt lie to their professions of 'all the news that's fit to print,' the vital role of independence from the state, the scandals of censorship. Nauseating hypocrisy!" he adds.

There is a very good summary of the Sinclair Broadcasting debacle in USA Today that shows how blogs can do what mainstream journalism can't or won't and makes a good case for the symbiotic relationship of professional and citizen reporters.

Alt media including blogs and blogging. First from the Inter Press Service News comes an overview of "citizen media" from cellphone smartmobs to blogs and blogging. The author notes the lack of attention in mainstream media to the FBI's confiscation of indymedia servers that I commented on earlier. I was tracking the story as it broke into mainstream media in Australia and Britain, but not the USA. Is it fear that covering the story would be publicizing the competition that put a lid on this story of the trampling of journalistic integrity by a repressive FBI?

Two-dozen websites belonging to Indymedia, a "democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of truth," and one of the most well-known "alternative media" organisations were shut down for six days recently. "To date not 'The New York Times', the 'Washington Post' or the 'Los Angeles Times' have seen fit to comment upon it," says Downing. (note: John DH Downing, director of the Global Media Research Centre at Southern Illinois University) "In their cases, it is a classic instance of the selective ethics that permeate corporate mainstream media, and that give the blunt lie to their professions of 'all the news that's fit to print,' the vital role of independence from the state, the scandals of censorship. Nauseating hypocrisy!" he adds.

There is a very good summary of the Sinclair Broadcasting debacle in USA Today that shows how blogs can do what mainstream journalism can't or won't and makes a good case for the symbiotic relationship of professional and citizen reporters.

Alt media including blogs and blogging. First from the Inter Press Service News comes an overview of "citizen media" from cellphone smartmobs to blogs and blogging. The author notes the lack of attention in mainstream media to the FBI's confiscation of indymedia servers that I commented on earlier. I was tracking the story as it broke into mainstream media in Australia and Britain, but not the USA. Is it fear that covering the story would be publicizing the competition that put a lid on this story of the trampling of journalistic integrity by a repressive FBI?

Two-dozen websites belonging to Indymedia, a "democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of truth," and one of the most well-known "alternative media" organisations were shut down for six days recently. "To date not 'The New York Times', the 'Washington Post' or the 'Los Angeles Times' have seen fit to comment upon it," says Downing. (note: John DH Downing, director of the Global Media Research Centre at Southern Illinois University) "In their cases, it is a classic instance of the selective ethics that permeate corporate mainstream media, and that give the blunt lie to their professions of 'all the news that's fit to print,' the vital role of independence from the state, the scandals of censorship. Nauseating hypocrisy!" he adds.

There is a very good summary of the Sinclair Broadcasting debacle in USA Today that shows how blogs can do what mainstream journalism can't or won't and makes a good case for the symbiotic relationship of professional and citizen reporters.