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Do you feel like most TV and radio news is irrelevant? Do you suspect they're leaving out a lot of inconvenient facts and stories? Does the simplistic left-right framing of most news talk shows make you want to smash your radio?

Hey, us too! That's why we created this page of links to better video news and audio news programs—those that have demonstrated a consistent pursuit of relevance and truth; those whose interviews get beyond the list of "usual suspects" from 'inside the beltway"; those that are trying to do the job of investigative journalism, fact checking, and honest news analysis that mainstream media abandoned.
 
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WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT CAREER? — THE WORKING POOR DURING BOOMS AND BUSTS

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TOP PICKS
for Video News / Audio News

Daily one-hours news update; audio and video   Not perfect, but about as good as you can do when it comes to a nightly newscast

Daily half-hour audio newscast

A basket of the week's world news pulled from shortwave-based news reports from international radio news services

Two-minute audio "investigative commentaries" giving his take on the latest blunders and plunders of the plutocratic poltroons that run things; audio format

Weekly audio news analysis/investigations into the relationship between capitalism, militarism and politics

Commentaries on the latest happenings with the economy and the corrupt corporatocracy that runs things

Good video/audio interviews   Moyers is still one of the best journalists around; he's not afraid to ask the hard questions

 

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MP3 News link; image of french fries in red box; feature story is WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT CAREER? - THE WORKING POOR DURING BOOMS AND BUSTS

 

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for Audio News and Video News

Independent daily audio news, plus interviews with top progressive thinkers; major focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestine

Good long-format investigative reports, keynote speeches, and specials

Unspinning the dizzying misstatements and ignoramousness of mainstream media; audio format

Audio interviews and analysis on matters like political economy, the global justice movement, philosophical and cultural ideas, and race and gender relations; from KPFA

Audio interviews with authors and social/political/economic analysts on a variety of topics

Radio show on relevant political topics   Hartmann is an excellent thinker who successfully escapes the left-right trap

Interesting mix of audio interviews on the money system and the economy; corporate control, plutocrats and citizens' rights; the food system and health issues

Good speeches about democracy, freedom, labor rights, and corporations; audio format   Scroll down to MOST RECENT PROGRAMS on left

Audio interview programs on agriculture and local-food issues as well as peak oil and energy

Audio interviews on a wide variety of progressive topics, including environmental

A weekly 5-minute audio broadcast that watchdogs the media industry, including the machinations of corporate media and Washington policy-makers

Interviews and audio news analysis with host Kris Welch

A weekly international radio program with progressive themes

 

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Video News / Audio News

High-quality investigative journalism and interviews; audio and video; from PBS

A weekly audio review of how the mainstream media is doing at presenting the news   Surprisingly good for an NPR production

There are six billion stories on the Naked Planet; these are some of them; video format; from PBS

Documentary-style audio on a variety of US and world subjects; from American Public Media

Investigative journalism with a US focus; video format; from PBS   Used to be top-notch but got defanged during the Bush II years

Investigative journalism with a world focus; audio format

A weekly program on issues in Australia and the region; includes some global, investigative and environmental topics

 

Go to subscription page for E Magazine; opens in new window

 

 
 
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SO I CAN DROP THE TALKING HEADS IN THE WATER

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(and How The News Media Ain't What It Used to Be)

BREAKING NEWS ON WHO’S BREAKING NEWS’S USEFULNESS

How Corporate Media News Shortchanges Our Democracy, Our Environment, and Us

DOUBLETALK –
TOO CLEVER BY HALF

Environmental Doublespeak
– Environmental Ethics, Anti-Environmental Propaganda, and Greenwashing Language

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WHY DIDN'T WE INCLUDE...
These Audio News and Video News Programs

Because they rely far too heavily on parroting government and corporate statements, with almost zero investigation or questioning of the corrupt corp-gov cabal; plus the level of irrelevant cultural programming in their hard-core news programs is waaay too high

Because guests almost always come from the pool of "usual suspects" that argue the left-right facets of the same lie

We haven't listened to that much Air America, but we don't see much point in a liberal/Democrat version of right-wing/Republican talk radio. The two-party power monopoly—and banker/corporate control of it—is the problem!

So much potential, so little to see or hear

 

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