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Jeff Cohen: The State of Alternative Media

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Jeff Cohen: "You are going to hear me railing tonight against the half a dozen Giant Media Conglomerates that are sitting on the windpipe of the First Amendment. They use the public's airwaves and public subsidies to restrict the flow of information. How do I know? I've taken a paycheck from three of those corporations, having been a paid pundit at CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. I started out as an outsider media critic and it was like a slow motion nightmare where I found myself embedded inside the mainstream media."

From the 2005 PhilosopherSeed Archives: Jeff Cohen, author and media critic, spoke in Portland, OR on May 18th, 2005. Jeff's talk was featured as a Free Speech TV Keynote presentation."

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Trancecoach

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"Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer and media critic who founded the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) in 1986. Jeff is the author of the book "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media." He was an on-air commentator (and Donahue senior producer) at MSNBC in 2002/2003; a weekly News Watch panelist on Fox News Channel from 1997 to 2002: a co-host of CNN's Crossfire in 1996. His columns have been published in dozens of dailies, including USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Atlanta Constitution. He was a regular columnist at Brill's Content. In the mid-1990s, he co-wrote the nationally syndicated Media Beat column (with Norman Solomon, author and media critic). In 2003, he was the communications director of the Kucinich for President campaign." Link Page

marinara

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*promote

siftbot

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, September 18th, 2008 10:29am PDT - promote requested by marinara.

marinara

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this isn't a popular talk but its not bad