Zack Ford from Think Progress discussing the issues facing transgender people, Mark Thompson weighing in on the controversy surrounding Brian Williams, comedian Geoff Bolt talks about his upcoming stage show, and Amy of AmysNuts.com stops by to talk about her yummy granola.hm
Renowned investigative reporter, James Ridgeway, tells us about his latest project, Solitary Watch, which exposes the uses and abuses of solitary confinement in our prison system. Ralph also answers a listener question about what it will take to spawn a second American Revolution.
Emmy award winning comedy writer Jonathan Katz sits down with David to chew the fat, plus movie reviews from Michael Snyder.
The Jack and Triumph Show is a new show on Adult Swim, featuring Jack McBrayer and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. It’s really something to see, and fans of the two stars won’t be disappointed. You can watch the debut episode on Adult Swim here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYn3CUpD0M
We talk to peace activist and war tax resister, Frances Crowe, about her memoir Frances Crowe: Finding My Radical Soul and how she’s been arrested for civil disobedience more times than she can remember. Ralph also fills us in on the mess in Libya, tells us about how United Airlines employees are getting screwed, and we answer more listener questions.
The internet is a constantly evolving experience, and quite often when you are in the middle of a movement you really aren’t able to keep up with how things are changing so quickly. Such is the case with our digital age. This article from The Atlantic does a great job explaining the world we live in today, and what is in store for our future on the internet. – JLW
Two beliefs safely inhabit the canon of contemporary thinking about journalism. The first is that the Internet is the most powerful force disrupting the news media. The second is that the Internet and the communication and information tools it has spawned—like YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook—are shifting power from governments to civil society and to individual bloggers, netizens, or citizen journalists.
It is hard to disagree with these two beliefs. Yet they obscure evidence that governments are having as much success as the Internet in disrupting independent media and determining what information reaches society. Moreover, in many poor countries or in those with autocratic regimes, government actions are more important than the Internet in defining how information is produced and consumed, and by whom.
Illustrating these points is a curious paradox: Censorship is flourishing in the information age. In theory, new technologies make it more difficult, and ultimately impossible, for governments to control the flow of information. Some have argued that the birth of the Internet foreshadowed the death of censorship. In 1993, John Gilmore, an Internet pioneer, told Time, “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”