Episode 65: The Commodified Assets of Others

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Just ahead we have in this here nation a presidential election, and a hum-dinger by all accounts. I'm not here to play favorites, since mine have already been tossed to the wayside. I am concerned, though, in this here Episode 65: The Commodified Assets of Others of topics that seem never to be considered by your usual gang of reportage professionals, namely, that we blithely discard key points of self-identfication that no one who has ever lived in actual police states would so casually offer simply for the "privilege" of mere "free" "social media."

No fancy quoting in this episode. You hear only myself a bit peeved at the insistence that I view commercials. I even go off-course without a prepared script to temper the rage.

Episode 64: Spitballing Utopia

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It's not enough to wish things were better, is it? To make things better, it helps to do some planning. In this, Episode 64: Spitballing Utopia, I share and glom onto solutions for newspaper revival and revitalization that allow public inputs without compromising the private ownership of papers.

In this episode, I (of course!) read from Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols' The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again (First Nation Books, 2010).

Musically, you heard from Graham Bole doing "We Are One," and Jahzzar doing "Ads" (how great a title is that?!). You also hear KMFDM with Bruce Livesy, and Julie and Rolf getting the gang "Over The Rainbow" ukelele-style.