Media Page
The following publications, publishers, organizations, and programs
provide a progressive perspective on the U.S. national security
state, the ruling elite, media control and propaganda, the military-industrial-financial
complex, American society including labor, education, health and
the penal system, and US government intervention and transnational
corporation and international financial institution interference
in the Third World.
Magazines and other publications
Organizations
Publishers
TV & Radio programs
Magazines
Organizations
Center for Defense Information provides
alternative information about U.S. defense needs, the military,
and the defense industry
1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-862-0770
FAIR is a national media watch group providing
well-documented criticism of the mainstream media in an effort
to correct bias and imbalance. FAIR focuses on the corporate monopoly
of the media, the media's allegiance to official agendas, and
the absence of public interest voices in national debates.
130 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-633-6700 phone
212-727-7668 fax
http://www.igc.apc.org/fair/
Rocky Mountain Media Watch helps citizens
and the media understand and visualize what constitutes better
journalism, and teaches activists and community groups to improve
their media skills and increase coverage of their issues
Box 18858, Denver CO 80218
phone: 303-832-7558
fax: 303-832-7558
email newsmush@netone.com
Worldwatch Institute conducts research
and publishes on global environmental issues, with a goal of fostering
a sustainable global society -- one in which human needs are met
in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment.
It annually publishes the State of the World, a well-researched
publication that documents the global destruction of the environment
1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW,
Washington, DC 20036
202/452-1999 tel
202/296-7365 fax
http://www.worldwatch.org/
Publishers
a publishing co-operative
7 Brookline St. Suite #1
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone 800-533-8478, 617-547-4002
fax 617-547-1333
http://www.lbbs.org/sep/sep.htm
Box 702
Monroe, ME 04951
207-525-0900
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/
PO Box 189, Gabriola Island
BC, Canada VOR LXD
250-247-9737, 800-567-6772 tel
250-247-7471, 800-567-7311 fax
http://www.swifty.com/nsp/
140 Watts Street
New York, NY 10013
http://www.sevenstories.com/
phone 800-596-7437, 212-226-8760
fax 212-226-1411
Verso's US distributor, W.W. Norton
WW Norton/National Book Company
800 Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
Tel: 800-233-4830, Fax: 800-458-6515
TV & Radio programs
in-depth radio interviews by David Barsamian
of noted individuals representing progressive positions not heard
in the mainstream media
800-444-1977
Former Texas Secretary of Agriculture
and populist Jim Hightower champions the concerns of working people
and skewers the high and mighty on the air coast to coast and
on the World Wide Web. The decision to broadcast Hightower Radio
is up to individual stations. Call or write your local talk radio
station and tell them you want to listen to Hightower Radio in
your community.
http://www.essential.org/hightower/
Pacifica Radio is a listener-supported,
community-based radio network, with a mission to promote freedom
of the press and to serve as a forum for progressive viewpoints.
Pacifica Radio
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
phone 501-848-6767
fax 501-848-3812
http://www.pacifica.org/pacifica/
Free
Speech websites
" The media's job is to
interest the public in the public interest."
John Dewey, American philosopher
and educator, 1859-1952
Media
organizations
What You Can Do
Media Censorship
American Prospect, The
South End Press
Alternative
Radio