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Showing videos filed under: greg mitchell
Greg Mitchell: Money Media Miss the Point (Again)
November 9, 2010The big story last week, of course, was the elections: Republicans take back the House! Nearly $5 billion spent on campaigns across the country--most of it from faceless corporate donors! Yet instead, by the weekend we were left with a different story, when Keith Olbermann was suspended from MSNBC for donating money to three Democratic candidates. Not a peep, of course, about the amount that MSNBC's parent company, GE, gave.Greg Mitchell, Prop 23 in California, and Haiti
November 8, 2010The big story last week, of course, was the elections: Republicans take back the House! Nearly $5 billion spent on campaigns across the country--most of it from faceless corporate donors! Yet instead, by the weekend we were left with a different story, when Keith Olbermann was suspended from MSNBC for donating money to three Democratic candidates. Not a peep, of course, about the amount that MSNBC's parent company, GE, gave.Greg Mitchell on Upton Sinclair and the Origins of Mass-Media Campaigning
October 12, 2010Greg Mitchell takes us back to the origins of media campaigning with Upton Sinclair's bid in California's 1934 gubernatorial race. If you thought the media frenzy, voter intimidation and character defamation that characterize today's elections is a hallmark of these modern times, think again. Mitchell is The Nation's Media Fix blogger and author of The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics.Countdown to Midterms with Ari Berman, Karen Finney, Greg Mitchell and John Nichols
October 11, 2010Ari Berman and Karen Finney discuss why the Left has lost its base and how to regain it. Then, Greg Mitchell takes us back to the origins of media campaigning with Upton Sinclair's bid in California's 1934 gubernatorial race. And a commentary from GRITtv regular John Nichols on write-in candidates.William K. Black, Real Peace Process, and Top Secret America
July 20, 2010Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.The F Word: Top Secret: Privatizing Fails
July 20, 2010The Washington Post has a new series out on “Top Secret America,” investigating the massive security complex that's sprung up around our war industry. While independent journalists like Tim Shorrock and Jeremy Scahill have been reporting on this for years, the Post brings a new level of attention to the contractors—and the blank check they get from our otherwise deficit-obsessed government.Triumph or Troublesome, Rebuilding with Green, and Bulldozing Peace
February 12, 2009Obama and the Press. Robert Pollin on a green economic recovery plan. And Caterpillar's complicity in the destruction of Gaza.
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