Guest-blogged by Doug George, MediaChannel editor.
Whatever you think about Brent Bozell, conservative media critic and frequent flyer on Fox News, he is always provocative.
In his latest piece, Brent insists that the forces behind the recent Media Reform Conference in St. Louis comprise a radical elite who have troubling concealing their “disdain for America.”
“They […]

The World Media Association convenes this week to critique journalism… good; the host, self-proclaimed messiah Rev Moon, questions the relevance of fact-based reporting… not so good.

At a recent conference messy with A-list bloggers, a small voice emerged to talk about values, customer service and a new ‘way’ of doing politics.

That there is currently little to no money in the independent press is glossed over in Jennifer Nix’s Indy interview and AlterNet essay in which she criticizes celebrity progressives Michael Moore, Amy Goodman, and Al Franken for putting books out with big presses and offers Chelsea Green’s “Don’t Think of an Elephant” by George Lakoff as an antidote to this cancerous expansion of lefty big media projects. Because she avoids acknowledging it, Nix misses both the explanation for why “our” celebrities abandon us, and an understanding of the fantastic potential for change that the independent media provides.