This just in...the news media on television, in print and on the radio sometimes...umm...take liberties with the truth. Some of us have actually been at an event that they later misconstrued. Others just notice how many important stories are not covered so that we can get the latest on some sensationalized event. Learn the real story about the news from these sources.
Wag the Dog
A film by David Mamet
These days even an 8-year old can see through how our leaders use marketing and the media to instill fear in us, create war and keep us constantly on edge. But, it wasn't always as obvious as Bush has made it. It used to happen behind closed doors. Wag the Dog gives one of the most hilarious satires ever written about the way our leaders our deciding what the public should do...backwards isn't it?
DrudgeReport.com
A news website by Matt Drudge
The quickest way to hear the breaking news in many areas. Drudge broke the Lewinski story before any of the major networks and he seems to always have the biggest new stories days before the major networks. He'll let you know the latest scandals in corporate America, with the Bushies and elsewhere so you can wow your friends.
Crashing the Party
by Ralph Nader
It's the newest craze to put down corporate excess and crime. Even President Bush, the biggest friend business has ever had has hopped on the bandwagon. But Nader built the bandwagon and has been driving it for damn near half a century. This book, his account of his bid for President in 2000 running a clean election gets to the root of the problem of corporations having bought off our government.
The Daily Show
Starring John Stewart
John Stewart is one funny man, and when he takes aim at everyone from the government to the media corporate America, he usually hits a bullseye. Running on Comedy Central, Stewart will have you in stitches as he satires our culture and interviews stars from throughout the entertainment industry. It's one damn fun way to get the news!
The Onion
Satire at its finest
From out in the dells of Wisconsin comes perhaps the funniest satire newspaper of our time. The Onion mixes dark humor and irreverence with a twist of absurdity to produce a product only a man with his jaw wired shut could fail to laugh at. And their comedy-tipped arrow has an extremely broad aim, targetting corporate America, the schools, the government and everyone in between. Watch out, you could be the next one in one of their "official" polls!
Adbusters.org
A website that outmarkets the marketers
How do you get new ideas out there when corporate America has millions of times more money to get theirs out in place of yours? With humor, cunning and some fantastic strategists. Adbusters is a nonprofit dedicated to outmarketing the marketers, beating them at their own game and waking people up all over the world to the problems of corporate excess. They also run a magazine which does the same.
Culture Jam
by Kalle Lasn
As if he wasn't doing enough to wake us up to corporate greed, Kalle Lasn, editor of Adbusters, has also written a book. It gets to the heart of what's wrong with corporations, how it got that way and gives some inspiring stories of what is being done about it. It also tells you what YOU can do about it. This is a book for those who are sick of the way things are and want more.
The Insider
A film starring Russell Crowe
Few companies show more flagrant disregard for the public good than the tobacco companies. And few areas of the fight against corporations have been more successful than that against the cigarette hucksters. In The Insider, Russell Crowe portrays Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, an honest to gosh real life man who quit the tobacco world, became a teacher and used his knowledge to help take them to court and hold them accountable.
Network
A film starring Robert Duvall
This movie was truly ahead of its time. Winner of Best Screenplay in the 70's, it predicted prophetically the deterioration of television news into a virtual circus where ratings matter and real issues fall by the wayside. The movie's protagonist, Howard Beale, is a character for the ages and has given us some of the most hilarious scenes in film, capped by the ever-famous "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" scene.
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