MEDIA ROOTS – With the second of three presidential debates now over, democracy continues to be victimized by the campaigns of establishment candidates referred to colloquially as “Obamney” or “Robama.” However, viewers of corporate media would not understand this for throughout the coverage, very little was reported on events occurring just outside the spectacle. Since the historic Kennedy-Nixon debate of 1960, … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – When visiting the Republican National Committee’s home page, one will find it stated that the RNC is “not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.” However, on the party’s Facebook page, a photo of volunteers phone-banking for Mitt Romney was uploaded last week. There is absolutely no reference to the Ron Paul campaign when the party’s national convention … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The San Francisco Bay Area, particularly Berkeley, is known as one of the progressive or revolutionary regions of the USA, being the home of the 1946 Oakland General Strike, the Free Speech Movement, ‘60s counterculture, the Black Panthers, and the listener-sponsored free speech radio model popularised by Berkeley’s KPFA and its Pacifica Radio Network (later bastardised by … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — On Monday, KPFA Radio’s The Morning Mix spoke with representatives from California’s third-parties about their legal challenge to Proposition 14, Rubin v. Bowen, which created the new statewide ‘Top Two’ electoral system. Under this system, the rigged de facto two-party system has now been virtually codified in California. Given the obscene amounts of corporate funding expended by the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Has the U.S. two-party dictatorship completely saturated Election 2012 media coverage? Can you recall when you last heard news coverage of any alternative party candidates? At least one third-party candidate is resisting this year’s media blockade against alternative Presidential candidates who are not partisans of the Wall Street Democrats and Republicans. (No, it’s not Ralph Nader, who … Read More
