“MoveOn & Media Double Standards” by Robert Parry:
MoveOn.org’s “General Betray Us” ad may have gotten more attention than it deserved, but it also has underscored several important points: the foolishness of MoveOn’s ad-buying strategy, the cringing hypocrisy of the mainstream U.S. news media when attacked by the Right, and the pressing need to build independent news outlets.
Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize underscores similar weakness in publishing, as I’ve detailed previously.
A Practical Policy 