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Chris Shumway

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NPR Correspondents: Impartial Journalists or Corporate Media Pundits?

It seems as though the issue of NPR journalists casually airing personal opinions on other media outlets has drawn complaints from many listeners and caused a bit of an internal ruckus, so much so that the news service is reviewing its ethics policies.   A recent column by NPR Ombudsman…

Ohio Ballots, Computers, and Private Contractors

The Toledo Blade reports that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is moving ahead with a plan to put computerized voting machines in all 88 Ohio counties by 2004.  County election officials, we are told, will able to choose a ballot vendor from a list of pre-selected private corporations…

Police FBI/vigilante tactics

I read the article on Police FBI/vigilante tactics on the Web site. I wanted to pass along a similar report of something that happened in Akron. It comes by way of Dana Williams, a volunteer with the Cleveland Indymedia Center. cleveland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3709&group=…

Media profits trump public interest at the FCC

Recent decisions by the Federal Communications Commission and a federal appeals court are likely to unleash another round of media consolidation that will put even more constraints on journalists and threaten media access and diversity. In February, a federal appeals court took the…

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