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Weekly Pulse: GOP Would Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a draft budget resolution for 2012. Ryan’s program would privatize Medicare and gut Medicaid. “Rep. Paul Ryan,...
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Weekly Audit: Government Shutdown Averted, But At What Cost?
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011...
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Weekly Mulch: Cost-Cutting at the Environment’s Peril
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger In Washington, the environment is under attack. The cost-cutting deal that the House passed yesterday stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of $1.6...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Click here to view the embedded video. How will the next generation of seniors pay for health care if Republicans privatize Medicare? The Democratic...
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Weekly Diaspora: One Year After SB 1070, What’s Changed?
by Catherine A. Traywick, Medica Consortium blogger A year ago this month, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law, effectively pushing an already vibrant anti-immigrant movement to a new...
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Weekly Mulch: Greening the Royal Wedding is the Least of Our Worries
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The biggest news for the environment this week might just be that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took pains to add a couple of green touches to this...
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The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and...
by Eric Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion. So exactly what does the...
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The Wavelength: WikiLeaks Isn’t Sexy Enough for U.S. Media
By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium Blogger While mainstream media news cycles have been dominated by political sex scandals, important global stories have gone under-reported. According to AlterNet’s...
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The Wavelength: FCC Decries Lack of Media Diversity, Stymies Low Power TV
by Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Local coverage and diversity are in short supply in today’s media landscape–especially when it comes to broadcast and cable TV. But there is hope. In markets...
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The Wavelength: Court To FCC: Do Your Freakin’ Job! Plus: How the NewsCorps...
Welcome to the final edition of The Wavelength, a bi-weekly roundup of news and analysis focused on media policy. Stay tuned for more reporting on the ongoing impact of media policy from members of The...
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