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@Chris: Yep. Sorry about my terrible linking skills.
Dianne, that link isn't working for me. Was this the story? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/01/26/ice-detained-us-citizens-minnesota-arrests/88304880007/
RonF: If someone had driven that close to me after being told to stop I’d have thought they were trying…
ICE "enforcing immigration law" [Link fixed --&]
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Category Archives: Media criticism
Famous crips and disability rights
Looking back at the disability press and its coverage of the FDR Memorial and Chris Reeve’s post-injury politics, there’s clearly a different perspective of these famous disabled men than the mainstream media presents. The topic of stereotypical representation of disability … Continue reading
New Orleans Suicide Rate Up…Needs Better Sample, but if True It's Called Anomie
Here’s a mini-sociology lesson. I found this article today, which includes the following quote: Dr. Raoult Ratard took a unique approach to studying the suicide rate because there have been no reliable estimates of how many people have returned since … Continue reading
Posted in Katrina, Media criticism
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French ad offers fresh perspective
This was originally posted on The Gimp Parade in March, 2005. A French energy company has produced a video advertisement about access for the disabled that is quite interesting. The link leads to a page in French (naturally) where you … Continue reading
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Media criticism
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"I Am Man" Burger King Commercial
Andrea at Shrub.com has a good post with a feminist analysis of “Mantham” (YouTube link) the Burger King ad with new lyrics to Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” (although in her count of women in the commercial, she seems to … Continue reading
With (Anonymously Quoted) Friends Like These….
From the Washington Blade: Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean fired the party’s gay outreach adviser Donald Hitchcock on May 2 less than a week after Hitchcock’s domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused Dean of failing to take … Continue reading
What is Online Integrity?
http://onlineintegrity.org/ has a 4-point online integrity statement of principles that deals with respecting other people’s privacy. The people behind the online integrity statement may mean well, but there is a glaring omission. It doesn’t address the facilitating or encouragement of … Continue reading
Posted in Media criticism, Whatever
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People fear change and they fear the unknown. It is easy to convince people that a public heathcare system will…