AltWeeklies Wire
Media Come Out Slugging After NBA Brawlnew
The tabs and the custodians of "serious journalism" applied their cultural critique of choice to the Artest-incited brawl in Detroit. Why isn't a similar moral lens cast on the war in Iraq or the scenes of mad shoppers trampling each other on the first day of the Christmas shopping season?
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
12-01-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
Your Parents Are Charging Your Futurenew
The first of the baby boomers will retire in 2008. Their adult children in Generation Debt are understandably nervous about their parents' security -- and by extension, their own.
The Village Voice |
Anya Kamenetz |
12-01-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Dead-Check in Fallujanew
The infamous video: A Marine stands over a wounded Arab sprawled on the floor of a mosque and shoots him in the head. What military officials are not saying is that the Marine's behavior conforms to training that is fairly standard in some units. It's called "dead-checking."
The Village Voice |
Evan Wright |
11-24-2004 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Specter Stands Between the Right and Roe v. Wadenew
With a disastrous war unfolding in Iraq, an exploding deficit, and half the country feeling alienated, the Republicans have plenty of political reasons to need support beyond the religious right. Whether or not they get it will likely depend on whether they pursue the witch hunt of women's new best friend, Arlen Specter.
The Village Voice |
Sharon Lerner |
11-17-2004 |
Sex
November Surprises: What the Presidential Election Was Really Aboutnew
Less than an hour after George W. Bush's victory speech Wednesday, U.S. fighter planes launched major air strikes against Falluja. Yet the transparently self-serving timing of the biggest Bush military offensive since 2003 is passing unchallenged.
The Village Voice |
Wayne Barrett and Anna LeMond |
11-09-2004 |
International
No More Sleeping With the Enemynew
With the country deeply divided over the current presidential race—with Republican George Bush and John Kerry in a dead heat and many voters in a blind rage over their guy—political affiliation has ascended to the top of requirement lists for potential mates.
The Village Voice |
Matthew Philip |
11-02-2004 |
Sex
George W. Bush and the Press in the Age of Chaosnew
The real media scandal is not the inauthentic memos at CBS but the way big news companies have evolved so at times their behavior closely resembles that of the government bodies and private power centers they are supposed to be examining.
The Village Voice |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
09-29-2004 |
Media
Africans Fleeing Genocide in Sudan Take Refuge in Egyptnew
Thousands of African refugees propelled by wars, economic misery, and politics have resettled in Cairo, a teeming metropolis with room for no more. Desperate conditions there have led to unrest.
The Village Voice |
Kareem Fahim |
09-15-2004 |
International
Coming to a Convention Near You: Scary Anarchist IInew
Stories in daily papers about anarchists plotting mayhem at the Republican convention are the kind of coverage that sets the stage for brutal treatment of even peaceful activists.
The Village Voice |
Sarah Ferguson |
08-30-2004 |
Media
Technology, Powered by Passion, Makes the Resistance So Coolnew
A loose network of tech-savvy activists has been working a long time to construct intriguingly bizarre electronic contraptions for creative resistance on the streets outside the Republican National Convention.
The Village Voice |
Geeta Dayal |
08-30-2004 |
Science
Civil Rights Rollback: The Spread of Racial Profiling since 9-11new
By presenting race-based profiling as necessary to homeland security, the Bush administration has traded the principles of universal equality and individual dignity for the presumption of safety.
The Village Voice |
Chisun Lee |
08-05-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Young and Broke with No Insurancenew
A college education was supposed to rescue young people from the tribulations of the underclass, yet they find themselves lined up in emergency rooms, seeking health care. Of the 43.6 million uninsured adults in the U.S., 41 percent are young.
The Village Voice |
Solana Pyne |
07-20-2004 |
Science
Generation Nix: Why Don't Young People Read Daily Newspapers?new
If you've already seen the news (or laughed at it with The Daily Show), and you're faced with a banal paper, wouldn't you rather peruse The Onion on the way to work?
The Village Voice |
Richard Goldstein |
07-06-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
Allegations at Guantanamo Linked to Abu Ghraib Abusesnew
Two former inmates at Guantánamo Bay have said that they were either subjected to or witnessed some of the same methods of harsh interrogation seen in pictures taken at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The Village Voice |
Kareem Fahim |
05-19-2004 |
International
A Lesbian Writes to the Governor of Massachusettsnew
"If you had to lose a culture war, governor, this was a good one to pick," Laura Conaway writes to Governor Mitt Romney, who she says took the wrong side on the debate over state-sanctioned gay marriage.
The Village Voice |
Laura Conaway |
05-19-2004 |
LGBT
