AltWeeklies Wire
Nassau County Dumps Trash on a Public Beachnew
The county is using one of its public beaches as an illegal landfill. File cabinets, old auto parts, rusty oil drums, and home appliances are piled ten feet high behind massive walls of sand, apparently created to disguise the trash behind them.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
08-07-2004 |
Environment
Starbucks Not As Bad a Corporate Colonialist As Bashers Thinknew
The unavoidable Starbucks is regarded by some as the ultimate corporate colonialist. Taylor Clark looks at the charges against the coffeehouse chain and finds it not guilty on several counts.
Willamette Week |
Taylor Clark |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
Anorexia and Bulimia Whittle Away at Increasing Number of Mennew
It has long been known that women are strongly affected by female images on TV and in magazines. It is now evident that a media barrage of muscular hunks with six-pack abs, broad shoulders and narrow waists equally sways men.
Syracuse New Times |
Sam Graceffo, M.D. |
08-07-2004 |
Science
Microsoft Has Sacrificed Innovation to Protect Profitsnew
A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products and missed opportunities could doom Seattle’s most successful company.
Seattle Weekly |
Jeff Reifman |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
Small-Town Residents Come to Embrace Reporter's Troubling Insightsnew
After four teens were arrested for the bludgeoning death of a blind albino man in Cass Lake, Minn., Star Tribune reporter Larry Oakes returned to the town where he grew up to examine the youth crisis at the Leech Lake Reservation.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Mike Mosedale |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Tags: addiction, violence, journalism, media, Drugs, poverty, alcohol, Ojibwe, single-parent families, tribal leaders
Who Would Jesus Sue?new
The Liberty Counsel, the "in-house" law firm for conservative, right-wing causes, is active nationwide trying to stop the legalization of gay marriage.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
08-07-2004 |
Policy Issues
Brothers Who Claim Abuse by Priest Want Closure from the Churchnew
The Morrison boys were fond of the pastor of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Jackson, George Broussard, when they were growing up, and he was fond of them. Two years ago, the brothers filed a lawsuit against Broussard and other church officials, including then vicar general Bernard Francis Law, claiming Broussard fondled all three of them in the 1970s. Note: The main characters of the piece currently live in Jackson, Miss., near Dallas, and in Chicago.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
08-07-2004 |
Children & Families
Student's Protest of Torture Brings Two Felony Chargesnew
A Boston College student was arrested for standing in front of a military recruitment office impersonating an abused Iraqi prisoner.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
08-07-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Serial-Killer Expert Helen Morrison Debunked
The media have taken this self-proclaimed profiler at face value, but her story doesn't stand up to scrutiny (although she does have John Gacy's brain in her basement).
Chicago Reader |
Cliff Doerksen |
08-07-2004 |
Media
It's In for Historical Revisionists to Out Dead Guys
In recent years, people have speculated, often on thin evidence, that Leonardo da Vinci, Thoreau, Hitler and Jesus are gay.
Boise Weekly |
Nicholas Collias |
08-07-2004 |
LGBT
You Can't Do That on (U.S.) Televisionnew
Footage of U.S. troops terrorizing a former Iraqi army officer and a night-vision film of a U.S. helicopter crew gunning down suspected insurgents were broadcast in Australia, but media self-censorship keeps such reports from being viewed by the American public.
Boston Phoenix |
Jason Vest |
08-07-2004 |
Media
H Bomb Teaches Harvard Students Not to Take Sex Too Seriouslynew
H Bomb -- a porn magazine published by Harvard students -- debuts.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Marriages of Same-Sex Couples Have Familiar Ringnew
Six same-sex couples who got married in Massachusetts during the first week that gay marriage has been accepted as legal discuss their family values.
Boston Phoenix |
Kristen Lombardi |
08-07-2004 |
LGBT
Government Seeks List of Visitors to Voting Web Sitenew
Computer-voting watchdog Bev Harris is squaring off with federal authorities over the government's request for information about visitors to her internationally renowned Web site, www.blackboxvoting.org. While Harris is determined to resist the government's investigation, a national expert on press freedom says the Renton, Wash., muckraker will almost certainly face extensive fines or jail time if she refuses to cooperate.
Seattle Weekly |
George Howland Jr. |
08-07-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Media Consumers Have More Choices Than Evernew
Do you blame the media for your ignorance? Look in the mirror. While the media are wrestling with change, the public often ignores its own culpability in being ill-informed.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
08-07-2004 |
Media
