The Thief
Le Voleur is French for the Thief. In 1828, during the birth and rise of the newspaper, Emile de Girardin had a novel idea on how to use the newest writing technology, the printing press. He and a friend decided to start a periodical, but since they lacked capital, the weekly was entitled Le Voleur (The Thief) and it reprinted the best articles that had appeared elsewhere during the week, saving editorial costs. (from ''The History and Power of Writing'')
t r u t h o u t - Amy Goodman: Voice of America:

Just thought I would put this up here to give everyone a collective pat on the back. I'm proud to have friends who not only have opinions about the world around us, but research and most importantly share that information.
Don't hate the media, become it.

"What do you think about the internet, and blogging -- what sort of impact will new technologies that sort of democratize media creation have?


    The more decentralized, the better; the more sources of information, the better. At Democracy Now! we always try to give people more access to lots of different forms of information linking to many different sites because it's in no one's interest just to rely on one source of information. For too long, the networks have monopolized information and really just channeled one kind of propaganda, and we've got to break the sound barrier, and we do that by many people getting involved, so I support as many ways of getting out any kind of information as possible -- it makes us all healthier, it protects us all."
1 Comments:
Blogger KRB Digital said...
In class, when I hear someone proudly pledge allegiance to FOX and conservative ideology in one breathe, but then portray themselves as the next generation of successful Americans in the next, I can't help but see the irony. This goes for blind liberals, etc, too. But especially this new breed of neo-cons, because in order to believe the Bush etc. version of American will work out for you, you must believe you will be on the top to reap these benefits. However, you do not become successful by following the leader. If you never have an original thought, you never question authority, you never open the door and look outside the box, where do you base the assumption that this new America will be yours for the taking?