Progressive Media
Progressive Media: News & Perspectives Rarely Found in Corporate Media
Just five corporate conglomerates control over 90% of the media in the United States. They control the narratives in print, radio, publishing, film, and all forms of media. These corporate media normalize and promote war & imperialism, militarism, capitalism, the 2-party system, poverty, the control of the 1% that keep us from implementing democracy, animal factory farming, and all kinds of injustices. They do not seriously tackle and expose violence against women and people of color. Hiring more women and people of color in corporate media is necessary but cannot affect the change necessary to halt climate change, eradicate systemic racism and patriarchy, and end the injustices that are still so rampant. While we appreciate the voices that do get heard occasionally, we cannot expect those few voices to be sufficient when it is surrounded by misinformation, omissions, distortions, and normalizing narratives.
There are creative and outstanding voices providing the visions and information so lacking within the corporate media environment.
Here are just a few.
· Abby Martin (Host and Producer of Empire Files, Host of Media Roots Radio)
· Anya Parampil (Red Lines, The Greyzone)
· Medea Benjamin (Code Pink – books, articles, radio, and more!)
· Sonali Kolhatkar (Rising Up With Sonali)
· Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!)
· Laura Flanders (The Laura Flanders Show)
· Eleanor Goldfield (Act Out! and more)
· Ester Iverem (On The Ground – www.wpfwfm.org)
· Alina Duarte (independent global media reporter and photographer)
· Margaret Kimberley (Editor and Senior Columnist for Black Agenda Report)
· Margaret Flowers (Popular Resistance & Clearing the Fog)
· Hiba Yazbeck (Haaretz)
· Ann Wright (Code Pink)
· Films for Action (www.filmsforaction.org)
· The Greyzone (www.thegreyzone.com) with Max Blumenthal
· Council on Hemispheric Affairs (coha.org)
· Common Dreams (commondreams.org)
· MintPress News
· FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (@FAIR media watch)
· Intercept
· Truthdig
· The Nation
· Loud and Clear
· Redacted Tonight (Lee Camp)
· Common Censored
· By Any Means Necessary (Jacqueline Luqman, Sean Blackmon)
· Venezuelan Analysis
· Consortium News
· Alliance for Global Justice (www.AFGJ.org
· BreakThroughNews.org (Monica Cruz and Eugene Puryear)
· Jacqueline Luqman (Co-host of “By Any Means Necessary” on Sputnik Radio)
· Telesur TV (www.telesurtv.net)
· Orinoco Tribune (www.orinocotribune.com)
· Leonardo Flores (Code Pink)
· Here to Slay (weekly podcast on Luminary with Roxane Gay and Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom)
· Project Censored
· Women’s Media (hundreds listed in WIFP’s annual issues of the Directory of Women’s Media (1975-2017)
· WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service (wings.org)
· Women Make Movies (wmm.com)
· Jennifer Pozner (feminist media critic, author and speaker)
· Ariel Dougherty (film maker, feminist media advocate and activist)
· Margaret Kimberley (Editor and Senior Columnist for Black Agenda Report)
· The Real News Network
· theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries
· Films for Action (https://www.filmsforaction.org/)