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The Cultural 1% & the Echo Chamber

The Internet, along with community media and live concerts, is the way our music gets out there.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Amy Goodman and many others have referred to the corporate media as an "echo chamber," which is a very accurate metaphor. Mostly privileged, overpaid white men who fall within a narrowly-constrained political spectrum pretend to have debates, while failing to even discuss most of the most pressing issues of the day.

Rupture and Reconciliation: Fix-It for a Mangled Marriage

They poised their Cupid's arrows to celebrate Valentine's Week on a warm weather vacation as an incentive.

(SALEM) - A good friend of mine almost had their long-term marriage in shambles. The issue was neither economic woes nor marital infidelity. It was a communications gap largely caused by very different personal and social values.

Discovery: Defining a Cyberbully

Social scientists struggle to characterize new form of harassment...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - "I was cyberbullied at age 40 by someone that tried to beat me up in high school," says a person posting on a website that chronicles stories of people intimidated through digital communications.

What About Salem?

Columbia Journalism Review examines the lack of progressive media coverage in places like Modesto, and we explain our experience trying to implement local news in a medium-sized U.S. city.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Almost eight years have passed since the launch of Salem-News.com; which we hoped at the time would provide significant balance to the capitol city's traditional lack of news coverage.

Golden Age Has Its Silver Lining

As we age, some social roles are shed. How do we fill that void?

(SALEM) - Who among us does not age? I have yet to meet that individual. Since I was raised in part by both sets of grandparents during WWII and beyond, I began to admire older folks many moons ago. It is no accident that after ten years of being a full-time journalist I switched course to become a gerontologist.

Operation Ghost Click International Cyber Ring That Infected Millions of Computers Dismantled

DNSChanger was used to redirect unsuspecting users to rogue servers controlled by the cyber thieves, allowing them to manipulate users’ web activity.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry.

Users of infected machines were unaware that their computers had been compromised—or that the malicious software rendered their machines vulnerable to a host of other viruses.

Review of Day After Day - `heartfelt, sad and powerfully moving`

Will our children and great grandchildren sing the same song, before Justice is done?

(BOSTON) - Music and news make incredible partners and we call this fusion Newsic.

On that note, we are very pleased to release this new song by Agron Belica, Day After Day, who belts out the lyrics with Pat Dreier, addressing this painful subject that affects helpless babies all over America every day, claiming more than a hundred lives every year from mistakes and infections.

DISCONNECT: The Movie

The documentary provides perspectives from experts who helped shape the cell phone industry.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Disconnect is a documentary that exposes the truth behind the negative health effects of cell phones. Globally, 5 billion people own mobile devices but few know the potential harm they are causing.

Through extensive research and interviews with the world’s leading doctors, scientists, politicians, activists, and victims; Disconnect traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted public health.

Anonymous exposes 1,589 Internet pedophiles in Operation Darknet

Online pedophiles beware! Your end is near.

(The World) - The group Anonymous announced a great victory this week.
After hacking into "Lolita City", a darknet website used by pedophiles to trade in child pornography, Anonymous released usernames and other information of 1,589 pedophiles trading in kiddie porn.

Small Businesses Join Forces with Occupy Wall Street

Main Street business owners: “We are the 99%, too”.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As the momentum of the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, with hundreds of demonstrations across the U.S. over the weekend, a new voice is entering the debate in support of the 99% movement: Main Street small business owners.

The Main Street Alliance released the following statements today from small business owners from coast to coast explaining their support for Occupy Wall Street.